‘Green School News’
Water Cycle
Water Cycle We are very busy this year working towards our third Green Flag on the theme of ‘Water’. Fundamental to all our studies on water is an understanding of the water cycle. Classes from 1st – 4th have been looking at the life cycle of water, and in particular, the important processes of evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation and collection. ...
Water Explorer
Water Explorer Without water there is no life. The world’s fresh water is under threat. People around the world need to make every drop count – filling our future with water for all. To help us understand this threat and highlight how we in St. Fergus can help – Una from the Water Explorers team paid us a visit. Water ...
Walk for Water 2016
Walk for Water Over the past week we have been learning all about Global Water. We discovered that the United Nations estimates an average human needs approximately 30 litres of water a day to survive: 6 litres of water for cooking and cleaning and 25 litres for bathing and keeping clean. In Ireland the average human uses 150 litres per ...
Green Schools Water Flag
Introduction Green-Schools, known internationally as Eco-Schools, is an international environmental education programme, environmental management system and award scheme that promotes and acknowledges long-term, whole school action for the environment. Unlike a once-off project, it is a long-term programme that introduces participants (students, teachers, parents and the wider community) to the concept of an environmental management system. St Fergus established ...
Tree Day
In the infant classroom, we had a wonderful Tree Day. We explored lots of the trees on the school grounds. On our trip around the school, we discovered that some trees don’t lose their leaves in winter. These trees are called evergreen trees. They are called evergreen because their leaves stay green all year round. When we returned to class, ...
National Spring Clean
On the 9th April 2014, we took part in the National Spring Clean. The Green Schools Committee and Ms O’Hanlon organised a clean up of the school grounds. Members of Glin Tidy Towns were also invited to take part. As part of the Green Schools programme, we aim to be a litter free school. Our students take great pride in ...
Our Energy Committee
Our energy committee were ecstatic to learn that we had won our second Green Flag! This flag was awarded for our schools’ continued efforts towards energy saving. Pictured below are our fantastic Energy Committee! Well done everyone!
Green Schools Committee collect the flag!
Billy Hogan and Zuzia Palys were the two lucky students who travelled to Cork with Ms O’Hanlon and Geraldine Flavin to collect our second green flag on the 28th of May. Pictured below are some photos from the exciting Awards Ceremony.
