Yesterday 3rd class went on a minibeast hunt. We collected, identified and examined minibeast in pairs.The boys did some great work and really enjoyed it! (Check out more of the third class boys' fantastic work at https://haroldbns.blogspot.ie/ ) Congratulations to Ronan Prior (6th class) whose winning Biodiversity slogan was Every Animal, Plant and Tree - That's Biodiversity! Ronan won a Green Schools goody bag with some treats and there were treats for the runners up from each class as the standard of entries overall was excellent. We will put up some of the runner up entries on display on our Green Schools board to show the effort that went into this competition throughout the school.
Ronan's slogan is now on the front page of our Green Schools website and will be on display throughout the school to help raise awareness of the meaning of biodiversity. Our Green Schools committee delivered our Wheelbarrow Gardens down to the Dalkey Church gardens where they were displayed with barrows from six other local schools. They made for an amazing display and were admired by many passers by. We really enjoyed the experience overall and would like to thank Anna Fox from the Dalkey Creates festival and the wheelbarrow sponsors for getting us involved with this project. Take a look at the pictures below: Present for meeting:
2nd - Adam and Matthew 3rd - Adam and Andrew 4th - Andre and Darragh 5th - Mauro and Milan 6th - Ciarán, Gabriel and Rory Staff - Ms O'Neill and Mr Smith Minutes: - Dalkey Creates Festival - Wheelbarrow Gardens. Biodiversity team to update website with pictures from the day. - Keep wheelbarrow gardens afterwards to add to biodiversity in our school grounds - New biodiversity equipment to be ordered by Mr Smith - Mr Smith arrange Oceaneers Education workshop for 6th class - Marine Biology - Members to update classes about this meeting - Website to be updated by members of committee from 5th and 6th class. Secretary for meeting: Andre Fontes We are holding a competition for the best slogan on the topic of biodiversity. All entries must be in by Friday, 6th of October 2017. Slogans should be short, snappy and easy to remember. To help you out here are some examples:
Our Biodiversity team and some extra helpers were busy this week preparing our final wheelbarrow garden. Even the bad weather couldn't put us off!
Our third wheelbarrow has been filled with some new, colourful plants. Check out the pictures and the plant names below. Our Green Schools Committee for 2017-18 has been decided! Sitting on the committee this year will be:
2nd class - Adam Byrne and Matthew Gibbons 3rd class - Adam McCormick and Andrew Meehan 4th class - Andre Fontes and Darragh Walsh 5th class - Milan Vadell-Bourke and Mauro Fouz Serrano 6th class - Gabriel Murphy, Ciarán Fitzgerald and Rory O'Mahony Parents Rep: David Prior Staff: Marvin Bautista, Ms Buckley, Ms O'Neill, Mr Smith We also wish to thank all who represented their classes and school so well on the committee last year and everyone in the school and local area who helped us have such a successful year last year. The Green Schools Committee of 2016-17 was Collie Breslin, Liam Kearns, Dónal Fitzgerald-Byrne, Dónal Moylan, Daniel Doyle, Lorcan Flavin, Christopher O'Toole, Brian Jones, Cormac Egan, Fionn Graham and our parents' representative, Mary Kingston. We completed the planting of mustard seeds and green manure in our second wheelbarrow which can be viewed in our school garden. The Wheelbarrow Garden is part of an initiative for the Dalkey Creates Festival in October. Our wheelbarrows, along with others planted and tended to by local schools, will be wheeled into town at midday on Friday 20th October and will remain on view in Dalkey Church Garden over the festival weekend. We are really looking forward to seeing how our seeds develop over the next month!
As part of the Dalkey Creates Festival, we are growing 'Wheelbarrow Gardens' along with other groups in Dalkey. In a few weeks time, we will bring these wheelbarrows to the church grounds to display alongside the other colourful barrows. Here are some pictures of our Green Schools Committee planting our Wheelbarrow Gardens:
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