Climate School
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In November 2012 we received the quality seal for the first time: “Climate School”!
Since then we have successfully reapplied every two years and may carry this title until 2022.
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At the 2016 award ceremony, after a speech by Hamburg’s environmental senator Kerstan, a plaque and a certificate were presented to the Klimaschulen. For the Gymnasium Rahlstedt, Janna, Luca and Fine (left to right) accepted this award. They have also in recent years repeatedly engaged as climate ambassadors for our school at various events.
In 2018 representatives of Gymnasium Rahlstedt were allowed to accept the honorary certificate as a Climate School at the town hall.
Award Climate School Rathaus 2016
The Climate School Gymnasium Rahlstedt was even in the press in September 2019.
A school can become a Climate School if it works systematically and together with the school community to reduce school CO2 emissions. In addition, it must pedagogically integrate the topic of “climate protection” and develop a plan for it.
Hamburg climate schools document, via the Climate Protection Plan, how they contribute to achieving Hamburg’s climate protection goals. They have developed a voluntary self-commitment with concrete targets and measures for the coming years. The schools are supported in implementing these measures by the LI department “Environmental Education and Climate Protection” in close cooperation with the staff of fifty/fifty at School Construction Hamburg.
Further information: https://li.hamburg.de/klimaschule/
Concretely, we at Gymnasium Rahlstedt carry out actions and projects in the seven areas of action for climate protection at schools and strive to continuously engage critically with in everyday school life what possibilities for climate protection we have at the school or in the district.
A special role is played by the Klimascouts of the classes, who are the direct points of contact for the environmental group and the environmental-AG. Klimascouts can pass information to their class, report on projects/competitions, and especially remind their classmates from time to time that the classroom should look tidy and that climate-friendly behavior is important.
The environmental and climate group of the teachers consists of Ms. Gebauer, Ms. Ommler, Ms. Wedmann, Mr. Gedaschko, Mr. Hagelstein, Mr. Hencke, Mr. König and Ms. Schümann. Suggestions, requests, criticism and questions are gladly received from the members of this group.
Parents and all other members of the school community should also be more extensively involved in projects. Together we as a school community want to realize the goals of our climate protection plan and make transparent decisions, such as in the school’s Climate Council, which regularly meets. In the Climate Council we discuss which projects, wishes and actions should be financially supported from the environmental and climate sector. As a Climate School we receive special funds, win prize money in competitions, and can obtain money through our savings, e.g. from the fifty / fifty project. All members of the school community may submit applications.
The application can be downloaded here.
Information on fifty/fifty: https://li.hamburg.de/fifty-fifty/
Inside and outside of teaching, our students, together with their teachers, are involved in climate observation and global solutions in climate protection (participation in the international GLOBE project). With support from the Institute for Weather and Climate Communication, a 10-meter-high weather station was installed on our campus in 2008. It has since moved to the outdoor area behind our administrative building and onto the building itself. Several times a day, central weather data (precipitation, wind, temperature, UV radiation, etc.) are transmitted to the TV station Hamburg 1 and to Hamburger Abendblatt to, together with data from other Hamburg districts, provide the basis for the daily weather report and to provide current data for the corresponding lessons, e.g., in geography.
Gymnasium Rahlstedt has been a GLOBE school since 1996. Since August 1997 there is GLOBE as a standalone subject in the middle school. A focus is the renaturation of the Wandse as part of our stream sponsorship.
We are currently applying to become Environmentally Friendly School in Europe / International Agenda 21 School. This is a call for proposals by the international environmental education organization Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE). In Germany, FEE is represented by the German Association for Environmental Education. We have submitted a project on waste separation and another project in the area of “fair and sustainable consumption.” In 2019 we will find out whether we will receive this award and may then also call ourselves Environmental School.
Further information: https://li.hamburg.de/umwelterziehung/umweltschule/
- Go to the “Environmentally Friendly School” section (from 2019)
- Go to our Climate Protection Plan, September 2018
- Go to the application to the Climate Council
- Go to the Environmental AG
- Go to information about our projects and actions on environmental and climate protection
- Go to the school collection
- Go to our weather station
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