St. Aloysius

College

GREEN SCHOOLS/NEAT

STREETS PROGRAMME

2010/2012

Members of the Green school

and neat streets committee

1st years:

Aaron Coleman

Erik Zaplata

Filip Grajkowski

2nd years:

Aaron Deering

Filip Hajdamach

Colm Johnson

Lorcan Glynn

TY:

Oisin Coughlan

5th years:

Adam McManus

6th years:

Declan Farrell

James McManus

Overall planSchool undertakings We conducted an

environmental review

This Survey conducted by the green schools committee members revealed : 4 litter black-spots;

canteen, central area, school yard & old house area .

Achievements

since discovering these

black spots we as a

committee decided to

create a litter busters

timetable in which the

members from each year

will clean up these black

spots after lunch each

day (e.g. first years

Monday) this action was

a great success.

Litter and waste Overview-Morning review= 90 pieces of litter

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

central area

Canteen

School grounds

Old House area

Total

Series1

Litter and waste Overview-lunch-time review= 140 pieces of litter

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

central areaCanteen

School

grounds Old House

areaTotal

Series1

ContinuationUndertakings

we had an educational evening in the central area informing the school body of our plan and our expectations of them.

We also invited an educational ‘bin it’ workshop to our school to further inform the school of their responsibilities towards litter and chewing gum

Achievements

This was a worthwhile activity as we informed the student body of our efforts and the majority took our expectations to heart.

This activity also received a positive response as the presenters were both very humorous and informative.

Difficulties As a committee we

encountered many difficulties over the course of the programme.

We had some difficulty reaching out to some of our more rebellious students but even they listened to us after a educational talk from teachers and green school committee.

Another difficulty was the verbal abuse some members got from the school body as they collected litter from around the school. This is still a problem but our members still bravely patrol the school on their dedicated day.

The last difficulty was finding dedicated individuals to give up their time and stick to the programme.

Positives from this experience

School is a cleaner and environmentally friendly place

Recycling at 28% of waste currently

Green school/Neat streets members learned new skills; communication, chairing meetings, confidence

Website development and school profile on neat Streets website

Created a good working relationship with Council, Barna Waste and An Taisce

Photos of our experience at

Barna Waste facility

Some of the Participants in the

Bin-it workshop

Challenges for the Future

Keep school clean

Recruiting new members for committee

Fostering relationships with local community

Progressing to next flag

Integrating green agenda into school curriculum

Increasing our recycling efforts and reducing waste and delivering savings for the school budget

Our Green school/Neat Streets

motto

After great discussion and animation the

committee came up with a motto to

encourage the school community to create a

more green environment.

We have five of these signs up in the litter

black-spot areas around the school with the

school crest

The grant received from An Taisce enabled

the committee to purchase these signs

End of presentation

Thank-you for your attention

St. Aloysius Neat

Streets/Green School

Committee