Ramsgrange Community School achieves Nature Hero Award status

A Wexford school has won a ‘nature hero award’….

Ramsgrange Community School has achieved a Golden Eagle Nature Hero Award for their great work in biodiversity and environmental education. The Nature Hero Awards, coordinated by Biodiversity in Schools and sponsored by Glenveagh, received registrations from 316 schools around Ireland representing over 93,000 students.

The awards help schools to positively steward their local land, improving biodiversity and educating young nature heroes throughout Ireland.

Wexford school, Ramsgrange Community School, received a certificate to mark their great effort over the year and a sustainably-made, Irish, wooden Nature Hero Award plaque for their Golden Eagle status in appreciation of their commitment to biodiversity and environmental education.

Speaking about the partnership, Annette McGarry, Head of Community Engagement at Glenveagh told Wexford Weekly:

“We’re proud to collaborate with Biodiversity in Schools on this excellent educational initiative, and delighted to see so many schools and children participate this year. We congratulate Ramsgrange Community School on their fantastic achievement. Biodiversity plays such an important role in every community and we’re incredibly proud to support this brilliant initiative over the last four years”.

Speaking about the 2025 competition, Mark Nolan, Director of Biodiversity in Schools commented:

“We’ve been amazed by the incredible work undertaken by schools across the country to help their local biodiversity. A massive well done to all the schools who achieved ‘Nature Hero’ status this year. A special thank you to Glenveagh Homes for their continued support of this great initiative.”

A Ramsgrange C.S. student who wanted to be identified as “DH” said to their teacher:

“Miss, your love of Nature and your absolute passion for Biodiversity has had a huge effect on me. Since starting the nature hero award projects in second year we have learned all about protecting nature and habitats and creatures. I have come to love gardening and Horticulture and am into doing all this stuff at home, especially leaving and sowing the native wildflowers for bees and other pollinators. I can’t wait to see if our new school Barn Owl Box gets any owls and if frogs come to our ponds. I still can’t believe we dug it, lined it, and filled it from the rainwater in the IBC tank and now it looks deadly. I will always be into Biodiversity from now on”.

For more information and to join the mailing list to be notified when registration reopens for the next academic year, visit www.biodiversityinschools.com.

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