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5th Green Flag Award

We got great news on 28th May that we have been successful in our application for our 5th Green School Flag for Travel. Thanks so much to all classes who helped to get us this award. Everyone was great with the surveys, the carpooling, the walking to school. Thanks to Angela Wall who was fantastic in helping us get this flag. Thanks to the committee of 1st class children with their litter-picking and motto: Park the car and walk the rest. It's not that far and would be best! The flag will get to us in September as it's unclear whether it would be safe enough yet to have a ceremony to celebrate. Either way, we are thrilled to welcome this, our 5th Green Flag.

National Award for Past Pupil

We would like to convey our congratulations to past pupil Sorcha O’Donoghue and 2 of her classmates, now attending Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí. Since the start of TY, for an entire school year, they have been working on an envioronmental project based on fast fashion for the Eco UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards and were finalists. But today, in a live awards ceremony on YouTube they found out that they won the senior climate change category at all Ireland level! President Michael D. Higgins addressed the students at the ceremony today and you can watch it on this link:

(Find Sorcha just after 39m.) We are extremely proud of you Sorcha, always a conscientious student and continuing spreading the Green-schools message beyond Primary school. Well done girls. What an achievement!

Read about this in a Traleetoday.ie article posted on 27th May 2021 via this link:

http://traleetoday.ie/gaelcholaiste-chiarrai-students-win-young-environmentalist-award/?fbclid=IwAR3yE3B6l5mKoLvXvqoVsqGmMpjtykvKTv36xYuCK03McwogDP81Jh_p8cU

Walk to School Competition

Let's make a big effort to walk to school during Walk to School week from 24th to 28th May 2021. If you can't walk, maybe you could park and stride, walking the last section of your journey to school, or cycling and scooting is very welcome too as they are all equally environmentally friendly ways to travel. Every little effort helps. If you send a photo to Ms Brassil of your walk, cycle, scoot to school during this week, she will put it on FB and tag it to Greenschools and we will be in with a chance of winning cupcakes for your entire class on a day during Walk to School Week!

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There are 5 chances of winning, one each day!

Speed Data

Thanks to Angela Wall our Greenschool Inspector for gathering this data for us from a Speed Test with a real Garda police speed gun in May 2021. Here are the results in the 2 pictures following:

Awesome Artist

We are very proud of budding young artist Callum in 2nd class. On 6th May, he shared his self-portrait with Mrs Lawlor’s class, that he drew himself at home and he spoke about his art and the process of drawing it. It is lovely to see such talent and confidence in someone so young and we hope you keep up your art Callum and look forward to seeing more art work by you in the future.

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