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LAUNCH OF GREEN WEBSITE


Minister Síle de Valera launched our Green Website at Barefield School on June 1st 2001.

PLAN OF ACTION 2001

Teachers:Mary O'Connell, Aisling O'Sullivan, Paddy Conroy
Pupils:Sinéad Burns, Clodagh Cullinan, Róisín Cunningham, Tom Mullen, Martina Deloughery, Maria Smith, Aoife Whelan, Aileen O'Shea.
Parents:Bobby Cunningham, Stephen Hornibrook, John Barron.


Spring Clean - Cleaning up the School Sports Field.

AIMS

  1. To continue to increase the awareness of pupils and parents regarding the need to reduce the amount of waste and litter in the school environment and in the local area generally.
  2. To enthusiastically participate in the Operation Co-Operation Can Recycling Competition and in so doing to help collect over one million cans in Clare.
  3. To extend last years school collection of newspapers by encouraging parents to deliver and record newspapers which are being recycled.
  4. To develop our immediate school environment as an aesthetically pleasing site through the organisation and placement of appropriate plant and floral areas, environmental murals etc. while using waste recycling principles.
  5. To cultivate a whole community ethos regarding waste and litter management through public relations activities, through participation in Clare County Council and An Taisce events. eg. Waste Materials Competition (Clare Co. Council), Spring Clean (An Taisce & Clare County Council).
  6. To extend awareness of the Green Schools phase 11 theme-Energy.
  7. To make the children proficient in the use of ICT technology as a useful aid in developing awareness of Environmental issues and as a source of practical suggestions.
  8. To apply to An Taisce for a Green School Flag during 2001.

WORKING CODE

  • Bin of Rubbish
  • Bank the Cans
  • Compost the Fruit
  • All Classes have learned and internalised this code.

examples -


Spring Clean - Keeping the pathways tidy at Ballyalla Lake.

Educational Principles of Barefield's N.S. Green School Project

  1. Our committee sees this project as an ideal way to encourage whole-school action to improve our school environment while offering the pupils an insight into approaches towards a more sustainable lifestyle for all of humanity as we approach the millennium. The environmental issues covered in the curriculum will through the day to day running of the scheme be given a real dimension. This will hopefully help the pupils recognise the importance of environmental issues.
  2. The Green Schools Programme will develop a range of curriculum work with special emphasis in the areas of English, Maths, Technology, Art and Crafts. Examples of such curriculum work include exploring websites;
  3. Other examples include participation in environmental competitions such as
    • Sherkin Island Marine Station Environmental Competition (closing date July 2001
    • Clare County Council's Waste Materials Craft Competition
    • Clare Education Centre - Write a Book Competition
    • Modification of Agri-Awares S.E.S. Springtime on the farm lesson plans to include sustainability issues etc.
  4. The publication of a Green School Magazine using Microsoft Word and Storyweaver, the creation of databases to record information gathered and Excel to design graphs etc. Environmental skills such as the identification and recording of species of plants in our environment will feature while the social skills developed through liasing with parents, Board of Management, environmentalists, local politicians, local press and other schools etc will be of great benefit. Art and Craft activities will be incorporated into most aspects of the Green Schools Project.