Green School Information
Working Together For a Sustainable Future
What is ‘The Green Schools’?
Green-Schools is Ireland’s leading environmental management and education programme for schools.
The Green-Schools is a student-led programme within a school with involvement from the wider community.
The programme is operated and co-ordinated by the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce (FEE member for
Ireland) and is delivered in our school with the co-operation of Tipperary County Council and Partnerships.
Every theme in the ‘Green Schools’ programme is approached and developed over 1-2 years within the school.
Themes are linked to many subject areas of the school curriculum.
What are The Green Schools themes?
The themes are divided into the following:
1.
Litter and Waste
2.
Water
3.
Energy
4.
Travel
5.
Bio-Diversity
6.
Global Citizenship
What are the steps to being awarded a Green Schools Flag?
The 6 steps are:
1.
Forming a Committee of Students.
2.
An Environmental Review within the school.
3.
Devise an Action Plan to further develop awareness of this theme.
4.
Follow the Action Plan, community based.
5.
Monitoring Progress within the community.
6.
Evaluating all information.
Green Schools Flag
We are currently in our second year of working towards our first Green School Flag on the theme of ‘Litter and
Waste’, (2019-2021).
Our committee was set up in October 2019 and they will complete their duties when the Green Flag is achieved.
A new committee will then be set up for the next theme. We meet on a regular basis to discuss and implement
our ideas to reduce litter and waste in our school.
Our committee is looking forward to the year ahead to keep our school an environmentally friendly green
school.
Pupil Committee Members:
Dawn Cuddihy – Ms. Martin Jack Cavanagh – Ms. C. O’Brien
Damien Mulhall – Mr. Browne Jack Stokes – Ms. Cullinane
Kelan Hyland – Mr Anderson Rhys Minchin – Ms. Barrett
Brendan McAndrew – Ms. O’Doherty Johnathan Sweeney – Ms. O’Doherty
Paddy Delaney – Mr. Ryan Cian Cooney – Ms. Skehan
Patrice Duffy – Mr. Doran Cormac Kennedy – Mr. O’Heney
Brandon O’Donnell – Ms. Roche Peter Hislop – Ms. O’Dwyer
Rimma O’Meara – Ms. O’Dwyer
Staff Committee Members:
Ms. Cummins, Mr. Browne, Ms. Hickey, Mr. O’Heney, I. Lonergan, Caretaker Eddie, Mr. Ryan.
Our Green School’s Code
The Green Code competition was held in January 2020. The entries were to a very high standard showing
creativity and meaning. The committee had a hard job to choose the winner. After a lot of deliberation the
winner was chosen.
Thank you to Ms. O’Dwyer’s class who created our new 2019/2020 Green School Code.
Work as a team to keep Scoil Chormaic clean!
Work as a team to keep Scoil Chormaic clean!
2021-2023
Our new Green School theme is
WATER
We will encourage, educate and practice reducing our water usage. While we work
on our water theme, we will also be continuing on our works of reducing, re-using
and recycling our litter and waste.
Green School Board
Our Green School board keeps our school community updated throughout the year.
Our Water Green School Code winner is
James Daly in Ms. O’Doherty’s class.
All pupils were invited to enter and the
committee voted on the winner.
This will be our code for the next two years.
Well done James!
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