Nature Heroes 

Exciting times here in St Patrick's NS - We have now a Nature Heroes team! Anna, Ciarán, Cian, Max, Conor, Conor, Amy, Emma, Daithí, Katie, Martha, Kate, Rose, Karina, Isabel, Alannah and Alex, gave of their time during late January and early February, to create new habitats for little critters who might like to make our school grounds their home. Specialthanks to Aidan, of Mrs O' Sullivan's junior infants, who brought in a bag of wood to contribute to our new log piles.

Down on the junior yard in February, our wonderful caretaker, Mr Russell, and the team decided where to locate our new bat box. We have also relocated an existing bird box and added one made by Eoghan’s grandad, Patrick. Enormous thanks to Ciarán de Buitléir for donating the bat box to the school. We will be tapping into some of Ciarán’s extensive expertise in the coming weeks, in our effort to increase biodiversity around the school. We hope to make and/or acquire another bat box or two.

After the midterm break, we will take several measures to enhance our native woodland, at the front of the school. We will label some of the trees, create some eco-friendly windchimes, care for the plants we already have growing in pots and hopefully plant some more. We want to make this an outdoor classroom every class can enjoy. Thank you so much to the Parents Association for their contribution.

There is a lot more to do in our work to improve biodiversity around the grounds of St Patrick' s NS, including the creation of bird care areas and wildflowers, nettles, ivy and pollinators. Donations are always welcome. We would love any amount of timber of any size or large pots (chipped or cracked are fine - we can work with that!).

Here' s to creating a more diverse school, in more ways than one!