Mullaghbawn
Master Mc Coy’s P7 class proudly showing all the bags of litter which our P6 and P7 year groups picked up around the village last week. The P7 group pictured cleaned up around the Church car park to have it slick and span for Confirmation next week.
Well done to all the classes involved a great job!
The sun shone brightly for P6 pupils to join in the “Tidy Ring of Gullion” litter pick on Friday morning.
First place to visit was to view their superb artwork posted on the Mullaghbawn River Walk to encourage members of the community to join the tidy up.
Thank you boys and girls for your hard work in helping to keep Mullaghbawn tidy👏
This is “Tidy Ring of Gullion Week” and all around the village, people are cleaning up litter. Today whilst out doing their bit, our P6/7 class were filmed as part of a wider promotional film for the area organised by the Ring of Gullion. It was a great experience to work with a professional film crew. Watch out for “our stars” when the film goes out later in the year!
We know many of our boys and girls enjoy walking on Slieve Gullion’s slopes and on their walks some have been lucky enough to have encountered a red squirrel. A lucky few, have been fortunate enough to meet the conversationalists whilst they have been out recording and monitoring the pine martin population. So, we thought you might all like to know about a documentary on tonight, Sunday 28th, of March @ 6:30 pm on RTE 1. The programme is called “Back from the Brink”, and will feature some of the red squirrels and pine martins from Slieve Gullion in a documentary about conservation successes across Europe.
Over lock down in the coldest winter weather the “Ring of Gullion and Cooley, Red Squirrel Group” put out a call for donations to buy food (peanuts) for the squirrels. A donation from our Erasmus funding on behalf of all the pupils and wider school community of St Mary’s was made. So, tonight we can all watch with pride in the knowledge that St Mary’s has played a small part in this success story!
Congratulations to everyone involved, (especially Marie Mc Cartan for the wonderful photos above), we look forward to tonight’s programme and chatting about it tomorrow.
Last weekend’s “Big Garden Bird Watch”, gave us all plenty of opportunity here at St. Mary’s to get outside. Not only did we immerse ourselves in nature, we also “expressed ourselves” through: creating bird feeders, taking photographs, drawing and recording what we saw!
We know why we spend time outdoors in nature:
So, what are you waiting for? Be like us and GET OUTSIDE!
The Big Garden Bird Watch takes place this weekend, 29th-31st January and we would love everyone to get involved. We have attached a bird identification and data collection sheet below.
If you do take part please send your results to P6/7 , c/o
pmulkerns611@c2ken.net
P6/7 would love to use the results from across the school community for their Data Handling activities.
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A reminder that elections for the school Eco Committee for KS2 pupils (P5,P6,P7) will take place next Monday, October 14th.
Presentations can take the form of a written speech, poem, rap, song or digital presentation. Pupils have been informed that if they intend to stand in the election, they must register with their class teacher. If they are using a supporting digital presentation, it must be brought in on a pen or uploaded to their Google Drive before the date of the election. Promotional posters may also be displayed around the school. Good luck to all of the entrants!
Many thanks to Natural World Products who donated a pallet (50 bags) of compost to the school this week. On hearing the pollytunnel that our school shares with the Ring of Gullion group had been vandalised over the St Patrick’s break, NWP stepped in to help us. It was a wonderful gesture and much of the compost has already been put to use in the new Nursery garden.
Well done to the St Mary’s representative who took part in the 2019 Newry Mourne and Down Environmental Youth Speak Final. There was a lot of hard work put in by the P7 pupil before getting up on the stage in Downpatrick and she certainly did her school, family and community proud. Well done!
Well done to the 21 pupils from P6 and P7 who entered into the Environmental Youth Speak competition for 2019. The theme was, “A Day in the Life of an Eco-Warrior.”
All of the pupils and staff in attendance were blown away by the stage presence, standard of delivery and the content of the speeches. The children demonstrated great courage by getting up on stage in front of a packed assembly hall.
The winning entrant will be the pupil who has the highest combined score for their content and presentation, which are marked in equal measure. Their name will be revealed in school tomorrow and we wish them luck ahead of the Newry, Mourne & Down DC Final in Downpatrick next Tuesday.