Well done to twenty-two schools who recently completed the Litter Less Campaign! Litter Less is a one-year optional campaign for primary schools working on Litter and Waste or Global Citizenship: Litter and Waste. Participating schools carried out extra litter and waste monitoring, took part in Litter Less Home Challenges and the #LitterLessTogether competition. Students carried out litter [...]
All schools are invited to the Green-Schools SEAI Energy Webinar which will take place online, on 16th June from 11.15am-12.30pm. During the event we will speak with SEAI Emerging Sustainable Energy Champion Jessica Kelly, a fifth-year student in Loreto Abbey, Dalkey, Co. Dublin & Climate SOS adventure storybook illustrator Alan Nolan will deliver a [...]
We are delighted to announce the winners of our Design Your Ideal Outdoor Classroom Competition. To celebrate the launch of our resource, Outdoor Learning in the School Setting, we asked schools to design their ideal outdoor space for learning with the winning school awarded the installation of a Choill Bheag on their grounds. The past [...]
Thank-you to all the people who took part in our water conservation photo competition with Irish Water this year. We got many fantastic entries with really great ideas and actions for water conservation. We’d like to say a big well done to the students and families for all their great water conservation work happening [...]
We have had an amazing amount of entries to our poster and video competition this year! We had over 1,400 entries for the poster competition. We have just gone through the judging process and the winners are being contacted now. We will be officially announcing the winners after an online award ceremony in June. [...]
The Environmental Education Unit (EEU) of An Taisce is currently inviting applications for two positions within the Green-Schools Programme: Green-Schools Administration Assistant Global Citizenship Education Officer The EEU is the national operator of a number of highly successful environmental education and management programmes such as Green-Schools, Blue Flag, National Spring Clean, Clean Coasts and Green [...]
To celebrate the launch of our latest resource, Outdoor Learning in the School Setting, we are pleased to bring you a competition to win the installation of a Choill Bheag in your school. The past year has taught us the importance of fresh air and the outdoors in all aspects of our lives and [...]
The Environmental Education Unit (EEU) of An Taisce is currently inviting applications for the position of Travel Officer in the following locations: Role 1: Galway City & County Role 2: Limerick & Clare Role 3: Roscommon/Leitrim/Longford The period of employment will run for eighteen months. The Green-Schools Travel programme operates on a national basis and [...]
We are happy to announce a launch of our new resource for Secondary Schools: the Ethics of Climate Change Toolkit. This toolkit aims to discuss moral problems related to climate change using critical, collaborative and creative thinking. (Click image on right to access the new resource) The resource links to our Travel theme and [...]
Click here to visit the SRTS Information Page Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan TD, Minister for Education Norma Foley TD and Minister of State Hildegarde Naughton TD and have today launched a new initiative called Safe Routes to School which will support active travel infrastructure for selected schools around the country. [...]
