Category: Green School

Climate Action Week

Take a look at some of the great posters we created to make everyone aware of the causes and effects of climate change!  

Climate Action Week

Mr. Carroll’s 6th Class had a discussion all about climate change for #ClimateActionWeek. Our Energy Detective makes sure the lights are off when we leave, we’re making sure to recycle

Go Green Eco Week

Plastic Packaging Pirates

St. Thomas’ Senior National School has successfully reached the regional final of the “One Good Idea” competition. RTÉ News2Day visited our school to see what our Plastic Packaging Pirates have

Halloween Spooktacular Fashion Show recount

On the 19th of October, Miss Rohan organised the Spooktacular Fashion Show in the school. On the day that Miss Gill told us about the fashion show, we planned our

Global Awareness in St. Thomas’

Our school is working towards getting out Global Citizenship Green Flag. This will be our 6th Green Flag. Over the past few weeks, Room 22 have been working hard on

Our ECO Workshop

Recently, in Room 9 we had a visitor who came to talk to us about the effects of climate change, air pollution and how it all affects the Ozone Layer.

Great News about our Chicks

Great news!!! Do you remember our famous chicks? Well guess what, they’re doing great! Our teacher got to see them in Nore Valley farm in Kilkenny over the Christmas holidays.

Waiting for the Chicks!

Our Recount Writing: On Monday a special guest came to our school. All the third class pupils and staff were there. We met Jennifer from Nore Valley Park Farm. Jennifer

Green School Flag! :)

Today was an exciting day for our school as we received our 4th Green School Flag for Travel. Everyone in the school has worked so hard over the last 2

Golden Boot Winners for Walk on Wednesday

Congratulations to Ms.  Surlis’ class who won the ‘Golden Boot’ in December for the highest number of children to walk to school as part of the ‘Walk on Wednesday’ project.  This

Santa Walk!

Yesterday, we had our first Santa Walk on our last WOW day of the year. Some people decorated Santa hats and others made their own hats out of recycled materials.