Coiste Uaine Update! Most of our class groups have submitted their habitat maps of our school grounds. the girls enjoyed compiling them, and it was amazing how each class picked out different features of the area. Some were very detailed and colourful. Ms. Clifford's class even made a colour-coded key -easy to read and very visually effective! The Green Committee will look at all the habitat maps and decide which one best displays all the possible areas of biodiversity in the school grounds.


One of the most recent ways we have tried to ensure biodiversity in the school natural environment is to provide habitats and shelters for various types of animals. Each class took responsibility for a different house/ shelter/ area. They had to research the optimum sites and conditions for their organism. Here are some photos of the girls positioning the houses. (with a little help from Mr. O'Flynn!)

There are houses for insects - ladybirds, butterflies and lacewings,  birds - treecreepers and wrens.

Senior infants took on the job of the pond habitat. Again, more detail vcan be found in a separate blog.

 

Fifth class did a project about bats, which 

can be seen in detail in a separate blog, they 

called in a bat expert to inform them about 

the best position for their two bat roosting

 boxes.