Caring for the Environment

Litter Pickers

Our Litterpickers are still in operation working in the surrounding areas. Well done to the Durran sisters Ana and Evie who took the Picker Pal litter pickers to St Pat's at the weekend and all around the village of Blennerville on their scooters to clean up the village. Ana really is taking her committee place very seriously. Well done to you girls! Thanks to the girls Mom Gina for sending on the photos and for supervising the girls on their village tour. Without having seen these photos, it was reported back to Ms Brassil on Monday morning by a little bird that the girls were doing a super job at St Pat's football field as well- so you were spotted making a difference girls!

Spring Clean
​All the classes took part in the annual Spring Clean. The classes decided on an area each to clean-the canal, Kearney's Road, St. Pat's GAA pitch etc. and went with litter pickers, gloves, wheelbarrow and rubbish bags in toe. 

Our Planet

Ms. Debbie Moriarty’s 6th class watched the David Attenborough documentary ‘A Life On Our Planet’ and discussed Cop 26. They then researched projects based on ‘Our World’ and presented them today to the class. The standard of work was terrific. Well done to all.

Greenschool Committee

Daily Swaps-Week of Action

We have registered to enter a competition called the DAILY SWAPS. At a meeting on 5th March 2026, committee members learned about small swaps we can make at home to help the environment. ​

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Trip to Siamsa-Recycled Art Exhibition

Huge thanks to Liz Maher and Geraldine from Inspired and Scotia Village and their assistant Sarah for having our Greenschool committee at Siamsa for a talk about recycling. We sorted and learned about lots of rubbish and had a great look at the amazing Changemakers Voice Exhibition where we spotted animals made from recycled materials, fairy houses and leaves made from recycled denim and much more. It was an excellent trip.

Jewellery making workshop
(using recycled material)

Huge thanks to Inspired, Scotia today for having half our Greenschool committee today to show us how they make jewellery from the recycled sweet boxes we collected over the Christmas with the help of the public and school families. We made bracelets and necklaces and had great fun. Massive thanks to Rebecca, Kate and Amanda for having us.

Thanks to everyone who donated their empty boxes of sweets.