The school formally began the process of working towards our first Green Flag in 2018. We were awarded our first Green Flag for Waste Management in 2021. We are now working on our second flag for Water.
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Our New Green School Committee
The newly elected Green School Committee met for the first time today. This year we will be applying for our ...
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Our First Green Flag!
We are delighted to see our first Green Flag raised in the school. Sadly, because of remaining restrictions in place, ...
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Our Green Flag Assessment
Today we had an online assessment with Tiarnan McCusker of Galway City Council. The members of our Green School Committee ...
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Year Two (and Three!) and a New Committee
We had begun our second year of working towards our first Green Flag at the beginning of the 2019-2020 academic ...
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Another Whole-School Action Day
The new Green School Committee organised a second Action Day towards our work on the Litter and Waste Management Flag ...
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Green School Logo and Motto
While everyone was at home keeping up their learning, the Green School Committee decided to have a logo competition for ...
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Plastic-free Lunches
The Green School Committee has been encouraging everyone to remove as much single-use plastic wrapping from lunch boxes as possible ...
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Replacing Single-use Plastic Items
The Green School Committee has been working hard to replace the use of items in the school that are single-use, ...
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Green School Action Day
Today the Green School Committee organised the first Action Day in our school. First, the Green School Committee met to ...
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Our First Green School Committee
We are delighted to have begun our work towards our first Green Flag for Litter and Waste Management. Our first ...