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 School’s programme is approached and developed over two years. 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 second Green School’s Flag on
the theme of ‘Water’ (2021-2023), while also renewing our Litter and Waste flag.
A new committee was set up in September 2022 and they will continue on from the previous
committee with their various duties. We meet on a regular basis to create, discuss and
implement our ideas on both Litter & Waste and Water themes. Our committee is looking
forward to the year ahead, to keep our school an environmentally friendly green school.
Pupil Committee Members: A. Mullins, J.Keane, L. Hawkins, R. Healy, G. Gleeson, T.
Stapleton, C. Larkin, T. Ryan, J. Stokes, P. Dufffy, A. Lynch, E. McAndrews, MT. McCormck,
S. Steinsberg, A. O’Keefe.
Staff Committee Members: Ms. Cummins, Mr. Browne, Ms. Hickey, Ms. S.O’Brien, I.
Lonergan, A. Hackett, C. O’Dwyer, A.Fogarty, J. Joy.
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!
EVENTS DIARY
February 2022
SEAI Water Workshop:
The workshop was directly linked to the curricula and was a great way to inform and involve
pupils in ways to save water, bring about awareness and help our school to achieve the Green
Flag award. The workshop involved inquiry-based learning through experiments, videos, games
and talks.
March 2022
We held our Save Blue, Live Green competition to spread awareness and knowledge on ways to
conserve water. Each entry was a class video of their chosen topic. All the entries were saved
on our Google shared drive which allowed each class to access all videos, therefore creating
the maximum of water conservation ideas to all. The entries were highly innovative, fostered
creativeness and an enjoyment of learning.
1st Place: Ms Mulcahy’s class.
2nd Place: Mr. Bales’ class.
3rd Place: Mr. Shields.
June 2022
Mr. Browne’s class up-cycled (re-used) many materials to create amazing useful items that we
need around the house. For example, flower pots, tool box, candle holders. Well done to all!
September 2022
Our litter picking continues in Scoil Chormaic. A rota has been set up for classes to participate.
The rota is for the 2022-2023 school year.
October 2022
Our Green School board is kept updated on a regular basis.
The committee checked the whole school for any leaks. They informed each class
what to do if they see a leak. It must be reported to maintenance and logged in the
maintenance book.
Scoil Chormaic’s Green School Action Day was
held on the 23rd February.
Each committee member created their stall under
the theme of water or litter and waste.
At the exhibition in the hall, each committee
member showcased their project to raise
awareness and knowledge. We asked each pupil
and staff for a donation to Trócaire which will go to
people who are suffering from drought or in need
of clean water.
Our school is hoping to achieve our water flag this
year.
Check our compilation video we have made of the
day.
Action Day of 2022/2023
We carried out our second Action Day of 2022/2023 in May. It was a great success and between the
two Action Days, we raised €539.55 for Trócaire. This will go to families who do not have access to
clean water. The Green School committee have worked very hard throughout this school year. We
are delighted to receive our second Green School flag for Scoil Chormaic.