Harvest Feast

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After months of planting seeds, carefully watering, pulling weeds, and watching our garden grow, the time had finally come to harvest our vegetables. Once everything was gathered, it was time to transform our hard work into a well-earned feast. The roast potatoes came out perfectly—crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside, with just the right touch of seasoning. Our colourful mixed salad was packed with fresh flavours, and for dessert, we enjoyed a cool and tasty fruit salad. This garden project has been a wonderful learning journey, teaching us all about science, healthy eating, teamwork, and responsibility. A huge thank you to everyone who helped make this garden-to-table experience such a memorable and rewarding success.

Solar Panels

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We were delighted to have our new solar panels fitted during the mid term break. The Solar For Schools Programme is intended to assist schools in reducing their energy costs and carbon footprint. As well as helping schools to reduce their carbon emissions, the scheme is also helps schools to save money on their energy bills.

Summer Salad Harvest

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What a difference a season makes. In the spring we got busy in the school garden and now we can harvest our first crop. The children enjoyed a lovely side salad with their lunches today. We harvested mixed lettuce, radish, onions and cress and added some cherry tomatoes. This was paired with a fantastic homemade olive oil salad dressing – Thanks Mary. We are really looking forward to our main autumn harvest. This is an organic “hands off” garden that will be unattended for the summer so the autumn harvest is very uncertain. Fingers crossed we get a decent crop.

Flower Pressing

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Flower pressing is an age old tradition with many varations. Stephanie from Heritage in Schools visited Togher N.S. to explain some of the many ways that flowers can be pressed and presented to create beautiful displays and artworks. The children in the Senior Room were soon busy foraging and identifing the local flora for their flower pressing projects.

Cycle Sense

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The children in Togher N.S. have been developing their cycling skills with Cycle Sense this week. Cycle Sense will be working with the children one day a week over six weeks. Cycle Sense aim to

  • Deliver best-practice cycle training.
  • Provide participants with the skills needed to move as cyclists in complex, changing, road environments.
  • Train participants to apply dynamic thinking, assessing conditions and the environment on the road as they go through their journey

The children are learning to :

  • Use of gears, braking, cycling one-handed / signalling and looking behind
  • Junctions and blind bends
  • Roundabouts
  • Using cycle facilities on and off road
  • Cycling safety with children

Picker Pals

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We are delighted to be involved in Picker Pals an innovative primary school programme inspiring and equipping children to become the next generation of environmentalists by leading their families on local litter-picking adventures.

Bug Hotel

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At Togher N.S. we appreciate the diversity of nature and for this reason the children in the Junior Room have created a bug hotel to create a space where the bugs can thrive.

A bug hotel is part garden art and part winter habitat for insects. Our bug hotel will provide a home for a diversity of insects. Our insects will have all sorts of different nesting needs so the children provided a variety of plant material to encourage all sorts of our creepy crawly friends to lodge.

Our Bug Hotel will give a helping hand to local wildlife and are a great way to repay our insect friends for all their help in the garden throughout the year. Often known as “gardener’s friends,” these beneficial insects can be very useful by offering a form of natural pest control and flower pollination.

 

Picker Pals

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The children in the Junior Room have been selected to participate in the new Picker Pals programme launched by the environmental charity VOICE Ireland. Picker Pals inspires and motivates primary school children and their families to become the next generation of environmentalists through litter picking in their local areas. Each child will be given the opportunity to take home the Picker Pal kit for a weekend. The family can then go on a litter picking adventure in their local area with each child reporting back to their classmates.