Month: December 2019

We were thrilled to learn that Donore Harriers won Gold for the first time in 127 years in the U13 national cross country championships recently. Why are we so delighted? Because two of our girls are on the team!

Congratulations to Emily Bolton and Lorraine O Connor on this amazing achievement. Lorraine also won a bronze medal and Emily was the overall winner , getting gold  in the U13 race.

This festive season we’re all more aware than ever of the need to reduce the amount of waste we create. Whether you have chosen to limit the number of presents you buy or you’re choosing to buy gifts with a sustainable ethos, it’s becoming more and more popular to choose carefully this Christmas. This past year Green-Schools has partnered with MyWaste.ie to encourage schools to use this new website to answer any waste-related queries they might have.

The MyWaste website is a great source of information related to reusing items, reducing waste and recycling responsibly, not just at Christmas but all year ’round. Ahead of the Christmas break it’s a great resource for schools to remind students about the need to reduce food waste and to be more mindful of where excess packaging and wrapping paper ends up at Christmas-time.

We like these sections of the MyWaste website:

• The 12 Ways of Christmas Waste Reduction
• FAQs: answers to all your burning waste-related questions like ‘can aluminium trays be recycled?’
• This news article on a zero plastics Christmas

We are embarking on a wild flower garden this year and to get it started we are planting hundreds of bulbs around the 5th and 6th class yards. This week the 4th and 5th classes were out with their shovels planting as many as they could.