6 February 2024

Big Travel Challenge 2024

2024-03-04T11:19:40+00:00By |Global Citizenship Travel, Travel theme|

10 days of sustainable travel! The Green-Schools Travel Competition for 2024, also known as The Big Travel Challenge (BTC) is back! How will your school take part? Get involved from March 4th to March 15th by promoting sustainable modes of transport in innovative and creative ways in your school. If you’re up [...]

5 February 2024

Marine Creative Writing Competition 2024

2024-02-07T16:40:42+00:00By |Uncategorized, Global Citizenship Marine Environment|

This is the fourth year of this inspiring competition, and Green-Schools Marine Officers can’t wait to see what wonderful stories are submitted this year.   For this year’s theme we have taken inspiration from World Ocean Day 2023 Planet Ocean: Tides are changing.  “Earth is the only known planet covered by water yet [...]

31 January 2024

Water Poster & Video Competition 2024

2024-02-07T16:41:40+00:00By |Water theme|

We are pleased to invite eligible schools (*) around Ireland to take part in the Green-Schools Uisce Éireann Poster & Video Competition 2024. This is the 10th year of this competition for schools and there are some great prizes to be won! The deadline for entries is Friday, 8th March 2024.  The theme [...]

4 September 2023

Green-Schools 2023-24 Calendar

2024-02-13T21:49:01+00:00By |Uncategorized|

Our Green-Schools Calendar is now interactive. Please open the pdf below in your web browser to be able to click on each event listing and learn more. These links will be updated throughout the school year as more information is available, but the calendar will remain the same so feel free to pin it [...]

27 February 2024

Walk for Water 2024

2024-02-28T09:30:27+00:00By |Uncategorized, Water theme|

Walk for Water this March! Green-Schools are delighted to host our fun and educational ‘Walk for Water’ events in three locations across Ireland this March: • Glendalough National Park, Wicklow on Tuesday the 19th of March – register here • Cong Woods, Cong, Mayo on Wednesday the 20th of March – register here • [...]

31 January 2024

Clean Air Week Banner Competition WINNERS

2024-01-31T21:44:54+00:00By |Uncategorized, Travel theme, Global Citizenship Travel|

For Clean Air Week in November, we asked you to design a banner to highlight the importance of No Idling for Clean Air for your school communities. We were so impressed by the hundreds of submissions we received! We chose 5 winners that stood out as a strong visual message, and these five designs [...]

24 January 2024

Marine Spatial Planning Poster Competition Winners

2024-01-25T15:23:17+00:00By |Global Citizenship Marine Environment|

 This year's theme: “What I’d like to see for the sea”   We were delighted to honour students from nine schools as the winners of this year’s Green-Schools Marine Spatial Planning Poster Competition: “What I’d like to see for the sea” at an awards ceremony in Cork last week. Twelve students were awarded for [...]

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