3 private schools in Abu Dhabi win "Leadership" award

Three private schools in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi (Al Bateen Private Science, Private Entrepreneurship, and Abu Dhabi, India) received the School Leadership Award as part of the Sustainable Schools Program implemented by the Environment Agency in Abu Dhabi. Environmental - field trips - training of trainers), within their daily practices.

The Abu Dhabi Environment Agency (EAD) told Emirates Al-Youm that Al-Bateen School has achieved outstanding results in improving environmental performance. The percentage of those who use the means of transportation shared by the school's pioneers is 80%, the green spaces have increased to 37% Recycling all its waste every month, and cooperating in the field of waste management with the leading schools participating in the initiative of sustainable schools, the school has a large number of future plans, including the introduction of renewable energy for the school.

The Authority pointed out that the biggest achievement of the school was the transition from a school adopted and working to gain experience from other schools leaders to a leadership school worked on the implementation of the strategy of planning, implementation and review with the four schools adopted by them: Al-Manhal, and Zabianip private, Said that the school was able to enable the four schools to implement the components of the initiative of the four sustainable schools, and Al Manhal School was able to receive the award of the best school in the field of community awareness.

The leadership school decided to move from being adopted by the Abu Dhabi Indian School to a school that competed with its leadership school and achieved a drop in per capita water consumption to reach three liters per person per day due to awareness and management of gray water. Of the 3,706 individuals, the proportion of green areas has increased, and the resulting waste has been reduced.

She pointed out that Al Rayada School oversees two schools during its participation in the leadership schools school, Al Shahab School and Abu Dhabi International Private School, and presented workshops on the mechanism of implementing the components of the initiative, setting joint plans with its adopted schools, monitoring the performance periodically, The initiative has been fully implemented, resulting in the implementation of the four components of the initiative.

The Abu Dhabi Indian School has been one of the first participants in the Sustainable Schools Initiative since 2009, has achieved several environmental achievements, succeeded in reducing water consumption, increased the proportion of shared transportation use from 89% to 93%, and reduced the monthly electricity bill from 17 Thousand and 648 dirhams to 10 thousand and 511 dirhams in one year.

The school has adopted four schools, including Al Shorouq Private English School, Dunes International Private School, Banha National Private School, Benin and the UAE's Private International Future, and has worked on the mechanism of implementing the components of the initiative and reviewing their reports to ensure that they are in line with the evaluation criteria of the initiative.

Sustainable Schools

The Abu Dhabi Environment Agency (EAD) launched the Sustainable Schools Program in 2009 as a comprehensive school-wide initiative aimed at students, teachers, students and administrators, linking them all to society. Program components require schools to be involved in their environmental impact review; Faculty members to promote the guiding and guiding costs of environmental education through training courses, as well as the establishment and management of environmental clubs in schools to build the capacity of students to identify the important environmental issues that are addressed in the curriculum and Experience the field experience to better understand the environment.

The Sustainable Schools Program has succeeded in providing an innovative model of education for sustainable development by empowering students, developing their skills and leadership abilities to meet the challenges of environmental sustainability.