St. Peter’s was delighted to have winners in Louth County Council’s Green Christmas poetry competition for the second successive year. 4th and 6th classes won class prizes of €30 and €40 with an impressive €300 going to the school. Their poems drew the admiration of adjudicators with their imagination, creativity and powerful messages.
The presentation ceremony was in Scoil Mhuire na Trócaire in Ardee on Wednesday 16th December 2015. LMFM’s Pat O Shaughnessy was present to do a live broadcast and to record the winning entries for broadcast as part of an advertising campaign over the Christmas holiday period. School principals, Tidy Town representatives and children were interviewed. The children from Dromiskin with their Tidy Town’s rep, Mary Murtagh, stressed how important it was to recycle this Christmas and how we should all work together to make this a “green” Christmas.
Click HERE for LMFM interview
6th class winner
A GREENER CHRISTMAS
(To the tune of It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas)
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas,
packaging everywhere you go!
Christmas wrapping, plastic and glass
those dead Christmas trees
To recycling centres they must go!
(to the tune of the verse a pair of hopalong boots)
In hidden under the fluffy snow
Lies a rubbish beast below
Put the tree in the corner
in the wood pellet burner after this festive time,
all waste, cardboard, bottles
reduce, reuse, recycle
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas,
Food, sweets and wine
after your delicious feast
Compost your waste
Reduce, reuse, recycle
4th Class winner
A Greener Christmas
Christmas, Christmas everywhere,
Throwing litter without a care,
But think before you throw that waste –
Make the world a better place!
Wrapping paper, cards and tins
Put them in recycling bins!
Bottles, glass, plastic too,
We recycle them – why don’t you?
Left-over sprouts, turkey, ham
Compost them as soon as you can!
All the boxes that hold your toys –
Why not recycle them, girls and boys?
So tidy up – it’s for a good reason –
Let’s enjoy this Christmas season!