On the 5th Day of our Travel Challenge, RSA gave us these cool rucksack covers!

Todays' Golden Boot winners are Mr Barretts' class. Again!

82% of the school traveled green!

For their consistent high scores and most importantly wearing their high-viz vests, todays winners are Mrs Greaneys' room!

Great turn out of high-viz vests today 76% of the school travelling green!

It's Mr Barretts' 2nd, 3rd and 4th again! Performing a hat-trick! Well done!

Today 85% of our school walked or used the bus!

Well done Mr Barretts' Class again! A whopping 90% travelling green.
​Two days in a row deserves a lucky dip!

Despite Storm Henry and the school bus unable to travel, we had a very green start to our day!
Out of the 57 pupils present: 46 pupils walked to school! That is just over 80%.
​Well done everybody!

Mr Barretts 2nd-4th class won the Golden Boot today with an 83.3% walk rate!

The Big Travel Challenge 2016 starts next Monday.  We had great fun last year and we are back this year, well prepared and hoping to be prize worthy!  
The aim of the competition is to increase green travel to school and decrease use of cars. 


A few pointers:

• The Drop and Hop locations are:

1. Cloughbrack
2. River St
3. Bridge St

• The walking bus leaves the location at 9am (Sharp!)
• The walking bus picks pupils up along the way (and waits for nobody, so be ready outside your house!).
• Parents have volunteered to walk with the pupils but all parents are welcome to walk.  (You don't have to be on the rota!)
• Cloughbrack is the shortest route for our youngest pupils or they may join the walking bus closer to the school.
• Bus pupils stay travelling on the bus because it is a very green way to travel.
• There are three bus stops outside the school gates for the pupils to line up and take the walking bus home.  

Remember

1. The challenge is for 15 days
2. The walking buses have to travel in all weather (forecast is dry for this week).
3. Our aim is to decrease the amount of cars used travelling to school and increase walking to and from school.

After National Car Free day we decided to have our own Eyrecourt Car free day each month. This Tuesday was the first day and everyone took part!

This week's winners of the Golden Boot are Ms Hynes' class.  Well done everyone!
A whopping 59 walkers over the 4 days easily beating last weeks winners in the senior room at 49 walkers.

Today was Day 15 of our Big Travel Challenge.  We never imagined the last 15 days would go so well.  We submitted our entry and the results were amazing.  One day 84% of the school walked.  Today the bus couldn't travel because of the snow so we had even more walkers.  56 pupils walked to school today!
Ms Treacys class won the Golden Boot today. 
Because of the effort everyone put in the Green School Committee decided every class deserved a prize.  A goodie bag was presented to each class and every pupil got a lucky dip from the bag.

Well done to Mr Barretts class who walked through snow to get their golden boot!