Green Team News
Tuesday, May 30

Kilruane School has been busy since Christmas promoting the theme of Biodiversity and keeping the themes of the other flags flying!

Miss Talbots 5th and 6th class have been studying the habitats of the Arctic and the Antarctic. They covered these areas through all the subjects and made fantastic artwork by recycling shoeboxes which turned into amazing scenes based on the North and South Pole.

They kindly presented the fruits of their work to each class in the halla by passing on the information they had gathered to the other children.

The Green Team sent out an appeal for old newspapers to the whole school and we received an enthusiastic reaction! We are busy making newspaper briquettes and you never know we might have a briquette for each child to take home by June!!!!

The vegetable patches have been dug up ready for planting so in a week or two we hope to plant onions and radishes that will be harvested by June.

One of the highlights so far has been the visit of our local Bog Oak Group to our school. They arrived with their beautiful pieces of bog oak, tools and their huge talent and craft in this area. The children were given a wonderful insight into the whole area of bog oak.        We thank Johnny Spain, Philly Reddan, Johnny Peters and Andy Whelan for their time, knowledge and expertise.

Another highlight has to be the visit of Bird Study Expert, Arnold Nolan to Kilruane School. Arnold gave a presentation to each class from Junior Infants to Sixth class. Each presentation was followed by a practical workshop around the school grounds where Arnold identified all the interesting birds we have as well as habitats, plants, trees, minibeasts etc. The visit ended with a Green Team meeting where Arnold shared his knowledge and enthusiasm with us. We thank you Arnold for your encouragement and knowledge.

We had another great day at Kilruane NS, thanks to a visit from local beekeeper, Tom Starr. He gave the children lots of information about bees and wasps. He showed the children the protective clothing worn by the bee keepers. He brought along a straw bee hive from long ago. The children got to taste some of Tom’s honey, made by his very own bees. We would like to thank Tom for sharing his hobby and vast knowledge with us. The children really enjoyed his visit.

So Kilruane N.S. is indeed a busy place and hopefully we are getting nearer to achieving our 5th flag -BIODIVERSITY

Green Flag update May 2017

We are delighted to announce that our school was awarded it’s Fifth Green flag in May 2017. We are so proud to have all our flags on display outside our school. Well done everybody!

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