Eco-Schools
Welcome to our Eco-Schools page!
♻️ ARC 21 ♻️
Environmental Youth Speak 2023
🍁 P5-7 Outdoor Classroom Day 2021 🌳
🍁P1-4 Outdoor Classroom Day 2021🌳
Well done to all the boys and girls. A special thanks to our Eco-Committee this year: Esmêe (P1), Harry (P2), Aoibh (P3), Ella (P4), Finlay (P4), Ciara (P5), Archie (P6), AJ (P6), Ellie-Rose (P7) and Clodagh (P7).
♻️ Eco Green Day: 23rd June 2021 ♻️
Dunsford ECO Day - Wear Green!
Wednesday 23rd June ♻️🍎🌺🐞
Fun indoor and outdoor eco activities!
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🍓🍇🍌 Healthy Eating Week: 14th -18th June 2021 🍏🍐🍊
PTA Fundraiser for our new outdoor classroom! 🧸Sponsored Walk and Teddy Bears’ Picnic at The Bishopcourt Racing Circuit 🧸 Friday 11th June 2021
Dunsford ECO Day - Wear Green!
Wednesday 23rd June ♻️🍎🌺🐞
Fun indoor and outdoor eco activities!
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Transport: 🚴🏻♀️ P7 Cycling Proficiency: June 2021 🚴🏽♂️
Week 1: Training and Assessment ✅
Week 2: Training and Assessment ✅
Week 3: Training and Assessment ✅
Outdoor Learning: Dunsford PTA fundraiser for our new Outdoor Classroom!
Outdoor Learning and Biodiversity: P3/P4 enjoyed their leaf and seashell art activity 🐚🍃
Healthy Living: 🌞 Sports Day Practice 🌞
Outdoor Learning and Biodiversity: P5/P6 Scavenger Hunt 🌸🍃🕷🐞🐝
Healthy Living: The Daily Mile
Biodiversity: Barley Crop Facts
🌍♻️ P7 Environmental Youth Speak Competition Winner ♻️🌏
We had fun outdoors!
Healthy Break 🥝🍌🍏🍊
Biodiversity: 🐝 World Bee Day: 20th May 2021 🐝
Transport: Road Safety - Hi Viz jackets
Biodiversity: Primary 4 enjoyed feeding the birds
Biodiversity: Many thanks to Newry, Mourne and Down District Council for providing us with 5 new Alder trees!
Outdoor Learning: We enjoyed reading outside! 🌞📚
Healthy Living: Mental Health Awareness Week
Eco-Committee Litter Pick
Biodiversity: P3/P4 made Bird Feeders
Translink Transport Presentation 🚌🛴🚲🏍🚘🚕
Healthy Living: KS2 Gaelic Coaching
Healthy Living: Fruit Tasting Session 🍏🍐🍓
Biodiversity Survey 🕷🦟🐝🐞
Biodiversity and Outdoor Learning: P5 and P6 have green fingers! 🌷🌹🌺
Waste: We reused milk cartons to make plant pots and watering cans! 🌷🌸🌺
♻️🌎 Earth Day: 22nd April 2021 ♻️🌎
♻️🌏 Earth Hour 26th March 2021 🌏♻️
Healthy Living: We use the water fountain to fill up our water bottles!
🌼🌸 P7 Garden Nature Art 🌸🌼
Biodiversity: P5/P6 Topic: The Animal Kingdom 🦋🦉🐞🐝
Waste Topic: Reusing materials at home
Energy Efficiency Awareness: P7 Eco-Hero Competition Entries ♻️
Biodiversity: P3/P4 RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch
Biodiversity: P5/P6 RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch January 2021
🌳🌲 Outdoor Learning: Parent Volunteers plant trees with P1-P4 Children 🌳🌲
Outdoor Learning: P1-P4 Christmas Story Telling Sessions 📚🎄
Waste: 🍬🎄 We used sweet wrappers to make Christmas stain glass windows 🎄🍬
Healthy Living: P6/P7 YMCA Resilience Programme
Healthy Eating Award 👏🏻🍎🍐
Outdoor Learning and Biodiversity: 🦔 P3/P4 Hedgehog Art Activity 🦔
Biodiversity: FS & KS1 Nature Walk
Transport: Road Safety Competition Winners: Kill Your Speed - Not Our Children!
♻️ Our Eco-Code ♻️
♻️ New Eco-School Committee 2020-2021 ♻️
Congratulations to our newly elected Eco-School Committee Members. Esmêe (P1), Harry (P2), Finlay (P4), Ella (P4), Ciara (P5), AJ (P6), Archie (P6), Clodagh (P7) and Ellie-Rose (P7).
Well Done boys and girls!
* Aoibh (P3) is absent from the photograph.
Climate Change: P6 Calendar Competition 🌳🌍
🌎 Eco-School Speeches and Elections: October 2020 🌏
Transport: 20mph Speed Limit Scheme
School Grounds: Thanks to the PTA the school grounds look wonderful for the children starting back to school: August 2020
Eco-Schools Page 2019/2020
Sean (P6), Sophie (P6), Padraig (P7), Nicola (P7), Iona (P4), Matthew (P1) , Stella (P2), Issac (P1) and Aisling (P3).
Healthy Living: Fruit Kebabs 🍏🍐🍌🍓
Healthy Living: We collected blackberries and made blackberry milkshakes!
Outdoor Learning and School Grounds: Gardening Club 🌺🌳
Transport: New Speed Sign Competition Winners
Healthy Living: PE Lessons
Transport: P3/P4 Road Safety Talk
Say NO to Climate Change!
Transport Competition
Our Eco Committee 2018-2019
Healthy Living: Actisport
♻️ Eco-School Green Flag Award ♻️
Arc21 Eco Bus visited St. Mary’s P.S, Dunsford
The Eco-School Committee delivered a presentation at Assembly on ‘Earth Hour’. We will be participating in the worldwide event on Friday 29th March at 11am!
Good luck! Mollie in P7 will be respresenting the school at the Environmental Youth Speak in Downpatrick.
P3/4 busy at work making their igloo from recycled milk cartons.
Calendar Competition Winners! Well Done!
Planting time in P3/4
Daily Mile in P3/4
Meet our new Eco-School Committee 2018/2019
The new eco-committee meeting!
Ennvironmental Youth Speak Competition 2018
Well Done to Charlie in P7 for representing our school at the Environmental Youth Speak Competition 2018 at the Saint Patrick’s Centre, Downpatrick.
Runners up in the Food Waste Challenge Competition!
The Eco-Committee are delighted to announce that we were runners up in the 'Food Waste Hero Challenge Photo Competition' and have been awarded a cheque prize of £100 for our Eco-Schools Committee. We also received a certificate of participation.
Well Done to the superheroes who took part in the food waste challenge! #wastehero
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The Eco-Committee carried out an Environmental Review!
