Action Plan
Aim 1:
• To ensure that the whole school is aware of the Green Schools Programme within the school.
• To encourage full participation in the programme by Christmas 2007.
September 2007- May 2008
Action |
Person / Group responsible |
Time frame |
To set up a Green Schools Committee by electing representatives for Green Schools Litter and Waste Committee. |
Green School 's coordinators/staff/students |
October 2007 |
To design posters and decorate the school to make the students and staff of the school aware of our new recycling system that will be implemented into the school. |
Art Teacher agus art classes. |
November 2007 |
To talk to all students and staff about the importance of the environment and its preservation through reducing, re-using and re-cycling litter & waste. |
Green Schools Co-ordinators. |
November 2007 |
To introduce a cleaning rota for the canteen so that all classes in the school participate with the clean up and to discourage students to leave litter behind |
Class Tutors
All students |
September 2007 |
Aim 2:
• To separate our waste into recycling and non-recyclable waste.
• To ensure the students understand the importance of recycling and not littering.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
1. Find out exactly what can and cannot be recycled. |
Ciarán, Kaila.
|
21/11/07 |
2. Introduce a new cardboard recycling bin into each room in the school. |
Cleaning staff
Principal
|
23/11/07 |
3. Make posters to put on the walls over the bins to show what goes into the recycling bin and into the wet bin. |
Green Schools Committee/Co-Ordinators. |
30/11/07 |
4. Educate the students and staff on the correct use of the bins. |
Co-Ordinators, Class Tutors. |
By 30/11/07 |
Re-use recyclable materials; drinking cans to make cars. |
Art teacher and art classes |
January 2008 |
5. Educate the students on the importance of a green environment and about the preserving of it through reducing, re-using and recycling litter and waste. |
Geography and CSPE teachers. |
January 2008 |
6. Make charts for the ‘Tidiest Classroom'. |
Laura, Helen.
C. Ní Dhrisceoll |
February 2008 |
7. Start ‘Tidiest Classroom' competition and promote it throughout the school. |
All the Committee
|
February 2008
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8. Make out a chart of the weekly recordings of the ‘Tidiest Classrooms'. |
Conor, Máire. |
March 2007 |
9. Decide on prize for ‘Tidiest Classroom' to be awarded before end of school term. |
Principal, staff, Green-School Co-ordinators. |
April 2007.
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10. To monitor the progress of the waste segregation. |
All of the Committee |
Ongoing. |
11. Attend the official opening of the Riverside walk. |
C. Ní Dhrisceoill and some committee members |
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Make a video highlighting the problem of litter |
F. Ní Choigligh & first year students. |
October 2007 |
12. Write an article on the Green Schools for the year book at end of school year. |
Kaila.
Co-ordinators. |
May 2008. |
September 2008 onwards
Aim 3:
• To ensure the whole school is fully aware of the Green Schools Litter and Waste Programme, especially the new incoming first year students and new teachers.
• To try to encourage full participation of the programme by the end of October 2008 and to attract new members to take part.
• To remind the school of the importance of this programme once again with the beginning of a new school year.
Action
|
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
1. New representatives elected to the committee |
Green School 's Co-ordinator/pupils/staff |
16/09/08 |
2. New Poster Campaign |
Art Teacher and First and Second Year Art students. |
September 2008 |
3. Cardboard rescued from recycling and re-used for cardboard printing. |
F. Ní Ghoigligh (Art Teacher) and second year art students. |
September 2008 |
4. Creation of a Green Schools Notice board in the new canteen |
Green Schools Co-Ordinators, Principal, Eamonn. |
September 2008 |
5. Creation of Green Schools' slogans in Irish.
|
A. Ní Gháibhín, Ruaidhrí, Charlie, Megan. |
September 2008 |
6. Make and laminate posters of the three Green Schools Slogans that were chosen and hang them up in classrooms and school corridors. |
A. Ní Gháibhín
Helen, Laura.
