As our current Green School Theme is Biodiversity we have been spending a great deal of time studying about environmental awareness and care. We have watched educational videos and songs on the IWB, have held class discussions, taken nature walks, created habitat maps, experimented, brainstormed, planned and made models of our biodiversity projects. Our work has supported our entry into competitions including Super Valu’s ” Save the Bee’s” Campaign and Applegreen’s “BioDive”. Classes have also had the pleasure of showcasing their knowledge by giving a presentation to other pupils within the school.
May 2022: Fun on the Farm: Heritage Talk with Niamh
In Grenagh Farm we met Niamh who told us all about the interesting places she has worked and her study of creatures. Before we started our own fieldwork investigations we paused for a few moments to listen to the sounds of nature. The children took great delight in finding bugs and carefully examining their habitat. The children really enjoyed this lesson as it links to our Green School Biodiversity theme.
Heritage Talk with Niamh
We took to a meadow for our next activity. We met Niamh who told us all about the interesting places she has worked and her study of creatures. Before we started our own fieldwork investigations we paused for a few moments to listen to the sounds of nature. The children took great delight in finding bugs and carefully examining their habitat. The children really enjoyed this lesson as it links to our Green School Biodiversity theme.
Travel Flag Virtual Ceremony – October 6th 2021
We were thrilled to celebrate 10 years of being a Green School by receiving our 5th Green Flag for Travel. On October 6th we were honoured to participate in the virtual ceremony organised by An Taisce. The children were so proud to see our schools name appear on the roll of honour. A massive thank you to our Travel Officer Ellen Murphy who provided us with endless support, help and guidance in our efforts to improve our carbon footprint and implement our travel initiatives.
Green Campus Celebrations
Trip to UCC to celebrate it’s 10 year anniversary – 19th February 2020
Green Schools committee members busily working together to create a map of the school’s catchment area to inform car pooling and new bus route possibilities.
Clean Air Week
18th- 22nd, November 2019
Clean Air Week, Green- Schools Travel newest campaign will run from Monday November 18th to Friday, November 22nd.
The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of air pollution and to take action to reduce air pollution.
Further information can be found at: http://greenschoolsireland.org/clean-air-week-2019/
#BeatAirPollution
Climate Action Week
October 14th-October 20th
For the past eight years Rathduff National School has been an active registered participant in the “Green Schools” programme. To date we have received four Green Flags of which we are very proud; we were awarded our first flag for ‘Litter and Waste’ in 2013, our second flag for ‘Energy Conservation’ in 2015, our third flag in 2017 for “Water” and our fourth was received in May 2019 for Global Citizenship and the Marine Environment. We are currently working on the theme of Transport.
Each year we have followed a step by step approach to become more aware of our “Environmental footprint”. We have held “Action days” e.g. Spring Clean, Limit Electricity days, Water Conservation days to promote our practices in school. Children have gone on trip to places such as; The Lifetime Lab, Mallow Recycling Centre, and The Blackrock Observatory to extend their knowledge on each topic. We have also had guest speakers and environmentalists visit the school to share their expertise and have been involved in workshops.
This theme focuses on raising awareness of marine eco-systems and the work being done to save them.
To increase our awareness of Marine life we participated in the Marine Environmental Forum held in Cork City. Our Green Schools committee very much enjoyed creating a school survey, collecting the data and tabulating the results. Following a successful application our school was selected to participate in the Marine Environment Conference which took place in Limerick in December 2017. Sixth Class carried out a great deal of research into their Marine Topic and presented their findings to an audience in Thomond Park.
As part of our school curriculum each class explores topics relating to the environment.In 2018 Third class learned all about organising and re-using waste materials as part of the Geography curriculum. They learned about the Tidy Towns competition during these lessons and they created their own posters given the title “Save Our Environment”.
