Global Citizenship Litter & Waste and Global Citizenship Energy School of the Year Awards For a third year extra dimension was added to the Global Citizenship Litter and Waste and Global Citizenship Energy themes of the Green-Schools programme. Thanks to our sponsors Irish Aid we celebrated with 16 Green-Schools working on these themes at a [...]
We are very excited to celebrate with schools across Ireland today, May 25th, at our online Green Flag Award Ceremony. This year 642 schools are being awarded the Green Flag across our ten themes. You can check out the amazing savings made below. Please join us online throughout today as we ask schools to [...]
A Galway secondary school is Ireland’s new Travel School of the Year for 2022. At a ceremony in Dublin Zoo during National Bike Week ‘22, Gort Community School were named Ireland’s Travel School of the Year by the Green-Schools Programme, following their participation in the programme’s Big Travel Challenge in February. Nine schools were awarded [...]
Green-Schools' inaugural Global Goals Week took place from May 9th to 13th through our ever-growing Global Classroom programme and was a huge success. Students from Ireland, Kenya, South Africa and Dubai interacted throughout the week and learnt about the SDG's from each other and what actions need to be taken by us all to [...]
The achievements of Ireland’s young water champions were celebrated this week at the annual Green-Schools Water Awards. Balbriggan Community College in Fingal (pictured above) was named the Secondary Water School of the Year, while St Brigid’s National School in Meath Hill, Navan, Co. Meath were the winners in the Primary category. Over the past school [...]
Students from 15 schools were honoured at an award ceremony on Wednesday, May 15, celebrating the winners of this year’s Green-Schools Marine Spatial Planning Competition: Our Ocean, Our Plan. Nine students were awarded for their posters depicting their vision for the future of Ireland’s seas and eight school groups won for their 3D models showing [...]
At a ceremony in Dublin 42 secondary school students were honoured as new #AndSheCycles Ambassadors by the Green-Schools Programme. The #AndSheCycles Ambassador Programme focuses on addressing the teenage cycling gender gap through supporting student leaders to take action to enable and empower their peers and friends to cycle to school. The 2021/2022 group of Ambassadors [...]
Comórtas Greannáin: Turas le mo Mheaisín Saoirse This year for Bike Week we want to hear all about your cycle to school through the medium of the comic strip! Bike Week 2022 takes place from Saturday May 14th to Sunday, May 22nd. National COW Day (Cycle on Wednesday) takes place on Wednesday, May [...]
Well done and thank you to the hundreds of schools and classrooms who joined us throughout #MarineWeek22! We hope everyone enjoyed the informative talks, activities and resources we shared each day. If you missed out on any activities you can catch up with the daily posts below and celebrate your own marine-themed week or [...]
The Environmental Education Unit (EEU) of An Taisce is currently inviting applications for three positions within the unit: 1 x Safe Routes to School Officer (Infrastructure), Safe Routes to School Programme (Kilkenny/Wexford/Waterford) - Deadline April 22nd, 2022 1 x Regional Climate Action Officer (Deadline: April 29th, 2022) 1 x Climate Communications Officer (Deadline: April [...]
