Green Schools (April 2012)

Our Lady's achieve 5th Green Flag, with the theme for this flag being Biodiversity, they travelled to Ashbourne on Wednesday May 16th to be presented with the fifth flag, it was highlighted at the presentation that Our Lady's was the only secondary school in the North East to achieve a fifth green flag.

..TY Environmental Studies Students are very busy this term 2011/2012

Climate Change Talk

All TY students attended a Climate Change Talk by Gavan Harte in Iontas on March 14th

A Green Day was held on Nov 30th when unused text books were collected and recycled.  The plastic bottle collections are growing by the week saving on waste disposal cost and saving the environment too.

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Our  Lady's was awarded their 4^th Green Flag having successfully completed the Travel Theme. Students Rebecca Burns and Rachel Quinn together with their teacher Mary Geraghty  received the Environmental Award  from  members of An Taisce  at a ceremony held  in the Croke Park Conference Centre. 

Green Schools is an international environmental education programme, environmental management system and award scheme that promotes and acknowledges long-term, whole school action for the Environment.

The aim of the Green-Schools is to increase students’ and participant awareness of environmental issues through classroom studies and to transfer this knowledge into positive environmental action in the school and also in the wider community. Schools that have successfully completed all, the elements of the programme are awarded the ‘Green Flag’.

Transition Year Students keeping Our Lady's environmentally friendly!

Our Lady’s Secondary School has already accomplished much success achieving three Green Flags in the themes of:

1. Litter and Waste
2. Energy
3. Water

The theme of the current Green School’s Flag is travel and it seeks to promote energy efficient modes of transport that will both work towards promoting student’s personal health as well as combating the effects that climate change are having on our Global Environment. Other initiatives that have been introduced within the school to coincide with the pursuit of the Green School’s flag is

• WOW (Walk on Wednesday’s – a scheme encourage pupils and teachers alike to walk or cycle to school each Wednesday),

• a poster competition,

• environmental workshops and

• safety talks.

Transition Years heading off on their guided cycle on cycle Safety Day organised by Miss Shalvey.

Miss Shalvey organised a Cycle Safety Day for a group of Transition Year students on Tuesday , March 24th, where a number of  Garda visited the school and spoke to the group of students about all aspects of cycling safely on our busy roads and the importance of wearing correctly fitting helmets and high visibility clothing.  They then brought them on a 4 mile cycle to illustrate what they had just talked about.  The school has recently put in place a new bicycle shelter to encourage more students to choose this healthy way of travelling to school.

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