Also, as part of Science Day, children worked on the topic of Environmental Awareness and Care. One class had 3 bins labelled recyclable, disposable and compost. They had a variety of waste materials and pupils / parents who came to visit their stand had to place the correct items into the correct bins.
For National Tree week “Future Forests” garden centre donated a selection of native trees to a fourth class. Each child received a tree to plant at home; two were planted on the school grounds.
Other classes participated in ‘Big Grow’ initiative sponsored by Innocent Smoothies. Each child grew; cress, peas or spinach from seeds. Flowers were planted by children in various classes.
The school has created a “Sensory Garden” which reflects our spirit and commitment to care of the environment.
Last October children from our school attended the Green-Schools Marine Environment forum taking place in Cork City. The aim of the forum was to inspire a schools work on the Marine theme. It introduce the children to life underwater, the problem of marine litter, ocean science experiments, marine litter mandala art and gave ideas on how to build on our action plan. The pupils had a fantastic time at the event and returned school inspired, ready to take on the theme and raise awareness of these important issues. The school also took part in “Climate Action Week” by planting, taking surveys and exploring the Green Schools website.
Our Flags flying high!
As a Green school we are constantly encouraging the children to be conscious about the environment as well as looking for their input for new ideas for school activities to promote Rathduff N.S as a Green School.
Around the School we have:
Green School Committee
Our Green code ‘Keen to be Green!’
Our Green Board
Suggestion box for Green School
Guest Speakers during the year
Action days
School garden where each class grows their own vegetables
During the year we also have
Recycling bins and compost bins
Battery boxes in each classroom
Our Green Code is ‘Keen to be Green’
Our Green Board
In June 2015 we were awarded the Energy Conservation Flag. To celebrate the raising of the flag we welcomed Cork ladies Valerie Mulcahy and Bríd Stack and to the come raise the flag. Each child wore green to mark the occasion.
In 2017 5th class entered a competition to Save water as part of trying to get our Water Flag this year. The boys and girls in both 5th classes worked so hard .
Green- Schools Committee
May 2022: Fun on the Farm: Heritage Talk with Niamh
In Grenagh Farm we met Niamh who told us all about the interesting places she has worked and her study of creatures. Before we started our own fieldwork investigations we paused for a few moments to listen to the sounds of nature. The children took great delight in finding bugs and carefully examining their habitat. The children really enjoyed this lesson as it links to our Green School Biodiversity theme.
Heritage Talk with Niamh
We took to a meadow for our next activity. We met Niamh who told us all about the interesting places she has worked and her study of creatures. Before we started our own fieldwork investigations we paused for a few moments to listen to the sounds of nature. The children took great delight in finding bugs and carefully examining their habitat. The children really enjoyed this lesson as it links to our Green School Biodiversity theme.
Travel Flag Virtual Ceremony – October 6th 2021
We were thrilled to celebrate 10 years of being a Green School by receiving our 5th Green Flag for Travel. On October 6th we were honoured to participate in the virtual ceremony organised by An Taisce. The children were so proud to see our schools name appear on the roll of honour. A massive thank you to our Travel Officer Ellen Murphy who provided us with endless support, help and guidance in our efforts to improve our carbon footprint and implement our travel initiatives.
Green Campus Celebrations
Trip to UCC to celebrate it’s 10 year anniversary – 19th February 2020
Green Schools committee members busily working together to create a map of the school’s catchment area to inform car pooling and new bus route possibilities.
Clean Air Week
18th- 22nd, November 2019
Clean Air Week, Green- Schools Travel newest campaign will run from Monday November 18th to Friday, November 22nd.
The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of air pollution and to take action to reduce air pollution.
Further information can be found at: http://greenschoolsireland.org/clean-air-week-2019/
#BeatAirPollution
Climate Action Week
October 14th-October 20th
For the past eight years Rathduff National School has been an active registered participant in the “Green Schools” programme. To date we have received four Green Flags of which we are very proud; we were awarded our first flag for ‘Litter and Waste’ in 2013, our second flag for ‘Energy Conservation’ in 2015, our third flag in 2017 for “Water” and our fourth was received in May 2019 for Global Citizenship and the Marine Environment. We are currently working on the theme of Transport.
