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 [...]
The Safe Routes to School programme (SRTS) is helping students to cycle to school by providing bike parking spaces and shelters to 283 schools nationwide in 2022. Of the schools who will receive the new infrastructure, 46 schools are Round 1 on the SRTS programme. To celebrate, SRTS visited a diverse range of schools [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Monday, April 4, 2022: The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Gillian Coughlan was the guest of honour today at a ceremony for 100 students from six Cork schools participating in the Global Children’s ‘Our Future Our Planet’ Designathon. Organised by the Green-Schools Programme, the six schools are the first schools in Ireland taking [...]
The deadline for schools to apply for the renewal of their Green Flag Award is Friday, April 1st, 2022. Following the award of your school’s first Green Flag, each subsequent application is a “Renewal”, so-called as you are “renewing” your Green Flag award under a new theme. Schools must submit renewal applications every two [...]
We at Green-Schools Ireland are very exciting to be able to take part in the annual Global Children’s Designathon (GCD) for the first time with six of our primary schools in Cork County. The annual Global Children’s Designathon (GCD) is dedicated to celebrating what the world could be like when children are put in charge [...]
The Green-Schools office will close from December 22nd, 2021 to January 3rd, 2022 inclusive. At the end of what has been another difficult year, we want to take this opportunity to extend our gratitude and best wishes to the teachers, students, principals, parents, SNAs, caretakers, administrative staff and the wider community of every Green-School [...]
