Green Flag

Green-Schools is Ireland’s leading environmental management and education programme for schools.
Promoting long-term, whole-school action for the environment Green-Schools is a student-led programme with involvement from the wider community. The programme is operated and co-ordinated by the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce (FEE member for Ireland).

Green Flag News

Monthly Walk on the Greenway

Monthly Walk on the Greenway

On Thursday last, September 12th, our 2nd to 6th class pupils enjoyed a walk on the Greenway from school to the Barnagh Greenway Hub. It was a lovely walk and enjoyed by all pupils.  It's a fantastic resource on our doorstep. Well done to all pupils who walked...

Biodiversity Walk – 5th & 6th Class

Biodiversity Walk – 5th & 6th Class

This week 5th and 6th classes took a walk along the Greenway to check out some our surroundings & wildlife. They saw plenty of bugs and birds as well as lots of frogs and spawn. It was a lovely day out helped by the lovely weather.  ...

Halloween Dress Up

Halloween Dress Up

Each year Killoughteen NS hold a dress up competition, which involves the children taking used items of clothing and other objects from around the home and create a Halloween costume from them. Our pupils out done themselves this year with their origional ideas and...

Halloween Dress Up 2022

Halloween Dress Up 2022

On Friday the 28th October, we had lots of different creatures enter the grounds of Killoughteen NS. We had aliens in space ships, witches, pirates, hurlers, wizards, skeletons, nuns, knights, minions, zombies and spiders to name but a few. The creativity and...

Halloween in Killoughteen NS 2021

Halloween in Killoughteen NS 2021

Today was a day that was full of excitement and fun in Killoughteen NS. The morning began with all kinds of creatures entering the school grounds, witches, grim reapers, super heroes, aliens and many wounded souls. The creativity and imagination of our pupils (AND...

First Class and Rainbow Class visit Curraghchase

First Class and Rainbow Class visit Curraghchase

On Wednesday the 6th of February, 1st class and the rainbow room visited Curraghchase with the LEAF programme. We brought our coats and our wellies and headed off on the bus. We were very lucky with the weather, the sun stayed out all day. During our trip to the...

Halloween 2019 in Killoughteen NS

Halloween 2019 in Killoughteen NS

Today, October 25th, the children of Killoughteen NS again made brilliant costumes from recyclable materials for our Halloween dress up. We saw everything from cereal killers, artists, army tanks, haunted houses and Mr Tayto to name but a few. The imagination and...