Green Schools

What is green schools?

Green schools is an international environment programme. Which promotes kids and adults to keep environment green.

Why was Green schools created?

Green schools was created to prevent the obvious problem with litter and more. They tackle and try to dominate litter in schools and communities.

Is it only to do with litter?

No, Green schools encourages saving energy and water. It also promotes walking, jogging or cycling to school. Green schools also thrives for air quality to be the best it can be.  

Who’s in charge  of green schools in Holy family senior school?

Mr o Connor 6th class teacher has been chosen to represent our school in leading us all to a greater school  environment. One child from each class has been elected to take part in the Green schools. They have meetings to decide what steps the school must take to get us where we want to be.

How does a school begin Green schools?

The school must fill out an application form to  join in with Green schools.

How do I find out more?

Visit the Green schools website greenschoolsireland.org for even more information.  

by Jenna Mccann (School News Team)

Aldi play rugby

Article written by Sarah Avram – School News Team

Currently Aldi wants all the schools in Ireland to collect stickers with Irish rugby players on them. The Holy Family Senior School has over 300 stickers already collected, which means we are on our second poster.

The students have to collect the stickers, at the end our school could be in with the chance to win €50,000 for our school’s sports facilities. Wow, that is a lot of money.

Our school can do lots of good things with all that money to help sports in the school. If you have already brought in stickers thank you so much, you have been a lot of help. Please continue bringing them in.

Thanks to Mr. Dunne for sorting out all the stickers and posters. If you have any stickers please leave them outside Mr. Dunne’s room in the box. We really appreciate every sticker we receive. We all really hope our hard work pays off.

Save a Life One Day

Shauna Lalor – School News Team

A few weeks ago Ms. Kinsella’s class had an idea to hold a bake sale in aid of educating our teachers on how to use our very own defibrillator.

We have over 60 staff in our school and thanks to the generosity of parents, pupils and teachers, lives could be saved thanks to the training the teachers have received.

A defibrillator is a machine that gives your heart and electric shock to re-establish a normal heart rhythm. It is used in cardiac arrest.

While we hope the training the staff received won’t need to be put into practice, it may save the life of somebody someday.