10 days of sustainable travel! The Green-Schools Travel Competition for 2024, also known as The Big Travel Challenge (BTC) is back! How will your school take part? Get involved from March 4th to March 15th by promoting sustainable modes of transport in innovative and creative ways in your school. If you’re up [...]
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 [...]
We are pleased to invite eligible schools (*) around Ireland to take part in the Green-Schools Uisce Éireann Poster & Video Competition 2024. This is the 10th year of this competition for schools and there are some great prizes to be won! The deadline for entries is Friday, 8th March 2024. The theme [...]
Our Green-Schools Calendar is now interactive. Please open the pdf below in your web browser to be able to click on each event listing and learn more. These links will be updated throughout the school year as more information is available, but the calendar will remain the same so feel free to pin it [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to Marine Week 2024! Green-Schools Marine Week 2024 is coming soon from Monday 15th – Friday 19th April! Join us for a week of free online activities and learning celebrating the ocean! Don’t miss out - click below to register your class now, and you can also download our Marine Week poster to put [...]
The Green-Schools Biodiversity Team is delighted to join together with LEAF Ireland to celebrate Tree Week with us from Monday, March 4th to Friday, March 8th. We have an exciting line-up of live talks, activities, and prerecorded videos ready to share with you. Below you will find activities you can get involved in each [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]