GREEN SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The Green School Committee consists of boys and girls from 5th and 6th class. Our goal is to make our school a cleaner and healthier place.
Ms. O’Gara is still looking for any used batteries and any old mobile phones to raise funds for organisations such as LauraLynn. There was a Hallowe’en art workshop by ReCreate for the class that brought in the most batteries.
Did you know that there are 7 billion people in the world, and just over 1 billion have never had access to electricity. Many families, mainly in Africa and Asia, do not have electricity and have to use paraffin lamps. These lamps contain an oil called kerosene, which damages children’s lungs, just as much as smoking two packets of cigarettes a day.
Our school have been given an opportunity to help, by one class from each year group { 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th } volunteering to do a class project on solar power. One of the four classes will be chosen to be linked with a school in Malawi. They can help by sending solar power lights from Concern over. Our school received the solar powered lights to show the classes how they can help prevent the children in Africa from breathing in the kerosene oil.
Also any classes that would like to do some litter picking on the yard please let Ms. O’Gara know.
Thank you.
Ms. O’Gara is still looking for any used batteries and any old mobile phones to raise funds for organisations such as LauraLynn. There was a Hallowe’en art workshop by ReCreate for the class that brought in the most batteries.
Did you know that there are 7 billion people in the world, and just over 1 billion have never had access to electricity. Many families, mainly in Africa and Asia, do not have electricity and have to use paraffin lamps. These lamps contain an oil called kerosene, which damages children’s lungs, just as much as smoking two packets of cigarettes a day.
Our school have been given an opportunity to help, by one class from each year group { 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th } volunteering to do a class project on solar power. One of the four classes will be chosen to be linked with a school in Malawi. They can help by sending solar power lights from Concern over. Our school received the solar powered lights to show the classes how they can help prevent the children in Africa from breathing in the kerosene oil.
Also any classes that would like to do some litter picking on the yard please let Ms. O’Gara know.
Thank you.
Some children trying out the Concern Solar Panel Lamps
Global Citizenship Litter and Waste Update
- Our Green School Committee is preparing for our 6th Green Flag Assessment on March 9th 2017.
- Thank you to the children and the parents for promoting and supporting our battery and mobile phone collections.
- Please keep the batteries coming. Every class blue battery box is worth 5 euro to LauraLynn (Ireland's Children's Hospice).
- WEEE Ireland recently congratulated St. Colmcille’s as we are running one of the most successful battery recycling programmes in Ireland. We have collected 397 Kg of batteries over the past nine months!
- We also hope to collect enough mobile phones, to get a free projector for the hall. We currently have 130. We need at least 350! Autism Action benefits from your generosity. Please ask your neighbours, relatives, colleagues and friends to collect on our behalf.
- The heats of The Green School Song Contest will take place in late February.
The theme for the third and fourth class songs is Litter and Waste.
The entry forms with the rules will be distributed soon.
- The Green Committee is considering organising the first St. Colmcille’s International Day. We would like to celebrate the wide range of countries and cultures represented by the families in our school.
Mrs. O’ Gara. We would love to hear from you.
Mrs. O' Gara