Bunscoil na Toirbhirte, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork
Green Schools in Bunscoil
Reduce, reuse, recycle
We’re thrilled to be installing additional astroturf at our school today! This exciting addition will greatly enhance our outdoor spaces and provide a fantastic resource for all our girls and boys to enjoy.
A huge thank you to our wonderful friends at Mitchelstown Leisure Centre for very generously donating their used astroturf to our school. Thank you to everyone in the Leisure Centre. As a proud Green School, we’re especially delighted to give this material a new lease of life . Special thanks to CJ RESIN for doing such a fantastic job
A huge thank you to our wonderful friends at Mitchelstown Leisure Centre for very generously donating their used astroturf to our school. Thank you to everyone in the Leisure Centre. As a proud Green School, we’re especially delighted to give this material a new lease of life . Special thanks to CJ RESIN for doing such a fantastic job
Sensory Plants and Flowers
Bunscoil Goes Solar – 14 Panels Installed
We’re excited to share that 14 solar panels have just been installed at our school! This is a big step forward in making our school more sustainable and environmentally friendly.
With these panels, we will:
• Generate clean, renewable energy from the sun.
• Reduce our electricity bills, saving money that can be reinvested in learning and student activities.
• Cut down on our carbon footprint, helping protect the environment.
• Provide real-life learning opportunities for our girls and boys about science, energy, and sustainability.
With these panels, we will:
• Generate clean, renewable energy from the sun.
• Reduce our electricity bills, saving money that can be reinvested in learning and student activities.
• Cut down on our carbon footprint, helping protect the environment.
• Provide real-life learning opportunities for our girls and boys about science, energy, and sustainability.
Edwina from Green Schools paid us a visit to help carry out a speed check outside the school. She taught us all about stopping distances, speed limits, and why it’s super important for drivers to slow down near schools.
Thankfully, the speed bumps, signage and flashing lights were doing their job as every car that passed was under the speed limit.
Since traffic was quiet, Edwina handed the speed gun over to the girls and a few of our Green Schools committee members could give Usain Bolt a run for his money.
Edwina was thrilled to hear about all the eco-friendly travel initiatives going on at Bunscoil, and fingers crossed, our Global Citizenship Travel Flag will be zooming its way to us in the post soon! Well done to our Green School Committee and Ms Hyland for all of their hard work.
Thankfully, the speed bumps, signage and flashing lights were doing their job as every car that passed was under the speed limit.
Since traffic was quiet, Edwina handed the speed gun over to the girls and a few of our Green Schools committee members could give Usain Bolt a run for his money.
Edwina was thrilled to hear about all the eco-friendly travel initiatives going on at Bunscoil, and fingers crossed, our Global Citizenship Travel Flag will be zooming its way to us in the post soon! Well done to our Green School Committee and Ms Hyland for all of their hard work.
We Love Our Earth,
We Love Sustainable Travel
We Love Sustainable Travel
LUCKY WINNERS OF OUR TABLE QUIZ
On Valentine's Day, February 14th, we held a Senior School Table Quiz on sustainable travel and lots of other Green School topics, like litter and waste, renewable energy and biodiversity.
We decided to go for plastic-free prizes, so here are our lucky winners, delighted with their Homework pass prizes!
Our Green School Committee were amazing on the day, calling out questions and answers, collecting the sheets, correcting and totting up scores! Your hard work paid off and everyone had a great afternoon!
The younger classes are working hard on their "No Idling" colouring competition and the winners will be announced soon. Remember: Idling creates more emissions than driving! Care about our air- switch off your engine!
We decided to go for plastic-free prizes, so here are our lucky winners, delighted with their Homework pass prizes!
Our Green School Committee were amazing on the day, calling out questions and answers, collecting the sheets, correcting and totting up scores! Your hard work paid off and everyone had a great afternoon!
The younger classes are working hard on their "No Idling" colouring competition and the winners will be announced soon. Remember: Idling creates more emissions than driving! Care about our air- switch off your engine!
Our fabulous Green School Committee membets along with Ms Hyland who were brilliant on the day thank you so much for all the hard work you put in to make this table quiz such fun for all.
A Christmas message from our Green School Committee
Donate your old batteries or broken Christmas lights to Bunscoil and we will ensure they are recycled properly! Every battery recycled by WEEE goes towards a donation fund to support the vital work provided by LauraLynn, which delivers hospice and palliative care to children and their families in Ireland.
Three Wise Men!
