A green school is meant to provide environment-centric learning opportunities to students cutting across various school subjects. Not only, the school building should be full greenery and out-door learning spaces under trees but also must use green technologies and recycling processes.
On the occasion of the World Environment Day (June 5), the schools must seriously work on green school concept and make environmental education a cross-cutting curriculum.
A school is needed to be seen as a living organisation which is more than a physical structure, facilities, timetable, textbooks and teaching-learning material. In fact, the school is a web of relationships and interactions between school and environment (physical, natural and socio-cultural).
When environment is made to offer appropriate learning opportunities, space and time for students to gather firsthand experience and learn from, we make learning environment centric.
According to a document of the NCERT, when in the school, environmental issues and concerns are effectively addressed when all efforts of the staff, students, stakeholders and community are geared towards adopting environmentally sustainable principles at all levels, from planning and decision-making to their execution in the school’s functioning as a part of the daily routine, it becomes a Green School.
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