All GREEN Schools projects

Archbishop O'Leary students of Grades 10, 11, and 12 took part in the North Saskatchewan River Valley Cleanup opening event. Thousands of people from the whole city of Edmonton participated in this initiative that it's been organized for many years by the City of Edmonton. Our students didn't want to miss the opportunity of volunteering for their city and to help keep our...

Archbishop O'Leary Students are taking good care of the air-purifier plants in the school. Their Pothos and Snake Plants are watered every week by groups of students so that our plants can continue helping us to keep our air clean of toxics and we can prevent asthma and other respiratory problems in our school community.

Archbishop O'Leary students have started their own Indoor Garden. With the help of student teachers Stephen Balchan, Helena Heise, and teachers Jennifer Mac Cormac y Macarena Alamo Santos, very soon we will be able to collect delicious tomatoes, lettuce and basil grown in our own school. Using a Tower Garden has allowed us all to learn about the the hydroponic system of growing fruit and...

Students in Grade 5 care for red wiggler worms, composting food waste from their snacks and lunches, and using shredded newspaper and Scholastic book order forms to help balance the compost. Students harvest the compost to use in their indoor classroom garden.

Archbishop O’Leary students and teachers participated in this year’s Outdoor Way of the Cross with a strong message against climate change. Archbishop O’Leary and its Braided Journeys’ Program organized a station at Ambrose Place where students read a message in support of safe communities and ecological action. Ambrose Place houses chronically homeless Indigenous. There, students and teachers...

Archbishop O’Leary High School was the only school in Edmonton selected to participate in the Youth Environmental Leadership Summit 2016. With a team of four students, Mai Huynh, Precious Abidogun, Audrey Law, and Jenny Le, and two teachers, Jennifer Mac Cormac and Macarena Alamo Santos, Archbishop O’Leary represented the North Saskatchewan River Basin in this unique event.Teams of two...

Sara Farid, from Development and Peace, joined the Green Team at Archbishop O'Leary High School to rise awareness about the effects of climate change around the world. Through this participatory activity called Climate Balloons, O'Leary students analyzed the local human causes of climate change and its negative global impacts. They also had the chance to proposed individual and...

Grade 4 Young Citizen team initiated a classroom composting program in which the team educated and supported their fellow classmates. They collect the organic waste from each classroom and store them in large organic bins. These bins are later sent to a regional organic processing site.