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
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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.
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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 .
Our New Green Schools Committee 2018Welcome 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.
Green School’s Flag Raising DayOn 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 CollectionOn 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.
£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.
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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!"
" Water, water everywhere, use it wisely if you care!"
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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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!!!
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.