Each year we have followed a step by step approach to become more aware of our “Environmental footprint”. We have held “Action days” e.g. Spring Clean, Limit Electricity days, Water Conservation days to promote our practices in school. Children have gone on trip to places such as; The Lifetime Lab, Mallow Recycling Centre, and The Blackrock Observatory to extend their knowledge on each topic. We have also had guest speakers and environmentalists visit the school to share their expertise and have been involved in workshops.
This theme focuses on raising awareness of marine eco-systems and the work being done to save them.
To increase our awareness of Marine life we participated in the Marine Environmental Forum held in Cork City. Our Green Schools committee very much enjoyed creating a school survey, collecting the data and tabulating the results. Following a successful application our school was selected to participate in the Marine Environment Conference which took place in Limerick in December 2017. Sixth Class carried out a great deal of research into their Marine Topic and presented their findings to an audience in Thomond Park.
As part of our school curriculum each class explores topics relating to the environment.In 2018 Third class learned all about organising and re-using waste materials as part of the Geography curriculum. They learned about the Tidy Towns competition during these lessons and they created their own posters given the title “Save Our Environment”.
Also, as part of Science Day, children worked on the topic of Environmental Awareness and Care. One class had 3 bins labelled recyclable, disposable and compost. They had a variety of waste materials and pupils / parents who came to visit their stand had to place the correct items into the correct bins.
For National Tree week “Future Forests” garden centre donated a selection of native trees to a fourth class. Each child received a tree to plant at home; two were planted on the school grounds.
Other classes participated in ‘Big Grow’ initiative sponsored by Innocent Smoothies. Each child grew; cress, peas or spinach from seeds. Flowers were planted by children in various classes.
The school has created a “Sensory Garden” which reflects our spirit and commitment to care of the environment.
Last October children from our school attended the Green-Schools Marine Environment forum taking place in Cork City. The aim of the forum was to inspire a schools work on the Marine theme. It introduce the children to life underwater, the problem of marine litter, ocean science experiments, marine litter mandala art and gave ideas on how to build on our action plan. The pupils had a fantastic time at the event and returned school inspired, ready to take on the theme and raise awareness of these important issues. The school also took part in “Climate Action Week” by planting, taking surveys and exploring the Green Schools website.
Our Flags flying high!
As a Green school we are constantly encouraging the children to be conscious about the environment as well as looking for their input for new ideas for school activities to promote Rathduff N.S as a Green School.
Around the School we have:
Green School Committee
Our Green code ‘Keen to be Green!’
Our Green Board
Suggestion box for Green School
Guest Speakers during the year
Action days
School garden where each class grows their own vegetables
During the year we also have
Recycling bins and compost bins
Battery boxes in each classroom
Our Green Code is ‘Keen to be Green’
Our Green Board
In June 2015 we were awarded the Energy Conservation Flag. To celebrate the raising of the flag we welcomed Cork ladies Valerie Mulcahy and Bríd Stack and to the come raise the flag. Each child wore green to mark the occasion.
In 2017 5th class entered a competition to Save water as part of trying to get our Water Flag this year. The boys and girls in both 5th classes worked so hard .
As a Green school we are constantly encouraging the children to be conscious about the environment as well as looking for their input for new ideas for school activities to promote Rathduff N.S as a Green School.
Around the School we have:
In June 2015 we were awarded the Energy Conservation Flag. To celebrate the raising of the flag we welcomed Cork ladies Valerie Mulcahy and Bríd Stack and to the come raise the flag. Each child wore green to mark the occasion.
In 2017 5th class entered a competition to Save water as part of trying to get our Water Flag this year. The boys and girls in both 5th classes worked so hard .
