Here at Ballina Primary School we have been working really hard preparing to present our projects for Clean Air Week. 
We travelled around all the classes from Juniors to 6th letting them know about:
1. How our air gets polluted
2. What polluted air does to us and
3. What we can do to prevent air pollution.
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Then we focused on Storms and how moving air ie Wind can do so much damage.
We set up an experiment using an AIR VORTEX CANNON or an AIRZOOKA to show how during severe storms; which are much more frequent due to climate change, gusts of wind can cause so much damage.
The children in all the classes really enjoyed learning all about air pollution and trying out our experiment. 
​Well done to all the children on their very hard work.

Congratulations to all the Juniors and Seniors who took part in the Climate Action Week Art Competition, especially our winners;
Juniors: Ellie and Tom   Seniors: Dillan and Fiadh

Here at Ballina PS the 6th Class have been undertaking the Cycle Right programme in 6th Class to encourage more children to cycle to school.
When we did a survey of how children travel to school in September and October we discovered that cycling was the least popular way to travel to school. There are many reasons for this but the main one was Safety!
Hopefully the CYCLE RIGHT PROGRAMME will give us the confidence for more children to cycle to school.

Here are some of the Junior's entries to our Art Competition

3rd to 6th Class learned all about Climate Change and Global Warming , the causes, the effects and what we can do to help.
​4th and 5th class came up with some PLEDGES where they are going to try to do something to help fight against GLOBAL WARMING and CLIMATE CHANGE.
Here are some of their pledges: 

Rang 4 did a project on Climate change where they researched and answered the many questions we have about CLIMATE CHANGE and presented them.
Here are some of the questions that they answered:

Well done to all those who took part in our WALK TO SCHOOL WEEK. 
The Children collected the results on how Ballina PS travelled to school. We managed to change our results from Car being the most popular way to travel to school to WALKING!!!!! So it has been a fantastic success for all. KEEP THOSE FEET WALKING !!!

Congratulations to everybody who took part in our Walk to School Week.
We had a fantastic turn out for our Walk on Wednesday WOW day. Thank you everybody and lets try to make every day a WOW day!!

Last week Rang 4 collected information on how we travel to school and what we need to work on in order to make our school a greener place.
Here are the results of our survey:
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As you can see the most popular way to come to school in Ballina Primary School is by CAR, then WALKING, then PARK AND STRIDE, then BUS, then SCOOTER and lastly BIKE.
We are working on reducing the number of children coming to school by car and replacing it with WALKING, PARK AND STRIDE, SCOOTER and BIKE.

Congratulations to all those who cycled to school this week. The children from all classes made a huge effort to get on their bikes, especially on our COW DAY (Cycle On Wednesday).
At the start of the week we had 30 children cycling to school. By Wednesday the Green Schools Committee counted 94 children cycling to school out of a total of 382 children. This a fantastic achievement so well done to everybody. ​

The Results of our COW day Survey
​Juniors:  16 out of 50 children cycled to school
Seniors:  17 out of 51 children cycled to school
Rang 1:  15 out of 53 children cycled to school
Rang 2 :  12 out of 50 children cycled to school
Rang 3:  6 out of 44 children cycled to school
Rang 4:  9 out of 40 children cycled to school
Rang 5:  7 out of 48 children cycled to school
Rang 6:  12 out of 46 children cycled to school
Total number of children cycling to school  94 out of 382 children.
​Congratulations to everybody!!!!