Twenty-five EcoSchools and counting
MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release
June 16, 2014
GUELPH, Ontario – Twenty-five Upper Grand elementary and secondary schools have been certified as EcoSchools for 2014. EcoSchools is an environmental education and certification program that helps school communities develop both ecological literacy and environmentally responsible citizenship and reduce their environmental footprint.
Schools focus on six key areas of achievement: teamwork and leadership, energy conservation, waste minimization, school ground greening and curriculum, and environmental stewardship.
Projects include tree planting and building butterfly gardens, litterless lunches, waste audits, water bottle refilling fountains, and morning announcements. Many schools are goos paper schools – good on one side – with goos paper monitors and goos collection bins in each classroom.
Through the annual certification program, which assigns points that assess and recognize the accomplishments, EcoSchools is a focus for Upper Grand. One of the key areas in the board’s environmental education program is to have all schools in the district become EcoSchools by 2019.
This year’s EcoSchools are:
Secondary: Guelph CVI, Centennial CVI, John F. Ross CVI (Guelph), Wellington Heights SS (Mount Forest), Centre Dufferin DHS (Shelburne), Erin DHS (Erin)
Elementary (Dufferin County): Credit Meadows ES, Island Lake PS, Montgomery Villa PS, Parkinson Centennial PS, Primrose ES
Elementary (Wellington County): Aberfoyle PS, Brisbane PS, Erin PS, Rockwood Centennial PS
Elementary (Centre Wellington): J.D. Hogarth PS, Victoria Terrace PS, Elora PS, John Black PS
Elementary (Guelph): Taylor Evans PS, Westwood PS, Ken Danby PS, Mitchell Woods PS, Westminster Woods PS
For more information:
Maggie McFadzen, Communications Officer
519-822-4420 ext.725
[email protected]
Mark Weidmark, Administrative Officer – Communications
519-822-4420 ext.544
[email protected]
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