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We created our very own 'Superhero' badges in Ms Sheridan's class and wore them with honour for a full week. Everyone had to commit to doing one good thing for the environment. See a selection of our super work below. Thanks to the guidance and support of Gráinne from Global Action Plan Ireland, in just 3 months we have....... REDUCED OUR:
Well done to the 'Green Brigade' and to all classes who got behind the Greenschools motto of 'Coming together to protect the world forever'. Thanks to all of the teachers, cleaners and our caretaker Dave for their support too. KEEP UP the great recycling and reusing of waste. Our caretaker Dave said that if we keep working hard, he may even have one less big heavy bin to wheel up and down every week. WOW! We have also made headlines on the 'Global Action plan Ireland's' Facebook Page. They thought our recycled marker rainbow was so 'remarkable', they even made their profile photo. See some pictures and great results from the 2nd Waste Audit below: Don't forget to check out the Gallery section of our school website for more pictures from the fantastic Multicultural Week organised by Ms. McGrath in January!
Relive all the food, fun facts and festivities! Transport yourself by clicking on the globe below! Our marvellous 3rd class members (with a little help from 6th) have been very busy collecting all of your used markers and pens over the last few weeks to make a very creative artwork from them. Below, you can see the story of their beautiful rainbow! Well done girls on a splendid job both donating and creating! Your unloved markers and pens have found a new greener home. Dorothy and Toto would be proud! ;-) St. Brigid's girls has always been great supporters of Trócaire and their Lenten campaign each year. 2015 is no different- we even have a giant box inside our front door!
You might not be sure where your money goes after you bring back your box. Rest assured the money you collected from not eating sweets or drinking fizzy drinks goes to a very good home. Trócaire is an Irish aid organisation that does fantastic, charitable work in lots of countries in our world. As we are looking at the theme of Global Citizenship and issues such as Fairtrade and Climate Change, our Trócaire boxes are of special interest to us this year! Click on the Trócaire box to find out more! You will learn about a girl called Mahlet from Ethiopia in Africa. Our class (Ms Ryan's 6th Class) were learning about Fairtrade. We made presentations and went around to all the classes and explained what Fairtrade is. Fairtrade helps the people in developing countries to get a fair wage for the products that they made. There are many products that you can buy with the Fairtrade sign such as fruits, chocolate, tea, coffee and much more they even have clothes but make sure the product has the Fairtrade sign!! Always remember, buy what's fair and show you care!! by Shauna and Katie, Room 14 Fairtrade Fortnight takes place from 23rd February to 8th March Check out these links to find out more about this very important issue! www.papapaa.org www.oxfam.org www.fairtrade.ie Why not pop into your local Lidl as they are promoting many Fairtrade products for Fairtrade fortnight! http://www.lidl.ie/en/2732.htm As part of our waste audit, we aimed to cut down our use of paper towels as they created an enormous amount of unnecessary waste in St. Brigid's. After much discussion, the good news is that we have now replaced our paper towels with 'real' towels throughout the school. We will also use jay cloths instead of the paper towels.
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