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Enviroschools kits

Coffee and Cake workshop: Enviroschools Theme Area Kits

Join us for coffee and cake as we unpack our Enviroschools kits and get hands on with some practical activities that you can take back to your classroom. We have several kits available to borrow that have all the resources you need to explore the Enviroschools theme areas of Water of Life, Zero Waste, Living Landscapes and Ecological Buildings. We also have a Beeswax Wrap kit that has all you need for making beeswax wraps.   Thursday 10th August 2023 3.30 – 5pm Join us from 3.15pm for coffee and cake Venue to be confirmed Email ramonamillen17@gmail.com to register...

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Sustainable Actions

Sustainable Action Ideas | Term Two 2023

Our term two Sustainable Action Ideas newsletter explores the Enviroschools Guiding Principle of Respect for the Diversity of People and Cultures. It highlights some up coming awareness dates that support this guiding principle as well as shares ideas to celebrate other cultures in your school or centre. There are also a number of workshops happening this term. Click here to access our online Padlets to view this newsletter and previous ones....

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Plastic free July

Plastic Free July

Plastic Free July® is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics? https://www.plasticfreejuly.org...

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Stop Food Waste Day

Our mission at Stop Food Waste Day is to ignite change regarding the global food waste issue. We do this by drawing attention to the problem, at the same time educating through engaging with society at all levels and sharing practical, creative, and impactful ways we can all change our behavior to minimize food waste. https://www.stopfoodwasteday.com/en/index.html...

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Compost Awareness Week

The 2023 International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) theme is truly a collaborative and international effort. This year, we teamed up with the International Compost Alliance (ICA) to select: For Healthier Soil, Healthier Food…Compost! The theme was chosen based on a serious world-wide issue that every nation, unfortunately, experiences: hunger. https://www.compostfoundation.org/ICAW/ICAW-Home...

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Renwick clean up

Enviro week at Renwick School

Ellen Theobald, co-leader of Renwick School's 'Green Ferns' enviro group, wrote this article to tell us about the school's recent Enviro Week activities. Our Green Ferns organised a really fun Enviro Week to coincide with the Climate Strikes and the work done by Climate Karanga and George Varney (Climate Youth Action Team) at the tree planting opportunity that was offered to schools. We also decided that we need to raise the profile of recycling within our classrooms as school systems changed and we needed to educate everyone to let them know what to do.

The Green Ferns ran a competition where classes were encouraged to decorate their cardboard and paper recycling bins (Thanks...

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