Making your School green

Thursday, November 22nd, 2018 @ 1:01 pm

Hints and tips to help schools reduce their carbon footprint and become more environmentally friendly.

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Encourage your children or those at your school to think about the world around them and consider their impact upon it.

There are many websites with resources which you can use to introduce climate change, global warming and environmental justice topics into curriculum subjects such as RE, science, geography and citizenship. If there is space available, create an eco-friendly garden full of plants and insects.

What can I do to help?

To start with, you might want to measure your school’s carbon footprint and then measure it again in six months, 12 months and so on, to see the effect of your actions.

The aim is reduce the school’s impact on the environment so please also consider the following:

Encourage the use of public transport or cycling to school or set up a ‘walking bus’
Install bicycle racks at the school
When rebuilding or refurbishing the school, use eco-friendly materials and building techniques
Consider changing to a green electricity supplier
Use eco-friendly cleaning products that do not harm the environment
Check to see if there is an Environmental Policy written for the school and if not, ask about instigating one.
Consider everything the school buys and uses and be aware of it’s impact on the environment whether through manufacturing, mining, deforestation or pollution.