|
September 2008 |
7. Make, laminate and hang up new posters for over both the wet and recycling bins in the classrooms. |
A. de Búrca, Michael, Ethan…. |
September 2008 |
8. Creation of Green School Pins made from re-used ribbon for members of the Committee |
F. Ní Chloigligh |
October 2008 |
9. Continuation of the tidy classrooms competition updated and displayed weekly.
Continuation of the cleaning rota for the school canteen. |
Whole School
Cleaning Staff
Class Tutors |
Ongoing |
10. Decide on a location for a Green Schools notice board. |
All the committee |
September 2008 |
11. Place the new notice board in the canteen as this is the gathering point of all students. Also to have displays on the notice board on ground floor next to the exit to the yard. |
An t-Uasal Ó Cruadhlaoich
A. Ní Gháibhín |
September 2008 |
To design the notice board and update it regularly |
All the committee
Art classes |
Ongoing |
To take part in National Spring Clean Week |
Committee
|
April 2009 |
Aim 4: To Implement a ‘Double-Sided Photo-Copying' Policy
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Staff trained on how to use the photocopier correctly and how to do double-sided photo-copying and printing. |
All of Staff
Dylan Grace |
September 2007 & September 2008 (New Staff) |
Print up guidelines for the correct usage of double-sided printing and photo-copying.
To display it over the photocopier. |
Dylan Grace |
October 2008 |
Re-training of new photocopier and printer that arrived in February and new guidelines to printed and displayed. Old photocopier still in use. |
All Staff
Green-School Co-ordinators |
February 2009 |
Aim 5: Organise a trip to Mr. Bin Man recycling plant to further the students' knowledge on the recycling progress and how the plant operates.
Action |
Person/Group responsible |
Time Frame |
Decide on an appropriate time and date for the trip. |
A. Ní Gháibhín, Principal, Green Schools Committee |
October 2008 |
Contact Mr. Bin Man to organise the tour and organise the bus |
A. Ní Gháibhín |
October 2008 |
Make list of students on the committee that will be attending the tour and fax it onto the Mr. Bin Man office. |
A. Ní Gháibhín, Ciarán. |
October 2008 |
Take the students to the Recycling Plant. |
A. Ní Gháibhín, Hazel, John Delaney (Parent) and students on Green Schools Committee. |
23 rd October 2008 |
Aim 6: To Have a ‘Green Day'.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Decided to have a Green Day to raise money for the Green Schools Programme that we could use to purchase new bins for the school. |
All of the committee |
3 rd October 2008 |
All students and staff required to wear green and to contribute €2 each towards the Green Schools Fund. |
Whole school |
3rd October 2008 |
Make posters to advertise ‘Green Day'. Announcement made to the school. |
Emma, Alison, Clare.
A. Ní Gháibhín. |
3 rd September |
Aim 7: To further separate our waste and recyclable materials by purchasing new bins for the school yard, canteen and reception area. Colour code the bins to make it clearer to students what exactly goes into each bin.
Action |
Person/ Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
List made of the bins that should be in each room in the school and checked by being ticked off. |
A. de Búrca
Ethan, Charlie. |
October 2008 |
List of the number and types of bins needed. |
All of the Committee |
October 2008 |
Searched through catalogues for appropriate bins for the yard, canteen and for reception area. Rang different companies for prices. |
A. de Búrca, A. Ní Ghaibhín, Eoin, Conor O Connell |
October 2008 |
Purchased 9 bins, two sets of four bins for the yard and canteen (one for compost materials, one for non-recycable, wet materials, one for dry recyclable and one for yogurt and Actimel cartons) and one for the reception area for recyclable materials. |
A. de Búrca |
October 2008 |
Bins were painted in four different colours Blue (clean, dry recyclables) Green (yogart and actimel cartons, Yellow for composting materials and Brown for non-recycable waste. |
A. de Búrca, Kelvin, Sophie. |
October 2008 |
To purchase new bins for compostable waste in staff room, home economics room, science lab and art room (pencil parings)
|
A. de Búrca
F. Ní Choigligh |
October 2008 |
New Posters were designed to display over the bins to show students what goes into each bin. |
A. de Búrca, Charlie, Ethan, Megan. |
October 2008 |
Aim 8:
• Invite Sinéad Mc Donnell from Limerick City Council Environmental Department to speak to the whole school during a school assembly on the importance of the Green Schools Programme and to answer any questions.
