Green Schools Programme
Our quest to become Greener
Green Schools
Planting- click this button to find out all about planting in your garden or kitchen! Also if you would like a planting kit from Ms. Ronan click here!
Water safety
To be safe in the water this summer click this button
To be safe in the water this summer click this button
Bud Watch
Click on this button to watch buds become leaves
For Green School pictures and videos click this blue button
Water
Click on the interactive pdf file below to read all about the Water Cycle and also The Journey of a Water Drop. If you click on the x a blurb will appear giving you more information.
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School Strike for Change
Scoil Treasa joined millions of people all over the world in the School Strike for Change protests on September 20th 2019. We marched through our local neighbourhood and received a terrific reaction from everyone we met.
Climate and Climate Change
Check out the Green Schools Noticeboard to learn more about Ireland's climate and the effects of Climate Change. Read the story of Colin CO2 to help understand what is causing climate change to speed up.
Check out the Green Schools Noticeboard to learn more about Ireland's climate and the effects of Climate Change. Read the story of Colin CO2 to help understand what is causing climate change to speed up.
Our Energy Flag
We did it! We all worked hard learning about Energy and learning all the ways we can think about our Energy usage and how to conserve it. We were awarded our Energy flag and some hard working members of the Green School Committee went to DCU to collect it. 4th class also preformed their song 'A Million Dreams for a Greener World' at the awards ceremony. Well done 4th class.
A Million Dreams for a Greener World by Ms. Slattery and 4th Class
Our Green School Noticeboard has lots of information on all the energy projects we have been undertaking. Please take a look next time you are passing.
Plastic, it's not so fantastic.
We have compiled some very interesting facts about our plastic consumption. Look for the wave outside 4th class to learn more.
4th Class have been working out our Gas usage statistics. They found some interesting results. Please check the GS noticeboard to find out more.
Did you take part in our Energy Trail on Low Power day? Can you remember what answer the trail led you to?
We learned about Renewable and Non-renewable Energy and then used our knowledge to find the best sources of Energy for this island. 2nd Class also worked on a poster about sources of energy, you can find it outside their classroom.
Low Power, Use Your Own Energy Day
Take a look at our slideshow of all the days activities
Are you ready for Low Power, Use your own Energy Day this Friday?
What are we working on? Keep checking here and the GS noticeboard to find out......
The GS Committee hard at work checking the Electricity and Gas Meters to check how much electrical power and gas we are using daily. Please check the noticeboard for reading results.
Thank you to all who entered our slogan competition, there were some excellent slogans, poems and raps- it was difficult to pick a winner! Well done to Adam who came up with our new Energy Slogan.
Which bin does it go in? A reminder to all about the importance of monitoring our waste-which we do every day- and also to think about packaging; Can we reduce the amount of waste we produce?
Litter picking in our local area with 2nd Class and parent Volunteers
Please take our Climate Change Survey. If you have any questions please ask the Committee or anyone in 5th class. You can also watch the video 'Climate Change Explained' to find out more.
Planting in the Garden with 3rd A
Green School Committee
Energy Theme Poster Competition
Don't forget you can recycle Batteries outside the Office
Reading the electricity Meter
Who is your class Spotlight?
Best Bins now includes ENERGY Monitoring
Reduce Reuse Recycle- remembering all the things we learned about Litter and Waste
Litter picking in our local Area
Energy Audit
The committee were on the hunt for Energy Vampires so they mapped the school to find out what are the biggest guzzlers of energy and where they are located.
Climate Change
6th Class took a Climate Change Survey and learned about Climate Change.
Learning all About Energy
Where does it come from? Why is it important? What are our sources of Energy? How do we use it? Do we need to think about how we can use it in a better way?
Green Schools
At Scoil Treasa Naofa we have been working hard to attain our first Green Flag for Litter and Waste. We began in 2015 with just a small committee of students and teachers who had big ideas of how to make our school a cleaner, greener environment for all. Since then we have been working hard; planning, doing, reviewing and redoing many things to encourage each and everyone of us to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Watch the video below to see Scoil Treasa Green Gladiators in action!
