Our Greenschools committee meet every month to see what we can do to make our school a better place. We try to keep our yard clean and are mindful of turning off lights and computers when they are not in use. We continue to recycle and try to keep our rubbish to a minimum.

Before Christmas, we were selling Beeswax Wraps for wrapping sandwiches instead of tinfoil and cling film which are not as kind to our environment. We still have them for sale.

In the coming month, we are hoping to work on a microgreens project. Microgreens are tiny green vegetable leaves that can be grown easily on your windowsill. They grow over two weeks and are ready to harvest. We are hoping to find the most successful place to grow them in the school and we will then hope to sell them when we harvest them.

Green Schools Committee

Our Green Schools Committee is made up of students from 3rd to 6th class. At the beginning of each school year, the children interested in being on the committee are invited to write a short passage stating their interests and reasons for wanting to be the representatives of their school. Children are chosen from each of the classes from 3rd to 6th.

Meet the Committee (2023/2024)

The role of the members is to oversee the maintenance of the green flags already achieved for litter and waste and water and energy conservation. They also began to collect ideas and organise surveys to decide what their targets would be for the renewal of the travel flag.

The committee would like to thank everyone for the huge effort being made to make the roads of Knockanean a safer, more child-friendly place to travel. Many young children are making huge strides on their bikes. We all had to start somewhere so your patience and understanding is so important to us. If we slow down we are not only reducing the amount of CO2 emissions being released into our environment, creating less pollution and most importantly making our roads safer for our children to use.