Through their development education classes TY students compiled a display for the canteen/GP area to showcase information about what fairtrade means and all about fairtrade fortnight which ran from 26th February until 11th March.
Transition Years enjoyed a day at the Ploughing in Tullamore on Thursday 21st September. They completed a series of fun challenges throughout the day and met a few celebs along the way…..
TY students attended and celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Irish ratification on the “UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child” in Croke Park with 200 young people and many inspirational speakers
2nd year Science and 5th year Biology and Agricultural Science classes participated in an interactive workshop with Nicola Winters (Green Sod Ireland) on 18th May 2017. Topics explored in the workshop included biodiversity and ecology. All of this linked in…
Well done to our Green Schools Committee for all their work on achieving our Biodiversity flag. Some of the committee members collected our fifth flag at the award ceremony in Claremorris on Thursday 11th May. The aim of our committee…
Lots of activity in the polytunnel at the moment. Ms Colum’s Science and Ms Stenson’s CSPE classes have been busy planting and once the lettuce grew the Home Economics classes used them during cookery. Check out our progress…..
On Wednesday 26th April the TY class visited The Irish Aid Centre as part of their Development Education module this year. Check out Joely McGovern’s account of how they got on…Irish Aid Workshop by Joely McGovern The Irish Aid Centre…
Thank you to Hugh Bergin from Self Help Africa who visited our school during the year to give a series of workshops to 1st, 2nd and TY students. The workshops explored issues such as gender inequality in our world, climate…
Past pupil, Sinead Gormley spoke to Ty and first year students about her voluntary work with Habitat Ireland. Proceeds from non-uniform day were donated to sinead yesterday.
Competition Details for students who would like to get involved with Global Goal 6 -Clean Water & Sanitation Check out www.globalgoals.org for inspiration for your poster idea. Ask Ms. Cooney for more details on submitting your poster. Some of the…
