Check out the pictures of the “Bird is the Word” project, which was completed by students of 5th (Ms. Biesty) and 6th (Ms. Walsh) class, and was displayed at the RDS Primary Science Fair earlier this month.
For three weeks students monitored and recorded bird activity in the school garden three times daily. Initially there was no food provided for the birds and then we added peanuts during week 2 and seeds during week 3. We attracted a large variety of birds to the garden including greenfinches, chaffinches, goldfinches, magpies, blue tits and sparrows. The most common visitor to our garden was the chaffinch and during the 3rd week we logged over 200 birds!
We displayed our project as part of the RDS Primary Science Fair and you can now see it displayed in the halla!
Well done to the Green School Committee for all their effort organising recycling in the school and informing us on ways to help the environment. As a reward for their hard work they received a lovely breakfast prepared by Ms. McHugh.
Well done to everyone who has helped with the gardening this year. They made a great effort to have the school looking fantastic for the confirmation. The potatoes and strawberries growing in the courtyard are very impressive!
Nashmeel, Cian, Jack, Richard, Dylan, Aaron, Nathan and Martin all worked really hard in the gardens … well done.
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Congratulations to everyone involved in securing our latest Green Flag especially Ms. McHugh, Ms. M. Murphy and the Green Committee. It is a great achievement as we have been awarded more Green Flags than any other school in the country. The Lord Mayor and representatives from South Dublin Co. Council took part in the flag raising. We were also given a day of cycle training.
Our wonderful Green Committee were rewarded for their hard work throughout the year with a delicious breakfast put together by Ms.McHugh and Ms. M. Murphy. It was well deserved as the school is receiving two green flags this year. The lucky Green Committee members got to enjoy lots of fruit, juice, scones and even sausages for the lovely breakfast.
Congratulations to everyone involved with Discover Primary Science this year. The classes of Ms. Scully, Ms. Walsh, Ms. M. Murphy, Ms. S. Murphy and Ms. O’Reilly all took part. There was more work than ever this year as we had to include evidence of our mathematical skills as well as all the usual science requirements. Every child who participated gets a certificate to mark their achievement of demonstrating excellence in science and math. Well done to everyone involved and thanks for all the hard work.
A huge congratulations to Ms. McHugh, Ms. M. Murphy and all on the Green Flag committee. We have been awarded our 6th Green Flag award. A lot of hard work was put in to achieve this fantastic result. Well done again to all involved.
Listen here to a Green Flag committee member Adam Farrell about how the flag was won.
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