Climate Ready Classroom Awards

At Dromintee Primary School, we are proudly working towards achieving our fourth Green Flag. Our dedicated Eco Committee has been leading energy saving and carbon cutting initiatives throughout the school. Our energy monitors have been keeping a close eye to ensure no energy is wasted and the Eco Committee has been encouraging pupils and teachers to adopt daily habits that help protect our planet.
Miss Lennon, the Eco Coordinator for our school, completed the Climate Smart 1 training to help support our teachers and Eco Committee in educating pupils about climate change, its effects on our world and the steps we can take to reduce emissions. The Primary 6 class in Dromintee also took part in the Your Climate Future workshop, which further explored the current climate challenges facing our world.

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At Loreto College, Coleraine, we’re passionate about sustainability and making a positive impact on our planet. Through the ‘Climate Smart Programme,’ our pupils have gained valuable knowledge and practical skills to tackle climate challenges and understand how small changes can make a big difference. We’re proud to celebrate their learning and commitment to creating a greener future for all.
Mrs McCarry

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Sustainability actions are very important at Malone Integrated College. We are delivering the OCN Level 2 in Reducing Carbon Footprints through Environmental Action, students have been involved with recycling of tin cans to support St James Farm, a waste workshop with Eco schools, and we are about to complete several biodiversity projects improving biodiversity on our site. These include further tree planting (60 trees arrived in school last week for planting!) and the construction of a bug hotel.
The eco club have also received a green flag award in 2024 and we are working towards our second flag in 2026. Biodiversity has been enhanced through the hedgerow hero programme in 2025, managing waste and reducing litter and improving recycling in school. Climate change is taught and discussed in KS3, KS4 and KS5 Geography as well as in Science, RE and in English as a cross curricular theme. It is the focus of students inside and outside the classroom at Malone.


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At Mill Strand Integrated Primary School & Nursery, we’ve built our school around two key ideas. First, we’re passionate about looking after the environment. Second, we believe in learning outdoors—although you need to be brave for that with the wild weather on the North Coast! Four seasons in one day!
The Weatherbies characters have become a fun way for us to learn about our environment and our climate. They help spark imaginative play and keep our eco values at the heart of everything we do, both in lessons and activities.
Eco-friendly living is a big part of everyday life in both our nurseries. Everyone gets involved in green projects, working together with the Primary School as we work towards our 10th Green Flag award. Recycling is important here—we collect food for compost, paper, milk cartons, and bottle tops all the time, so the children get used to caring for the environment from a young age. We only use recyclable water bottles too!
We like to grow things we can eat. We make our surroundings greener with bulbs, seeds, vegetables, fruit, and new trees and bushes.
We’ve just finished our forest school area, which means the children can get outside every day in their wellies and puddle suits. It’s all about enjoying nature, getting hands-on, and learning to look after the world around us. We’ve even got our campfire ready for cooking now!

Every small action can have a big impact if we care enough. Our youngest learners are engaged and ready to ‘save their planet.'

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The Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) Eco-club are the first group in Northern Ireland to achieve the Climate Ready Classroom award!
"RBAI values teaching sustainability and climate change awareness because it prepares students for the future, fosters responsible citizens and connects learning to real-world issues. We aim to create informed individuals who can tackle global challenges, build sustainable habits and develop employability skills for the green economy.”
Mr McMullen

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Principal Mrs. Geraldine O Connor highlights the central role that sustainability education plays at Saint John’s Primary School. Environmental responsibility is a key priority for our school community. All year groups actively participate in a range of eco focused initiatives throughout the academic year. These include our numerous reuse campaigns to include School Uniform, Halloween costume, Christmas Jumper, World Book Day costumes and books recycling campaigns run by the ECO committee. We have completed several biodiversity projects to enhance our school grounds and our community. Most recently we planted spring bulbs as part of the Creggan Bloom initiative. Recent efforts involve additional tree planting from the Lyric Theatre in Belfast and the creation of more bug hotels in our outdoor classroom.
Our Eco Club proudly earned a 4th Green Flag Award in June 2025, and we are now working towards achieving our 5th flag in 2027. Our major action is Climate Action with Waste and Healthy Living as our minor themes. Biodiversity has continued to flourish through programmes such as ‘Big Spring Clean, and planted pollinator plants around our school, alongside improved waste management, reduced litter, and increased recycling across the entire school. Our school has a healthy eating policy for both lunch and breaktime. And we are committed to using reusable bottles in our school.
At Saint John’s Primary School, sustainability remains a shared focus for students both inside and outside the classroom. We work closely with our caretaker ensuring heat is regulated correctly and all bulbs replaced are LED. Our Y5 pupils monitor energy usage across the school and do weekly inspections.

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Our pupils have been busy making St Malachy’s greener than ever. From collecting rainwater in our water butt for gardening and play, to litter picking and creating bee and butterfly gardens, we’re taking real action to protect our planet. We’ve built minibeast hotels, we’ve made bird feeders, grown our own fruit trees and plants, we recycle our food waste, and reused materials for junk art and loose parts play. We’re proud to say: no single use plastics in the Nursery and we use coffee cups made from recycled materials for our parent events.
Mrs Willeen Mooney the Nursery teacher and the Eco-Coordinator for our school completed the Climate Smart Training to help in supporting the Nursery children learn about sustainability and that little actions can make a big impact and to also help in supporting the Eco Council pupils.
We’re continuing to learn, create, and work together in the Nursery as part of our whole school mission to achieve our Green Flag.
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Climate change activities are valued in Sullivan Prep because they help our pupils to develop a sense of responsibility and care for their local and global environment from an early age. These activities encourage critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration and they also link directly to WAU when pupils explore environmental change, sustainability and how their actions can make a positive difference.

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