St Patrick's Girls National School Hollypark

 

Green School Code       


THE GOLDEN RULES

Everyone please join in!

Put your litter in the bin!


When handling rubbish, wash your hands

That’s one of the green Schools Big demands


With your ideas don’t be shy, your Green school rep, is real close by


Leaghdú Úsáid arís, Athchúrsáil

  

Green School Reps

Our green schools reps were elected in November 2008. They have regular meetings and must report back to their classes on what was discussed and decided at the Green School Meetings.

Second class

Nicole Gallagher

Lauren Tracey

Kerry Farrell Quin

Ava Hennessy

 

Third Class

Robben Beatty

Rosie McCarthy

 

 

Fourth Class

Sarah Quinless

Anne Spain

Robyn Kos

Anna Flynn

 

Sixth class

Alison Aherne

Orla Moffat

Victoria Kenna

Sarah Collins

Sarah Kate O’ Connor

Minami Kennedy

Anne-Marie Gallagher

Fifth Class

Evie Robinson

Anna Caffrey

Katelyn Fairly

Hannah Byrne

Tarah O Sullivan

 

We have a ‘Buddy System’ in operation for our Junior infants to first classes whereby a group of girls from the green rep’s must report back to these classes on activities and events happening in the school.

 

 

 What’s happening in our green school over the next few months………

 

Our Green School News for December

The green school committee are very busy at the moment preparing for our green school flag Renewal. We are looking forward to the visit  of Kate Hynes, assistant Environmental Awareness officer with Dun Laoghaire- Rathdown County Council/ An taisce on the 16th of December. We have reviewed our Green School Policies and have lots of exciting Green Plans for the coming months. Remember to check out our Green school noticeboard in the foyer for all the news

As per the Green school Code, The Golden Rules…

With your ideas don’t be shy, your Green school rep, is real close by

  

Our Green School News for January

We are asking all the students to bring in their used Christmas Cards and we  plan to recycle them.  A really nice idea is to make little boxes using these cards. The green team will forward the template to all classes in January.
 

Our Green School News for February

We plan to further develop our ‘No junk Mail’ Awareness campaign. Watch this Space

 
Our Green School News for March

We are hoping to have the ‘Hollypark case Study’ on line by the end of March. This is an online account of how we worked to achieve our goals to reduse, reuse & Recycle over the last few years.


Our Green School News for April

We will be busy ‘Spring Cleaning’

 
Our Green School News for May

St.Patricks GNS Hollypark are delighted to announce that our Green flag has been renewed.

This wonderful achievement came about through the hard work of the Green Schools committee and the co-operation of the whole school. We are very proud to be a Green school.

    

Pictured  left to right are: Darrell Crowe, REPAK, Joanne Scott, An Taisce and Dean Eaton, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council and from Hollypark Green School Reps : Alison Aherne-6th class & Tarah O' Sullivan 5th class with Ms. McCahill and Ms. Casey

 

Weee Ireland sponsored the school again this year and held another successful  ‘Electrical Goods Recycling Action Day’

 

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