ESD Programme 2014
A new school year has started and with it new challenges for the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) group. Volunteers have left over the past few months and new members have joined the group: Lisa (Italy), Betta (Italy) and Selina (Northern Ireland) are the new ESD members and Laura (coordinator) is very happy with the new ideas that each of them brings to the programme. But we have more surprises for this school year; we have increased the number of sessions from 3 to 4 with a new topic based on Fair Trade activities.
Meanwhile we are very excited to say that we are going to work with the Foot Print Women’s Centre. It is the first time that a woman’s association will take part in the programme and we are sure that is going to be as successful as the previous groups. At the beginning of the year we already have more than 10 schools interested in the programme and we are very glad that most of the schools where we worked last year have already expressed their interest in taking part once again. We also are very excited to see how the new schools are interested in the programme and we are looking forward working with them. Currently we are working with:
- Bunscoil Mhic Reachtain Irish Primary
- School Cliftonville Integrated Primary
- School St Patricks Catholic Primary School
- Lougshore Resource Centre
We will add more schools soon and have an almost full calendar until Christmas and planning for January and February 2015 has begun. If your school is interested we recommended you to contact Laura as soon as you can – she is always happy to explain the programme and schedule a time to come to meet with Lisa at St Patrick’s School you to discuss the programme in more detail.
New members, new activities, new schools and new groups are the current ESD challenges but we are going to keep working with the same passion and energy to ensure the success of the programme. We know that total awareness creation is a long way off, but we also know that the longest journeys start with the first step.
Meanwhile we are very excited to say that we are going to work with the Foot Print Women’s Centre. It is the first time that a woman’s association will take part in the programme and we are sure that is going to be as successful as the previous groups. At the beginning of the year we already have more than 10 schools interested in the programme and we are very glad that most of the schools where we worked last year have already expressed their interest in taking part once again. We also are very excited to see how the new schools are interested in the programme and we are looking forward working with them. Currently we are working with:
- Bunscoil Mhic Reachtain Irish Primary
- School Cliftonville Integrated Primary
- School St Patricks Catholic Primary School
- Lougshore Resource Centre
We will add more schools soon and have an almost full calendar until Christmas and planning for January and February 2015 has begun. If your school is interested we recommended you to contact Laura as soon as you can – she is always happy to explain the programme and schedule a time to come to meet with Lisa at St Patrick’s School you to discuss the programme in more detail.
New members, new activities, new schools and new groups are the current ESD challenges but we are going to keep working with the same passion and energy to ensure the success of the programme. We know that total awareness creation is a long way off, but we also know that the longest journeys start with the first step.