Green Team

Green Team

Leading Sustainability in Our School

Tullamore Educate Together elected its first Green Team in several years in September 2025, with representatives from 3rd-6th class. Over the year, the team of ten members met frequently to discuss various events linked to the environment. The team delivered resources to all the classes for events and topics such as: National Tree Week, sustainability, Fair Trade and pollution. The Green Team also acquired litter pickers from Offaly County Council. A rota was devised for the year, which gave every class in the school a full week on litter picking duty to ensure we keep our school clean.

Green Week

Students Leading the Way

The pinnacle of the Green Team's work in the school was the organisation and running of Green Week, which ran from May 5th- 8th 2026. The Green Team completed a transport survey in preparation for this, where they compiled data from all of the classes to see how people get to school. They discovered that more than half of our entire student population come to school by car. The Green Team did so much work for Green Week, which involved 'Turn Off Tuesday', 'No Waste Wednesday' and 'Anything But A Bag Thursday'. All classes were given the litter pickers for 2 hours during the week and the school was spotless!

The highlight of Green Week was the art exhibition on Friday. All classes made art pieces from recyclable materials, including cardboard, egg cartons and plastic bottles. The final creations were incredible. Overall, it was a hugely successful and enjoyable week and the Green Team showed amazing leadership, organisation and public speaking skills.

The Green Team are constantly coming up with new ideas to promote biodiversity and sustainability here in Tullamore Educate Together. It has provided the children with a wonderful opportunity to get involved in this aspect of school life.