Sacred Heart School

Green School Theme 2008-2010

Water


Water awareness and water conservation are the theme of our green schools programme for 2008 - 2010.

We have a an action plan under way and prepared for our action day on November 13th 2009.

As part of our water programme we have sent home information leaflets on water conservation to every family.

We undertook a big playshed painting project based on the theme of water. Our mural contains a rainbow, a large tap, a mermaid, an octopus, a whale amd many more interesting water creatures.

Our assessment day took place on Thursday 19th November 2009 and we are delighted to announce that we were awarded our third green flag.

Des, Mrs Tansey and Mrs Griffin collected the Green flag in Dublin.

Click here to look at our action plan

Green Flag Raising Ceremony

Eanna Ni Lamhna, President of An Taisce, raised the Green Flag in Sacred Heart School, Church Avenue, Portlaoise on Monday 26 April 2010. This is Eanna Ni Lamhna’s third visit to Sacred Heart School as she already was a guest at the school’s previous two flag raising ceremonies. The school is delighted to have achieved their third green flag. This flag is for achievement in water conservation and awareness. Eanna was entertained by the school band. To celebrate the Green Flag raising day Eanna conducted workshops with the children from third to sixth classes. Parents, teachers and children had a great day. The children sang their theme song “The Yellow Submarine” and two members of the Green School committee, Anna Healy and Ciara Ramsbottom made a presentation to Éanna.

Green Water Code

Here are some tips;

Don’t let it drip,

It’s no fun when all the taps run,

Just turn off the taps so that we can relax,

Take a short shower, don’t spend an hour,

It’s very clear,

Don’t waste water here!

Take a look below at our playshed project in action!

In 2004-2005 Sacred Heart School registered to become part of the Green School Programme. We undertook to raise our awareness of the environment and to learn how to look after our local area. The first theme of the Green Schools programme is Litter and Waste management. We elected a Green Schools committee to co-ordinate and monitor the Green Schools Programme in school. We were awarded our first Green Flag in 2006. Our Green Flag Raising ceremony took place on the 14th June 2006. Eanna Ni Leamhna, President of An Taisce was our special guest at our flag raising ceremony. Des, our caretaker and some of the children raised the Green Flag. We received our second green flag in February 2008 and once again Éanna Ní Lamhna helped us to raise it on Earth Day, April 22.

Green Energy Code

In Sacred Heart School,
Please do it right,
Turn off the light.
If you’re in doubt,
Ask an adult to plug it out,
And keep your eye on “Standby”

We held a competition among the students to write a Green Code for our school. On the 17th January 2008 we held our Green Schools Energy Action Day. We had a great day. We made a film of the day and took lots of pictures. Have a look at the pictures below.

Press play to view photographs from our

Green Schools Action Day!