Global Citizenship – Litter and Waste is a maintenance theme which enables schools to discover how Green-Schools work has positively influenced people and environments worldwide while revising the previous Litter and Waste theme.
Schools working on Global Citizenship – Litter & Waste decreased their waste to landfill by a further 27% during the 2014/2015 academic year
Case studies
St Joseph’s GNS, Clonakilty
Global Citizenship – Litter & Waste
St Joseph's GNS received the Green Flag for Global Citizenship - Litter & Waste in 2015. The school is located in Clonakilty, Co. Cork and comprises of 221 students and 10 members of staff.
Coláiste Bríde Secondary School, Clondalkin
Global Citizenship – Litter & Waste
Coláiste Bride is based in Clondalkin, Co. Dublin and was awarded the Green Flag for Global Citizenship – Litter and Waste in 2015. The school has 80 teachers and 950 students in attendance.
St. Clare’s Primary School, Harold’s Cross
Global Citizenship – Litter & Waste
St. Clare's Primary School is a mixed primary school based in Harold's Cross in Dublin City.
Working on the Global Citizenship – Litter & Waste theme made us really look at our school population and celebrate all the different nationalities represented within it. We learned about each other’s places of birth, focused on greetings in different languages, learned how birthdays are celebrated in different countries and what people like to eat for breakfast. This created positive feelings of other places and highlighted our similarities.
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