Green-Schools, known internationally as Eco-Schools, is an international environmental education programme, environmental management system and award scheme that promotes and acknowledges long-term, whole school action for the environment.

Unlike a once-off project, it is a long-term programme that introduces participants (students, teachers, parents and the wider community) to the concept of an environmental management system. 

St. John's N.S have a long and proud association with the Green- Schools Programme and are currently working on our sixth flag: Global Citizenship - Litter and Waste. A Green Flag is awarded to a school every two years and we are currently in our second year of working on this theme. We are actively trying to reduce the amount of waste we send to landfill every day and have set ourselves a target of reducing our landfill waste by 20%. The Green- School Committee closely monitor the types of waste in our bins and encourage pupils and all staff members to dispose of waste in the correct bin and to bring landfill waste home.