We were delighted to welcome these 3 smashing little men to Bunscoil recently! Ms Hyland and our Green School Committed are working with Bright Sparks Childcare Centre Green School Committee. Together they are working hard to promote clean air by encouraging parents and friends to SWITCH OFF THEIR ENGINE AND REFRAIN FROM IDLING!! Well done to everyone involved.
Following on from the success of our Halloween Costume Swap, our uniform swap and our Holy Communion Dress Donations, our Green School Committee have organised a Christmas Jumper Swap:
Did you know that 1 in 4 Christmas Jumpers end up in landfills? Fast Fashion creates a huge carbon footprint. Bunscoil na Toirbhirte is committed to tackling climate action in our own little way! Please bring your clean and unwanted Christmas jumpers or tops to reception from tomorrow, Monday, the 18th of November. We will host the swap day in the coming weeks. Our Green School Committee will be in touch in the near future with a date for the swap.
Did you know that 1 in 4 Christmas Jumpers end up in landfills? Fast Fashion creates a huge carbon footprint. Bunscoil na Toirbhirte is committed to tackling climate action in our own little way! Please bring your clean and unwanted Christmas jumpers or tops to reception from tomorrow, Monday, the 18th of November. We will host the swap day in the coming weeks. Our Green School Committee will be in touch in the near future with a date for the swap.
Funky Feet
and the Bunscoil Walking School Bus
and the Bunscoil Walking School Bus
7-11 October was National Walk to School Week. To promote a greener school Ms Hyland organised Move it Monday, Travel Together Tuesday, Walk/Wheel on Wednesday and Thoughtful Thursday. On Friday we had our Bunscoil Walking Bus back in action! We also celebrated Funky Feet Friday, with odd socks, crazy socks and blinged up shoes all around! A big thank you to everyone who got involved this week from our Green School Committee and Active Committee. Special thanks to everyone who assisted Ms Hyland and Ms O’ Driscoll on Friday
No tricks, just treats! Let’s keep the environment and our wallets in the green this year!
Drop off your boo-tiful costumes from Monday the 7th of October and help us save the planet, one spooky outfit at a time.
Drop off your boo-tiful costumes from Monday the 7th of October and help us save the planet, one spooky outfit at a time.
Bunscoil Green School Committee
MAKING MITCHELSTOWN GREENER
“The Sea Starts here, Don’t Litter”.
What an inspirational message! Well done girls Green-Schools.
PROJECT PERU 2024
€1,337.85 raised thank you all and congratulations to all the lucky winners
€1,337.85 raised thank you all and congratulations to all the lucky winners
As part of our citizenship element to our Green Schools programme, we as a school occasionally fundraise for Sr. Regina Twomey, former pupil and Presentation Sister who works with local group ADSOPUR in supporting families in settlements on the outskirts of Lima, Peru safe housing with proper sanitation, educational materials and help growing crops. As part of this fundraising this Easter we held the Project Peru Raffle 2024 (congratulations to all the lucky winners) and we raised a grand total of €1,337.85.
We are delighted to announce that every cent received from our raffle goes to Sr. Regina Toomey and ADSOPUR, for the wonderful work they do to help improve living conditions, education and quality of life for families. Ms Kearney and Mr Clancy have both visited Peru in recent years to see the magnificent work being carried out with the funds we have raised. We are most grateful to everyone who donated money and bought tickets, thank you for your support.
Special thanks to Ms Hyland for organising and co-ordinating the fundraiser. She put a tremendous effort into running it. Well done Ms Hyland.
There were many amazing prizes this year:
1. A family pass to Fota Island
2. A family pass for Leahy's Farm
3. Free passes for Monkey Maze
4. A cute squishy teddy from the Favourite
5. Vouchers from Smooch
We are very thankful to all of the above business for their very kind donation of prizes.
We are delighted to announce that every cent received from our raffle goes to Sr. Regina Toomey and ADSOPUR, for the wonderful work they do to help improve living conditions, education and quality of life for families. Ms Kearney and Mr Clancy have both visited Peru in recent years to see the magnificent work being carried out with the funds we have raised. We are most grateful to everyone who donated money and bought tickets, thank you for your support.
Special thanks to Ms Hyland for organising and co-ordinating the fundraiser. She put a tremendous effort into running it. Well done Ms Hyland.
There were many amazing prizes this year:
1. A family pass to Fota Island
2. A family pass for Leahy's Farm
3. Free passes for Monkey Maze
4. A cute squishy teddy from the Favourite
5. Vouchers from Smooch
We are very thankful to all of the above business for their very kind donation of prizes.
