The Green-Schools Irish Water Poster & Video Competition 2023 has now CLOSED. Thank you to all who entered. Winning schools will be contacted by phone or email by Monday 8th May. Unsuccessful entrants will not be contacted, unfortunately we cannot return any artwork submitted. The theme for this year’s competition is “Local Water Actions for [...]
The Green Schools Communications team visited the BT Young Scientist and Tech Exhibition at the RDS last week on the hunt for climate and sustainability related projects. We did not have to look very far as there were so many great projects across all categories, from biology to tech. Green Habits- an [...]
We are delighted to share that Uisce Éireann has confirmed its continued sponsorship of our water theme for the tenth year running. With over 370,000 students across Ireland having completed the programme, and 1,310 Green Flags achieved, the water theme is a strong force for water conservation and education. Read more about the partnership on [...]
Green-Schools Water team, Ruth and Caoimhe, were delighted to attend the Irish Sponsorship Awards last Thursday 22nd September, at Clontarf Castle Hotel, alongside representatives from Irish Water. Irish Water was shortlisted for a sponsorship award under the “Best Grass Roots Sponsorship” category, for their support of the Green-Schools Water theme. Green-Schools have partnered with Irish [...]
**Deadline extended for entries until Friday, June 24th** Green-Schools are excited to announce our 2022 “Water Conservation” photo competition in partnership with Irish Water. Water is our most valuable resource but, during the drier summer months, water levels can often become low and even when it rains again it can take a long time [...]
The Green-Schools Programme would like to wish Loreto Secondary School, Kilkenny students Medha Trehan and Ruby Woods safe travels as they leave for the Youth Environmental Education Congress (YEEC), which is a side event of The 11th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC), taking place in Prague from March 13-17. Ruby and Medha (pictured above and [...]
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 11TH, 2022 We are pleased to invite eligible schools* around Ireland to take part in the Green-Schools Irish Water Poster & Video Competition 2022. This is the eighth year of this competition for schools and there are some great prizes to be won. This year’s theme is Groundwater: Our Hidden [...]
Green-Schools had its Poster and Video Competition Awards online today, with a virtual ceremony shown on screens in winning schools and homes all around the country. Participants were also treated this year with a presentation from the award-winning Cartoon Saloon. The popular competition focuses every year on a theme around water sustainability and is [...]
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. [...]
As the summer months approach we are hoping to get families thinking more about water conservation so we have an exciting water conservation photo competition for families for a week in May. The idea is that students take water conservation activities at home and the parents of the students take a photo of it and [...]
