Making a Difference with School Workshops
Workshops can be run as a standalone class or to coincide with a strand on a curriculum subject, with Green week or as a full course on sustainable development. Workshop examples are below.
Our workshops are tailored to be integrated in to the curriculum with a whole schools approach. It is delivered principally in workshop format, tailored to suit the specific needs of each school and group of students and can be held at both primary and secondary schools.
Climate Talk
Duration: 1H
A keynote speech on climate change and sustainability to educate and empower students to take action
Sustainability Action
Duration: 1H
A workshop to frame sustainability and to motivate taking action, examining what actions can be taken in school and at home (double period or 2 hours)
Plastic Action
Duration: 1H
Transition your school to a single use plastic free campus by engaging students with a step by step action plan.
Biodiversity Loss
Sustainable Transport
Fast Fashion
What is the purpose of our workshops?
Each workshop focuses on facilitating and empowering students to become confident, effective Peer Educators. The workshops provide students with the opportunity to explore local and global topics and to develop and learn NEW skills. By the end of the workshops students will be able to:
Our workshops run for a duration of 90 minutes to 2 hours. Each workshop includes a presentation, a range of interactive activities and ends with the students developing an action project. Topics include climate change, sustainable development, climate justice, plastic pollution, fast fashion, sustainable transport, biodiversity loss, food, soil and taking action.

Know how to stay healthy and communicate effectively

Have an understanding of Sustainable Development from local to global

Be able to carry out effective group work and facilitation

Be able to take action with peers for a more sustainable world

Know the responsibilities of a peer educator
Each student will learn skills to help them and their peers to live more sustainably. The core skills required for Peer Education and the skills required for Education for Sustainable Development include skills to:
- Understand how different systems and issues are connected
- Understand how an issue changes through time
- Critical thinking, problem solving and decision making
- Communication with both peers and adults
- Effective facilitation and group work
- Building self-confidence and self-esteem
- Reflection on the student’s own values and those in the society they live in
- Researching and analyzing information and media
- Planning and completing an action project
- Motivating others to feel part of a movement
Knowledge
In some instances, and particularly for the 10-week climate literacy, students can choose topics that are best suited to their needs. The programme is LEARNER led to promote emotional involvement and empowerment. Using land based learning, students explore issues that are relevant locally and that link to real life and possible actions in their community. Students will also explore how these local issues are linked globally.
Teaching Approach
This ESD programme has a Peer Education approach to teaching and sharing information, values and behavior, providing students with opportunities to become powerful agents for Sustainable Development among their peers and in their communities. The ultimate goal of Peer Education for a Sustainable Development Programme, is that through workshops, action projects and facilitation practice, students will become skilled ‘Peer Educators’ capable of working with groups and managing independent projects together.
Each student will develop and learn new skills to help them and their peers to live sustainably now and in the future. Our programmes cover a range of topics including;

Forests, Agriculture & Water

Happiness

Food and Shelter

Cultural Diversity

Climate change

Trade & Debt

Human Rights

Health and Disabilities

Biodiversity

Poverty

Pollution

Economic, Social & Political

Natural Resource Depletion

Gender Equality

Inclusion
Junior Cycle
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) sits in the framework of the new junior cycle as it has been incorporated into science, geography and Civil, Social & Political Education subjects on the curriculum. I can deliver standalone workshops to support the ESD strands of each subject and I can collaborate with the teacher to design teaching plans that can support ESD topics across the syllabus.
Senior Cycle
Science
- Workshops and teacher collaboration for ESD in science
- Strand One: Science in society,
- Strand Two: Earth and Space: Energy, sustainability
- Strand Three: Chemical World: Sustainability
- Strand Four: Systems & Interactions
- Strand Five: Biological World Systems & Interactions
Civic, Social and Political Education
- Education Workshops and teacher collaboration for full syllabus and action projects. Curriculum ESD highlights, global citizenship and fair trade.
Workshops available to include an introduction to ESD
- Strand One: Introduction to ESD, understanding the complexities of, and synergies between economics, society and the environment and social injustice.
- Strand Two: Project facilitation for active citizenship. These projects can be entered into the relevant body such as Eco UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist or SEAI’s One Good Idea, promoting personal development.
- Strand Three: Human Rights and Responsibilities. Workshop about global justice and human rights with an emphasis on climate change and climate justice.
- Strand four: Sustainable Development. Workshop and teacher support on climate justice, fair trade and poverty.