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March 2024
Enjoy reading all of the news from February here!
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February 2024
Head on over to https://greenschoolsireland.org/global-goals-week-2024/ for more information!
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February 2024
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 [...]
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November 2023
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 [...]
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October 2023
Huge congratulations to all the winners of our Global Goals Book Club SDG Slogan Competition! We received so many great entries, which made it very hard to choose. The winners will receive a complete set of our Global Goals Book Club books - a fabulous prize! And the winners are... 1st – 6th [...]
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October 2023
We at Green-Schools celebrated Ireland’s second Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Week this year from 23 September - 1 October. This was part of the wider European Sustainable Development Week (ESDW), which runs from 18 September - 8 October 2023. As a National SDG Champion for Ireland, Green-Schools embraced the opportunity to showcase our projects [...]
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September 2023
It's SDG Week and our Green-Schools Travel Officers would like to draw your attention to how your work with the Travel theme aligns with the SDGs. Did you know that by supporting sustainable and active travel, you will be addressing each of the 17 SDGs? Read on and see how. [...]
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August 2023
DEADLINE EXTENDED - DON'T MISS OUT! Our Global Goals Book Club are running a competition to mark SDG week! The challenge: We would like primary schools to create a powerful slogan that links the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the inspiring work they are doing as part of the Green-Schools programme. This is open [...]
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August 2023
To celebrate International Day of Indigenous People, we are excited to showcase a book that amplifies Indigenous voices- 'We are Water Protectors' by Carole Lindstrom, with stunning illustrations by Michaela Goade. This book is accompanied by interesting videos and a fun activity, encouraging students to explore climate action through the distinctive lens of Indigenous [...]
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July 2023
The Green-Schools Summer Course, entitled “Green-Schools and the Global Goals” is happy to announce that we are running the course in person (face-to-face) this year from July 3rd-7th, 2023. The course will run from 9.30am to 2.30pm daily. Each day focuses on a Green-Schools theme and an overarching Global Goal. By the end of the week the [...]