Green Schools 2020 - 2021

We are working towards getting our biodiversity Green Flag. 

Hands up if you love Nature!

 What a year it's been! We were trilled to learn that we had been successful in earning our Travel Flag and since then we've been working on our biodiversity flag. Would you believe that when we held our survey in October very few people in our school knew what biodiversity is..even the staff! Since then we've learned that it includes all of our mini beasts, plants and animals and even the weeds! We brought home some trees to plant and learned about the benefits of having a pesticide free garden. 

We have studies our school grounds, identifying the trees and plants growing there. We mapped the grounds and identified the areas that contained biodiversity. We've also looked for mini beasts and checked the mini beast hotel that has been set up. 

What a day we had when we walked to a local maze. That place is cool and a perfect home for biodiversity. 

We raised our travel flag during our Sports Day and we can't wait to earn our biodiversity Green Flag. 

Green Flag Award Ceremony

Our secretary John, vice-secretary Leanne and Jade collected our energy flag at the recent awards ceremony in Athlone. Everyone was so thrilled when we brought it back to the school. Next up is our 'water' flag!

Energy Day of Action 2015

On Thursday 26th March we held our Green Schools 'Day of Action' . This involved us going without electricity for the day! That included heat! Fortunately we dressed in warm clothes and it wasn't as cold as we expected.  It was interesting to experience life without electricity and made us realise just how much we depend on it.  We also played 'The Guzzler's Energy Game' which was fun. 

The following is a list of the things we found to be most challenging: 

• I couldn't cook my toast for lunch.
• It was cold with no electricity (our heating runs on electricity)
• We couldn't heat the water to make the paper mache, and it was lumpier
• We couldn't use the lights
• We couldn't use our computers
• No cups of tea (for the staff)

However we also found some advantages! 

• no homework as we had no computer
• playing on the bicycles (We walked/cycled to school to reduce our non-renewable energy consumption)
• our bills might go down. 

We also took part in our annual Spring Clean.  Together with members of the community we cleaned up around the school and surrounding area. We found loads of litter on the roads surrounding our school. We wonder who the litter bugs are!  We even found a hedgehog! We had a great day and were blessed with the weather. 

This is our Energy Green Code: 

Saving electricity is the quest, 

Clooncagh school is the best.

Reduce use

And cycle!

 Reducing waste, that's the quest.

Clooncagh school will past the test!

Learning about the transfer of energy.

Testing our Energy conservation knowledge. 

We're energy experts!

                   
This is our Green Schools Code.

Green Schools are the best
Green schools are the best
Keep them clean, that's the test
If we pass we get our flag at last
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Keeping clean is the quest
Clooncagh school is the best.



We like to keep our school clean and litter free. By trying to reduce our waste we will get our green flag too.