All GREEN Schools projects

Mrs. Fister’s 4/5 Art class created new Christmas ornaments with old Christmas and birthday wish cards. The entire community actually participated in the project since they were asked to send their cards to school.

Staff decided to paint many of the bulletin boards this year instead of covering with paper. The boards are fantastic, staff used cans of paint that they had at home that just had some paint left. This was great because instead of having to dispose of the extra paint that wasn't quite enough for a large project, it could be used for our boards. Recycling and saving paper at the same time...

Room 16 + 18 Kindergarten class had a class lesson learning about the importance of plants. Students learned about parts of the plant and how plants grow. Students got to see and taste different types of fruits and vegetables. They learned what plants need to grow.

We developed a school wide Garden. Our school community came to help build the garden boxes and fill the boxes with dirt. Each classroom has a garden box as well as there are 10 boxes available for the community to grow food.

We began work on our outdoor classroom in the fall of 2015 securing funding and planning out what we wanted accomplish. By the fall of 2016 we completed our initial phase of the project. We wanted to turn an underused portion of our school field that held a small grove of trees into an outdoor classroom that our students could learn in.

We planted over 60 plants native to Alberta in...

Members of the O'Leary community noticed that the schoolyard needed to be cleaned up after the melt of winter's snow. In response to this, students went outdoors to pick up trash on the school grounds in order to give it the cleaning it needed.

Archbishop O'Leary students met with members of Development and Peace to learn about Canadian mine companies, the effects they have in communities around the world, and the pollution and destruction of the environment this activity usually causes. They also learned about the actions we can take from our schools and homes to ask Canadian mine companies to respect Human Rights and...

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...