Green School 2020 – 2021
We start this current school year by announcing that Scoil Úna Naofa now has 3 Green Flags! Congratulations to all our Green committees over the last 2 years, and especially our Water Officers who worked on the Water Project. At the end of March 2020, we submitted our project, and were highly commended and successful. We have received our flag, and will have a ceremony when we can safely do so.
Our 4th theme is ‘Transport’.
This is a very important theme, and hopefully we will be able to come up with some projects that will be of interest to our pupils.
In October, teachers did a survey of how pupils got to school: Walking, Car, Bus, Bike/Scooter etc. We found out that the majority of our pupils came by car.
We have also applied to Dublin City Council to become a ‘School Zone’ and this application has been successful. This means that Armagh Road will get extra road markings and footpath barriers to make the area safer for our pupils to get to school. Hopefully this will happen in Spring 2021, and will give us incentive to work on our Travel Project.
Green School Term 2019-2020
Our Classroom Recycling Committees are up and running since early September. It’s great to see paper & card being carefully recycled each day. Thanks to the Green Squad in Mr Malone’s class for taking charge of the big green bins on the corridors. Now that the days are getting cooler & darker, we will look at getting our Energy Officers active again to shut doors and switch off lights and projectors when we leave the classrooms & corridors.
Our Water Committee have met and have discussed ways to save water in the school and in their homes. Some of the committee have noticed that taps are left running and make it their business to turn them off. Their main focus is ensure all pupils in their class will help to save water.
Ken has spoken to the committee, and told them the about the journey water takes in our school. Once again, he has taken all of us to see the water meter.
Term 2 2019-2020
We are really focusing on taking the final steps to achieve The Water Flag. A few senior committee members read the meter with Ken, and compared the results with last year. Our water usage has reduced by 1000 litres per week approximately.
One of the main activities has been the poster competition. Every pupil in the school has designed a poster:- ‘Take Climate Action for Water’ and the teachers are going to choose one poster to enter into the next stage of the competition. We have 2 Water display areas in the school – one at the Junior Entrance which is managed by Ms McCormack and Junior pupils and the other near Room 20. Pupils have been contributing to this, and we are seeing interesting items there.
Our Green School Story.
Scoil Úna Naofa has 2 Green Flags. Our 1st is for ‘Recycling’ and our 2nd is for ‘Energy’. We are currently applying for a ‘Water’ flag, and this will be our 3rd Green Flag.
We have formed a committee which meets regularly, and are busy working on the theme of ‘Water’.
On Friday March 22nd 2019, we celebrated ‘World Water Day’. The whole school took part in water based activities, such as learning about the Water Cycle, Global issues about water, poetry, art, maths agus gaeilge. Well done to everyone involved!
Our Green Committee chose a green slogan for the school: – “Be a Hero Save Water”.
The slogan is on display in every classroom and around the school. The Green School notice board is outside the small hall, and will provide up-dates of what’s happening.
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Our Water Slogan
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World Water Day March 22
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2nd Water Posters
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1st Water Poems
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1st Water pictures
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3rd Water Facts
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3rd Water Poems
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3rd Busy writing about water
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3rd Water safety
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5th Water Posters
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6th Water Colours
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6th Water Paintings
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Tulips in Watercolours
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3rd Floating & Sinking
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Floating & Sinking
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4th Testing our boats
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Infants Fishy Stories
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Infants Listening to a story
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Infants Water in our world
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Infants Water Globe
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Infants Turtles
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Infants Our Ocean
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Infants Floating and sinking
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Infants Floating and sinking
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Infants Floating and sinking
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Infants Floating and sinking
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Infants Floating and sinking
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Infants Floating and sinking
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Infants Floating and sinking
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Infants Floating and sinking
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Infants Floating and sinking
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Infants Bubbles
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Infants Bubbles
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World Water Day March 22
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Will it sink or float? 2nd
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Water Usage Facts 5th
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Problem Solving with water 3rd
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Solving water problems 3rd
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Pictures of water usage 1st
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1st Water posters
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1st Water Poems
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1st water pictures
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1st concentrating on water pictures
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2nd water pictures
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1st water Haika Poems
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6th Global Water Lesson
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6th Water Data
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6th Did you know?
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6th Water Graphs
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2nd Water Cycle
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3rd Water Problems
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Water Cycle 2nd
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Problem Solving 3rd
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3rd class concentrating
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3rd Problem solved
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5th designing posters
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Paper plate fish
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6th enjoying World Water Day
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6th Water facts
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2nd Water Cycle
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4th Floating & Sinking
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4th How much weight does it hold?
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6th Graphs about water
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6th Water Data
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2nd Sinking & Floating
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1st Fishy pictures
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6th Water facts
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4th Building Bridges
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2nd Water Cycle
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4th A Fleet of ships
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4th Enjoying World Water Day
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News from The Gardening Team – We are composting!
The New Gardening Team was formed in April 2019, to help Claire in the garden. As part of the project, compost bins have been put into 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th Classes. Raw fruit and vegetables only will be put into the bins, and each day the Gardening Team will empty the classroom bins into the compost bin in the garden. A layer of paper will also be added, and we should see the compost forming over the coming weeks and months.