School Projects

4th GreenFlag Theme "Travel"

COW Day Press Release
Travel Theme Information
Launch of COW Day 2011
Travel Action Plan

Green Schools

During the school year 2009/2010 we worked very hard to attain our third greenflag for conserving water. A huge congratulations to our committee who were successful in getting the flag and who were presented with the flag at the awards ceremony in Croke Park. St. Matthews will be celebrating this achievement with our own Flag Raising Ceremony early in the new school year, 2010/2011 with a guest visitor present on the day to raise the flag. We would like to thank Keith Lee our parent representative who has been brilliant in helping us to work towards saving water. We will be looking for a new parent representative to join us in going forward with our new theme. If you are interested please speak to Ms. Browne.

From September 2010 we will be beginning work on our 4th greenflag which will be based on the theme of ‘Travel’. Our 1st step will be to elect new members from 1st to 6th class to join past members on the greenschool’s committee. We will then be beginning our ‘Environmental Review’ and working through the 7 steps. In the summer term of 2010 our May assembly hosted by Junior Infants and Pre-School was on the theme of ‘Walking to School’ and as part of this we would like to thank Dublin City Council who provided us with new bicycle racks for our school.

Greenschool’s 7 steps to achieve our 4th greenflag:

Step 1: Committee

Step 2: Environmental Review

Step 3: Action Plan

Step 4: Monitoring and Evaluating

Step 5: Curriculum Work

Step 6: Informing and Involving

Step 7: Greencode

Please click on the links below for even more Green Schools information!

Energy Saving Tips.pdf
Green Schools Ireland
The Energy Squad.pdf
Sustainable Energy Ireland

For more information on our Pupil Section contact St. Matthews National School