In 2024, our fellow Environmental Education Unit programme, National Spring Clean, are celebrating their 25th birthday! National Spring Clean is the biggest and longest-running anti-litter campaign in Ireland, established in 1999. Did you know that over the past 25 years, volunteers who joined the campaign removed an estimated 47,500 tonnes of litter collected? That’s approximately [...]
Walk for Water this March! Green-Schools are delighted to host our fun and educational ‘Walk for Water’ events in three locations across Ireland this March: • Glendalough National Park, Wicklow on Tuesday the 19th of March – register here • Cong Woods, Cong, Mayo on Wednesday the 20th of March – register here • [...]
Welcome to Global Goals Week! Join us for Global Goals Week as we discuss a different Sustainable Development Goal each day of the week. Schools from Ireland, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Dubai will meet online to hear different perspectives on the goals as students offer their own insight and [...]
This is the fourth year of this inspiring competition, and Green-Schools Marine Officers can’t wait to see what wonderful stories are submitted this year. For this year’s theme we have taken inspiration from World Ocean Day 2023 Planet Ocean: Tides are changing. “Earth is the only known planet covered by water yet [...]
For Clean Air Week in November, we asked you to design a banner to highlight the importance of No Idling for Clean Air for your school communities. We were so impressed by the hundreds of submissions we received! We chose 5 winners that stood out as a strong visual message, and these five designs [...]
Our festive December Newsletter has loads of updates from our Green-Schools team - have a look. READ THE DECEMBER NEWSLETTER HERE Would you like to receive the news in your inbox every month? Just sign up here. Or here: Read our news here
Follow along with the Green-Schools Global Goals advent calendar this season! From the 27th of November to the 19th of December, a resource that focuses on a different Global Goal will be released each day! Learn about the Global Goal, then have students make a pledge on how they will support that goal and add [...]
What a great week we had for our first Green Skills Week... The recordings are now available for the following sessions: How to run a Committee Meeting, assign roles and take minutes i.e. effective meeting skills How to start a communications campaign in your school, How to run a school campaign for a wider [...]
