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The Environment ~ by Shay
The grass is green, please keep it clean.
The trees are tall, don’t make them fall.
The water is clean, let’s keep it this way.
So look after the environment everyday.
The Environment ~ by Rachel
Recycle the rubbish, don’t throw it away.
Turn off the lights, during the day.
Save water whatever you do.
To make the environment a good place for you.
The boys and girls in the Mercy School have been busy over the past number of
days writing their valentine poems with an environmental theme. Here are a
sample of some of the winning verses.
Ms Shannons 6th
Roses are red, the sky is blue
Love the planet because it loves you too.
Lush greenlands, forests and lakes,
They all need protection, lets keep them safe
Look outside, see the trees,
Watch the flowers in the breeze,
Things won’t be like this in a year or two,
If polluting the land is all we do!
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Mr Kings 6th Class
The grass is green
the ocean is blue
Roses and romance
is what I’ll give you
Trees and leaves
water and fire
my love for you will never expire
We’ll walk on Wednesday
We’ll save energy and recycle
You’ll meet my mum and dad
and my brother Michael
If you’ll stay green with me
save water and trees
my love for you
will stay as strong
as the seas.
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Ms Flynns Junior Infants
Roses are red
Water is blue
Push the green button
when you go to the loo!
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Ms Griffins First Class
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I say to the Earth
I love you!
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Ms Sheridans Second Class
Walk on Wednesday or every day
Keep the rubbish all away
but don’t forget to turn off the lights
save the power even on Valentines Day!
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Ms Englishs Second Class
Roses are red,
water is blue
our school is cool and yours could be too.
You can do this, that talk and talk
but let me tell you its better to walk.
I feel pride because I’ve did the park and stride.
I do a lot less talking and a lot more walking.
Now I’m never late
I’m always first at the school gate!
Recycle 2000 ran a competition over the past couple of months amongst all the
Primary schools in Wexford. Children were asked to bring in a bundle of eight
newspapers every Tuesday (Newsday Tuesday)
with their name and school clearly displayed on the front. We had a fantastic
response every week and all the hard work paid off for three girls in the Mercy
School today. The top prize of the X Box went to Ellen Jones in Ms Englishs class.
Two other prize winners were Esme McKiernan Becker in Ms Hughes
and Ruby Kavanagh in Ms McHugh who each received a €20 voucher for Tesco.
Well done girls.
Well done to Clíona Mc Cormack from Mrs Woodbyrnes class on winning first prize
in Wexford Co Councils recycled christmas decoration. Clíona won the category
2nd/3rd/4th class and will attend a prize giving ceremony in Wexford Co
Council on Wednesday. Clíona put a huge effort into the creation of her
“Gingerbread house” and had been busy collecting materials since last summer!
Well done Clíona.
As part of our Green School we are busy making recycled Christmas cards. We will not give cards to friends in our class.
Instead we will make one card each from recycled material and teacher will draw cards out of a hat near Christmas.
This helps reduce waste and trees being cut down to make paper and card.
Cards will be on display in the Halla from Monday 17th December.
We had a fantastic response to our recent Recycled Christmas decoration
competition. The children made their decorations using as much recycled material as possible. The
results were truly amazing and well done to everyone. Once again Helen McClean
kindly gave up her time to come in and judge the decorations last Thursday. There
was great excitment in the school on Friday morning when Mr Gately announced
the winners over the intercom. The winner of each category goes forward to
Wexford County Councils Recycled Christmas Decoration competition and the
runners up each received a selection box. The results of each
category are below. Finally please make sure to inspect the decorations if you are
in visiting your child’s christmas play, they will be on display in the Halla.
