All GREEN Schools projects

It's Spring in Sokcho! And spring means beautiful cherry blossoms come out all around our mountainous home! The Grades 1-5 students went outside for one afternoon in the beautiful sunshine with their art paper, oil pastels and clipboards and created masterpieces of their favourite cherry blossoms around Youngnangho Lake! The perfect way to bring in Spring!

The grade 4/5 class has been studying the weather and what causes weather to change. Wind is one aspect we have focused on to learn about the changes in weather. We spent time researching how wind is created through movement of air due to pressure. To follow up, we have studied how we measure wind, and to do so we made our own pinwheels and anemometers. We spent some time practicing counting...

The Grade 4/5 class is learning about weather and how different factors affect weather. In this experiment we were learning about how clouds are formed and how rain falls. This experiment had the students counting the amount of drop of water collected in their cloud before it began to rain. It was demonstrating that clouds are heavy with water and that cloud collect water vapour before they...

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...