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!
Our Green School board informs our pupils of our current work and updates.
Litter-less Campaign 2020-2021
Our litter picking rota for the school is being carried out two days each week. This is all looked after by our
committee. A monitoring survey is the first stage of this campaign where the pupils are not only picking up the
litter, but recording and weighing the litter that is picked up so that we can see if there is a reduction on litter
around our school grounds.
December 2020
The Green School Committee and all of the children have
done amazing work in decorating our Christmas tree this
year. Our decoration theme this year is ‘Recycle and Reuse’.
The children made some wonderful decorations from
re-used/recycled materials. They did an amazing job!!
Well done to everyone.
The Winners of the competition are:
Clara - Ms Moirs
Fionn - Ms. Commins
Nazar - Ms. Roche
Patrick - Ms. Cummins
Peter - Ms. O’Dwyer
Thomas - Ms. Campion
Ms. Tobin’s class
Ms. O’Dwyer’s class
Ms. Skehan’s class
Ms. Barrett’s class
November 2019
2019 has kicked off to a great start! The committee have been
working very hard and their dedication to keeping our school
green is remarkable. Each pupil carried out an online survey of
their own awareness on litter and waste in our school.
The results were positive overall but for the minimal percentage
of pupils who were not aware of certain information – the
committee informed each class using a PowerPoint presentation
along with the tallied results of the survey. As each pupil bring
their waste home, it is important to make sure that parents are
aware of proper waste disposal practices, otherwise the problem
is just being displaced and not reduced!
We now collect batteries for recycling. If you have any at home, please send in to recycle.
Work as a team to keep Scoil Chormaic clean!
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.
Our Green School board informs our pupils of our current work
and updates.
Litter-less Campaign 2020-2021
Our litter picking rota for the school is being carried out two days each week. This is all looked
after by our committee. A monitoring survey is the first stage of this campaign where the pupils
are not only picking up the litter, but recording and weighing the litter that is picked up so that
we can see if there is a reduction on litter around our school grounds.
December 2020
The Green School Committee and all of the children have
done amazing work in decorating our Christmas tree this
year. Our decoration theme this year is ‘Recycle and Reuse’.
The children made some wonderful decorations from
re-used/recycled materials. They did an amazing job!!
Well done to everyone.
The Winners of the competition are:
Clara - Ms Moirs
Fionn - Ms. Commins
Nazar - Ms. Roche
Patrick - Ms. Cummins
Peter - Ms. O’Dwyer
Thomas - Ms. Campion
Ms. Tobin’s class
Ms. O’Dwyer’s class
Ms. Skehan’s class
Ms. Barrett’s class
November 2019
2019 has kicked off to a great start! The committee have been
working very hard and their dedication to keeping our school
green is remarkable. Each pupil carried out an online survey of
their own awareness on litter and waste in our school.
The results were positive overall but for the minimal percentage
of pupils who were not aware of certain information – the
committee informed each class using a PowerPoint presentation
along with the tallied results of the survey. As each pupil bring
their waste home, it is important to make sure that parents are
aware of proper waste disposal practices, otherwise the problem
is just being displaced and not reduced!
We now collect batteries for recycling. If you have any at home, please send in to recycle.
Work as a team to keep Scoil Chormaic clean!
Work as a team to keep Scoil Chormaic clean!