• To introduce the students to the new bins system and give a demonstration for them.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Arrange a time with the principal regarding a school assembly.
Ring Sinéad at Limerick City Council to see if she would be happy to speak to the school. |
- Ní Gháibhín
A. de Búrca |
November 2008 |
Sinéad welcomed and spoke about the importance of the Green Schools Programme and its effectiveness to the whole school at a school assembly in the canteen. |
A. Ní Gháibhín, Ciarán. |
5 th November 2008 |
Students from Green Schools Committee were formally introduced to the rest of the school. Students spoke about what the Green Schools is and explained to the rest of the school what exactly will go into each of the bins. |
- Ní Gháibhín
Laura, Ethan, Ruaidhrí |
5 th November 2008 |
Demonstration of the bins took place with sample pieces of litter and sweet wrappers. Students chosen from the crowd to be tested on the demonstration. This was followed by questions and answers. |
F. Ní Choigligh |
5 th November 2008 |
Aim 9: To ensure the effective use of the new bins and to stamp out miss-use by monitoring and supervising the bins at break and lunch time.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Rota done out of students who will monitor the bins at break and lunch times in the canteen and yard. |
A. Ní Gháibhín
All students on the committee |
November 2008 |
To monitor progress of waste segregation. |
All the committee |
Ongoing |
Aim 10: To have a mobile phone, battery and ink cartridge bin in the school.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
To contact the ‘Jack and Jill' foundation. |
A. de Búrca |
December 2008 |
To inform the classes about the mobile phone bin. |
Green Schools Co-ordinators and students on committee. |
December 2008 |
To contact the company who recycle the batteries. |
A. de Búrca
and first year committee members |
December 2008 |
To purchase the recycling bin and put it in the reception area. |
A. de Búrca |
December 2008 |
Aim 11: Green Schools Webpage Logo Competition
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
To update the Green Schools Page on the website a competition took place for designing a logo/icon for entering the Green Schools page on the school website. |
F. Ní Choigligh
Art students |
November 2008 |
Best three logos were chosen and the winners logo will be seen on entering the Green Schools web page. |
Staff members |
November 2008 |
Prizes for top three awarded. Prizes include Christmas card design kits. |
F. Ní Choigligh
A. Ní Gháibhín |
2 nd December 2008 |
Aim 12: To have a Christmas Clothes Collection for Children in Russia
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Green Schools contacted and asked if they would organise for students to collect clothes for Russian orphanage children. |
Lulu Sheehan (Parent), Sarah Sheehan (second year committee member) |
December 2008 |
Committee and whole school informed about the collection and the collection date. |
All of the committee |
December 2008 |
Posters designed to advertise the collection. |
Lisa, Hazel. |
December 2008 |
Many boxes and bags full of clothes brought into the school. |
Students, teachers, parents. |
December 2008 |
Collection of clothes |
Lulu Sheehan |
15 th December |
Letter of thank you from the lady who visits the orphanage every year after Christmas. With photographs of the children on the way. |
Mary O' Donovan |
January 2009 |
Aim 13: To make out a survey for the whole school as part of the environmental review to get the students opinions on issues now that the Green Schools Programme is established within the school
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
List of questions made that were relevant to the theme of ‘Litter and Waste' and getting students views, knowledge and attitude towards environmental issues and the Green Schools. |
All of committee
|
November 2008 |
20 most relevant questions chosen and typed and printed. |
All of committee |
December 2008 |
Surveys given out to all students in the school |
Class Tutors |
December 2008 |
Results counted and recorded.
Graphs made out showing results, then displayed on Green Schools Notice board. |
A. Ní Choiníollaigh
Maths class
F. Ní Choigligh
Art class.
|
End of January 2009 |
Aim 14: To reduce our landfill waste by 40% within 6 months.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Contact maintenance company (Kenrite Construction) of our school as we share bin services with the apartments next to us.
