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Global Goal 6- Clean Water & Sanitation (Poster Comp)

Competition Details for students who would like to get involved with Global Goal 6 -Clean Water & Sanitation

Check out www.globalgoals.org for inspiration for your poster idea. Ask Ms. Cooney for more details on submitting your poster.

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Some of the SDG aims for this goal are……

By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.

By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials.

Global Goals for Sustainable Development

In September 2015, 193 World Leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030!

The global goals are only going to work if we fight for them and you can’t fight for your rights if you don’t know what they are. In school we learn about these goals through a variety of subjects like CSPE, Geography, English, Home Economics, Science to name but a few.

Check out www.globalgoals.org and get involved by joining in the conversation across social network sites using the #globalgoals

Image- sourced from UN in collaboration with Project Everyone

 

Biodiversity workshop

On Friday 6th May Nicola Winters from Green Sod visited the school. Nicola gave a really interactive presentation to 1st year science and 5th year Agricultural Science classes. Students learned more about the area of biodiversity, it’s importance, how we can help with biodiversity and sustainability as consumers and how we can take a more proactive approach to nature and the world around us. This linked in with our Green Schools Biodiversity theme which we are currently focusing on and our development education module in school.

Out in our polytunnel students learned how to make their own compostable potting plants using newspaper and got to plant some lettuce and parsley in them which will be used in Home Economics cookery classes.

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