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Global Citizenship
Green-Schools
An Taisce EEU
The aim of the Green-Schools Programme
‘To increase students’ and participant awareness of environmental issues through classroom studies and
to transfer this knowledge into positive environmental action in the school and also in the wider community’
Green-Schools
International Environmental Programme Award Scheme
Holistic
Ethos Whole-School Action
Long Term Programme
GREEN-SCHOOLS IN IRELAND
3,741 schools registered Over 93% of all schools
in Ireland
71,583 teachers
854,295 pupils
3,147 schools awarded
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Green-Schools Themes
Green- Schools Themes
1:Litter and Waste
2: Energy
6: Global Citizenship
5: Biodiversity 4: Travel
3: Water
Global Citizenship
• Long Term schools
• Maintenance programme
• Reduced workload
• Draw on existing expertise
• Link to curriculum as much as possible
1. Global Citizenship Litter & Waste
2. Global Citizenship Energy
Why Citizenship?
The theme will enable you to discover how your past work on the Green-Schools programme has positively, influenced people and their local environments worldwide.
Covering subjects such as:
• Waste generation
• Energy conservation
• Ethical consumption and production
• Global Citizenship and Active Citizenship
• Sustainable development
• Interdependence
• Trade and Fair Trade
• Climate Change
• Social justice and inequality
Why Citizenship?
WASTE AND POVERTY
ELECTRONIC WASTE
A woman washes clothing in a polluted river in Guiyu
ENERGY AND POVERTY
Implementing the Programme
2. Environmental Review 3. Action Plan
4. Monitoring and Evaluation
5. Curriculum Work
6. Informing and Involving
7. Green Code
1. Green-Schools Committee
Remember!
Situation will vary from school to school
Green-Schools is a structured but FLEXIBLE programme
Step 1: Committee Structure
• Students (N.B)
• Coordinator
• Teaching Staff
• Non-Teaching Staff
• Principal
• Board of Management
• Parents
• Community Members
Top Tip: Why not hold an
election campaign to select
your committee members
for the citizenship theme!
Step 2: Global Citizenship Litter & Waste Review
Essential Actions : 1. Litter & Waste audit 2. Conduct the global awareness survey 3. Research Nationalities in the school
Action 1: Litter & Waste Review
• The same as original review
• We ask you to identify areas for improvement
– Food waste disposal
– Electronic waste disposal
– Lunch box waste
– Reduce, reuse
– Increase recycling
Step 2: Global Citizenship Energy Review
Essential Actions : 1. Energy audit 2. Conduct the global awareness survey
Action 1: Energy Review
• The same as original review
• We ask you to identify areas for improvement
– Reduce Energy consumption further if possible
– Food and energy – eat low carbon?
– Energy Star label – energy efficiency
– Carbon Calculator – how much carbon does your school emit?
– Investigate Climate Change
– Investigate where your energy comes from
Action 2:Global Awareness Survey
• Hands-up survey – 14 questions with representative sample of school only (4th, 5th and 6th class in primary or 15% of school population in secondary)
• Gauge existing awareness levels of different issues related to Global Citizenship.
• Pick one question/topic where the students showed lack of awareness and focus on improving
• Re-do survey at the end of the school year as part of the monitoring and evaluation step
• Repeated in second year work and inputted into the renewal application form.
Global awareness Survey Sample questions
4. Have you had anything to eat or drink from an African, Asian or South American country this week?
Yes 2 No 22 I Don’t Know 3 6. Do you recycle everything you can? Always 17 Sometimes 9 Never 1
Action 3: Nationality Survey (Only essential for GC Litter&Waste)
• Identifying of different nationalities represented in the school
• Potential for celebration of and connections to various cultures
– Action Days
– Projects
– Integration
Step 3:Action Plan
Reduce waste by a
further 10%
Introducing composting,
5th class in charge
September
2012
installation and
continuous
Create charts on what
countries represented in
the school or locality
6th class during maths October
Increase Fair Trade
products used in the
school by 50 %
All staff and TY
environmental studies
class
December
Mentor a Green School
in another country
Green Schools
Committee
And 4th class pen-pals
Starting
September -
Ongoing
Plant 2 native trees Communion classes/
sixth years
April/May
Action Who When
Global Citizenship Litter & Waste
Optional Actions:
• Investigate where do your recyclables go and what they are recycled into
• Food waste and composting
• How do other countries deal with the whole issue of waste management?
