Eco-Schools
What is Eco-schools?
The Eco-schools Handbook states that; "Most young people care deeply about environmental issues, and wish to make a positive change in the environment around them. The Eco-schools programme provides an ideal way for fostering environmental awareness in the entire school in a way that links to many curriculum subjects".
The Green Flag award will be given to schools that complete all the essential elements of the Eco-schools programme.
The Eco-schools Handbook states that; "Most young people care deeply about environmental issues, and wish to make a positive change in the environment around them. The Eco-schools programme provides an ideal way for fostering environmental awareness in the entire school in a way that links to many curriculum subjects".
The Green Flag award will be given to schools that complete all the essential elements of the Eco-schools programme.
"The Green Flag award is now established as a well respected and recognised eco-label". McKinney Primary School wish to work towards acheiveing the Green Flag award.
Please see events page for information related to Eco-school events and feel free to take part on Learning NI discussions with your children at home to help further develop our work on environmental issues (https://learninni.net)
We have set up an Eco-committee. The P4-P7 pupils voted two members of their class onto the Eco-committee.
The Eco-committee met to conduct an environmental review of the school and they have developed an Action Plan with targets for action and improvement. This Action Plan will be updated each year.
For more information on Eco-schools please visit the website - http://www.eco-schoolsni.org
As part of our action plan the children have drawn up an 'ECO-Code' for our school. Each class came together to gather ideas to go into our code and the eco-committe combined these ideas and produced our ECO-Code. A copy of this can be downloaded below.
Please see events page for information related to Eco-school events and feel free to take part on Learning NI discussions with your children at home to help further develop our work on environmental issues (https://learninni.net)
We have set up an Eco-committee. The P4-P7 pupils voted two members of their class onto the Eco-committee.
The Eco-committee met to conduct an environmental review of the school and they have developed an Action Plan with targets for action and improvement. This Action Plan will be updated each year.
For more information on Eco-schools please visit the website - http://www.eco-schoolsni.org
As part of our action plan the children have drawn up an 'ECO-Code' for our school. Each class came together to gather ideas to go into our code and the eco-committe combined these ideas and produced our ECO-Code. A copy of this can be downloaded below.
| mckinney_eco_code_13-12-12.doc |
McKinney Primary have now been awarded their Eco-Flag. Please download the next document to view the letter we received.
| eco-schools_green_flag_08-05-13.doc |