Category A – Junior/Senior Infants and First Class
1st Lewis Hession – Ms Hughes
2nd Jacob Krcznski – Ms Flynn
3rd Neil Hession – Ms Doran
Category B – Second/Third/Fourth Classes
1st Clíona McCormack – Ms Woodbyrne
2nd Patrycja Radej – Ms Woodbyrne
3rd Shonagh McCourt – Ms English
4th Victoria Ogaza – Ms Woodbyrne
4th Aoife Washington – Ms English
Category C Fifth and Sixth Class
1st Eve Hession – Ms Shannon
2nd Gia Simmons – Mr King
3rd Isobel Hudson – Ms McKiernan
Category D – Group
1st Emma O Leary, Anoushka Nolan, Karen O Reilly – Ms English
2nd Sally Bruen and Anna Cooney – Ms Shannon
Here is a photo of all the prize winners with the overall winning entries:
Recently we were delighted and honoured to win the “Platinum” award (first prize) in the schools’ competition of the annual Wexford In Bloom awards. This was a tremendous achievement for such a new garden and it is a testament to all of the hard work from our volunteers and Stephen our caretaker, the wonderful design and planting of Betsy Hickey and James Ginnell and the support of our Parents’ Council, our BOM and the EPA. It is also great news for our Green Schools Committee lead by Ms. English and Ms. Hughes. Come along any time and visit “An Gairdín Glas” and see why we won.
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The Mercy School will soon embark on their new Green Flag theme of Bio-diversity.
So what exactly is Bio-diversity?
Biodiversity is the huge variety and variation of life that surrounds us. Biodiverstiy is
essential in keeping the environment healthy and fit for human life. The first and
most important objective of the theme is to develop awareness and understand
its importance to our everyday lives. This can be achieved through improving or
preserving our local biodiversity, in An Ghairdín Glas and at home. We hope to
increase the richness and numbers of species in the school garden. This can be
achieved through the building of the Bug Hotel.
We will continue to work on our other themes of litter/waste…energy….water…
and travel.
The raising of our Fifth green flag and the official opening of our school garden – An Gairdin Glas will take place on Wednesday 27th June. We are planning a fun filled day as we are also hosting our annual damshsathon. Our damshsathon will commence at 10am out in the yard and there will also be performances of songs and dances by individual classes.
The raising of our fifth green flag will take place at 11.15 at the front of the school and this will be followed by the official opening of our school garden by Sr Siobhan Hayden.
The parents council will provide light refreshments in the halla after the ceremonies.
Parents are welcome on the day to join in the festivities. Unfortunately there will be no parking available on the school grounds on Wednesday.
Fingers crossed for some fine weather!
Monday 21st of May was a memorable day for the Mercy School as the Green Flag committee travelled to Croke Park in Dublin to receive their fifth Green Flag. The school has been working on a travel theme over the past two years, with children being encouraged to walk to school especially every Wednesday. Valerie, Sinéad Rafter and Ali Gunning were accompanied by Ms English to the awards ceremony. We were all treated to a lovely lunch first upon our arrival and this was then followed by the presentation. The girls had great fun with the interactive quiz which An Taisce had organised. A great day was had by all!
The raising of our fifth Green Flag will take place on Wednesday 27th June.
Hope to see you all there.
Well done to all those children and teachers that made a great effort in walking to school today. The weather unfortunately wasn’t very kind to us but still everyone made a great effort.
The Mad shoes were amazing and lot of hard work went into decorating them. We all went to the halla in the morning and each class had an opportunity to show off their fancy footwear! Don’t discard your mad shoes as we will have another Mad shoe Day after Easter. Fingers crossed for finer weather.
Click here to view photos:
WOW 2012 from patgately on Vimeo.
Well done again everyone for making such a big effort today for our WOW day. Don’t forget every Wednesday is a WOW day.
We are relaunching our WOW day this Wednesday. We are asking everyone (including teachers) to walk to school on Wednesday and every other Wednesday from then on. If you can’t walk to school from your house maybe you park and stride or cycle. It is a great way of getting some exercise and it can also be great fun! Mad shoe day will also take place on Wednesday. Who will have the maddest pair of shoes on the day? I think it will be one of the teachers but I could be wrong.
So dust down those runners everyone and lets get walking.
Green Flag Committee
We have received a fantastic response to our Newspaper competition. Over the past couple of weeks the children have filled twelve wheelie bins of newspapers. Recycling 2000 will hold their draw on Friday 9th December for the x box 360 and other fantastic prizes. So get collecting those newspapers everyone not only do you have a chance of winning a prize you are also earning money for your school, as for each full wheelie bin our school receives two euro.
