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Welcome to Biodiversity Week 2024! We are delighted to be celebrating Irish Wildlife with you! This year we are focussing on all of the different ways we can protect and …

An Taisce’s popular summer courses are back! Green-Schools & the Global Goals Summer Course *No longer accepting applications* The Green-Schools Summer Course, entitled “Green-Schools and the Global Goals” is […]

And the winner is… Ireland’s Travel School of the Year for 2024 is Cappawhite National School, Co. Tipperary! At a ceremony in Haughton House of Dublin Zoo on Thursday, […]

Bike Week is a celebration of active travel, sustainable transport and simply the joys of cycling a bike! In partnership with the National Transport Authority, this year Green-Schools will celebrate …

In 2024, our fellow Environmental Education Unit programme, National Spring Clean, are celebrating their 25th birthday! National Spring Clean is the biggest and longest-running anti-litter campaign in Ireland, established in …

Welcome to Marine Week 2024! Green-Schools Marine Week 2024 is coming soon from Monday 15th – Friday 19th April! Join us for a week of free online activities and learning …

Join us for Global Goals Week as we discuss a different Sustainable Development Goal each day of the week. Schools from Ireland, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Dubai will …

Here is all your January news!

March 4th – March 15th, 2024 10 days of sustainable travel! How will your school take part? Get involved from March 4th to March 15th by promoting sustainable modes of …

The Green-Schools National Marine Creative Writing Competition 2024 is now open for entries! This is the fourth year of this inspiring competition, and Green-Schools Marine Officers can’t wait to see …

The Green-Schools Uisce Éireann Poster & Video Competition 2024 is now closed. The theme of the competition is Water for Peace. This is the theme that the United Nations have …

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 …

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 …

Our festive December Newsletter has loads of updates from our Green-Schools team – have a look. READ THE DECEMBER NEWSLETTER HERE Would you like to receive the news in your …

What a great week we had for our first Green Skills Week… The recordings are now available for the following sessions: How to run a Committee Meeting, assign roles and …

Feel the Change! Introduction by Oisin McGann Students are encouraged to engage imaginatively with climate change and build stories around the various facets while working creatively through a range of …

A gentle reminder that schools currently in their second year of the Litter and Waste Theme should be aware that the application deadline for this year is just around the …

Our November Newsletter is packed full of all kinds of Green-Schools information! READ THE NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER HERE Would you like to receive the news in your inbox every month? Just …

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