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Murcia City Council, through the departments of Environment and Education, directed Adela Martinez-Cache and Lola Sanchez is rewarding schools that meet certain environmental requirements, through awareness and conducting actions aimed at improving the environment.
Santiago García Medel school, situated in the hamlet of La Era Alta and Green Sangonera institute have been selected this time to grant the distinction of Green Schools, as both have worked very hard and looking forward to your goals environmental.
Since the launch of the "Green Schools" program in the 2001-2002 academic year, a total of 48,922 students in 58 schools in the municipality of Murcia have participated in this program, with 23 centers awarded the badge.
Santiago García Medel school participates in the program of the Department of Environment of the City of Murcia since 2010. During these four years his work and efforts have been noticed with the help of the entire teaching community, but especially with of its main protagonists, the children who until the last year of primary guided his teacher Pedro Suárez made possible from kindergarten that his "school" is today a role model to the management of waste.
Among other things they have provided a place like Green Point where regularly post information campaigns and environmental education activities conducted.
Program include reducing consumption of aluminum foil, which last year was a success, or creating "green patrol" with which they have managed to involve all students in cleaning up the yard after recess.
They have enabled it clean points around the center with different containers to collect and separate waste.
But they have also set up a recycling center in one of the halls, with different containers to collect paper, cans, aluminum, batteries, lights and small appliances and plastic plugs.
The IES Sangonera Green is more veteran, and participating in the program since 2008. Their environmental committee is formed by professors of the science department and students to expand geology, planners and communication, and students of diversification that are responsible for executing tasks.
's Way of working has been a success and thank her for the rest of the teaching community has gradually been sensitized to environmental issues addressed by Green Schools.
The center has a Green Point where the exposed constantly updated information related to two main issues, waste and noise.
This item reports on the tasks performed and ecological patrols throughout these years has served to inform various campaigns such as oil recycling, or to communicate messages and slogans on the importance of preserving the environment or publicize announcements and environmental news.
All classrooms separate paper and containers for later putting them in the container.
With the help of the music department spent two years working on the issue of noise to decrease this in the center.
To do this, teachers and students from both schools, environmental educators advised by the Department of Environment of the City of Murcia, have worked very hard to apply the methodology of Green Schools.
First sensitize the entire school community, then performing an environmental diagnosis to know the starting point and then launching a plan of action with specific actions aimed at achieving environmental goals.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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