We have been walking to school for the last two days and have been very lucky with the weather!
Month: May 2016
Active Schools Week
This week is Active School Week and there is a variety of events planned.
We will walk to school from Jordan’s Carpark each morning, assembling at 8:50am. Parents, families and the wider community are welcome to join us!
On Monday we have our Sponsored Walk which was rescheduled form March. The money raised will be used for resources suggested by the Student Council so be generous please!
On Tuesday Rang 3-6 will experience Tug o’ War – that should be fun!
On Wednesday Junior Infants – Rang 2 will have Hurling and GAA Skills.
On Thursday all classes will have a Yoga/Pilates Class given by a trained instructor.
On Friday Sineád Ronan, Mille’s Mam will take all the Classes through a Fitness Training Circuit.
During the week each class will also be involved in othere activies which they have decided upon.
It should be a fun week that helps us to become more fit and active.
Eco – UNESCO Winners!
Congratulations to Rang 5 & 6 who won the People’s Choice Award in the Eco – UNESCO Young Environmentalists Competition for their project on harvesting and using rainwater “Save Every Drop, Be a Water Cop”. Thank you to all who supported them and voted for them. A special thank you to Ms. Aisling Whitty who coordinated the project and to the 7 children who presented the project in The Mansion House, Dublin on Wednesday – Jack Cullen, Ciarán Doyle, Claire Doyle, Josh Doyle, Hannah Kavanagh, Ben Kavanagh and Conor Sinnott.
Eco-UNESCO Awards Please Vote for Us!
The 5th and 6th class pupils have been involved in a year long project encouraging others to save water. Their project Save Every Drop Be a Water Cop has sailed through several rounds of competition to reach the finals on May 18th in The Mansion House in Dublin.
The team members are looking forward to displaying their project at the final showcase in The Mansion House, which is open to members of the public and and when they will have to present their work to the judges.
Already the class have prepared a detailed presentation that was submitted to the judges. This presentation earned them a place in the semi finals. At the semi finals Ciarán Doyle, Hannah Kavanagh , Claire Doyle, Jack Cullen, Ben Kavanagh and Conor Sinnott spoke for their class, at a dragon’s den style semi final competition selling their project to the judges.Their enthusiasm, knowledge and ideas wowed the judges who were very impressed with them at the semi finals.
Their project is about creative ways of not wasting even one drop of water. The team members made models that suggested creative ways of using rainwater within our homes , farms and businesses, so that not even one drop of water , a precious resource is wasted. The group grew plan ts from collected rainwater and presented these plants to some of our local councilors on our Proclamatipon Day April 27th. The team hopes that the councilors have paid attention to their crop the drop message, as shown on the labels of the plants.
The Watercops want you to know that you can help too. Visit their project blog http://
Please log on to the blog for the link to the people’s choice award, voting is open from May 2nd to May 15th.
Visit http://www.ecounesco.ie/ and follow the link to the people’s choice award and vote for Save Every Drop Be a Water Cop
Photos of the presentation to the local politician were taken on Proclamation day by photographers from the newspapers
Follow the link below to vote for our project. We are in the WATER Category “Save Every Drop, Be a Water Cop”!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fh0FfTQKqcz-IuPJGYGjkZ_qMxyDbxG4nhkDnvW_AMc/formResponse
Please also vote for FCJ Bunclody in the WASTE Category and their project “The Plastic World”