Marie Kennedy

Geography, Music, SPHE, Community Care & Biodiversity teacher. Sustainability Co-Ordinator. Student Voice Co-Ordinator. SSE, Wellbeing. All Views my own.

[Firhouse Community College @Firhouse_cc]

♻️FCC Sustainability Week was action packed with several events🌳
🌲Our school community participated in the Take One Programme. Our new @GreenSchoolsIre were elected with a record number of 62 students joining. Our @GaisceAward sustainability group were also formed🌸
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[Firhouse Community College @Firhouse_cc]

🪴Thank you to @CllrMickDuff & @sdublincoco for the donation of plants for our patio wellbeing space which were planted by Joe Connolly with Ms Kennedy’s Biodiversity class. Michael in TY won our poster competition💐
Well done to everyone involved, especially Ms Kennedy!

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🌳💐Thanks to Joe for all his help maintaining the school grounds with Ms Kennedy’s TY Biodiversity class. Students will be sowing flowers, vegetables, fruit etc as well as litter picking. We’ll have updates on all their activities during the year

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🥾🏞️20 TY & 4 5th year students completed their Bronze & Silver awards for Gaisce last week. Their PALs Ms Delagic & Ms Kennedy accompanied them on the 25/50km hike. This is a great achievement for the students

@GaisceAward @ddletb #Teamddletb

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♻️👏A huge congratulations to our Green Schools Committee and our whole school community on being awarded our fourth Green Schools Flag for Travel. We have also had our litter and waste, energy and water flags renewed.♻️👏

@GreenSchoolsIre @ddletb #Teamddletb

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Thanks to Ms Dunne, Ms Kennedy & students from the TY Biodiversity class who organised bouquets of daffodils to help raise money for the @IrishCancerSoc
We appreciate all the donations made by students and staff today.
Donate here: https://t.co/SE6PSrTohe

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👏♻️Well done to Christopher in 1st Year who is our @GreenSchoolsIre Recycling officer. He and Ms Kennedy applied for two @returnireland Bins to offer our school community a chance to donate their bottles and cans. All money raised will be donated to the Ballycullen Food Bank.

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🍀🌺🌲Ms Dunne and the TY #Biodiversity class set up a fairy garden on the back patio today! 🌲🌺🍀

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First donation from the Return Bins to the Ballycullen Foodbank. Thanks to Ms Kennedy, the Green Schools Committee and everyone involved!

@GreenSchoolsIre @returnireland @ddletb #Teamddletb

[Marie Kennedy @MsMarieKennedy]

Any small electrical item (has a plug or battery) or battery that no longer works and is no larger in size than a school bag maybe left for recycling at our Green Schools noticeboard by 29th January
Thank you ♻️🪫🔌
@Firhouse_cc
@WEEEIreland
@socialrecycleit

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For four weeks before the midterm break, Firhouse Community College Green School and TY Biodiversity classes have been monitoring the air quality on and around our school grounds as part of GLOBE Air Quality Campaign

@GreenSchoolsIre @GLOBEIreland @AnTaisce @ddletb #Teamddletb

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Sustainable Development Goals week ended on a high last Friday with FCC being put on @NASA World map as one of two schools in Ireland submitting Cloud Observation Data. We submitted the data to NASA while satellite NOAA-20 was flying over us.

@ddletb #SDG

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👏✨On Tuesday evening, we welcomed back some students from the Class of 2024 who achieved 500 points or more in the Leaving Cert exams. It was a great evening where Ms Dunne and Mr Nolan presented the students with certificates and congratulated them on their results

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Thank you to Bin-It Roadshow for a fantastic interactive presentation with all of our First Year students and their teachers on how to manage our waste properly. Thanks to Ms Kennedy for all her work with #Sustainability and @GreenSchoolsIre initiatives.
#antilitter

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🤩Thank you to all the teachers involved in today’s wellbeing workshops for 1st years. Students had a brilliant day doing yoga, team building exercises, study skills and many other activities. Thanks to the prefects who supported the students too.

@ddletb #Teamddletb #wellbeing

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It is Sustainable Development Goals Week in FCC this week. Events everyday! Tomorrow is National Walk to School day so we encourage students to walk to school if possible. You can also find information about the poster competition.

@ddletb #Teamddletb #SDG @greenschoolsire

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♻️TY students had the fantastic opportunity with their Biodiversity teachers Ms Dunne & Ms Kennedy to attend a Composting & Soil Science workshop and a Recycling workshop with Composting Schools Ireland. ♻️
#sustainability #ESD #SDG1 #SDG11 #SDG12 #SDG13 #SDG15 @ddletb

[Marie Kennedy @MsMarieKennedy]

An excellent informative film and evening with fantastic resources. Really looking forward to the film being available to local schools. Thank you @WatersProgramme

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Sounds very interesting. Well done to all involved. 👏

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Delighted for @Firhouse_cc to be part of @GLOBEIreland 10th Air Quality Campaign. It will be very interesting to see the results of all the schools taking part. #CleanAir

[GLOBE Ireland @GLOBEIreland]

Over 80% of places have been filled! Signup today to receive your free resource and equipment pack and to ensure a spot in our 10th Air Quality Campaign!

Register at: https://t.co/5JYq90kCba

The campaign incorporates citizen science, outdoor learning and several of the UN SDGs!