Green Schools Team Attend the Green Schools Expo 2018
On Thursday the 22nd of February, the Green Schools committee and a number of First Year Students travelled to the RDS in Dublin for the Green Schools Expo. The exhibition was a wonderful opportunity for students to talk to various environmental organisations and students from various schools around the country. All of the exhibition stands […]
Greens Schools Water Ambassador training day
Some of the Green Schools committee members attended the Greens Schools Water Ambassador day in Roscommon at the Abbey Hotel. The day included entertaining, descriptive presentations. We did lots of interactive experiments to imagine how water reacts to chemicals for example. We also visited the local Water Treatment Plant, where we got an insight on […]
Irish Water/ Uisce Eireann Green-School’s talk First Year students
On Friday, May 12th, Colm Claffey and Marita McDonald who are Representatives from Irish Water/ Uisce Eireann visited Presentation College, Currylea to talk to the First Year girls. The girls got the opportunity to actively engage in learning all about the vital importance of protecting one of our most precious and scarcest natural resources that […]
Green Schools host the ‘Bin Your Gum When You’re Done’ Workshop
This week the Green Schools committee hosted the Wrigley’s ‘Bin Your Gum When You’re Done’ Workshop. At this workshop all of the Second Year students had a very enjoyable and interesting workshop, which highlighted the serious issue of chewing gum littering in our communities. Hosts Rebekah and John encouraged the students to think carefully about where […]
Students at the Pres Currylea Burn Calories not Carbon
The Green Schools team teamed up with An Taisce and Pedal Energy, to run a unique bicycle powered Energy Action day as part of the Green Schools programme. The day was held to highlight the need for us all to use energy wisely, and whenever possible to conserve energy in order to minimise the effects that […]