Discuss a way of segregating our bins from the apartments. |
A. Ní Gháibhín
Kenrite Construction Maintenance Company |
September 2008. |
After several times trying to get in contact and having no look, we contacted Sinéad Mc Donnell in the Limerick City Council who sent a letter to the contracting company demanding a meeting point with her and the Green Schools Co-Ordinator. |
A. Ní Gháibhín, Sinéad Mc Donnell. |
September 2008 |
No luck with maintenance company so we came up with our own system of where to leave the recycling bags and waste bin bags so that they can be counted and weighed before being put into the skip for collection. |
Cleaning Staff; Theresa, Tracey.
Green School Co-Ordinators, Principal. |
October 2008 |
Contact Mr. Bin Man regarding their collection days for the landfill waste and the opti recycling bag. |
A. Ní Gháibhín |
September 2008 |
Opti recycling bin bags and waste bin bags were counted every day and recorded weekly. |
Cleaning staff
A. Ní Gháibhín |
September- November 2008 |
A weighing scales purchased to start weighing in the amount of waste produced in the school weekly. This is done twice a week before bin collections. |
A. Ní Gháibhín
Ruaidhrí, Conor Ó Conaill.
Dylan, Michael. |
Starting from November 2008 and continuing on a weekly basis. |
Weight of landfill waste and the number of opti recycling bags recorded weekly. |
Ruaidhrí, Conor, Dylan, Michael.
A. Ní Gháibhín |
Ongoing |
To ban the recent introduction of the aluminum containers for hot food and the tinfoil that is used to wrap the rolls that are sold in the school canteen.
Speak to the lady who works in the canteen and contact the owner of the business formally about substituting the aluminum containers and tinfoil wrapping for something more environmentally friendly that can be re-used. |
Dylan
A. Ní Gháibhín |
March 2008 |
Two bins to be placed on the way to the new basketball court. One recycling bin and one waste bin.
Colour code bins and make new posters to display above them. |
F. Ní Choigligh
Kelly Ryan, Jade Neville, Hannagh Gough, Michelle Ryan |
February 2009 |
Purchase a bin for male toilets on floor 1 and one bin for the female toilets on floor 3. |
Co-Ordinators of Green Schools. |
February 2009 |
Aim 15: To ensure that the school yard is clean and litter free.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Cleaning Rota made out for the daily lunch time cleaning and litter collection in the school yard as is done in the canteen. |
Class Tutors
All students |
From January 2009
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Take photographs of the yard every Friday evening before leaving school and again on a Monday morning to see how much the public and passers by are contributing to the amount of litter in the school yard. |
A Ní Gháibhín
Evan, Megan. |
March 2009 |
To display a plan of the school on the Green Schools notice board to highlight the areas with litter in the school.
To monitor and update it. |
C. Ó Cruadhlaoich
Shane |
March 2009 |
Aim 16: To create a ‘ New Garden ' and start planting in the school yard during the Spring Season.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Contact Karen Tierney (parent) for ideas regarding planting on the school premises as she does lots of work with landscaping. To arrange a time for her to come and speak to the committee during our weekly meeting. |
A. Ní Gháibhín
|
January 2009 |
Karen spoke to committee on what they should be thinking about; types of plants to grow and about what needs to be done to the garden before we start on it when the weather improves and the soil is ready in March to plant. |
All of Committee
Karen Tierney (Parent) |
20 th January 2009 |
Carry out soil testing on the soil in the yard. |
Ciara Ní Dhrisceoill (Science Teacher)
Shane, Éamonn. |
27 th January 2009 |
Draw plans for the new garden to look like and what plants we want to grow.
|
An t-Uasal Ó Crualaoidh
Shane, Éamonn, Evan. |
March 2009. |
Research different plants (indoor and outdoor plants) and ideas for the garden. Start working on digging a flower bed for planting.
Purchase plants. |
All Committee
Karen Tierney.
