Killeen National School
Killeen, 
Louisburgh, 
Co. Mayo.

09868651
killeenns2@gmail.com
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STEP 6: Informing and Involving

3/4/2017

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As part of our efforts to inform and involve the local community, we entered the St. Patrick's day parade with our biodiversity theme. The pupils were very pleased to choose their own aspect of biodiversity and create a costume based on it.  Due to weather conditions, the parade did not go ahead in Louisburgh town. On a finer day, we paraded our creative designs down the road from the school and back to the delight of the onlookers. 
Well done everybody! Bualadh bos ***
STEP 5 - Curriculum Work                                                                                                  
Click the links below to see how we have linked the theme of biodiversity to our curriculum work:

Our Primary School Curriculum links
OUR robin's nests
Our christmas trees
OUR CLAY SQuirrels
OUR autumn leaf prints
visit to mieke & Johann's Garden
our seahorses
OUr symmetrical Butterflies
Outdoor classroom day 2017
OUr dandelions
Our hanging Caterpillars
Our clay caterpillars
planting sunflower seeds
Our Polar Bears
OUR Penguins
Our hovering owls
our clay headgehogs
our autumn trees
painting with blackberries
spring nature walk
Holly
Fish art
Fox art
seashore safari
releasing our butterflies
STEP 4 - Monitoring and Evaluation
Revisiting the Biodiversity Awareness Survey

The pupils from 2nd-6th class filled in the Biodiversity Awareness Survey in September 2017 (See results further down this page under Step 2). There was room for improvement for sure. The survey was repeated this week (February 9th) and the results speak for themselves. WOW! Well done boys & girls - amazing knowledge of such an important topic. 
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Step 4 - Monitoring and Evaluation
Revisiting the Flora & Fauna Survey
38 students and staff filled out a "What do you know?" questionnaire about minibeasts, trees, plants, animals and birds in February 2018. This was also completed in January 2017 so we were re-visiting it to look for improvements. The children and staff had to try to identify each item of flora and fauna on the sheet. The results were interesting and we noticed great improvements. Nobody could correctly identify each one, although 2 pupils got a fantastic score of 27 out of 30.  50% of the participants were able to correctly identify 16 items or less. 82% of the participants were able to correctly identify half of the flora and fauna. Well done boys and girls!
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STEP 3 - Action Plan                                                                                                           Click below to read our Biodiversity Action Plan:
Our Biodiversity Action Plan
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1st class pupils putting out bird feeders for the small birds during winter.
click here to Check out our seashore safari
Click here For Water Sampling of Carrowniskey river
Our New Garden
With lots of help from Jo, Nicole and the Rural Social Scheme, we have a beautiful new landscaped garden. We are looking forward to sowing, planting and harvesting again in summer 2018. We are aiming to attract as much insects, birds and animals as we can!
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Scoil Náisiúnta an Teaghlaigh Naofa

Killeen National School
Killeen, 
Louisburgh,
Co, Mayo

TEL: 098 68651
Email Address: killeenns2@gmail.com