On 19th September, TY and 5th year agricultural science students travelled to the National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Stradbally Co. Laois. Students visited many of the exhibitions including Teagasc, Farmers Journal, Irish Bees Association, Cattle Breed exhibits, Sheep Breed exhibits,…
As part of our work in Global Citizenship, this year for Fairtrade Fortnight students learned more about the benefits of supporting fairtrade for the farmers and producers of some of our favourite food products like bananas, chocolate, tea and coffee.…
TY’s recently enjoyed a workshop delivered by Devin from FEAST Ireland as part of their global citizenship education class. A fun and informative workshop where students learned about sustainable Irish produce, how the food system affects climate change, food miles,…
As part of their YSI project, with the aid of Angela Horgan from YSI and Aife Kearns from Innovating Communities, the TYs used the Design Thinking approach to develop an action project around awareness of gender inequality. Over the past…
Our Climate Action Week kicked off this week with members of the Green School Committee overseeing our new waste disposal / waste segregation bins and great to see students refilling / reusing their water bottles. We are asking all in our…
Mr Nolan’s 1st Year class planted horse chestnut seeds (conkers) and are hoping to have a sapling to bring hometo plant in a few years time.
As part of the celebrations for European Day of Languages GCE Committee members organised a table at lunch with some sweet treats from across Europe for students to sample. Thank you to Teodora who made Romanian Chec and Aitiana and…
Inspired by VOICE IRELAND’s initiative called ‘Second Hand September’ members of the Social Justice Committee decided to take action with all the unclaimed items in the lost and found room here in school. There was a wide range of class…
We were delighted to raise our 7th Green Schools Flag here at BCS Students, staff and members of our community gathered outside for our flag raising ceremony. We also celebrated our achievement on being the National Winners for the Global…
On Thursday 19th May the two first year Home Economics classes visited the Rediscovery Centre in Ballymun. The Rediscovery Centre is Ireland’s National Centre for the Circular Economy. The students participated in a sustainable living workshop. Students learned more about the…
