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Green Council

We help to protect the Irish environment.

We are focusing on water and saving it. We have a container for rain water and then we use it to water our yard plants.

The green council have earned the school two Green Flags from An Taisce. The Green Flag is for schools that don't waste water and keep plants healthy and stay green.  We are very proud of our two Green Flags.

Water is so precious - let us keep what we got safe!

We [us in the green council] never use good paper we always use scrap paper! The school also has about seven compost bins. We are always telling people not to put plastic and papers in because its not an ordinary bin. We use compost as are soil to plant plants. We have four giant green compost in witch we wait a long time so it can turn into compost to be useable.

Did you know that 99% of the world's water can not be used because it's either salt water or locked up in glaciers?


The Green Council which is currently managed by Cathal meet every second or third week in the afternoon at 2.30pm. They have done tremendous work in the school, not only have they suceeded in getting us two Green Flags from An Taisce but they are continuously striving to keep the green spirit alive in the school. Some of their achievements include:

  • Turn It Off! campaign
  • Composting in every class and in the staff room
  • Paper recycling throughout the school
  • Art made out of recycled rubbish
  • Door draught excluders
  • Monitoring the heating
  • Collecting used stamps
  • Collecting and recycling used ink cartridges
  • "No car days" days
  • Monitoring the use of water
  • General attention to detail around the school

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Green council members for 2011-12
Mila and Richard from 6th
Tommy and Hannah from 5th
Lochlann and Eduardo from 4th
Joe, Cal and Sophie from 3rd
Colm and Tansy from 2nd Brendan
Sabh and Nathan from 2nd Michelle