Friday 27 November 2015

Green Schools News

The Green School Committee have been very hard at work already this year! We completed a waste review last year and repeated it this year to see if we had managed to meet our aim of reducing waste in St. Patrick's N.S. by 50%. Last year, in one week, we binned 8.5kg of waste. This year we only had 2.7kg of waste, meaning we reduced waste by 68%!

Well done to everyone in the school for remembering to recycle and compost! We have made St. Patrick's a greener school :)

For the new year we want a new poster to display our Green School Slogan, "Don't be Lazy, Go Green Crazy!", so we are having a poster competition which everyone is allowed to enter. Posters need to include our Green School Slogan, and the closing date is December 11th.

Friday 13 November 2015

Irish Flag

Today our school was visited by a memeber of Óglaigh na hÉireann to be presented with our own Irish Flag. We also recieved a copy of the 1916 Proclamation, a poster of Amhrán na bhFiann and a information about how to care for the Flag.



 Elliot was nominated to read the fourth paragraph of the proclamation. He did a fantastic job.  





Oscar was presented the Flag on behalf of the whole school.  


Please see http://www.military.ie/en/info-centre/defence-forces-2016/flags-for-schools-initiative/ for more information about this initiative and about the Flag and Proclamation.