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
School Garden
School Garden 4th Class recently took on our garden project and did an amazing job. They put in trojan work, cleaning...
Green Schools Action Day
Green Schools - "No Power Hour" The Green-Schools Committee has been working very hard behind the scenes towards...
Sensory Garden Update
Sensory Garden Mr Walsh (Junior) has been doing some amazing work on our new Sensory Garden recently. He has enlisted...
Halloween Parade 2020
On Friday the 23rd of October, we had our annual Halloween Parade. All the children put in a huge effort and it was...
Knockskeagh awarded its 6th Green Schools Flag
Green Schools Flag Last week, we received our 6th Green Flag for our school. This flag was for Global Citizenship;...
Green Schools Award 2020
We were delighted to hear that we received our 6th Green Flag this year for our work in Global Citizenship: Litter and...