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Cranmore Integrated Primary School receives environmental award for being green02/02/2009
The pupils and staff at Cranmore Integrated Primary School are celebrating after receiving an Eco School Bronze Award from an international scheme which encourages schools to care about green issues.
The prize is the result of a year of dedicated work by everyone at Cranmore to enhance the local environment and raise awareness of conservation issues amongst the pupils.
It was granted to the Belfast school through the Eco-Schools programme which operates over 46 countries, reaching thousands of students, and is administered by Tidy Northern Ireland in this region.
To get their hands on the award, students at Cranmore even organised their own Eco Committee, which meets to discuss issues of concern and generates ideas of how to promote good environmental work throughout the school.
Green projects undertaken by pupils so far have included setting up paper recycling in each classroom, as well as the school office, and planting and maintaining a variety of trees, flower beds, tubs and containers in the school grounds.
Mr Duggan, Cranmore’s environmental co-ordinator, even secured a community grant from the local B&Q store to support all this good work, allowing the school to purchase much needed gardening equipment and a selection of seeds and plants.
After their success, the young environmentalists have now set their sights in working towards the Eco Silver Award this year.
On top of this, Cranmore was also delighted to recently be highly commended by the judges of the Supa Value Best Kept Schools Award.
Cranmore students get ready to plant some shrubs on the school grounds.
