Explorer Activities this month included
Explorer Awards, Seashore Safari's along the West Coast, Explore the Shore in Galway City, Native Species Weekend at Dublin Zoo and World Ocean Day Celebrations at Galway Atlantaquaria
Explorer Awards
Congratulations to Scoil Iósaif Naofa, Oranmore Galway on receiving their Explorer Certificate of Participation. The boys in Ms Gormally's Third Class carried out work on aspects of Science, SPHE, Geography, History, Mathematics, Irish and Art for their award and produced a wonderful folder of material for me when I arrived at the school. Well done to Ms Gromally and all the 3rd class boys for their hard work.
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| Some of the work carried out by Ms Gormally's Class |
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| Getting all the students certificates ready during break time |
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| The Boys were very happy receiving their awards |
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| Ms Gormally accepts the schools framed certificate |
Seashore Safari Season Begins along the West Coast
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| A beautiful Day at Mulranny Beach, Co. Mayo |
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Students from Aillebrack National Schools spent the morning on the shore and produced their own species keys
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| Killee National School found some beautifully coloured animals and plants along their local shore |
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| Clarinbridge National School carried out a seashore survey of Ballyloughane Beach |
Carrigaholt National School hard at work
Cloondaff, Mulranny and Cornanool National Schools explored the wonders of Mulranny Shoreline
Explore the Shore on Gratten Beach
Thanks to everyone who came along to Explore the Shore on Gratten Beach in Galway. Thanks to Amy and Rick and all the guys from GMIT for carrying out a microplastics study on the Shore, Thanks to Cushla from the Marine Institute, Tom and Lenny from the Irish Wildlife Trust, and Barry from Galway Atlantaquaria for helping on the safari and Thanks to Cleancoast Ireland and all the volunteers who helped with our Beach Clean. And Thanks to the Galway Sea festival for helping us promote this great day on the shore.
Native Species at Dublin Zoo
Over 10,000 people visited Amy and Padraic at the Explorers Stand during Native Species Weekend at Dublin Zoo
And Finally, Explorers Bubble Art joined forces with the Paint-a-fish Campaign at World Ocean Day 2013 at Galway Atlantaquaria
Thanks to all the children, young and old who helped us create over 150 beautiful fish to add the virtual stock on www.paintafish.org
