<p class=”MsoNormal”><span style=”font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;”> </span></p>
<p class=”MsoNormal”><span style=”font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;”>In our school we are fortunate to have the space for a small school garden. Each class has their own raised plant bed. Different vegetables are sown in the spring and in September when the children return to school they harvest the vegetables and make soup. <span style=”mso-spacerun: yes;”> </span>Our school recognises the importance of nurturing the mental and physical wellbeing of our pupils through outdoor learning</span>.</p>
<p class=”MsoNormal”><span style=”font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;”>We can encourage less transportation to and from school. We have an initiative called WOW (Walk on Wednesdays).Children can be encouraged to walk/ cycle to school. We have done this in the past and it has been very effective in encouraging children to rethink how they travel to and from school each day.</span></p>
<h2 style=”background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 13.2pt 0cm;”><span style=”font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: ‘Calibri’,sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; background: white;”>As part of our green flag we focused on water conservation, its one of the</span><span style=”font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: ‘Calibri’,sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: ‘Times New Roman’; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: windowtext; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;”> themes of the Green-Schools programme. Our school looked at developing awareness around water conservation and how to effectively manage this important resource in our schools and at home. The pupils in our school came up innovate on how to conserve water in our school. We filled water bottles and put them in the toilet cisterns so when the toilet is flushed not as much water is needed to fill the cistern. </span></h2>
<p class=”MsoNormal”><span style=”font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;”>I feel that schools are doing a huge amount of work on </span><span style=”font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;”>Climate Change and how it is impacting on our own local communities and engage with our pupils on these issues.</span></p>