Greening the ISH

[Jakub]

GREENING the ISH
A Whole-School Project

Projects
GreenSpace
Wind turbine
Glasshouse in pond (Bio-engineering and plant-based technologies)
Solar panelling
Green roofs
Recycling
CO2 reduction
Responsible Energy management
Green Day/Green Week/Mobility project
Green Curriculum
Zero Energy Day
Organic/FreeTrade/Urban farming foods in Canteen
etc

Ethos
Preamble:

ISH as Community School: school, local and global
Educate towards global citizenship
Environmental concern as Millennium Goal, IBO Sharing Our Humanity Theme, 20/20
Green Awareness and focus on Sustainability vital for securing future of the planet

Practise what we preach, in and outside the classroom

Groundwork
Formulate 4-year Greening the ISH Strategic Plan
Include Greening the ISH in Schoolplan 10-14
Include Greening the ISH in Mission Statement
Secure financial viability

Framework
Financial: dedicated percentage of whole-school yearly budget; external funding
Organisational: whole-school representation in GreenGroup, the ‘Greening the ISH’ steering committee: MT, Curriculum Directors, teaching and non-teaching staff (concierges, canteen, Organic Building Manager), PAs, students and pupils, externals (Municipality, green institutes, STROOM, landscape architects)
Validation: EMAS (European Union), Green Flag? (UK), Dutch equivalent
International Schools networks

Financial
Determine ISH budget percentage, based on 4-year Greening the ISH strategic plan, to be included in School Plan, and in ISH Mission Statement.
PA/MR and Stichting presentations and approval
Stichting-wide approach?
Seek funding from Municipality, Government, (semi-)Private sector (e.g. Fonds 1818)

Organisation
GreenGroup steering committee, meets once per term. Brief: policies (curricular and extra-curricular), decisions on Green initiatives, financial management, validation, liaisons with green industry, international context

GreenTeam(s), student-led and -run action groups responsible for implementation of Green projects, overseen by Global Issues Network coordinators, and monitored by designated staff/parent per project

GreenTeams
GreenSpace group
Waste police
GreenEnergy group
GreenPR group
GreenFood group
GreenIT group (Zero Balance)
Etc?

Validation
The Hague Municipality
Dutch validation
EMAS (European)
IBO
Unesco

In school: Green Awards/Certificates for students/Eco competitions/Wall of Fame

First steps Oct-Dec 2009
Write Greening the ISH strategic plan, starting with Eco audit
Budget proposal 2010
Formation of GreenGroup
GreenSpace clearing and planning
GreenSpace nature lessons
Formation of GreenTeams
Plan curricular approach

[Jakub]

GREENING THE ISH MEETING
Wednesday 3 March 12.35 in B-223

JOIN A TEAM:
GREENSPACE

Building a model for display in the Plaza

Involve residents of neighbourhood in maintaining GreenSpace

Food waste from the Cafeteria to be used as compost (worms!) for GreenSpace and the Glasshouse
And/or offer to local farmers

Include vegetable patch for growing/tending greens by Sec and Prim team of students

Encourage outdoor areas, such as GreenSpace and the Greenhouse, for use in lessons

Needed: animal conservation. Start Wildlife group

GREENTRAFFIC
Encourage all students to go to school by bike

Involve Police to do traffic safety lessons for Primary 5 and 6, and Secondary 7 and 8, and teach Bike safety and repair through ANWB, for Cycling Proficiency Certificate

“School Bus” : walking or cycling ‘train’ that walks/cycles a certain route led by allocated parents. Pupils/students join as it passes their homes

Secondary students taking younger primary students to school on foot/by bike/by tram,bus as ‘guides’

No cars at all on school campus

Have Green Week, not Green day

More bike racks for Primary

Secondary students teaching traffic safety to Primary for C&S points

Admissions: new ISH families informed about green policies, bike safety and traffic safety exams

Discourage one car- one parent – one child travel. Encourage car pooling, more school buses

GREENENERGY
Start with Energy Audit: how much do we spend; how much do we want to reduce each year; set targets.
Use Statistics in maths classes to help monitoring project

All Staff must switch off lights and beamers and boards at the end of each lesson if they know (see schedule) that the room is not in use the next period

Solar paneling for alternative energy source. To be used for Greenhouse, for Weather station, for roofs.

Wind turbine to be placed in the school tower

School buys energy-saving lamps whole-sale. Students sell them at home/to friends, raising money for another green cause

Have a re-charging station for electric cars, mopeds, i-pods on campus/in school

All school purchases of materials for the building must have energy labels A or A+
School must buy recycled paper for copying machines

Use system for school doors to reduce energy loss

Monitor photocopying; too much now. Go back to department codes to monitor volume

Install automatic switch-off devices for beamers/lights/heat

Monitor temperature in class rooms: often too hot.
Check windows in class rooms

Use library program to switch off all school computers at end of the day

Investigate how much kinetic energy can be converted to electricity

Set up student action team which checks rooms and turns off lights/computers etc

Green Roofs to save energy

Zero Energy Day to raise awareness

GREENWASTE and Recycling

Regular dune clean-up teams (6/7 times a year) to clean the area (including Hemels Gewelf art work)

Recycling plastic; Floating Island

Bins for plastics, paper, organic and non-organic waste.

Pressure Gemeente Den Haag to recycle what they pick up

Contact Gemeente Education department to start their Waste/Re-cycle activities at ISH

Buy ISH gym kit made of henna/re-cycled cotton

Use ISH as re-cycling point for the neighbourhood

Stop using plastic as food wrapping in cafeteria

Monitoring proper use of bins by student teams, in cooperation with cleaners and concierges

No more plastic cups in school

Ask Gemeente for more recycling (large) containers, including for old clothes, batteries

No paper bins in classroom: for scrap/rough paper students can use (back of) teacher handouts

Limited free printouts for students. Copying ‘card’ with limit

GREENFOOD
FairTrade products in Canteen/cafeteria/staff room.

Locally produced foods in cafeteria/canteen

Biological products in cafeteria

Meat-free Monday in the cafeteria

Create awareness of seasonal foods

‘Take a seat to eat’, to create awareness of food

Remove vending machines that sell soft drinks. Offer water and fruit juices only

GREENPR and (Curriculum) Organisation

Year Groups ‘adopt’ a green issue.
Example: Year 8 are starting FairTrade activities as their charity, and work with Year 3

Introduce the competition element in Green activities: who collects the most, saves the most etc. Install awards system

Ask IBO and IPC to cut down on ‘paper trail’

Involve parents in Greening the ISH

All Curriculum Areas should include Green focus.
One Green project per year group, to be included in year planners/ Atlas Rubicon.

Curriculum Coordinators to coordinate cross-school activities

Build links between year group curricular activities, so that students link and build on previous knowledge.
Mentor hour could be platform for this

60% of C&S points should be related to Green activities

Start ‘Ministry of Green’, PR venture. Use school magazines for PR