All GREEN Schools projects

Carlos and Jemi have created an original and practical wallet out of chip bags. With the guidance of Mrs Kutcher and the skills that Carlos learned in his homecountry Colombia, these two students from Archbishop O'Leary High School are encouraging everybody in the school to use their brilliant idea to help in two different ways: carry our cash and cards in a more comfortable way and reuse our...

Grade 11 and 12 students in Archbishop O'Leary High School have organised, with the help of Macarena Alamo Santos, a schoolyard cleanup to have their school area ready for Spring and Summer time! Equipped with gloves, garbage, and recycling bags, these students are taking care of the green spaces and strengthening their school recycling system at the same time.

Hi. This is the Every Day is Earth Day Green Team. We are very new to this program and we would like to share with you our first project. We are doing a Worm Compost. For the past 2 meetings, we have been sorting red wriggler worms. Red wriggler worms are a type of composting worms. They die when they get to hot and like darker, cool, spaces. We plan on now composting...

Archbishop O’Leary High School has renewed its whole recycling system in the hallways and common spaces. Mr. Iwaszko, Head Custodian was in charge of a group of students who volunteered to help distribute the new garbage and bottle bins in the whole school. 

Ms. Lacroix and her Social Studies students incorporate environmental problems in their “Current Events” monthly assignments. This month, the key issue the students worked on was how important it is to study pre historical animals that populated the Earth a long time ago, and to relate this research to how to take care of the endangered species that we now have, before they become extinct, as...

Archbishop O´Leary High School is determined to create a world-class recycling system. But that is an objective that needs to be done step by step and with all the O´Leary Community involvement. In order to contribute to that, Ms. Alamo Santos and her Grade 11 students decided to help out with the recycling system in each classroom. The old garbage and paper bins can be transformed into new...

More than forty students of Grades 11 and 12 participated in The Story of Stuff Project with Ms. Alamo Santos. Her Religion classes are focused on raising environmental awareness and on our role as Earth Stewards. The main objective of the Story of Stuff Project is to create a society based on sharing, and not on selfishness, and on buildng community together, not division; and those are the...

Madison Bessette is one of Mrs. Ziarko’s best students in Fashion Design 20. She is using all her creativity and effort to transform her aunt’s old wedding dress into her Graduation Gown, which she will proudly wear in her Grad Ceremony this year. Madison’s aunt’s wedding dress had been under her grandpa’s staircase for more than 16 years, but now, with Madison’s sewing skills and her...