Pizza Party Prize!
Congratulations to our Green Schools Committee who came 2nd in the Travel Cluster and won, amongst other things, a pizza party. See attached link to see the award ceremony.
Scoot to School Week Workshop
Junior Infants-2nd Class had great fun taking part in a scooter workshop during Scoot to School Week.
Bike Week 2025
The Great Travel Challenge Draws to a close!
Our GSC has worked both day and night,
Promoting travel that’s green and bright.
From walking to cycling, scooting with pride,
On WOW day, 54% took the stride!
We’re proud of the change that we’ve made,
Spreading the word on a greener crusade.
Health and the earth are reasons to care,
And we’ve raised awareness everywhere.
We ran surveys and had fun with a race,
Colouring, challenges, and a whole school space.
Love our Earth, letters so sweet,
A mile a day—getting on our feet!
Michele Castiaux came in with a talk,
Teaching us all how to walk the walk.
A walk to the park, art lessons too,
Senior and Junior pupils joined in the crew.
With less than 100, we all play a part,
Every action counts to keep Earth’s heart.
Though we lack social media’s reach,
We’ve spread the word through lessons we teach.
Announcements, updates, Aladdin in use,
Our events were shared, there’s no excuse!
We’ve filled our notice board with cheer,
And made WOW days something to revere.
The GSC led with passion and care,
For a greener world, we all must share.
Now, enthusiasm is growing strong,
Together we’ll make the Earth sing along!
Green Schools Committee visit Laois Chambers
Our Green Schools committee spent a very exciting morning in Laois Chambers with other schools involved the Travel Cluster. We listened to talks, offered our opinions and made plans to get our school family walking, cycling and travelling sustainably to school.
We can’t wait to visit again in the summer term.
Love Letters to the Earth
The Great Travel Challenge
Our Green Schools Committee have had a busy two weeks during the Big Travel Challenge. We have being doing our best to promote sustainable, green ways of travelling to school to reduce emissions in Portlaoise and make getting to school a safer, fun experience for all.
We had an online meeting with the other schools in Portlaoise that are taking part in the Travel Cluster where we discussed ideas to encourage as many people as possible to walk, cycle, car- pool, park and stride or take the bus to school.
We then met up again as a committee, to make a plan for our school and did out a timetable of events to take place. We surveyed parents (Huge thanks to all the parents who responded – our response rate has been the best of all the schools in the town so far!) We surveyed every child in the school three times over the course of the the two weeks and recorded the scores to see if there was an improvement in numbers travelling sustainably. We applied for more bike/scooter parking to cater for the increasing number of students needing it. We organised a whole school assembly with the wonderful Michéle from the Green Schools, to teach us more about the benefits of walking. cycling, taking the scooter, and park and striding to school. Our 5th and 6th class wrote very moving, love letters to the earth – Check out our beautiful display in the entrance to see these inspiring pieces! Our Green Schools Committee organised a colouring competition for all the classes, art lessons for younger classes and gorgeous displays with the older classes. We put an extra special emphasis on our WOW Day on the 12th of February where we all came dressed in red to show our love for the earth. This has definitely been our best WOW day to date with record numbers taking part! We finished off our two weeks with a beautiful walk in the People’s Park.
Well done to all the children and parents in our school for engaging so enthusiastically with all the activities. We can’t wait to organise some more events in the near future – Watch this space!
Winners of the Great Travel Challenge Colouring Competition
Congratulations to the lucky winners of our colouring competition. Well done to all who entered! The Green Schools Committee had their work cut out for them trying to choose a winner from each class. The winners are: Junior Infants: Ella
Senior Infants : Zahra
1st Class : Dhyan
2nd Class : Rouaa
3rd Class : Abigail
4th Class : Ava
5th Class : Izabella F
6th Class : Sinéad
Clean Air Week
This week is Clean Air Week. Join us as we try to improve the quality of the air in Portlaoise this week and develop good habits going forward.
Our Green School Committee are busy preparing some information for you, carrying out surveys, and informing our school community about ways we can contribute to improving the quality of the air around us.
We will be sending out a survey to parents this week. We would appreciate it if as many of you as possible could respond.
Check back here soon for some more information and photos.
The Green School Committee.