John Delaney& Mr. O Shea (Parents). |
April 2009. |
Aim 17: To Purchase a Composting Devise
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Contribution received from Mr. Sheehans' Company (Parent) to the Green Schools Fund.
Letter of thank you sent. |
Mr. Sheehan
Angela de Búrca
Conor |
February 2009 |
Research the different types of composters available and the introduction of the New Brown Bin and record the different types, their prices and benefits.
Contact the different companies individually including the Limerick City Council. |
All of Committee
Green School Co-Ordinator |
February 2009
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Decide on the composting devise and purchase it.
Introduce it with the completion of the garden. |
All of committee
Co-ordinators |
April 2009 |
Aim 18: To Reduce our recyclable waste by 20% within 3 months.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Write letter to companies supplying recycling paper asking them to quote us a price. |
Éamonn, Laura |
February 2009 |
Encourage more teachers and students to cut down on the amount of recycling and getting them to re-use items more before being recycled.
To think of ways and ideas of doing this and encourage and implement them. |
All Committee
Whole school |
May 2009 |
Aim 19: To Hold another Green Day
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Decide on a date (1 st May) Decide on activities for the day. |
All members of the committee |
Beginning of April |
Arrange a guest speaker for the school |
Co-Ordinators |
April |
Give a list of useful websites to the classes and teachers |
Co-ordinators |
End of April |
Make posters to advertise it. |
Committee |
End of April |
School clean up |
All students |
May 1 st -(Provisional date) |
Each subject integrates the theme of ‘Litter and Waste' into their classes. |
All teachers |
May 1st |
Display of Green schools work. |
F. Ní Choigligh
Art Department |
May 1 st . |
Aim 20: To Publish a ‘Green Newsletter'
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
To provide articles and photographs for the newsletter. |
First and second year committee members |
April 2009 |
Gather all the articles and photographs. |
Laura
|
April 2009 |
To put the newsletter together |
Laura, Dylan, Bernadette
A. de Búrca, A. Ní Gháibhín. |
May 2009 |
To design the newsletter |
Kelvin, Savanah, Conor |
May 2009 |
To put the newsletter to the website. |
The Principal |
May 2009 |
Aim 21: Clothes collection for recycling
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Leaflets on clothes collection received from Lenrec Recycling Company, Kilkenny for raising money for our school. Leafleys handed out to students. |
A. Ní Gháibhín |
February 2009 |
Bags brought in by students and collected by the company. |
Lenrec Recycling |
26 th February 2009 |
Aim 22: To investigate why the usage of the four colour-coded bins wasn't as effective in the yard as it was in the canteen.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Consult with students and get feedback as to why the yard was more of a problem. |
Committee |
March 2009 |
A mural depicting our Green Schools Logo was painted on the wall in the yard overhead the bins to remind students to think about where to put their rubbish. |
F. Ní Choigligh
1 st Year Art Students. |
End March 2009 |
Aim 23: To Reduce Staff Stationary Waste.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Purchase Refill Whiteboard Markers for Teachers |
Lisa Courtney |
25 th March 2009 |
Aim 24: To Purchase Recycled Paper for General School Use
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Purchase Recycled paper |
Lisa Courtney |
26 th March 2009 |
Aim 24: To Re-examine the Usage of the Green Bin and all bins in the yard.
Action |
Person/Group Responsible |
Time Frame |
Students were unsure of the purpose of this bin, therefore this bin wasn't being used and dirty recyclables were being put into the brown bin. We again explained and demonstrated to staff and students the correct usage of this bin and informed teachers on canteen and yard duty at lunch to remind those students on clean up to clean wash any recyclable materials in this bin as part of their clean up and to place them in the blue bin when cleaned. |
Coordinating teachers and committee. |
18 th March 2009 |
There was not a sufficient number of bins in the new playing area of the yard and there was a continuing problem of signs blowing off the existing bins. The principal proposed purchasing new colour-coded bins with the signs engraved on them for long term usage. |
Co-ordinating teachers and Principal |
30 th April 2009 |
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