And they said:

Government Middle School, Buttar Kurd, Moga, Punjab
HARCHARAN SINGH

1. We are doing all chapters simultaneously. Since the number of students involved is large.

2. There are five audit teams in our school, one each for every chapter. Students of classes V, VI and VII are members and I am supervising the Programme.

3. The students are enjoying their work and are developing a new understanding about what is required to save our environment. Particularly students doing the specie audit and waste audit are enjoying their work a lot.

4. We don’t think it is important to come in top 20 ranking. We are happy with what our students are learning and we want to improve our relationship slowly with our limited resources.

KPS Kadma, Jamshedpur
SHANTA VAIDYANATHAN

1. All chapters are being done simultaneously as the audit is a round the year process of which an average is taken for each chapter. This gives us reliable data of how eco friendly the school is.

2. Five teams comprising of children from grade VIII and IX coordinated by the teachers, one each for the five, segments are responsible.

3. Finding ways to bring down energy consumption led to the teachers of Kerala Public School coming to school cycling. Twenty one odd teachers out of 80 and living within the radius of six kilometers sweat it out, which has motivated the children to cycle. It has spread to the other schools too.

4. Giving birth to a thought process in our children, like deciding something as trivial as “should I reuse the paper or simply toss it without guilt.”

St. Pauls school Delhi
SARITA JAIN

1. We are doing all the chapters simultaneously, as five teams are working on the five different resources. Secondly, the project is a continuous process that will spread out the whole year, even after the submission of the report.

2. Five teams are working in our school. In each team there are five students from class VI to class IX. Each team is led by one teacher.

3. All the teacher coordinators have found that children are enjoying auditing their particular resource. They are enthusiastically interviewing gardeners, sweepers, administrative staff and non-teaching staff.

4. “Little Extra” is:
Conducting special assemblies;

Making posters and placards;

putting two dustbins in class;

applying different strategies to conserve and upgrade our resources in school.

TVS school,Tumkur,Tamilnadu
K.LALITHA

1. We are doing all the chapters simultaneously...All students of class VII and VIII (34+27)are involved.

2 Each chapter has a teacher volunteer as the head and a student facilitator.There are 11to12 children of mixed classes in each group.The number of teacher volunteers in each group is three or more.

3. All the group members are highly motivated and participating enthu- siastically.The groups in land and water have a lot of field work to do and the activities are more hands on. There is a lot of informal experiential learning happening in all groups.

4. The school authorities have supported the programme whole heartedly.We are integrating the Green Schools Programme in our curriculum to achieve that ‘little extra ’ in comparison to other schools.

Achyut Patwardhan School, Rajghat Fort,Varanasi
MAHADEV

1. We have taken up all the chapters simultaneously.Taking one aspect, after another,leads to loss of time.

2. We have five groups headed by teacher coordinators and supported by administration staff.Each group consists of at least 10 students to carry out the programme.

3. As of now,we have begun collecting the data.We are not in a position to audit any of these groups. However,there is enthusiasm among students in whatever portion of work they are engaged in.

4. The very fact that we have taken up all the chapters simultaneously, given the limited time,is the “little extra ” that we are doing to accomplish our aim to be amongst top 20 schools in the next year.

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