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With spring well and truly upon us as part of green schools we have been getting ready to sow our vegetables in our beds. 5th class are being very helpful in getting the beds cleaned out so they are fresh and ready for planting to take place in the coming weeks. We...
Free Trees Ireland donated this tree to the school for National Tree Week, and some 6th class students helped plant the tree in the school garden last week!
All flower beds are now complete! Junior and Senior planted two rows of potatoes, one row of carrots, a row of turnips and a row of beetroot. Hopefully they will be ready in September and might be used as part of a lesson for some classes. The other plants that we...
The children in Dangan love being outside and many of them like to take care of their surroundings, particularly Mr. Brennan's garden. Recently, we were thrilled to see that the four flower beds that the Board of Management requested the Green School Committee to work...
We would like to give thanks to The Tidy Towns committee for donating five trees to Dangan NS. Just before the weather became extremely cold, three students from 6th Class and two students from other year groups (1st to 5th) came out to help dig and plant the five...
On Monday our class was lucky enough to be chosen to plant three apple trees on the school grounds. The trees were kindly donated by Summerhill tidy town committee. Mr Brennan showed the class the various parts of the tree and explained the importance of the roots....
Junior Infants helped Mr. Brennan plant a pear tree in our school yard today. Thank you to the local tidy towns who provided the tree. The children loved picking up chunks of soil and pushing it down into the hole to help hold the tree in place.
In conjunction with the local Tidy Towns Committee, the school marked National Tree Week by planting six native Irish fruit trees in the school gardens.
Dangan's Gardening Committee are always working hard to keep the grounds of Dangan N.S. looking great! Here they are, planting some flowers around the school...