CONGRATULATIONS TO CASTLEBRIDGE NATIONAL SCHOOL
FROM CASTLEBRIDGE HORTICULTURAL & AGRICULTURAL SHOW
FROM CASTLEBRIDGE HORTICULTURAL & AGRICULTURAL SHOW
Green -Schools
Green -Schools, known internationally as Eco-Schools, is an international environment education programme, environmental management system and award scheme that promotes and acknowledges long-term,whole sale action for the School environment and wider community environment. It operated by supported by the Department fo Environment, Community a takes tow years to achieve each flagnd Local Government, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and is sponsored by Repak and the Wrigley Company Ltd.
Here in St Ibars National School, we have been involved in Green-Schools for over six years and have just been awarded our third green flag. Green-Schools is a themed and seven-step programme which the schools work on to obtain each flag and each successive flag is awarded through building on previous work caried out and by starting niw initiatives in line with the particular theme beingworked on at the time. It usually takes two years to achieve each flag. A committee is set up which may have among its members students, school staff, Parents Council representatives, Borad of Management representatives, parents and interested parties from the school community. The focus however is on student participation. The committee then works on the tasks involved. The themes we have been awarded flags for are:"Litter and Waste" and the latest one "Water". We are very proud to be part of this environmental and educational programme.
Green -Schools, known internationally as Eco-Schools, is an international environment education programme, environmental management system and award scheme that promotes and acknowledges long-term,whole sale action for the School environment and wider community environment. It operated by supported by the Department fo Environment, Community a takes tow years to achieve each flagnd Local Government, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and is sponsored by Repak and the Wrigley Company Ltd.
Here in St Ibars National School, we have been involved in Green-Schools for over six years and have just been awarded our third green flag. Green-Schools is a themed and seven-step programme which the schools work on to obtain each flag and each successive flag is awarded through building on previous work caried out and by starting niw initiatives in line with the particular theme beingworked on at the time. It usually takes two years to achieve each flag. A committee is set up which may have among its members students, school staff, Parents Council representatives, Borad of Management representatives, parents and interested parties from the school community. The focus however is on student participation. The committee then works on the tasks involved. The themes we have been awarded flags for are:"Litter and Waste" and the latest one "Water". We are very proud to be part of this environmental and educational programme.
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