Mullahoran NS, Kilcogy, Co Cavan had their first WOW (Walk on Wednesday) day on Wednesday 11th May, 2011 with their Green-Schools Co-ordinator Deirdre Shaughnessy. The school are currently working hard on their Green-Schools Travel theme with An Taisce Green-Schools Officer Susan Doorley. They used the opportunity to have a WOW day on their walk to their local church for practicing before their confirmations this Friday! Just another take on the WOW day..do what you can, when you can!!...
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Tallanstown National School, Dundalk, Co. Louth registered with the Green-Schools Programme in 1999 and to date have already been awarded Green Flags for the Litter and Waste, Energy and Water Themes.
    
 They are currently working hard towards achieving their fourth Green Flag, for the Travel Theme. As part of the Travel Programme, Tallanstown National School held a WOW (Walk on Wednesday) Day on Wednesday 4th May, 2011. The day was a brilliant success and the school even organised a human ...
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Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Alan Kelly TD took the opportunity to praise the success of the Green-Schools Travel programme at the annual Travel Competition Awards ceremony held at Tailors’ Hall on the 14th April. At a special prize-giving ceremony, attended by Mr. Kelly, pupils from ten schools across the country were awarded for creating a mascot or slogan for the Green-Schools Travel Programme. The prize-winners were chosen from over two thousand e...
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Laurel Hill FJC, South Circular Road, Limerick 
Laurel Hill FJC were awarded their Fourth Green-Flag for Green-Schools Travel in 2010 but that hasn’t stopped their efforts to promote Green-Travel in their School. They made several efforts in the past to promote cycling but to no avail so in early March they took it up a notch and piloted the Beauty and the Bike Workshop. Using a traffic light system they identified reasons as to why girls don’t cycle and tried to come up with their own sol...
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Welcome back to all of our Green-Schools! The Green-Schools programme has now entered into its 14th year in Ireland! There are currently 3502 schools registered on the Green-Schools programme and this number is always increasing. Since September 2010 an additional 86 schools have joined the programme. Schools are working hard on the themes of Litter and Waste, Energy, Water, Travel, Biodiversity, Global Citizenship and Climate Change. October was a busy month for Green-Schools Ireland with te...
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