School News – Page 14 – Navan Educate Together N.S

28 Oct

KANDINSKY TREES

The children in Senior Infants have been looking at the work from Russian artist Kandinsky. They created their own artwork inspired by him. Take a look!

28 Oct

CYCLE RIGHT PROGRAMME

Last year 5th class took part in the Cycle Right Programme. http://www.cycleright.ie This course was delivered over 6 weeks to the children by Eoin from Doctor Bike. The school based sessions comprised: Theory and Rules of the Road training. Core bicycle-handling and road-skills training. Starting, stopping, balancing, pedalling and cornering. Turning left and right, including […]

28 Oct

GREENWAY CYCLE

National Bike week took place from 12th – 18th June. Thanks to funding received from Meath Local Sports Partnership 6th class enjoyed a cycle on the Mullingar to Athlone Greenway. They had a super day cycling 11km to Castletown where they enjoyed a picnic before their return cycle to Mullingar.

28 Oct

WALK TO SCHOOL WEEK

Walk to School Week took place from 15th – 19th May. We held a WOW day on the Wednesday and we were delighted to see 79 children walk to school on that day.

28 Oct

SCOOT TO SCHOOL WEEK

Scoot to School Week took place from 20th – 24th March. A super effort was made to scoot to school especially on SOW day- Scoot On Wednesday! Children from Junior Infants to 3rd Class really enjoyed the scooting workshops which Caroline our travel officer facilitated.

28 Oct

GREEN SCHOOL COMMITTEE

In September 2016 we started working on our 4th green flag for Travel. A new Green School Committee was set up with children from 3rd to 6th class sitting on the committee. The committee members were assigned their roles and set to work on helping to make our school a greener place! Have a peek […]

28 Oct

FLAG RAISING CEREMONY

In October 2016 we were delighted to raise our 3 Green Flags in our permanent home on Commons Road. We received the flags for the work we have carried out in the following areas: Litter and Waste Energy Water

28 Oct

WATER FORUM

In November 2016 we were delighted to be asked to host An Taisce’s ‘Water Forum’ for schools in the Meath and Cavan area who were working on the Water Theme in the Green Schools Programme. While working on the Water Theme some of our Green Committee attended a ‘Water Forum’ in Headford School in Kells […]

28 Oct

WALKABILITY AUDIT

In November our Travel Officer Caroline visited our school to carry out a walkability audit with the Green School Committee, Josephine and Malwina (Parent). We left the school and walked towards the junction of Commons Road and Dan Shaw Road. The children were given jobs to do – measuring width of footpaths, looking for hazards […]