Green Schools

Green-Schools, known internationally as Eco-Schools, is an international environmental education programme, environmental management system and award scheme that promotes and acknowledges long-term, whole school action for the environment.

Our Lady's Abbey has participated in this programme since 2005 and has successfully achieved the following flags:

1. Litter and Waste
2. Energy
3. Water
4. Travel
5. Biodiversity
6. Global Citizenship - Litter and Waste

We are currently working on the Global Citizenship Energy flag.

Children from various classes have been involved in:

• Green School Committee
• Renewal of the flags achieved to date
• Planning for the various flags
• Planting bulbs and vegetables in our school garden
• Harvesting vegetables and fruit
• Feeding the birds and fish in our school pond
• Making bird feeders
• Observing and identifying garden birds
• Bug Hotel
• Other agencies e.g. Heritage in Schools
• Litter-picking and Team Limerick Clean-Up
• Anti-littering posters
• Making Junk Art
• WOW/SOW – Walk on Wednesday/Scoot on Wednesday
• Completing Nationality surveys with their classes
• Completing projects based on different countries
• Tasting food from different countries
• Organising art competitions

The School Garden

We are committed to keeping our school clean and tidy. Every year we have worked hard to improve our school yard. We started a School Garden more than ten years ago. It started small but has now grown into an amazing sight and the envy of many.