Awards

Green Schools Award

Welcome to our Green Schools page.

Green Schools is Ireland’s leading environmental management and education programme for schools. The Green Schools flag is awarded to schools that successfully create a healthy environment for learning, while saving energy, environmental resources and money.

This student-led action aims to achieve a sustainable environment and runs over the course of 2 years.

 

Green Schools – Working together for a sustainable future

Here at Knockskeagh NS, we recently received our 6th Green Flag for the
school. This flag was for Global Citizenship; Litter and Waste. This theme
enables schools to discover how their work positively influences our global
community.

We worked very hard in several areas in order to receive this flag, but our biggest achievement was in reducing single-use plastic bottles within the school by a massive 88%! We also made an improvement in litter and waste management by reducing general food waste and packaging in our lunchboxes.

Lastly, we looked at the different cultures that exist within our school community, and we held a Culture Day in May 2019 to celebrate some of these cultures.

LITTER & WASTE

ENERGY

WATER

TRAVEL

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP -LITTER & WASTE

BIODIVERSITY

Halloween 2024

Halloween 2024

The weather failed to dampen spirits in our school today as our Halloween parade took place this year in our school...

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Walk on Wednesday

Walk on Wednesday

Walk on Wednesday Last week, all classes learned about the importance of Road Safety, with every pupil receiving a...

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Run Around Europe

Run Around Europe

Run Around Europe Challenge Our ‘Run Around Europe’ Challenge came to its conclusion recently.All classes ran, walked,...

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Bike Day

Bike Day

Bike Day 2024 Ulick of Bike Wizards helped to teach our pupils from Junior Infants to 3rd Class cycling skills today....

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Halloween Parade 2023

Halloween Parade 2023

Our Halloween Parade took place today in our school yard and it was fantastic entertainment. Midway through the rain...

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Beach Clean Up 🗑️

Beach Clean Up 🗑️

Beach Clean Up Day 🗑️ Here at Knockskeagh, we are currently working towards getting our 8th Green Flag – Global...

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