Green Schools
Green-Schools is an international education programme, which enables schools to take environmental issues from the curriculum and apply them to the day-to-day running of their school.
At Brannoxtown CNS, we are working towards our first flag for Litter and Waste. Our Green Schools Committee have written a Green Code and are working on reducing our waste across the school.
Our Green Schools Action Plan includes the following aims:
- Reduce overall waste in our school.
We can achieve this by:
- encouraging ‘Green Lunchboxes’ e.g. reducing the amount of single use plastics in our lunchboxes.
- taking home any uneaten food, silver paper, wrappings, containers and cartons.
- using reusable water bottles in school.
- contacting parents via text message and email instead of sending letters.
- Reuse waste materials at school.
We can achieve this by:
- using our recyclable waste for junk modelling and art projects.
- using old, cleaned containers for measurement in maths and for play activities .
- reusing paper in school as ‘scrap paper’.
- hosting a book swap.
- Ensure all waste is recycled correctly at school.
We can achieve this by:
- putting soft plastics in the waste bin.
- ensuring all recyclable material is put in the recycling bin.
- checking that containers are empty and clean before putting them in the recycling bin.
- creating posters to remind everyone how to use our classroom bins correctly.
We will also be planning a ‘Week of Action’ to support all the aims of our Action Plan.
Here are some resources you might find useful to use at home:
- MyWaste.ie
- Environmental Protection Agency Preventing Food Waste at Home
- Eastern-Midlands Waste Region
Our first meeting of the year in September 2019