• Fair Trade
• Let each class choose one of the Global Goals
and research it.
Global Citizenship Energy
Optional Actions:
• Research the nationalities present in your school
• Use the Carbon Calculator to find out how much greenhouse gas emissions the school is responsible for
• How do other countries use energy?
• How do other people across the globe heat their houses? What kind of fuel do they use to cook their food with?
• Research the Global Goals that apply to energy.
Action Plan Examples
• Organise a fun(d) raising day for an aid project
Bunscoil Bhride’s mission sale St. Mary’s preparing to run the mini
marathon for Zambia
Activities
Investigations where food, clothes, wood etc. originate
Activities Tree Planting event in Green-Schools Woodland with educational activities about importance of trees in combating climate change
Activities
Children preparing presentations to inform whole school of Global environmental problems and global connections
Step 4: Monitoring and Evaluation
• Repeat surveys
• Regular meetings
• Mini review on procurement – are people satisfied with new products?
• Create graphs and charts to represent the changes you have made
Mind Map Activity
Global Citizenship
• Promotion of waste and litter reduction
• Learning about waste in different countries
• Promotion of awareness on Fair Trade, Poverty, Environmental problems on a global scale
• Promotion of active citizenship; rights and responsibilities
• Surveying nationalities represented in the school
• Project work on aspects related to the above to incorporate in our Green Flag application
Step 5: Curriculum Links
www.greenschoolsireland.org
Trocaire materials - Early years, senior
primary and secondary school resources: – Climate Change
– Fair Trade
– Poverty and Hunger
– Millennium Development Goals
– Water
– People on the move
www.trocaire.org/resources
www.developmenteducation.ie
The Worlds Largest Lesson
• http://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org/
Step 6: Informing and Involving
Notice Board
• Info on Fair Trade
• Eco Labels
• Information/projects on Climate Change
• Contact details of MEP’s
• New Treaties, Directives – how do they affect us
Newspapers/magazines/local newsletters
• Publish result of Global Awareness survey
• Write article on different cultures represented in your school/town/village
Step 6: Informing and Involving
Action Day
• Information Day on how our consumption affects developing world – waste in developing world – electronic waste in developing world
• Information on cultures – food/dance/customs/costumes/ art etc.
• Participate in Europe Day 9th May
• World Water Day 22nd March
• World Environment Day 5th June 2012
• Fund Raising for foreign and/or National Aid project
• Organise a Low Carbon Day
• Participate in Walking for Water event or organise your own
• One Planet Picnic – sustainable food
Step 7: Green Code
• A statement of the schools commitment to environmentally friendly actions, in this case on a global scale.
• Display your Green Code on your notice board
Respect each other.
Work Together.
Make the World a
Better Place.
Global warming is really very true,
Love the world because we love it too!
Over the globe, people are green,
Because they're trying to keep it clean,
All the people of the world,
Like to help, and be heard!
Scoil Eoin is green,because we all keep it clean!
'Stand together today for the world tomorrow.'
SEAI Workshops
• Workshops are free, open to all schools and are allocated on a first come first served basis.
• Booking forms and information can be downloaded from the Green-Schools website.
• Workshops for:
- Junior Primary
- Senior Primary
- 1st, 2nd and Transition Year Secondary classes.
• Also available are CPD Energy workshops for
Primary School Teachers that qualify for
‘Croke Park hours’ and are particularly relevant
for schools applying for their Green Flag for Energy.
Exciting News... new Green-Schools Website !
Important Dates
• One award ceremony during the year
– May
• Renewal applications to be received by:
– 24th March 2017
Flag-Raising Ceremony
• Everyone Involved
• Wider Community
• Celebrate!!
Thank you
Birgit O’Driscoll (Munster based)
085 1530064
QUESTIONS?
Joanne Scott (Leinster based)
01 400 2217
Global Citizenship Green-Schools Officers: