by Grace | Sep 25, 2023 | Community, Green Flag, Green Schools, News, Science, STEM, Sustainability
New rain garden to purify rainwater run-off unveiled in Cobh The €2m four-year project is part of a national ‘nature-based solution’ pilot project looking at using urban trees and rain gardens to help manage rainwater run-off. This system is designed to capture and...
by Grace | Jun 30, 2023 | Green Schools, Healthy Eating, Incredible Edibles, Initiatives & Programmes, News, Outdoor Classroom, School Garden, Science, STEM, Sustainability, Wellbeing
This year the girls from Miss Quinlan’s 3rd Class took part in AgriAware’s Incredible Edibles Initiative. For the groups amazing effort and for completing all five tasks to a high standard, the group received the GOLD award – the highest level of accreditation!...
by Grace | May 23, 2023 | Initiatives & Programmes, News, Science, STEM
Huge congratulations to all of the St Mary’s school community, our school has achieved an SFI Curious Minds Award and have met the criteria for the PLATINUM AWARD! Our school has provided evidence of children’s engagement with STEM in the following areas:...
by Grace | Feb 22, 2023 | Community, Green Schools, News, Picker Pals, Science, STEM, Sustainability
Second Class in St Mary’s are busy keeping Cobh clean as the partake in the Picker Pals initiative. The world faces a global crisis of waste in the environment. Every part of the natural world is affected. Neighbourhoods and beauty spots are despoiled. There’s...
by Grace | Jun 30, 2022 | Green Flag, Green Schools, Healthy Eating, Incredible Edibles, News, Outdoor Classroom, School Garden, Science, STEM, Sustainability, Wellbeing
Incredible Edibles 2022 This year the girls from Miss Quinlan’s 3rd and 4th Class took part in AgriAware’s Incredible Edibles Initiative and received the highest level of accreditation – GOLD! Incredible Edibles is a healthy eating project for...
by Grace | May 30, 2022 | News, Science, STEM
We were delighted to host the Merck Curiosity Cube in our school on Monday 30th May. Merck have very kindly donated a whopping €1,000.00 to our school to fund STEM activities at St. Mary’s N.S. We feel very lucky and are very appreciative of this generous donation. ...
