Green Schools Committee

Step 1: Green School's Committee

Merlin Woods Primary School established it’s Green School Committee in 2011 and to date have successfully attained and maintained three green flags, one for ‘Litter and Waste’, a second for ‘Energy’ and a third for ‘Water’. The school is currently working on its fourth flag which is on the theme of ‘Travel’. In order to achieve this flag we must continue to reduce our litter and waste, keep our energy use down, continue to reduce the amount of water the school uses and raise awareness of transport issues in our community. We began working on the travel theme in October 2018.

In Merlin Woods Primary School the committee is made up of students from 2nd to 6th class. The children have been elected to the Green School’s Committee by their class teachers.  We are delighted to hear from the committee members in the classroom, telling us all about our their green travel ideas. The green team help to show the their classmates different jobs, and explain the action plan.  There are 10 students in total on the committee– 2 from each class level. We also established a sub-committee in each classroom. Their jobs are as follows:

• Energy Detectives
• Recycling Experts
• Water Wizards
• Travel Agents

Students from Junior Infants to 1st class are not represented on the Green School’s Committee.  These students will be kept informed by their class teachers and by the children on the committee who will visit each class to pass on the necessary information e.g. our green school rules, surveys and competition details etc.