Congratulations to the winners of our Valentine’s Day Photography Competition organised by the Student Council and Green Schools Committee. The winners are: Fionn Franks, Senior Infants, Clara O’Brien 2nd class, Aoibhín O’Brien 4th class and Louis Ryan 4th class. Well done to all who entered and captured love in nature!
During the month of October we filmed a video in school for the PROTECT Climate Project. For this video there were pupils picked from each class to talk about our climate. We filmed the video one Friday together with the pupils from each class. We spoke about lots of things in the video, for example, we spoke about how you need to keep the sea animals healthy and safe from rubbish in the ocean. We also said you have to keep the sand clean and throw rubbish in the right bins.
The video was about four minutes long, and we added music and pictures to the video as well. The video was played in the Council Chamber Hall on Wednesday the 15th of October, and five pupils from the school- Luke Callinan, Beibhinn Curran, Croíadh Barry, Alison Casey and Ellie O’Brien attended the Chamber Hall to speak about climate change. Overall, we really enjoyed engaging in the PROTECT project, and we look forward to the next stages of the project which involves learning more about aspects of climate change in school.
By Tara Keane and Rían McMahon.
The Student Council members for 2025/2026 are: Ruby Hill (2nd), Maisie O’Connell (3rd), Artem Shenko, Alfie Higgins (4th), Patrick Brooks (5th), Cillian Malone, Ada Bujnowska, Megan Downes (6th).
The Green Schools Committee members for 2025/2026 are: Lily Kirrane, Cian Carrigy (2nd), Albie Johnston, Erin Waters, Reuben Deegan (3rd), Aoibhín O’Brien, Louis Ryan (4th), Croíadh Barry (5th), Niamh O’Reilly, Caoimhe McMahon and Donnacha Mockler (6th).
The Active Schools Committee members for 2025/2026 are: Ríadh Byrnes O’Donoghue, Aidan Cullinan (2nd), Max Callinan, Gearóid McMahon, Isabel Cleary, April Duggan (3rd), Ruadhán O’Loughlin, Eoin Erskine (4th), Katelyn Cullinan, Nathan O’Connor (5th), Maya Dowling, Chloe Smyth, Alison Casey, Mia Hedigan and Eabha Farrelly (6th).
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