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Locally known as Ballinameela School

 

We are a Green Flag School. Read more here.

 

 

 

 

 

 Up Green Flag Idea Green Flag May 2003

Green Flag 

Joseph and Kevin went to Dublin on Wednesday 16th of March to get our new Green Flag. They left at seven in the morning to go to Waterford train station. They left Waterford at 7.45a.m.They got to Houston station in Dublin at ten. They then went on the Luas to Abbey Street. They walked to Tailors Hall where they got the Green Flag.

Luke

How much waste do we produce?

This chart shows how fifteen countries in Europe dispose of waste. Ireland has one of the highest percentages of recycling which is good, but it also has one of the highest percentages of waste to the landfill, which is not so good!

Our Green Flag 2005

ENERGY CONSERVATION

 

24-Hour Temperatures

We put thermometers in all the classrooms in the school. We left the thermometers in the classrooms for two hours. Then we checked them and recorded the information on a sheet of paper. The temperatures were checked every two hours for two days. We checked them at half past nine, half past eleven, half past one and the teacher checked them at half past three. We made graphs and charts on the computer and printed them off.

The equipment we used:

Five thermometers

1 pencil

3 sheets of paper

1 computer

 By Colin, Jack, Jenny and Louise

The Junior and Senior Infants room has 6 windows. 3 of the windows are big. 3 of the windows are small. They can all open. None of these windows have draughtproofing. None of these windows are double-glazed. 3 are facing south, and the other 3 are facing north. 3 of these windows have blinds, and 3 have no blinds. The big windows are 2m 43 cm high and 1m 33cm wide. The small high windows are 66cm high and 1m 17cm wide. All the windows in this class are made from wood.

The 1st and 2nd classroom is the same.

In 3rd and 4th class there are 7 windows. All of these windows can open. The 2 windows in the toilets are small and the other 5 are big. 5 of the windows face south, 1 faces west, and 1 faces east. They are all single-glazed. They are all PVC windows, and they have very good draught-proofing. Ther are blinds on 5 of these windows.

In 5th and 6th class there are 6 windows. All of these windows can open. The 2 windows in the toilets are small and the other 4 are big. 5 of the windows face south, and 1 faces north. It is a high-up window. They are all single-glazed. They are all PVC windows, and they have very good draught-proofing. Ther are blinds on 4 of these windows.

There are 2 windows in the Learning Support room. These 2 windows are wooden, and they are single-glazed. They are not draught-proofed. There is also a wall-vent in this room.

There are 7 windows in the boys’ toilets. There are 3 big ones, and 4 small ones. They are all wood. They are all single-glazed and they do not have draught-proofing. The girls’ toilets have 6 windows. They are all made from wood. They are all single-glazed and they do not have any draught-proofing.

In the corridoor we have 7 windows. One of the windows is a sky-window. They are all single-glazed. 2 of them are PVC windows, and the other 5 are made form wood. None of these windows has blinds. One of these windows is a circular window.

There are 2 wooden windows in our office. They are single-glazed and they have no draught-proofing. One faces north, and the other one faces east.

There is 1 window in the staffroom, and there is 1 window in the staff toilet. The window in the staff toilet is draught-proofed. It is a single-glazed window.

Here is a graph that Donagh and Micheál made using counters. It shows how many windows in our school. We used different colours.

From the left: Infants, 1st & 2nd, 3rd & 4th, 5th & 6th, Office, Coridoor, Staffroom, Girls toilets, boys toilets, staff toilet. (We forgot to put the Learning Support room counters into the photo.)

SOLAR ENERGY

  • We get solar energy from the sun.

  • Solar energy will gradually run out. Scientists think that the sun will burn out in about 5000 million years.

  • Some people use solar supplement the heating their house and water supply.

  • It is clean and does not cause pollution.

  • It can generate electricity in two ways.

  • One way is to focus the suns rays onto a tank containing water. The water evaporates and turns to steam. The steam is pushed through a pipe. The pipe brings the steam to a turbine, which is then turned by the steam. This creates electricity.

  • The sun can also generate an electric current when its rays fall on a solar cell.

  • Some calculators are solar powered.

  • In 1987 a car called sunray drove across Australia at an average speed of 66.9km/h. It was powered by solar panels.

By Ryan, David, Lorcan, Shane, Laurence, Brandon, Dillon and Kevin.

Sources: Look Around 5th Class and The Children’s Illustrated Encyclopedia.  

Pictures: The World Book Encyclopedia

The sun gives us life. And if the was not there there would be no people. The sun is made of a huge ball of gas. The sun helps food grow. The sun is further away in the winter. In the summer it is close. The sun gives us energy.

By Edel in second class