Courtesy : Shiv nadar school

GREEN SCHOOL AWARD

Green School Program (GSP) is an environmental education programme directed to subtly sensitizing students to the environment through hands-on and thought-provoking activities. It is also an environment management system that audits, through students, the consumption of natural resources within school campuses and help schools become good environmental managers by deploying pragmatic solutions to reduce the wastage of precious resources. GSP is a self-assessment programme in which our school audited the use of resources and map their consumption and wastage. The exercise involved the collection of information under the following heads: Air, Energy, Water, Land, Waste, and Food.

Shiv Nadar School, Noida took part in the audit process in 2016, 2017 and 2019. We started our journey with the help of environment club children in the middle school to collate the information, evidence and conducted a school-wide survey to validate the data given by Administration team. In later years, we reviewed and reflected on our previous year’s performance, devised the strategies to make our school Green by putting the best practices forward. We are delighted to inform that Shiv Nadar School; Noida has been certified as ‘Green’ in the GSP Audit 2019-20. We have been shortlisted in the Green category for the GSP Climate Change Awards from over 1700 schools across the country that submitted the Audit this year and is among top 70 schools in India.

A core team was formed this year constituting teachers across grades and student council members (Primary and Secondary) along with environment club children to monitor the processes and provide us with the documents/data of the best practices and initiatives taking place in school. We are proud of the fact that we have been doing well in the food and waste section and have been able to show good practices being followed. We have also improved our performance graph in the Land, Air, Water and Energy section this year by focusing on sharing the policies and initiatives taken in these sections.