WOW Day - Friday, March 13th.

                                                                                        

Dear Parents,

As you are aware, Our Lady’s NS has been successfully engaged in An Taisce’s Green-Schools programme for many years. We are extremely proud of our achievements to date and are now working towards our fourth Green Flag for Travel.

It’s time to SPRING into action!

As part of this work, we will launch our WOW (Walk Once a Week) campaign on     

Friday March 13^th .

We are encouraging students and parents to leave their car at home and walk to school, where possible.

 We are aware that walking to school will not be an option for all families. With this in mind we are also encouraging Park n’ Stride.  The Green-School’s committee, along with their An Taisce Education Officer Chiara Hanrahan, have identified the Ballingarry GAA field car park suitable for this purpose. Here you can park and walk to school safely with your child.

Car Pooling (lift sharing) is also encouraged. Boys and girls travelling to school on the bus are already travelling in a sustainable way.

As part of this, the committee will be keeping record of how each child travels to school for ten consecutive school days initially and then one day a week thereafter.

Should this initiative be a success, we will see many benefits. Not only will you be helping to directly address the issues associated with our over reliance on fossil fuels, but also the air around the school will be cleaner! The children will benefit directly from the additional exercise (and fresh air), and the school environment will be safer for all owing to the reduction of cars in the area.

We are excited about this new initiative and hope you can come onboard.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Egan                                               Mrs. O’ Dea                               Chiara Hanrahan

Principal                                               GS Coordinator                                 An Taisce