Outdoor learning and risky play is back for our new school year. Children in junior infants, senior infants and first classes are taking part in play as part of their school day and play is available for all other classes in out outdoor play area at break times. We have also started to harvest fruit and vegetables from our polytunnel, paid for by the Parent’s Association last year. The weather has helped a lot but the children do go out…
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We have just bought a wormery for our school. Already we reduce green food waste in classrooms by feeding it to the hens. However, now we are also going to use a wormery to eat up all the green waste in the staff room each week. Our wormery works like this: 1. We put coconut hair (coir) in water and then spread it on a tray in the wormery (it looks like Weetabix). 2. We add special worms called tiger…
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We are back with our hen project for 2024-2025, the 9th year we have had hens in our school. This year, 5th class pupils will be running the Gugalaí Gug egg company and selling our hen eggs to parents in the school. We had one bereavement during the summer as Megatron passed away but we are very grateful to David Redhouse who donated three new hens (total now 6) to our flock. Training in the new pupils started this week…
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