At Scoil Treasa Naofa we have been working hard to attain our first Green Flag for Litter and Waste. We began in 2015 with just a small committee of students and teachers who had big ideas of how to make our school a cleaner, greener environment for all. Since then we have been working hard; planning, doing, reviewing and redoing many things to encourage each and everyone of us to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Watch the video below to see Scoil Treasa Green Gladiators in action!
Our Garden, a little bit more litter free
Last March the very end part of our school garden was a sad and sorry sight. Overgrown, impenetrable and strewn with rubbish. Now it looks very different as the green flag recent trip there found out. This is thanks to Mr. Kelly and 6th class who have cleared and cleaned the area. Thank you to all in 6th class. The green flag can now check this area for litter more frequently.
Another new Green Flag member with our new bins!
Batteries, Batteries, Batteries!
A reminder to everyone to bring your batteries for collection. Boxes are located in each classroom and are to be emptied into the big box outside Claires office. Well done to this 2nd class student who filled a whole box in one go! And to our new green flag member from 4th class for distrubting our new boxes.
Don't forget to check out our school Notice Board for all our updated Green School News.
Action Day in Replay!
Thank you to all that attended and helped out during Action Day! The Green Flag committee worked very hard, along with students in all classes to prepare presentations, songs and even a video for a special assembly. Well done to all those who won awards for their hard green themed work. Also a very special mention to 1st Class A who, according to our weekly bin traffic lights are the greenest class so far at Scoil Treasa. Keep up the good work 1st Class A!
A big thanks also to the parents and people from the local community who took our Green Tour and participated in our green quizs from keen green flag memebers. Also we were so happy to get lots of volunteers who game litter picking in our local area. Because of your help we were able to go further than ever before and manged to collect 6 full size refuse bags of rubbish from the streets around our school.
A big thanks also to the parents and people from the local community who took our Green Tour and participated in our green quizs from keen green flag memebers. Also we were so happy to get lots of volunteers who game litter picking in our local area. Because of your help we were able to go further than ever before and manged to collect 6 full size refuse bags of rubbish from the streets around our school.
Action Day
Previously we held a Green School Week and lots of parents attended our Friday Assembly to learn what our litter and waste Flag was all about. Now we are having day of Action where everyone can get involved and learn about what we are doing to manage our litter and waste and check in on the progress we have made so far, participate in our waste tour and go litter picking in our local area. Please join us next Friday!
Welcome Back from the Green schools Commitee
This years Green Schools Committee would like to welcome everyone back for a very green 2016/17 at Scoil Treasa. There are old and new faces on the committee this year, here they are posing beside the big bins in the shed, a place they check quite often!
Green Code
Green schools Week
Litter Picking with Fifth Class
Fifth class went litter picking in the local community with some parents and teachers. They collected five refuse sacks of rubbish! Well done fifth class!
Is the Waste in the Right Place?
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Everyone at Scoil Treasa has been hard at work binning our waste in the correct place! And our bin monitors have been working very hard to check the bins each lunchtime. Our traffic light system has been working very well. Each class is awarded a light, Green for a super clean classroom with all the rubbish in the right place, orange if the classroom is mostly clean and red if the classroom has lots of waste improvements to make. The bin monitors then record the colour each class get on a weekly chart. These results will help us to analyse our waste and encourage us to do our best.
Which bin does it go in?
Our aim to begin recycling, reducing our waste and increasing our compost began with lots of sign making! The Green Flag Committee recruited some helpers and got to work! Then it was time to inform our school community exactly what being Green was going to Mean! Our committee gave a great performance at Assembly for parents, staff and students. We all understood what it meant to be part of the Green Team at Scoil Treasa.
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Green Flag
Litter and Waste
The green flag committee ready to search through our school bins!
When the committee investigated our bins they were happy to find compostable items in the compost bin. However they did find some plastics and wrappers in there also.
Further investigation revealed that our general waste bin contained general waste, compostable items and recyclable items!
And what about our recycling bins? Unfortunately our recycling bins contained nothing :(
Our Aim
The committee then decided that it was time that we start recycling! Please join us as we try to reduce our general waste, increase our recycling and ensure that our compost bins contain only compostable items. We will post regular updates and waste reduction tips on this page. We look forward to making Scoil Treasa a greener environment for all.
