Marine Environment

 

Marine Environment

We are currently working toward a Green flag for the Marine Environment and Global Citizenship. Each of the classes have been working on different themes, from creating sea art to investigating marine pollution causes and solutions.

We held a poster competition to find a School Marine Motto. It was very difficult to choose a winner, as the quality of entries was fantastic.  

John Egan's (4th Class) poster and motto were chosen in First place - 

'The ocean should be clean and blue and that is up to me and you'. 

Well done for the great effort that everyone put into these posters. The winners  received a small prize each and the winning posters are on display in the hall.

Our older classes have completed amazing projects, which took a lot of hard work and research. These projects ranged from Sea life around Ireland to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the impact microbeads have on our oceans. The projects are on display in the school hall - well done to everyone who took part!

Our younger classes worked creatively to complete fabulous Sea Art, as well as water and rain investigations. We are working on a display for these.

Mr. Wallace's Class investigated Large Sea Animals. They watched a video about The Blue Whale and imitated sea animal movements during P.E.

All of our Marine Environment work was connected to the curriculum in various ways and helped the children to have a better understanding of the marine world surrounding our country and the marine environment in the wider world.