Here is a letter from our Belgian friends in Overijse with some suggestions for future work together:

 

Dear Irisch friends

 

I think it’s really great that you would like to communicate with us about the things you do for the environment. Our pupils will see that what we do here is not an isolated action, but is a worldwide concern and topic in other schools too.

 

Here is our planning for this schoolyear :

 

We subscribed on the website http://www.goodplanet.be/goodplanetactions/nl/

and we ‘ll participate at the 5 following actions :

 

–          Wednesday Oct 16 : Eet lokaal (eat locally)

–          Tuesday Nov 19 : Zero Afval (zero garbage)

–          Friday Feb 14 : Watt minder (less energy)

–          Friday March 21 : Wereldwaterdag@school (world waterday)

–          Friday April 25 : 1m² Biodiversiteit (1m² Biodiversity)

 

For the first action, we ask the parents to bring us autumn fruit and vegetables from their own garden. The ‘Badeendjes’, our climate action group of pupils, will decorate a little fruitshop during playtime and they will distribute this fruit to anyone who wants it.

We will give the message that our food often travels a lot of kilometers and by eating local food, we reduce the CO2 produced during transport.

Would you consider to organize these 5 same actions at your school so that we can exchange ideas, experiences and results ? We can show pictures and talk about our ‘partnership’ for the environment to our students.

 

Hope to hear from you soon.

Best regards,

 

Joëlle Erkens

Gemeentelijke Basisschool Overijse