Earth Day is celebrated across the world on April 22nd 2025 this year but here at Loreto Balbriggan we celebrated our own Earth Day on March 7th. We developed and created our own workshops, orchestrated by the TY Sustainability classes (4A + 4B). They then delivered the workshops to their own peers in TY and 1st year. The workshops covered a variety of sustainability topics.

SDGs: In this workshop students were introduced to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. They learned in detail about what each goal means and the benefit of each goal through playing games and quizzes.

Deforestation: The students got to learn and watch videos about the effects of deforestation, how it impacts us and wildlife and what we can do to help.

Composting: For composting the students got to visit and interact with the wormery in the school. Then they got to make their own little wormery with oreos and jellies to find out how composting works.

Sea Turtle Conservation: The turtle conservation workshop was a fun way for the students to learn about sea turtles and the threats they face through a presentation and quiz, along with creating their own little turtles out of paper cups and other recycled art supplies.

Endangered Animals: The endangered animals workshop was about learning about animals, who are endangered, why they are in danger and how they can help through a presentation, quiz and word search.

Sustainable Cities: During this workshop students built their own sustainable cities using an interactive board game and code created by the TY sustainability students inspired by SDG12. Learning where best to place facilities and housing when creating a sustainable city.

Waste Management: For this workshop the students learned about recycling and how to recycle through playing bingo. They also did recycled theme colouring learning good practice for waste management at home and in school.

During lunchtime there was great excitement at the swap shops. Students could bring in old books and clothes to swap for new items. In the afternoon, TY students gathered together for a film and whole year group quiz to test their knowledge of the topics covered in the workshops. A great day was had by all!