School Garden & Wellbeing Area

Our School Grounds

Natural, outdoor spaces boost young people's physical & mental wellbeing

Outdoor learning nurtures and fosters a love of nature. We are lucky to have the following within our school grounds:

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School Garden           Outdoor classroom            Bird feeders                     Bird Nesting Box
Murals                         Reading benches                Outdoor workstations   Wildflower Meadow  Native trees                Native hedgerows               Greenhouse/ Polytunnel Gardening club      Herbs                          Outdoor blackboards         Raised beds                     Wellbeing area          Wildlife Camera

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the variety of animal and plant life in any environment. The more diversity of living things we have the better. We promote biodiversity on our school grounds 

We help bees, butterflies and insects at school

Bees come in all shapes and sizes. In Ireland we have 3 types of bee: honeybees, bumblebees and solitary bees. Honeybees don't need our help, bumblebees and solitary bees do. We have planted many bulbs around our school grounds, let wildflowers grow in designated areas and created log piles to help our bees, butterflies and insect populations.

Growing in our Raised Beds and Polytunnel

We grow a variety of vegetables, herbs, flowers each year and tend to them carefully. We run a gardening club at lunchtimes and this year we have added raised beds and more seating to our wellbeing area. We visited our neighbour Vincent Rooney and got lots of advice on planting and sowing in our polytunnel. The gardening club have responsibility for preparing our raised beds and polytunnel for planting. We have sown carrot, tomato, pea, bean, potato, pepper, zucchini, scallion, parsley, chive, garlic and flower seeds.