The girls of Fifth Class visited Junior Infants at the outdoor classroom. They explained to junior infants that growing a garden-in-a-jar is easy because the garden is self-watering. It works in much the same way as the water cycle- the same water is used over and over again. They created gardens in glass jars. They put pepples, damp compost and small healthy plants into the jars. The jars are airtight and placed in a bright place in the infant classroom. We are looking forward to analysing our gardens over the next two weeks.

Our whole school community took part in ‘The Big Travel Challenge’ in February. We chose to focus on cycling as the sustainable mode of travel for the duration of the challenge. We were so impressed with the number of girls cycling to school everyday, even when the weather wasn’t in their favour. We recorded a big increase at all class levels in the number of children choosing a more sustainable way of travelling to school.

Senior Infants and Second Class took part in cycling workshops with Karen Moore from An Taisce. The workshops focused on bike safety, bike skills and bike maintenance. The girls had lots of fun demonstrating their new skills.