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Walk to School and Action Day

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Date:                               Friday, 26th May

Time:                              8.30 a.m

Meeting Point:             Woodbury Road

Parents/ guardians are encouraged to drop off their children at this point and the pupils will walk to school from there. (Parking is not recommended in this area). There will be stickers and balloons to add some fun along the way.

Parent volunteers will be required again to ensure safety and guide the way to the school. If you are interested in volunteering for this (time will be from 8.15 – 8.50) please contact Helen or Lynn. Email address is helen@goreyeducatetogether.ie lynn@goreyeducatetogether.ie or call into our classrooms.

There will be lots of fun and healthy benefits from participating in this theme so we would really encourage you as a parent/ guardian to get involved and promote this with your children too. We also have our new ‘Green Code’ to chant as we walk along. Here it is for you to start practising:

Be Green , be clean,
Make our environment a dream,
Scoot, cycle or take the bus, 
All together now – Bualadh Bos!

Looking forward to some fresh morning air, a healthy walk and lots of singing.

 

Action Day:

Our Action day will also take place on Friday, 26th May. This will involve all classes making and/ or designing a poster of a green way they have travelled to school. This will be done with their class teacher after our walk to school. These posters will be displayed along our corridors, linking all our classrooms together.

SOW – Scoot on Wednesday, 22nd March

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SOW (Scoot on Wednesday) – This week is National Scoot to School week so we are asking everyone who has a scooter to make a big effort on Wednesday to scoot to school. There is lovely new scooter parking available inside the school gates and we will have prizes on the day. First, second, third and fourth classes recently received scooter safety training so don’t forget to put all your safety rules into action.
LET’S GET SCOOTING!!!

Seachtain na Gaeilge (Animated Movies as Gaeilge)

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Third class have been working very hard over the last two weeks to write, create, record and edit animated movies as gaeilge for Seachtain na Gaeilge. Have a look at some of our creations! 🙂

Éalú (click on link to open movie)

 

 

Big Travel Challenge Results

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The Green Schools Committee would like to thank and congratulate everyone for the fantastic effort made for the Big Travel Challenge 2017. As many of the pupils live far away from school and must travel by bus or by car, our focus was on to walk some of the way to school. This was done by walking to get your bus, park ‘n stride or drop off ‘n stride. Every class recorded their results on a daily basis and then the committee compiled the total numbers for each week. These results are displayed on our Green Schools notice board. Just on this alone, over the two weeks, there was an increase of 185 pupils travelling by park ‘n stride or drop off ‘n stride. This is a massive increase. Check out our notice board for all other results.

 

Congratulations to Lynn and Fergus’ class who won the overall prizes for a whole class effort. They have won a walking trip to Gorey Park (at the discretion of their teacher). Prizes were also awarded to individual pupils in each class for outstanding effort.

 

Finally, well done to all the pupils who got involved and especially to parents/guardians who facilitated their children participating in this challenge.

Keep up the great work 🙂 🙂 🙂

Big Travel Challenge Competitors

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Well done to Fergus’ class who won the award on the second week of the Big Travel Challenge. They also won a walking trip to Gorey park.

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Well done to all the children, families and parents/ guardians who participated in the challenge. There was almost double the amount of children participating in our Drop off ‘n stride activity for the second week of the challenge. Results will be posted on our Green Schools notice board. Continue to keep up this fantastic effort to help reduce fuel emissions and to get some exercise and healthy fresh air for our bodies early in the morning. 🙂 🙂

Big Travel Challenge……continues this week

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Well done to Lynn’s 1st class who got an award for the most children in the class participating in this challenge last week. They have won a ‘Walking Trip’ to Gorey Park. We will pick another class this coming Friday so please keep up the great effort. There will also be lots more spot prizes for each class.

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What you can do:

  1. Walk/ cycle/ scoot to school every/ most mornings over the two weeks
  2. Car pool with someone who lives near you
  3. If you must come to school in a car, participate in ‘Drop off ‘n Stride’. This means that you can still come to school in your car but ask your parents/ guardians to drop you off a little further away from the school so that you can walk the rest of the way e.g. outside the school gates, at the top of the road/ nearby roads. Always walk on the footpath. Please BE SAFE and follow the rules of the road.
  4. If you are a bus user, you can count your walk to get the bus as part of your journey to school.

Food Dudes

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Food dudes is a healthy eating programme. Our school has been participating in the Food Dudes programme for last few weeks. Everyday your teacher gives you a portion of fruit and vegetables and at the end of the day your teacher will give you a prize if you eat some or all of it. We tasted lots of different types of fruit and vegetables such as cucumber, oranges, peppers, apples etc. We watched videos about two girls and two boys who stopped the junk punks from taking all the fruit and vegetables. Now we are in Phase 2 and we have to bring in our own fruit and vegetables in our Food Dudes lunchbox. Food Dudes is great fun!

By Fionn & Matt (3rd Class)

Check out the Food Dudes website: www.fooddudes.ie

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