Some beautiful First Holy Communion dresses were donated to Bunscoil na Toirbhirte by our families. As a Green School, we would be delighted to loan these dresses to families for their daughter’s special day. Please note that families with daughters attending Bunscoil or attending other schools are most welcome to borrow the dresses. Interested families can message us, email us or call into the office.
We are hosting a Christmas Jumper swap!
We all love a good Christmas jumper, but the trend of replacing them every year is not only terrible for the planet, it's also bad for your pocket. So why not save money, reduce waste and refresh your Christmas wardrobe!
Get involved and bring in any Christmas jumper that is clean and in good condition and while you're here, grab a "new" one! All used Christmas jumpers must be dropped to the school by the 10th of December. Thank you
Get involved and bring in any Christmas jumper that is clean and in good condition and while you're here, grab a "new" one! All used Christmas jumpers must be dropped to the school by the 10th of December. Thank you
Today we raised our
8th Green Schools flag!!!
8th Green Schools flag!!!
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There was great celebration of this wonderful achievement on 20.06.2023. Special thanks to Ms Hyland and our Green School Committee for leading us in promoting the protection of our environment. We are tremendously proud of this achievement. We were delighted to have our caretaker, Mr Billy Murphy raise the flag on behalf of everyone in Bunscoil. PHOTOS BY ANDREW DINEEN (Thank you Mr Dineen)
Well done to Ms Hyland and our Green-Schools Committee on organising another used battery collection. Thank you to everyone that sent in batteries, helping to make our community a Greener Place to live.
UNIFORM SWAP ....
27.03.2023. As a Green School, we will collect all unwanted uniforms that are in good condition. Our Parents Council will organise a "Uniform Swap" event later in the year. Please note that uniforms can be dropped to the school at any time throughout the year. As well as being good for our environment, we hope it will help reduce family costs. Well done to our Green School Committee and Parents Council for organising this event.
tHANK YOU mITCHELSTOWN cREDIT uNION
30.03.2023. Special thanks to Seamus Fox for dropping off Beebombs from Mitchelstown Credit Union. We look forward to seeing these pollinator-friendly flowers grow. Our Green School Committee members were absolutely Buzzing to receive the seeds. Beebombs Irelan
Love of (green) love in Bunscoil on Valentine's Day
On February 14th, Valentine's Day, Bunscoil celebrated a "Love the Ocean" Day. Pupils wore something blue or green and brought in ocean themed teddies. Our Green School Committee and Ms Hyland were busy preparing activities - the senior school enjoyed a Marine themed Kahoot quiz in the Halla and the junior school classes did litter picking relays and seashore games. Classes read stories about sea creatures or watched sea themed movies or documentaries. Others celebrated by creating beautiful Marine art.
Thank you to all families for getting involved and to the Green School Committee for organising the event. Moneys raised from our 50/50 will also go to Seal Rescue Ireland!
Well done to our Green School Commitee and Ms Hyland
Thank you to all families for getting involved and to the Green School Committee for organising the event. Moneys raised from our 50/50 will also go to Seal Rescue Ireland!
Well done to our Green School Commitee and Ms Hyland
February 2023: We organised a very successful Green School Unwanted Clothes Collection. The company we dealing with was Clothespod, an Irish Company who were recommended to schools by Cork County Council Environment Department. Clothespod work in partnership with Green Schools, Ireland’s leading environmental management and education programme for schools
All unwanted clean clothes, blankets, curtains, bed sheets and pairs of shoes were accepted in the school on three different day drops. Thanks to everyone who donated and helped out.
All unwanted clean clothes, blankets, curtains, bed sheets and pairs of shoes were accepted in the school on three different day drops. Thanks to everyone who donated and helped out.
2022 Green School tips for a Green Christmas
Over 200kg’s of batteries (that’s a lot of batteries!!) were collected today (15.09.2022). Well done to Ms Hyland and our Green School Committee on making Mitchelstown a greener place to live. Remember to send in any old batteries to our school and we will ensure that they are recycled correctly.
TREE AMBASSADORS
AND THEIR LITTLE TREES
AND THEIR LITTLE TREES
Did you know that Ireland is the least wooded country in Europe? Here at Bunscoil we are trying to change that by taking part in a tree planting initiative. Thank you to all families who put their names into the raffle for our collection of native trees. Here are some of the tree ambassadors and their little trees - we can't wait to see them in their new homes!
