Green Flag

green schools awards

Four of our green schools committee travelled to the Radisson Blu Hotel in Little Island today to accept our Travel green flag.

spring has sprung

We can see signs of spring in our school garden this week.

Farm visit

We were so lucky to have Ms Hickey and her family call to our school on Wednesday, they even brought along some special visitors. Thank you so much for allowing us to feed and pet the animals.

planting

MS Rice has been super busy over the last few days planting our new garden bed with our green schools committee. All of the flower pots Ms Nagle and the green schools committee planted are starting to bloom

bikes and scooters

Look at all the bikes and scooters we had today!

Speed check at conna

Edwina called to us again a few weeks ago to help us check the speed outside our school.

bike week

As part of our Green flag we are holding a Bike Week this week. We are making a big effort to walk, bus or cycle and scoot to school this week for National Bike Week. Here is a video from the Green Flag celebrating young cyclists from around Ireland. We also have this flyer on … Read more

water workshop

We had a visit yesterday from two members of the Green Schools to complete a water workshop with us. We did LOADS of experiments and learned lots of facts about water. We were working so hard we all got NEW bottles!!!

Walkabilty audit

Edwina from Green schools called to us again today. We walked to the village to check the signs, the road, the footpaths and the crossings. We will create a full report and send it off to Cork County Council in the coming weeks.

Bird watching

Look at the fantastic visitors we are having in 2nd class this week. We are learning all the names of the birds we have in Ireland. So far we have seen a blue tit, a robin, a common chaffinch and a goldfinch too.