It’s snail season at St. Columba’s N.S.!
Our children are very busy collecting snails and building snail houses for them.
Category Archives: Green Schools
Chicken time!
Junior and Senior Infants hatched out two West Dutch bantam chicks in their incubator. They set six eggs and two hatched out. That is why we say “don’t count your chickens until they are hatched”. It means that not all of the eggs will always hatch. We called the chickens Chicken Licken and Speedy.
Fifth Green Flag
Our Fifth Green Flag was raised on Thursday 19th June. The flag was raised by Mr. Neville Caldbeck following a short ceremony and prayers.
Thank you to the Green School Committee and Ms. McAssey who leads our Green School camapign with great enthusiasm and energy.
Tweety, our chicken.
Our chick hatched. We called him Tweety. We left Tweety in the incubator to dry off. When he dried off, we put Tweety into his new nest. His nest is a box with wood shavings and a special heater to keep him cosy.
Tweety likes to eat chicken crumb.
Here is a picture of Tweety in the incubator.
Green Flag Celebrations
Today was a very special day for the Green Schools Committee. Representatives of the Committee attended a ceremony in Kilkenny to collect our fifth Green Flag under the theme of Biodiversity. It was a very proud day for our school. We are looking forward to raising our flag over the coming weeks. Many thanks to all the pupils and staff on their wonderful work over the past number of years.
Hatching
Our chicken is trying very hard to hatch out of the egg today.
Egg-citment
We were all very excited today to see one of our eggs begin to hatch.
This morning, there was a very small crack on the egg.
By hometime, the crack in the egg had grown a bit bigger.
We hope the chick will hatch fully tomorrow. We can hear the chick peeping in the egg.
Our Vegetable Plot
We have been busy planting seeds in our school vegetable plot. The pupils are looking forward to maintaining the plot over the coming weeks. We planted turnip, carrot and lettuce seeds. We also planted strawberry plants. We are very proud of our school garden and are looking forward to watching the seeds grow over the coming weeks.
Fifth Green Flag Awarded
We are delighted to announce that An Taisce have awarded us our fifth Green Flag on the theme of Biodiversity. Well done to all pupils on their wonderful achievement. Special thanks to the Green Schools Committee for their dedicated work. We are all very proud of our green school.
Visitors to our minibeast hotel
First Class discovered lots of minibeasts living in our minibeast hotel.
Do you like the caterpillar?
