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Safe Travel Competition Winners

Well done to our winners of Westmeath County Council Safe Travel Competition. We had 3 winners from Tang N.S!! Well done to the children for helping to raise awareness on road safety as part of our Travel Theme. 
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No Engine Idling Campaign

Click Here to find all about our new No Engine Idling Camapign. 

      Our New Travel Committee 

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3rd and 4th Class Bee Play

Click Here to watch our Bee Performance. 

Swan Presentation

Click Here to watch a presentation about Swans.

Action Day

On Friday the 18th, We held our Biodiversity Action Day. It certainly was an action packed day. Each class began the day with a treasure hunt outside. The children had great fun solving each riddle to find their next clue and eventually find the missing treasure. We then had a talk from Mr O Meara who told us all about the work of a bee keeper and how a beehive works. Thanks to the Heneghan Family for lending us their beehive and really making the day come to life for the children. We then had a performance from 3rd and 4th class all about the importance of bees in helping to maintain our biodiversity. Through the medium of song, dance and  drama we learnt that to be a bee is quite a responsibility!!! We then watched a presentation from Ms McDonnells Class all about Swans. Finally, each class took part in a nature scanvengewr hunt. An informative and fun day was had by all. 

Hedgehog Hibernaculum Competition

Congratulations to Jack and Holly for their wonderful Hedgehog Hibernaculum which will make its home in Tang N.S. Also, congratulations to all entries. It was a tough call to pick a winner and so there were prizes for all entries to our competition. Well done all!! 
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Bug Hotel

The Children in 3rd and 4th Class have just finished their Bug Hotels and they look fantastic. They even came up with some wonderful names for their hotels. We can't wait to see what wonderful creatures will be checking in to them!!

Junior and Senior Infants entries for the Bees love Dandelions art competition. 

Green Code Winner

Congratulations to our Green Code Competition Winner Emma. 
"EVERY ANIMAL, PLANT AND TREE, THAT'S BIODIVERSITY!"
What a super green code for our school to remind us all of the importance of Biodiversity!!!
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Bug Hotels in 3rd and 4th Class

3rdand 4th class are doing amazing work in increasing our school’s biodiversity. We can’t wait to see the finished products. 

Bees love Dandelions 

Senior Infants and 1st Class enjoyed working on their art designs for Cruinniú na nÓg Longford libraries  'Bees love Dandelions' competition. We were very keen to participate in this competition because we learned about the very important topic of letting wildflowers grow to assist bees in pollination. We want to spread the word to everyone so we can all play our part. 

Waste Workshop in 3rd & 4th Class

Last Friday, 3rd and 4th class took part in a virtual workshop from the discovery centre. This was a prize we had won for Green Schools. We learned lots and had fun designing our litter posters. 

Green School Assembly


Thank you to the Green School Committee for their informative powerpoint today providing us with many excellent tips on how to cut down on our energy usage and litter and waste in our school. We are working towards achieving the Biodiversity Flag and all the teachers and pupils are excited to help the Green School's Committee achieve the flag and help take care of our environment. 

Green School's Committee getting their hands dirty in our new garden.  

Water Pollution In Junior Infants

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​Freddie the fish likes to swim in fresh water. Unfortunately, when different materials and substances enter our water system, the water isn't so fresh any more for Freddie. We added some food colouring (chemicals), coffee essence (slurry), sand, oil and rubbish to demonstrate this .
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Our New Green Schools Committee 2018

Welcome to our new committee members. We have had our first meeting and we are all ready for a new Green School's Year! Absent from photo is Keela. 
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 Green School’s Flag Raising Day

​On Wednesday 7th we held our Flag Raising Day in the school. We would like to thank Mr Pat Hughes for doing the honours of raising our flag. The children sang some songs and played some tunes on their tin whistles and fiddles. We then had a rap from 3rd and 4th class outlining our water journey. The poetry competition winners read out their poems and the Green School’s Committee received a certificate for their efforts. A great day was had by all

​Green School’s Flag Collection

​On Wednesday 24th of May two of our Green School’s Committee went to collect the schools flag at an awards ceremony held in The Hudson Bay Hotel. We were delighted to have received our third green flag.
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£We won our 3rd Green Schools Flag!

We are delighted to announce we have won our 3rd Green Schools Flag. Congratulations to all of the children for their hard work. Details about our flag raising ceremony will be announced shortly. 

Gardening

Some of the 5th and 6th Class children working on clearing out the garden, getting it ready for planting. Well done children!

Our Green Code Winner

Well done to Emma for winning the 'Green Code' competition. Her winning slogan was
​" Water, water everywhere, use it wisely if you care!"
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Water Action Day

Today we held our action day. All of the children looked wonderful dressed in blue. Each class had lots of fun doing water experiments, quizzes and 3rd and 4th class put on a wonderful performance. The children raised the issue of water conservation through the medium of song and drama. A fun filled day was had by all. Thank you to all of the parents for helping the children with their wonderful costumes. They looked terriffic. 

3rd and 4th Class Water Experiment
​' Tornado in a Bottle '

Our Junior and Senior Infant
​Competition Winners

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Competition Winners

Our competition winners receiving their prizes. Well done to all who took part.

Green Schools Poster Competition

We have just posted our entries to An Taisce's Green schools poster competition. The theme this year was Global Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. The standard of all entries was incredible. We have lots of talent in Tang!! Unfortunately we could only enter 20 posters towards the regional finals. The prizes are wonderful so fingers crossed!!! Look at our wonderful finalist posters. 

Water Butt

We have installed our water butt. The monies raised from our bake sale helped us purchase this.  We have also installed water hippos in all of our toilets. This will really help us to save lots of water. A big thank you to Pat for installing the water butt for us. It looks great!!!  
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Bake Sale

Some pictures from our bake sale. Well done to the Green School's Committee for all of their hard work. A big thank you to all parents who contributed some delicious treats for us to buy. A great day was had by all. 

Green School Committee 2015-2017

The students on the committee are: Sarah Conlon, Rebecca Higgins, Eimear McDonagh, David Marlow, Lily Russell, Heather Scanlon, John Concannon , Faye Hanley, James Cahill, Emma Glancy, Mya Gill and Callum Scanlon.

September 2016

The Green Schools Committee is up and running. We have been working hard reminding everybody about reducing, reusing and recycling. We have set up our recycling centre in the school and we can take your old batteries, phones and ink cartridges. We are sending out our water survey to Parents along with our newsletter to keep you updated on our progress so far. We will begin to audit our water usage and the results of this and our Action Plan to save water will be shared with you all soon. 

Green School since 2013

In Tang National School we have been a green school since 2013. We were awarded our first green flag for Litter and Waste in 2013 and our second flag for Energy in 2015. We are currently working on our third flag which is Water. 
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