‘Green School News’
Team Limerick Clean Up
Many Thanks to Team Limerick Clean Up for the cake. St. Fergus will be cleaning our school grounds next Wednesday afternoon, May 3rd..
Blue Day 2017-Here’s a Tip, Stop That Drip!
On Friday 17th February 2017 St. Fergus’ National School held a ‘Blue Day’ as part of our Water Green Flag Initiative. Every pupil from Junior Infants to 6th class, as well as staff members, wore blue in order to raise awareness of the need to conserve or save water. During our Friday Assembly we discussed and recapped on the different ways we ...
Curragh Chase LEAF Day
On Thursday 9th February 2017, Rang 1-Rang 4 visited Curragh Chase courtesy of L.E.A.F.-Learning About Forests. This was a follow on trip from our visit with Rachel Geary last month. It is also part of our ongoing efforts to maintain our Green Schools Status. We left the school, by bus, at 9:30am, praying that the day would stay dry! Thankfully ...
Our visit from Geoff Hunt, Heritage in Schools Expert and Rachel Geary, L.E.A.F. Co-ordinator today.
What an exciting day for the nature lovers of St Fergus’ NS today. We were delighted to welcome Rachel from L.E.A.F. (Learning About Forests) and Geoff Hunt to the school to share their knowledge and expertise with us. Rachel told us about the many native trees in Ireland and about some of the creatures and plants that live in the ...
Science Week
During Science Week, First and Second class spent a lot of time working on some small experiments. We mixes “chemicals” to give us a number of reactions. Our favourite experiment of all was our Lava Lamps. We began by pouring, water, vegetable oil and food dye into an empty water bottle. Each of us chose our favourite colour for our ...
Environmentalist Geoff Hunt
We were very lucky last week to have Geoff Hunt visit St Fergus’ National School. Geoff is a renowned environmentalist and botanist. Geoff likes to teach children in schools to respect and care for their natural environment. Geoff’s visit today was part of our Green School Flag Initiative. Geoff arrived early and 5th and 6th exited the building with ...
Clean Coast Ireland and Ballybunion Sea Cliff and Rescue
On the 13th June 2016 3rd to 6th class headed to Ballybunion beach as part of our Water Green Flag initiative. Despite the inclement weather we set off full of the joys of an Irish summer!!!! Susan from Clean Coast Ireland met us and kitted us out in luminous orange high visibility vests and gloves. We were ready for action. ...
School Visit by The Inland Fisheries Board
School Visit by The Inland Fisheries Board On the 27th May 2016 the Inland Fisheries Board visited our school. They came to teach us about water and the fish that live in Irish waters. They also came as part of our work for our third Green Flag on water. Firstly, containers were brought into the school and filled with ...
Limerick County Council Visit St Fergus
School visit from Limerick County Council. On 16 May 2016 we had a visit from Sinead who works with the Water section of Limerick County Council. This visit was part of the assessment process for our third Green Flag. She met with the whole school and gave us a talk on the various steps required in achieving the water ...
Earth Day 2016
Earth Day April 22 was Earth Day. In 3rd and 4th class we showed our support for protecting the environment by participating in a class discussion and coming up with ways in which we can help. After all, today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders. We learned some fascinating Earth Day facts such as the first Earth Day was celebrated on April ...
