National Tree Week
National Tree Week is an annual, week-long festival celebrating all positive aspects of trees in our lives and environment. It is organised by the Tree Council of Ireland with the support of Coillte. National Tree Week took place from 3-10 March, 2013. The primary aim of National Tree Week is to encourage people to plant more trees, which we did. We planted 5 new trees at the side of our school.
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Green Schools’ Programme
The Green Schools’ Programme is run by An Taisce to raise the awareness and care of the environment amongst school children and thereby the wider community.
One of the key factors of the Green-Schools’ programme is that it is a thematic programme. This means that we work on one theme at a time and follow the 7 steps, recording everything in a plan.
The themes in sequence are:
Litter and Waste
Energy
Water
Travel
Biodiversity
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The Green-Schools programme is based on seven steps.
These steps are outlined as:
- Green-Schools Committee
- Environmental Review
- Action Plan
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Curriculum Work
Informing and Involving
- Green Code
Litter & Waste Thanks to Múinteoir Eamon (who is in charge of our Green School’s Flag Programme) and our Green School’s Committee of pupils, we received the Green Flag Award in 2010 for reducing waste and recycling as much as possible. We recycle paper, card, plastic, batteries and mobile phones, etc. Please send any ink cartridges, batteries and mobile phones into school for recycling as we have collection boxes available for these. Energy We received our Energy Flag award in 2012 and we have ‘Energy Detectives’ on the energy committee who check classrooms on a regular basis, turning off lights etc. Reports are that the teachers are the worst culprits!
We are delighted to have been awarded 2 Green Flags so far, and are currently working hard and are well on our way to our third green flag, which is Water. We want to reduce the amount of water we use.
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Useful Sites
Here are some website links to help in learning about our Green Flag themes to date: