Tag Archives: Global Citizenship

Green Schools – A Message from the Committee

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Following on from the Green School’s Committee meeting on Tuesday:

  1. The committee would like to find out how many different nationalities are in our school and represent this information on a bar chart to be displayed on our notice board. A green school’s rep will go around the classes today with a sheet for all the class teachers to fill in.
  2. There is an A3 poster competition for all green schools. Children depict what they would like Ireland to look like in the year 2040. This could be a good activity to do on Friday afternoon. Having a discussion about what a more ‘green’ Ireland might look like would be helpful before they start the poster. Closing date is 27th March. Prizes include a tablet and €500 euro for the winning school. Send finished posters to Room 8 to be posted
  3. If everyone could have a bin and lunch monitor in their class to make sure the correct waste is being put into the correct bin. Please count how many children are bringing containers in their lunches instead of tin foil/ cling film. This doesn’t mean singling out children who have tin foil but instead praising those who have containers.

That’s all for now. Thank you all in advance

Green Schools – Announcing a Green Schools Art Competition in St. Brigid’s Greystones

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The Green Schools Committee is announcing an art competition for the whole school.

Students are asked to draw a picture of what they think the world will look like in 2040!

So get working on your entries.

We look forward to seeing how you imagine the world of the future will be!

UPDATE: You can read more details  HERE

 

Green Schools: What is Global Citizenship and what is its connection with Litter and Waste?

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So what is Global Citizenship and

what is its connection  with Litter and Waste?

In answer to the first part of the question

the Green-Schools Ireland website explains:

‘This maintenance theme enables schools to discover

how Green-Schools work has positively influenced people

and environments worldwide

while revising the Litter and Waste theme.’ 

Did you know? – In Ireland over one million tonnes of food is wasted every year.

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How much food do we waste?

 

In Ireland there is over one million tonnes of food waste disposed of each year.

Around 1/3 of this comes from households and means that, at home,

80kg of food waste is thrown out per person every year.

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Yet 795 million people or one in nine people in the world do not have enough to eat.

98% of the people who do not have enough food live in developing countries.

While some of this food waste cannot be avoided a lot of it could be saved if we managed our food better.

Go to this website StopFoodWaste.ie to learn more.

An online interactive activity about your global footprint from National Geographic (for senior classes)

Click HERE for an interactive activity about your global footprint from National Geographic.

What do you eat each day? Where does it travel from? Where do you travel to each day? How much water do you use each day? How much energy do you use?

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