we have been doing well in awards recently...
Looking forward to the 2018 awards, which we have entered in their "expanded project" category!
Summer 2017; This term as well as winning the Eco-Unesco All-Ireland "Local to Global" Award in our class for our project, it is picked by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland as one of the top 50 projects in the country.
Photos here of the Bootcamp where we received invaluable advice on spreading the word about children planting trees.
May 2017 ; Super news; as well as (for the second year in a row) being rated in the top 20 schools in the SEAI Schools' "One Good Idea", we are in the Leinster finals of the Eco-Unesco awards AND we are regional winners for the second year in a row in the Irish Aid Schools competition; here is part of our submission to them;
Entry Diary for Project Submission Irish Aid; Plant-for-thePlanet, easyas12tree,
How we explored and learned
We called in the experts; our teacher travelled to Andover, UK to plant trees with the Mayor and meet the Head of Plant-for-the-Planet UK, a member of the (childrens’ global) executive and several climate ambassadors. She brought a gift of a grove of Irish hazel trees which she planted with children from the UK in the Queen’s Jubilee Forest during the planting fortnight in November 2016, where the Irish Academy was planned in detail. A delegation agreed to come to Dublin in January 2017 to head the first Irish Academy and a preceding day of workshops for pupils too young to attend the Academy. We have been working closely throughout with the Tree Council of Ireland, who launched our film guide featuring broadcaster and Tree Council member Eanna Ni Lamhna, on their website this month. We are in talks with them about the provision of native saplings to meet our target of 1m trees in the ground by the end of the 2020 planting season. We’ve worked with the Botanic Gardens and our local Parks Departments to be sure of following best practice.
2. How we Chose Describe how and why you chose your topic
2016 was the hottest on record and we are answering the call for climate justice and the challenge of the founder of Plant-for-the-Planet, (who was a 9-year old boy when he had the idea for children in every country to plant a million trees) ,the UN sponsored organisation active in 100 countries but until 2017 not yet in Ireland; we felt it was time to join children all over the world and adding our own idea; to match our planting in the Global South through action, sponsoring equivalent planting ourselves, tree by tree and child by child. Improving forestry creates benefits that address many of the Global Goals, for example No Poverty, Zero Hunger and Good Health. We felt we could address Global Goals No. 13, Climate Action and No. 15, Life on Land, specifically the following target with our initiative. ; By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally 3.What we Created Describe what you created video, art, poster (i) We created a website, easyas12tree.com - a go-to website This is the key delivereable. (ii) We created a film guide to the 28 Native Trees of Ireland so that Irish people could find out what trees to plant and the importance of using native trees; our UK counterparts are making similar films to help their pupils following our lead and we have been researching African Trees with the Botanic Gardens and the charity Greenpop to help with suitable tree selection for children in Africa. (iii) We made presentations to all the Green-Flag winning schools in our county and to 3 African schools and the Mellon Educate foundation
4.How we engaged with others; Describe how you spread your message beyond the classroom (i)We put on a tree show for the school and parents, our Mayor, deputy Mayor, a local senator, the CEO and PRO of the Tree Council of Ireland, our County Manager, Senior Parks Executives from Fingal and Dublin City Councils, An Taisce’s Biodiversity Officer with poetry, songs and treeplanting. (ii) We engaged the interest of sponsors; the Electricity Association of Ireland, Lidl, Nolan’s Supermarket, Baldoyle Builders Providers and Baldoyle Community Gardens are among our supporters. (iii) We went on NearFM radio, the Green Schools ezene, the Dublin Gazette, to the Dublin Maker Festival on stage, to the Helix theatre on stage, we continued our series of youtube movies among other initiatives to promote our work. Lots more on our school green pages, http://room5stlaurence.weebly.com/our-newest-green-flagproject-trees.html
Photos here of the Bootcamp where we received invaluable advice on spreading the word about children planting trees.
May 2017 ; Super news; as well as (for the second year in a row) being rated in the top 20 schools in the SEAI Schools' "One Good Idea", we are in the Leinster finals of the Eco-Unesco awards AND we are regional winners for the second year in a row in the Irish Aid Schools competition; here is part of our submission to them;
Entry Diary for Project Submission Irish Aid; Plant-for-thePlanet, easyas12tree,
How we explored and learned
We called in the experts; our teacher travelled to Andover, UK to plant trees with the Mayor and meet the Head of Plant-for-the-Planet UK, a member of the (childrens’ global) executive and several climate ambassadors. She brought a gift of a grove of Irish hazel trees which she planted with children from the UK in the Queen’s Jubilee Forest during the planting fortnight in November 2016, where the Irish Academy was planned in detail. A delegation agreed to come to Dublin in January 2017 to head the first Irish Academy and a preceding day of workshops for pupils too young to attend the Academy. We have been working closely throughout with the Tree Council of Ireland, who launched our film guide featuring broadcaster and Tree Council member Eanna Ni Lamhna, on their website this month. We are in talks with them about the provision of native saplings to meet our target of 1m trees in the ground by the end of the 2020 planting season. We’ve worked with the Botanic Gardens and our local Parks Departments to be sure of following best practice.
2. How we Chose Describe how and why you chose your topic
2016 was the hottest on record and we are answering the call for climate justice and the challenge of the founder of Plant-for-the-Planet, (who was a 9-year old boy when he had the idea for children in every country to plant a million trees) ,the UN sponsored organisation active in 100 countries but until 2017 not yet in Ireland; we felt it was time to join children all over the world and adding our own idea; to match our planting in the Global South through action, sponsoring equivalent planting ourselves, tree by tree and child by child. Improving forestry creates benefits that address many of the Global Goals, for example No Poverty, Zero Hunger and Good Health. We felt we could address Global Goals No. 13, Climate Action and No. 15, Life on Land, specifically the following target with our initiative. ; By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally 3.What we Created Describe what you created video, art, poster (i) We created a website, easyas12tree.com - a go-to website This is the key delivereable. (ii) We created a film guide to the 28 Native Trees of Ireland so that Irish people could find out what trees to plant and the importance of using native trees; our UK counterparts are making similar films to help their pupils following our lead and we have been researching African Trees with the Botanic Gardens and the charity Greenpop to help with suitable tree selection for children in Africa. (iii) We made presentations to all the Green-Flag winning schools in our county and to 3 African schools and the Mellon Educate foundation
4.How we engaged with others; Describe how you spread your message beyond the classroom (i)We put on a tree show for the school and parents, our Mayor, deputy Mayor, a local senator, the CEO and PRO of the Tree Council of Ireland, our County Manager, Senior Parks Executives from Fingal and Dublin City Councils, An Taisce’s Biodiversity Officer with poetry, songs and treeplanting. (ii) We engaged the interest of sponsors; the Electricity Association of Ireland, Lidl, Nolan’s Supermarket, Baldoyle Builders Providers and Baldoyle Community Gardens are among our supporters. (iii) We went on NearFM radio, the Green Schools ezene, the Dublin Gazette, to the Dublin Maker Festival on stage, to the Helix theatre on stage, we continued our series of youtube movies among other initiatives to promote our work. Lots more on our school green pages, http://room5stlaurence.weebly.com/our-newest-green-flagproject-trees.html