You are welcome to visit the school on Thursday 11th March 2010 anytime between 7pm and 9 pm. We look forward to seeing you.

We celebrated National Tree Day on the 8th October 2009. The children helped Mr. Cullen to plant some trees in the grounds of the school.  We planted Hazel, Ash, Mountain Ash and Oak trees.  These trees are all native trees to Ireland.    Mr. Cullen also brought in some leaves of other native trees to show us.  We looked at the Holly tree leaves, the leaflets on the Ash tree and the catkins on the Silver Birch tree.  He also showed us the Arbutus Tree leaves.  This year is the Year of the Arbutus.    The Arbutus is also called the Strawberry Tree.  It is a rare native evergreen tree.  A fruit grows on this tree that looks like a strawberry but you wouldn’t like to eat them as they are very bitter and not sweet like strawberries.  We will have some photos of  our planting soon!

A Prayer Service and Blessing of Pets was held in the school on Saturday 3rd October 2009, at 11 am. St. Francis of Assisi had a great regard for the environment and he loved animals. Fr. Eoin led our celebration by blessing our pets. We had many lovely dogs, fish and bears. We will have the photos on the site very shortly!

The official opening and blessing of the school took place on Saturday, 20th June. Fr. Eoin McCrystal P.P. officiated and the a great day was had by all. Watch out for photos in the Photo Gallery!

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On the 10th October 2008 Mr.Cullen came to St. Francis of Assisi School. It was National Tree Week. He was here to plant a tree. The name of the tree is Carpinus. It is a deciduous tree. This means that its leaves fall in Autumn. Firstly he dug a hole, then he got a stake to hold the tree up. He put the tree in the hole and we all helped him put the muck back in the hole. He told us information about the roots of the tree. There are two types of roots, one to hold it up and one for water. We all thanked Mr.Cullen for all his help. The whole school had their photo taken with Mr. Cullen and our new tree. It is just outside our front door. Look at it when you come to visit our school.

John Cullen explains to the children how to prepare the ground for planting the tree.

Our Green-School Committee was established in October 2008 when we joined the Green-School Programme. We are looking at the topic “Litter and Waste”, in order to achieve our first Green Flag Award. We carry out Litter Surveys to look at the litter around our school. We also carry out a regular waste audit to look at how much waste we send to the landfill. As a result of looking at how we dispose of our waste, we now compost our natural waste and recycle our paper and plastic. Our Healthy Eating Policy, promotes the reduction of our lunch waste. We try to look at the topic of Litter and Waste by remembering to REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE.