Feb 22, 2023
In St. Paul’s NS, we are working hard to make our school and our beautiful community here in Ratoath a clean, green place to live! Our Green School committee is working on many initiatives to inspire the children to make changes for the benefit of our environment and wider world. One of these initiatives is ‘Walk On Wednesday’ where we are asking the children and adults to make a special effort on Wednesdays to walk to school. Cars are great, but the more we use them, the more fumes and emissions that are entering our environment. By choosing to walk to school even one day a week, we hope this will help our community with less traffic and keep our air cleaner too! If you would like to walk to school even more of the days- that’s super! Feel free to get those feet busy on the scooter or bicycle too if you’d prefer!
We took some pictures of some of our pupils walking to school this morning. Well done to everyone who made a special effort and we hope to see more of you ‘Walking on Wednesdays’!
Feb 22, 2023
On of January 27 at 7 o’ clock the credit union quiz started. I was on a team with Ellie, Oscar and Adam. The quiz took place in one of the function rooms. Each team had a table to themselves and the families sat at the back. The questions started easy like: ‘What is the capital of Ireland?’ The first four rounds were pretty easy. After the first five rounds we got a short break and snack. After the break the questions started to get progressively harder. One of the questions was: ‘How many coloured cards are there per suit in a deck of cards?’ And another was: ‘What star sign comes last alphabetically?’ Overall there were seven other schools { Ratoath National School, St. Declan`s, St. Marys and St. Andrews, Curragh just to name a few.} The junior team came third overall in their category and the senior team came joint second overall. Sadly this wasn’t enough to go through to the next round, but third, second and first place all got €20 each. I really enjoyed myself and had a great time.
By Hannah Burke
Feb 22, 2023
On Friday January 27 2023 I had a quiz for the school. On my team there was Niamh, Molly and Scott. On the senior team there was Adam, Oscar, Hannah and Ellie. Niamh arrived first. Then Molly came. Finally Scott came. I was kind of calm. Then the quiz started. I would start first, then Scott, then Molly, then Niamh. The first three rounds were very easy. At half time Mr. Harte said that one person should write a round. The rounds got really hard. For participating we got a pencil case. We got third place which meant we bet Ratoath National School. We got fifteen euro. St. Declan’s came in second place. St. Mary’s got first place. In the seniors St. Declan came in third place. In second place came St. Pauls, Ratoath National School and Curragha. In first place came St. Marys. Completed by Nicholas Clarke
Sep 23, 2022
The weather wasn’t always kind to us this week, but where they could, the boys and girls (and adults too!) made a great effort to take part in our Walk to School week!
We were delighted to see so many walking to school. Indeed many children also came to school on scooters and bicycles which is another great way to arrive to St. Paul’s in an environmentally friendly way!
This week, the children were learning about the benefits of walking for our minds, our bodies and the environment- take the opportunity this weekend to go for a walk and help us to keep fit, keep healthy and keep green!
Sep 16, 2022
Next week is “National Walk to School Week” (Monday, September 19th to Friday, 23rd of September). This is a week where we want to celebrate walking as a positive mode for school journeys. Next week, especially on Wednesday 21st, we would like to encourage the children to walk to school (where possible) or park and stride (where parents/ childminders park their car at a destination close by and walk the rest of the journey to school together). In school, the children will participate in a variety of activities, linked to different areas of the curriculum, that aim to promote the benefits of choosing walking as a mode of transport.
We fully appreciate that it is not always possible, for a variety of reasons, for children and their parents to walk to school and the children will be reassured that we understand that.
We look forward to seeing the children next week on their walk to school and helping us to make a positive difference to our environment and helping our community and school environment to be as green as can be!
The St. Paul’s Green School Team
