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Green SchoolLitter and Waste theme

Bishop Ahern National School

Reduce Re-use Recycle• We had a poster competion to raise awaress of the 3 R’s. Here

are the competition winners.

Waste Audit Oct 2011• 5th and 6th class conducted a waste

audit to discover what kinds of waste are in our bins. These are the results.

• Tin foil 4%• Tissue 13%• Paper 8%• Yoghurt pots 8%• Food waste 16%• Packaging 14%• Fruit skins 24%• Other ( including coffee grinds and teabags)13%

Waste Audit continued

Day of Action

• The Green School Committee decided that we would have a weekly day of action to reduce waste in the school. We call this day of action ‘Package free lunch box Wednesday’. Children are asked not to bring any food wrappers on that day. If anyone forgets they bring their waste home.

Green School Slogan Competition

• Taylor O’Briens slogan won.

National Spring clean

The teachers and students of Bishop Ahern National School, Leamlara Co. Cork participated in the National Spring Clean on Friday April 26th 2012. All classes engaged in cleaning activities throughout the school building and school grounds. Each child was assigned a different area to clean in their classroom (eg. shelves, cupboards, computers, toys, windows and floors).

National Spring Clean

• Before

• After

National Spring Clean• Waste paper found

in every classroom was shredded for use as horse bedding.

National Spring Clean5th and 6th class pupils

cleaned out the Art store room.

3rd and 4th class students cleaned out Pe store room.

National Spring Clean

• The children really enjoyed sweeping the school grounds making good use of An Taisce resource pack.

• We used rubbish pickers and gloves to collect the waste that surrounded the edge of the school.

National Spring Clean• . Pebbles and stone

were removed from the garden and gathered in buckets so that the children could begin to plant flowers and vegetables in our new school garden.

National Spring Clean

National Spring Clean

• The children found plastic bottles, wrappers and newspaperthat had blown onto the

school grounds.

We really enjoyed our day of action!

Our school garden• Teachers, parents

and some students worked together shovelling soil, gravel, painting tyres and planting trees and flowers to create our school garden.

Our school gardenSoil was donated by parents and gravel was donated by the Healy Brothers quarry.

ECI Carrigtwohill donated tractor tyres that we painted green used as flower beds.

Making Paper Logs

We shredded newspaper brought from home.

We put our shredded paper in buckets and added water

We put pulped paper into paper press to make paper logs and left to dry.

Class room compost boxes are emptied into compost bin daily.

Litter Wardens• There are two litter

wardens in each room. Their job is to make sure that there is no litter on the ground at the end of the day. They also remind other children of the correct bin to use for their rubbish.

WashbagsWe discovered from a

waste audit that 30% of the waste in our bins was created by handtowels.

All children now have their own wash bag containing a towel and soap to reduce tissue in the bins.

Green School Fashion Show• We formed groups from 3rd to 6th class

to design an outfit re-using waste materials. We spent three weeks designing and making our outfits before we presented them to the school. One person from each group modelled and one person gave a brief explanation about the outfit.

Green School Fashion Show

We made our outfits using cd’s, bubble wrap, plastic bottles, cereal boxes, bottle tops, card board, twine and bin bags.

Designing and Making

Design teams with their models.

Design teams with their models.

Monitoring and Evaluating

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240litre wastebins

240 litre wastebins

240 litrerecycling bin

240 litrerecycling bin

We reduced our waste by 50% and our recycling by 33%

Monitoring and EvaluatingJason Hegarty and

Darragh Carey collected our bins bags for one week this November. We produced two 40ltr waste bags and 1 and a half recycling bags. This shows a massive waste reduction

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Wastebags

Recyclebags

Litter and Waste Green Flag• We really enjoyed working towards

achieving the Green flag for litter and waste. We learned so much about respecting our local environment and the global environment.