SustainabilityinEnniscorthyCommunityCollege

January 2023 - Well done to TY students Caoimhe Creavin, Ruby Rellis, Molly Brady, Lucy Williams and Katie Nolan who participated inthefirstphaseofThePeople'sTransitionModelcarriedoutbyMr Kieran Harrahill, from TASC and facilitated by Aileen Walsh HSCL ThePeople'sTransitiondescribesamodelforparticipativedecision makingthatisintendedtoenableacommunitytobenefitfromthe transitiontoazero-carbonsociety

Onthe16thNovember2022-ECCwelcomedMEPGraceO’Sullivan who hosted seminars and question and answer sessions with Leaving Certificate and JCSP students on the topics of Climate Change and the EU response and the meaning and role of the EuropeanUnioninthe21stcenturyworld

The visit was part of ECC’s obligations as a partner school of the European Parliament Ambassadors Schools Programme to highlightthemissionandworkoftheEuropeanUniontostudents

October 2022 - A new Polytunnel Club came to the rescue of repairing the polytunnel and began clearing the ground and doing preparatory work prior to the installation of theplasticcovering

On the 10th October 2022 - As part of their Sustainability module, theTransitionYearstudentsvisitedRegan’sOrganicfarminCaim

The students met the owner, Mary Mary gave them a tour of the farm and told the students about the process of changing the farm over to Organic, which took two years, as this is the length of timeittakesforpesticidesetctoclearfromtheground

Studentssawthecowsgrazingintheirbeautiful,lushsurroundings, as well as the Llamas and donkeys, whose manure is put to good use on the compost heaps. In the polytunnels they learned about thedifferentstagesofbringingvegetablesfromseedtomaturity.