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…
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…
‘Our ability to produce food and products for growing populations on a finite amount of land with limited resources is unquestionably one of the great challenges we face globally. It may not be foremost in our minds when we do…
Well done to students who entered the national poster competition organised by Green Schools Ireland. Students were asked to submit a poster entry with the theme of ‘Water Conservation’ . Check out some of the entries below-
As part of the Development Education being carried out in school the TY students participated in a workshop with Dorothy Jacob from Self Help Africa on 22 The workshop included discussion on a range of topics such as Climate Change…
As part of our work with Self Help Africa our school got involved in the publication of a book around the area of Maternal Health to link in with our exploration of the Millennium Development Goals. Students (Keely Doonan, Sorcha…
Transition Year’s undertook a variety of activities around the area of world hunger and food poverty for their DE Module. They participated in a CONCERN workshop on the area of World Hunger and learnt more about how people in developing…
As part of DE (Development Education) in school this year and to tie in with this years focus theme (World Hunger) the TY’s participated in three workshops over a three week period led by Dorothy Jacob and her daughter Jess…
As part of the Development Education (DE) module being carried out in school the Transition Year group participated in a workshop on World Hunger which was facilitated by Claire O Carroll from Concern. Some shocking facts learnt – 1 in…
