Well done to everyone for putting a huge effort into ‘Walk to School Week’ this week. The overall school percentage for girls walking this week was approximately 93%. A huge percentage! There was a competition between the classes, the winning class won a pizza party! It was a very tight race, here are the results: […]

Today was WOW Day as part of the Green School ‘Walk to School Week’. They girls have been making a huge effort to walk to school this week or use orher sustainable methods: cycling, park and stride, scooting, skateboarding etc. There will be a prize on Friday for the class who had the highest numbers […]

It was a very exciting day today in Room 16 and indeed in all rooms as we watched Ellen from Room 16 win the National Green Schools Water Art Competition for senior schools. Ellen entered the competition a few months ago and was announced as the Regional winner. Today the ceremony, which was meant to […]

Have a look at the two slideshows below with pictures from Reading Week. Amazing Reading Forts! Reading Week Activities This week is Environmental Week. The girls have been busy doing projects on different areas of Biodiversity, making birdhouses, making collages out of items from Nature, going on Nature walks, doing scavenger hunts, calculating food miles, […]

This morning, we took to the streets to mark ‘Climate Change Action Day’. Each class made posters to display while marching. The girls were in full voice chanting various chants such as ‘Save our Planet’ and ‘There’s no planet B, it’s for you, it’s for me!’ Have a look at some pictures from it!

What is a Walking Bus? The Walking Bus comprises two volunteer parents, one to “drive” and one to “conduct” a group of school children walking to school. It is powered by good old-fashioned legwork and follows a set route to school, collecting pupils at “bus stops” on the way. What are the benefits of a […]

This morning, we all went outside on our bicycles. First Aoife from 4th class read us a wonderful poem that she wrote. Yesterday she was inaugurated as the Junior Mayor of Dublin cycling. What an achievement! Well done to the 5th class girls who gave us an excellent cycling demonstration. They showed us how to […]

Last Thursday, we were very lucky to have Meabh and Michelle from Green Schools’ to do some cooking with the girls. We picked garlic and potatoes from the garden. Using the vegetables from our garden plus different ingredients that the ladies brought in, the girls made lovely homemade spring rolls. They also made a tasty […]

Congratulations to the girls in Room 18 and Room 14 who received their Sustainability Award from Orla Kelly from DCU yesterday. They put on a fantastic showcase for Orla, parents, grandparents and the rest of the classes in the school. The girls put huge work into the project since January. Their main focus was on […]

This week as well as celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge, we are also celebrating ‘Scoot to School Week’. Yesterday, we had a decorate your scooter competition. We had a display of all the decorated scooters in the yard followed by scooter races. We had an amazing 114 girls who scooted to school yesterday. This number will […]