Aspects to take into account
To form the Environmental Committee with representatives from the whole school community, for which voting will take place in each classroom, from which representatives will come from among the pupils and volunteers from among the teaching staff. This committee will be responsible for specific aspects of the organization and the resolutions of the respective competitions and groups to be carried out throughout the project.
To form a Green Group, among the volunteer students, which will be in charge of collecting information, deficiencies, problems, and data of interest that will contribute to the correct and daily maintenance of the facilities during playground hours. A group of 4 students will carry out this analysis on a rotating and voluntary basis. It will be recorded in a book of incidents from which each tutor will collect those that correspond to him/her, to solve them as soon as possible. In this way, as well as auditing to seek solutions, they will also be resolved gradually throughout the process.
The Green Group can be identified with a green cap and be authorized to visit any part of the school at the indicated times.
Form a 4R Group to be responsible daily for collecting the waste generated at playground time, weighing it, and disposing of it in its corresponding container. To this end, weekly rotating groups will be organized and they will be provided with gloves, weights, masks, and anything else deemed necessary to carry out their duties.
Create a Green Point, in a large space near the classrooms, where they are installed:
- An environmental and organizational suggestion box for students who wish to make use of it.
- A cupboard with all the school's books, booklets, magazines, and environmental information, for which a selection of the contents of both the school library and the various classrooms should be made beforehand.
- A table on which to place, throughout the process, all the experiments, work, and utensils related to the theme that they were building, such as the water purifier, water pump, windmill, solar energy, etc.
- A cupboard in which to place the necessary instruments, when the time came, for the collection and weighing of the different types of waste.
- The environmental notice board where information about the project, the list of environmental books, the rotating shifts of the Green Group, the 4R, the anonymous suggestions from the mailbox, the pupils' work, and the provisional results of the audit would be posted.
Functions of the Environmental Committee
- Planning the actions and coordinating the necessary material and human resources.
- Control the participation of the groups.
- Distribute the work of the elements to be audited to each level.
- Select from each auditable subject all the aspects they can think of to be audited.
- Distribute the calendar of actions, establishing a time schedule for each topic.
- Creation and setting of the center: monographic classrooms, posters and banners, and exhibitions of work in corridors.
- Control and creation of the "GREEN POINT".
- Informing others of the location and use of the Green Point.
- Organize the responsibilities of the Green Group and the 4R and control that they are carried out.
- Offer the different groups the necessary resources to carry out the audit in each of the aspects.
- To channel and reach a consensus on proposals and commitments arising from their cycles.
- At the end of the process, create an "Environmental Declaration" to serve as a basis for future courses and to be reflected in the Climate Emergency Plan.
- Ensure that there are selective waste bins, recycling storage boxes, and recycling bins in all classrooms and offices in the school.
- Organize the rotating teams of the Groups among the volunteers.
- Post the names of the people in charge of the group on the environmental notice board on a weekly or fortnightly basis.
- To give rules for the solution of the different problems or incidents that may arise.
- Locate advisors in case of possible difficulties.
- Contact with other schools that are carrying out a similar project.
