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Reduce Re-use Recycle• We had a poster competion to raise awaress of the 3 R’s. Here
are the competition winners.
Waste Audit Oct 2011• 5th and 6th class conducted a waste
audit to discover what kinds of waste are in our bins. These are the results.
• Tin foil 4%• Tissue 13%• Paper 8%• Yoghurt pots 8%• Food waste 16%• Packaging 14%• Fruit skins 24%• Other ( including coffee grinds and teabags)13%
Day of Action
• The Green School Committee decided that we would have a weekly day of action to reduce waste in the school. We call this day of action ‘Package free lunch box Wednesday’. Children are asked not to bring any food wrappers on that day. If anyone forgets they bring their waste home.
National Spring clean
The teachers and students of Bishop Ahern National School, Leamlara Co. Cork participated in the National Spring Clean on Friday April 26th 2012. All classes engaged in cleaning activities throughout the school building and school grounds. Each child was assigned a different area to clean in their classroom (eg. shelves, cupboards, computers, toys, windows and floors).
National Spring Clean5th and 6th class pupils
cleaned out the Art store room.
3rd and 4th class students cleaned out Pe store room.
National Spring Clean
• The children really enjoyed sweeping the school grounds making good use of An Taisce resource pack.
• We used rubbish pickers and gloves to collect the waste that surrounded the edge of the school.
National Spring Clean• . Pebbles and stone
were removed from the garden and gathered in buckets so that the children could begin to plant flowers and vegetables in our new school garden.
National Spring Clean
• The children found plastic bottles, wrappers and newspaperthat had blown onto the
school grounds.
We really enjoyed our day of action!
Our school garden• Teachers, parents
and some students worked together shovelling soil, gravel, painting tyres and planting trees and flowers to create our school garden.
Litter Wardens• There are two litter
wardens in each room. Their job is to make sure that there is no litter on the ground at the end of the day. They also remind other children of the correct bin to use for their rubbish.
WashbagsWe discovered from a
waste audit that 30% of the waste in our bins was created by handtowels.
All children now have their own wash bag containing a towel and soap to reduce tissue in the bins.
Green School Fashion Show• We formed groups from 3rd to 6th class
to design an outfit re-using waste materials. We spent three weeks designing and making our outfits before we presented them to the school. One person from each group modelled and one person gave a brief explanation about the outfit.
Green School Fashion Show
We made our outfits using cd’s, bubble wrap, plastic bottles, cereal boxes, bottle tops, card board, twine and bin bags.
Monitoring and Evaluating
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240litre wastebins
240 litre wastebins
240 litrerecycling bin
240 litrerecycling bin
We reduced our waste by 50% and our recycling by 33%
Monitoring and EvaluatingJason Hegarty and
Darragh Carey collected our bins bags for one week this November. We produced two 40ltr waste bags and 1 and a half recycling bags. This shows a massive waste reduction
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Wastebags
Recyclebags