Whole School Eco-Meeting

Today we held our last whole school eco-meeting of the year! We were able to look back at all the great things we have done this year for our environment and to suggest actions for next year at Knockbreda.

As suggested by the children during previous eco-meetings, Mrs Welsh has now purchased some ‘Don’t drop litter signs’ and an outdoor bin, and these will soon be displayed near our gates to help ‘keep Knockbreda, tidy, neat and clean!’ ♪♪♪

Hip Hip Hooray! We have succesfully renewed our Green Flag Award and we have been invited to collect it at Belfast Castle in June!

Mrs Welsh encouraged the children to continue to have green hands when they go home by taking part on the Saving Energy Challenge and by joining on the Translink Challenge by scooting, biking or walking to school in June.

To finish our meeting, Mrs Welsh reminded the children that it is their right to learn about how to look after the environment.

Thank you Green Apples, Red Apples and parents for attending our last whole school eco-meeting!

Posted on May 25, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery and filed under Rights Respecting School, Eco-Schools.

The Recycling Rat Show

We were delighted to have George from the Belfast City Council back at Knockbreda, with his friend with stripy socks Mr. Rat!

George was able to talk to the children about littering, recycling, reusing and about landfill. The children were able to contribute to the story as they are very keen on looking after the environment and have now a great understanding of what items can be recycled and what bin items should be put in. Great job boys and girls!

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery and filed under Eco-Schools.

National Children’s Day at Knockbreda Nursery School

We had such a fun day today celebrating National Children’s Day!

As a Right Respecting School we used this day as an opportunity to celebrate children’s rights. The Green and Red Apples are showing great understanding of their rights and know that no one can take their rights away! We wore something blue, sang our Rights Respecting Song, and had a picnic outside! 🌞

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery and filed under Rights Respecting School.

Shared Education Event

More than 140 children were able to get together at St. Bernard’s Primary School for our 4th Shared Education event of the year. The children played some number related games, enjoyed a healthy snack and were able to see some friends!

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery and filed under Partnership.

Global Action Days- Reuse

Book Swap week!

Thank you to all the parents that have already participated on our book swap!

By swapping your books, you are saving paper, water and energy that goes into printing new books.

Book swap will be available until Friday 28th April 2023.

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery and filed under Eco-Schools.

Earth Day and Global Action Days- Reduce

As part of our commitment to our planet and our Eco-School targets, and as we also celebrate Earth Day, we have had a Meat Free lunch in school today

The menu included a quiche, chips and salad, and we chatted about the impact we can make on our loved planet Earth by reducing the meat that we eat even by one day a month!

Posted on April 21, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery and filed under Eco-Schools.

Big Seed Sow Week- Earth Hour

A great big THANK YOU to all the parents and grandparents who donated 60 min (or more) for Earth Hour and joined us this week in Forest School for our Big Seed Sow Week. We were able to plant many trees, bulbs and seeds and we can’t wait to see them bloom!

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery.

Jo Jingles

The children enjoyed an Easter session of music with Jo Jingles. We practiced keeping a nice steady bit with the castanets and enjoyed jumping like bunnies and doing team work with the eggs!

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery.

Shared Education Event

We enjoyed having our friends from St Bernard’s Preschool back! The topic was Shape, Space and Measure, so we measured our snack, took part in a shape hunt and built spacious houses for our friends to fit into.

It was a day filled with friendship and laughs! We can’t wait to see you again!

Posted on March 28, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery.

Red Nose Day - Comic Relief

It’s our commitment as a Right Respecting School to support those who need it most, and to raise awareness with our Green and Red Apples.

Thank you for all the donations to Comic Relief and for taking part on our eco approach by painting your child’s nose.


Posted on March 16, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery and filed under Rights Respecting School, Eco-Schools.

Litter picking

The children were busy during the Forest School sessions this week doing some litter picking with Mrs Welsh around the school grounds.

We collected a lot of rubbish that will sadly go to landfill and, luckily a few things that can be recycled!

Great work boys and girls!

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery.

Artist in School

We were very pleased to have Julie-Anne Richmond at school helping us to make a Mother’s Day craft.

We practiced our fine motor skills and put lots of love in it for all our mums.


Can you guess what we made?

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery.

Whole School Eco meeting

On Thursday 9th March 2023 we were able to have a whole school eco-meeting. We talked about landfill and how it impacts the animals, seas and even us!

We also did a bin check and discovered that some of our teachers are not putting their rubbish in the right bin!

The children sang the Eco code very proudly and contributed with some ideas about what we can do at Knockbreda to help the environment.

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery and filed under Eco-Schools.

Waste Week

Thank you to everyone who returned their Toy Pledge!

The children were very engaged in having conversations about reusing and recycling, and we stopped lots of toys from ending up in landfill!

Well done everyone!

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery.

Exceptional Closure- Snow and Ice

We have to advise that Knockbreda Nursery School will be closed today  due to health and safety concerns for travel to and from school for children and our staff.

 

Please stay safe and we will see everyone in school on Monday as normal.  

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery.

World Book Day

What a day of fun at Knockbreda! Costumes, parents, cupcakes and cinema! Thank you to the mums and dads that came to read stories to the children, you made our day!

Thank you everyone for your donations, we will send them to Book Aid International on your behalf.

See more photos on Seesaw.

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery and filed under Rights Respecting School.

March Newsletter

A copy of our March 2023 newsletter is here. This contains important information about the month ahead and includes an update to our school calendar for this year.

Posted on March 1, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery.

'A Place to Wonder' Visit

We had a visit from ‘A Place to Wonder’ today which gave us some time to relax through story telling and yoga. It was a great experience and everyone enjoyed having some time to calm down in the middle of a busy day. We were great at doing the breathing exercises and even had another practice in the quiet room before lunch.

Posted on February 24, 2023 by Knockbreda Nursery.