Whitecross National School

Whitecross Green Schools Committee Report

We are currently working towards our third green flag for Water Conservation. In order to do this, we, the Student Council and the Green Schools Committee are meeting, discussing and fact-finding. We have been encouraging classes to be more aware of their use of water and not to waste it.

• We found out where our water goes to and comes from. We take water from the river Boyne via the water tower at Kiltrough.
• We are going to fix our taps so they don’t drip and possibly get push down taps installed, so they cannot be left running accidentally.
• We are going to bring water to school for our drink on our day of action.
• We are going to use water butts to collect rain water to water the garden.
• We are going to start measuring how much water we use. The first exercise in this task is to do a Flush Tally.
• We are going to measure how much water a dripping tap uses in a day.
• We have looked at taptips.ie and found out some fascinating facts regarding water.

We still have a lot of work to do to achieve our goal, and we hope to report more progress soon.

Whitecross Green Schools Committee.