Good luck every one!
Remember eight newspapers go in one bundle and make sure your name and school is clearly written on the front.
We are having a fantastic response to our newspaper collection day. Today our school filled three wheelie bins with newspapers. By recycling your newsapers in the school you are helping to maintain jobs in Co Wexford. Please remember to put your name and school on your bundle of newspapers. Fingers crossed that the x box comes our way!
Keep up the good work everyone.
PS Dont forget to enter your suggestion for the name of our new school garden. Suggestion box is located at the Green Flag noticeboard. Closing date is coming soon.
Recycling 2000 is running a Christmas competition between all the schools in Co Wexford. Recycling 2000 is a Wexford based company that recyles newspapers. To enter the competition the children must follow the steps below:
Tie a bundle of 8 newspapers together
Put their name, class and school on a A4 sheet of paper and attach it to the front of the bundle before it is tied.
Put the bundle into the blue bins located at the green flag noticeboard every Tuesday. Bins are also located at the front of the school every other day. Enter as often as you want.
1st prize Xbox
2nd I pod
3rd Digital camera
4th – 10th €20 Tesco vouchers
Good luck everyone!
Time to get your thinking caps on everyone. The Green Flag committee are currently looking for suggestions of names for our new school garden. Suggestions can be popped into the box located at the Green Flag noticeboard. Please ensure that your name and class is also written on your suggestion. We hope to select a name over the next couple of weeks.
We are thrilled to announce that we are currently in the process of planning a large school garden and outdoor classroom. Our Parents’ Council and Board of Management are working closely to try to make our dream a reality. The proposed site is beside the current junior play area(beside the slide and climbing frames). The idea is that it would be a child-friendly space where children would get hands-on experience of sowing, tending, growing and harvesting. It would also serve as a living lab for Science, with lots of areas for miniature wildlife to live. Finally we would like it to be a place where adults and children alike could come to relax and enjoy nature in a peaceful setting (well as peaceful as a school can be anyway!). We will need to fundraise a little and we are also looking at getting people to sponsor a tree or a bench for example as there is considerable cost involved in setting it up, but once it is established we hope to get pupils, parents and other relations involved in maintaining the garden. So if you have an interest in becoming involved give your name to Lorraine or the class teacher. You do not
need any expertise, just a willingness to get your hands dirty. We are particularly interested in retired people who might be able to give just 1 hour a week to help us out. Please click on the link below to see a suggested outline drawing of the site. If you have other suggestions please feel free to send them in to us also. Finally, as part of the project we are going to work with Helen Mclean, a local artist and parent of a child in our school to design and make seats, bird-tables, art pieces etc from recycled materials with the help of the children in the school. These pieces will be then used in the garden. If you click on the link below you can see samples of the type of work Helen has done previously.
Before Christmas Betty Galvin and Monica Crofton from the Tidy Town’s Committee came in to talk about keeping Wexford clean. They told us that Wexford didn’t do very well in the recent Tidy Towns competition across Ireland. They showed us pictures of messy areas in Wexford. We saw rubbish bags being left all over the place and people not tiding up after thereselvles (including their dogs.)
They were organizing a competiton for the best writing, logo and slogan that they would use for their organization. We all entered the competition. They said they wanted it to be simple, colourful and clever. It was against six other schools in Wexford. We all had great ideas and Ms.Shannon sent them all off.
Yesterday Monica and Betty came back with good news. Emer , Aoife and Clodagh had won the best writing. It will to be used for lettersheads, t-shirts etc. They won €100 between them and they were delighted! 
Several classes entered a competition organised by Wexford County Council Environment Section for making recycled Christmas decorations. The entries pictured below were sent forward for consideration and they will be on display in Wexford Library over Christmas. More are on display in the “Lár” just outside the office.These entries came from John Beary(Jnr Infants), Cliona Mc Cormack(2nd.) and Alison Chan(6th).
