Present for meeting: Adam and Matthew (2nd), Adam and Andrew (3rd), Darragh (4th) Mauro and Milan (5th), Ciarán, Gabriel and Rory (6th) Ms O'Neill and Mr Smith Minutes: - Snow damage to Wheelbarrow Gardens. Replanting planned for April. - Replanting of flowers in plant pots at front door by Mauro, Milan and Ms O'Neill last week. - Planting of wildflower seeds in patch by the wall in April by committee. - Magpies nesting in tree in school garden. - Planning for Inaugural Youth Spring Clean Event at 10am on Wednesday 21st March. March will finish at our school. - Members of committee from 2nd-4th will attend event. 5th and 6th class have events at the same time as march. Mr Smith will pick extra students from junior classes to make up for the students who will not be able to make it. - Permission forms handed out. - Darragh to give form to Andre who missed meeting. - Litter and waste team will design posters for the event on the themes of 1. National Spring Clean 2. Dog Waste and 3. Marine Litter - Tidy Schools application to be completed - Website to be updated by members of committee from 5th and 6th class. Secretary for meeting: Darragh Walsh This is our updated habitat map of the school which clearly shows the work we have done in increasing biodiversity on our school grounds over the time we have been working on the biodiversity flag. Look at our year one habitat map below and you will see the difference we have made!
On Monday 15th January 2018, Dean Eaton from the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council came in to visit the Green Schools Committee from Harold Boys'. The Green Schools Committee from 2nd to 6th class talked to Dean in the hall and explained how we had completed the seven steps needed for our Biodiversity flag. Then a smaller team from the committee gave Dean a tour of our school grounds to show him the improvements we have made whilst working on this flag. We showed him the biodiversity equipment, the Green Schools board, Biodiversity board and our year one and year two maps of the school grounds. We would like to thank everyone in the school for their hard work on the biodiversity theme especially our caretaker Marvin who does a lot of behind the scenes work and who we wouldn't be able to renew our Green Flag without. Present for meeting: Adam and Matthew (2nd), Adam and Andrew (3rd), Andre and Darragh (4th) Mauro and Milan (5th), Ciarán, Gabriel and Rory (6th) Ms O'Neill and Mr Smith Minutes: - Renewal visit next week - revise seven steps and have a look at lists of work done in each of their team areas - Finish habitat map and update biodiversity board - Biodiversity team check equipment around school grounds - Make sure each class knows the Green Code/biodiversity slogan - New plant pots at front door Secretary for meeting: Ciarán Fitzgerald We added some more biodiversity equipment to our school grounds as part of our work on the Biodiversity theme. We added an insect block, a bee and bug biome, an insect house, a mini bug hotel, a ladybird tower, an urban bee/insect nester and two new birdhouses to the school ground. Adding equipment to the school grounds to encourage greater biodiversity in our school gardens and grounds was one of the main aims of our Action Plan and our Green Schools committee Biodiversity team will observe our new equipment to record any ways in which it helps to increase biodiversity in our school gardens. Check out the pictures below to see our new equipment around the school:
Congratulations to our school champion from this year's Recycled Christmas decorations competition. Jude went to the celebration ceremony in County Hall, Dun Laoghaire with other school champions and An Cathaoirleach, Cllr. Tom Murphy. The ceremony was given a segment on RTE News 2day too which may be viewed here. Roberts of Dalkey have kindly allowed us to display the rest of the wonderful entries to the school in their window for Christmas. The Green Schools Committee put these up last week and it was a great chance to show the community our Green Schools work in the school. Take a look at the pictures below to see the decorated window and we would like to thank Roberts again for their help and the hot chocolates! :) In science the boys designed a bird feeder, went bird watching and set up a wormery. As well as bird watching at school, they have to try and identify birds for homework today. They are using the identification sheet on the left. We are hoping our bird feeder at the front of the school attracts a lot of birds and helps to feed them during the cold winter. We are also hoping that the worms will mix up the soil in our wormery. (From 3rd class blog at https://haroldbns.blogspot.ie/2017/12/bird-watching-bird-feeder-wormery.html Present for meeting: Adam and Matthew (2nd), Adam and Andrew (3rd), Darragh and Andre (4th) Mauro and Milan (5th), Ciarán, Gabriel and Rory (6th) Ms O'Neill and Mr Smith Minutes: - Preparation for visit to Roberts of Dalkey to hang up our decorations - 4th of December - Litter & waste and Energy tips for Christmas to be put up on Green Schools website by each of those teams - Renewal visit to be done by Dean Eaton in January - Updated Habitat Map to be drawn - New biodiversity equipment to be placed in school gardens - Mr Smith will get bird feed for our new feeders - Website to be updated by members of committee from 5th and 6th class. Secretary for meeting: Gabriel Murphy Our biodiversity slogan posters will be displayed around the school to increase awareness about biodiversity!
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