September 2017: Adding healthy, organic soil in high greenhouses - soil was provided by a local company Unichem. Experts from this company informed the students about the meaning of the healthy and organic soil for food (article was published about the event in the magazine Gaia).

- planting perennials in our outdoor at Tržaška 2 with three wood houses, benches and tables. Lessons of the optional subjects and the beekeeping-gardening group will be happening in the mentioned classroom.

- Working on our herbal bed at Lošca 1: students of optional subject Agricultural works will plant some more herbs and mark them with plastic tablets (these will also be made by students)

- We will plant strawberries and inbetween them we will put garlic, which gets rid of the pests.

- On the bank of the river Ljubljanica we will plant berries (raspberries, blackcurrants ...).

- We will clean birdhouses and hatcheries. In winter time we will prepare bird cakes.

- Sorting composts and preparing fresh compost from leftovers of weed, herbs, mowed grass, leaves.

- students will learn the basics of beekeeping in class, gardening and at the optional subject Agricultural works

- Producing our own seedlings from organic seeds and presenting them at the event »Exchange of seeds and seedlings), which we organize together with the kindergarden Vrhnika.

- We will cover garden beds with straw before winter to protect plants.

- We will cover the bark of fruit trees with lime just before winter frost.

- We will cooperate with the local community (Municipality of Vrhnika, JSKD, market Vrhnika, ZIC…) and with kindergarden Želvica, Vrhnika. Children from the kindergarden Vrhnika take care of our garden during the holidays. Garden will be processed according to organic and permaculture rules using no chemicals; we obsereve the basic rules of crop rotation in the garden; we water our garden beds with rainwater and because we use herbs we create a healthy environment for plants.

- Students eat raw vegetables in the gareden or we use them to prepare vegetable dishes at the school subject »Housekeeping« School eco garden is a joint project of school workers, also technical staff (janitors, cooks…).

The fact is that our town Vrhnika is environmentally very conscious. It was the first Slovene municipality that joined the initiative »Zero waste«.

In September 2017 we hosted an expert from a local recycling center, Mr. Jernej Fefer who is also an independent environmental counsellor. He held an interesting eye-opening lecture and presented how our everyday habits affect climate change and how sustainable attitude is urgently necessary in order to save our planet. We learned a lot of facts and realised how endangered our planet really is.

Mr. Fefer is also the author of independent environmental coursebooks, intended for young learners (mostly recycling topics), but also for older students (global learning – sustainability). Our school will integrate environmental education into the curriculum, using the mentioned coursebooks (grades, 3,4,5 and 8).

http://ebm.si/zw/intro/

This school year we already had one such action where we collected approximately 5 tons of used paper. The recycling center pays for this paper and the money goes to the school fund or to the individual class, who spends the money for final excursions or socially threatened students.

- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Workshop on the concept of the development and its various meanings and who influences our understanding of this concept. Furthermore, we discussed how our perception of sustainable development affects our lifestyles and habits. Workshop also focused on the concept of privilege and power.

- MIGRATIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGES

Climate change already has and will have strong impact on several people who were forced to move from their home country due to the consequences. Workshop also focused on various challenges of the migrations, related to human rights, stereotypes and prejudice.

- I, CONSUMER

Workshop focused on the role of us as consumers. How can we be a part of the problems and also solutions by (ir)responsible choices made in todays modern world.

- FALSE NEWS

The expression »FALSE NEWS« was announced to be the word of the year in 2016. The workshop focused on the phenomenon of spreading false news, which is an old, but in the era of digitalisation also enforced phenomenon. We learnt how to recognise false news and how to authenticate media information.

For the youngest ones: Cartoon »A better world«

- How to save electricity

- Waste handling

- How we get electricity and what are renewable resources

- How effective are we in traffic

- How we heat and efficiently handle heating energy

http://www.trajnostnaenergija.si/Trajnostna-energija/Za-najmlaj%C5%A1e/Risanke

Like many other children around the world, our school as well decided to follow Greta Thunberg's example and strike for the Climate change. First of all, individual teachers familiarized students about her concern and motivated them for the urgent change of our behaviour for the sake of our planet. Thus, we set up a delegation which took part at the main and the first such climate change strike in the capital city of Ljubljana (March 15th 2019), while others (around 100 students) decided to strike on the streets of Vrhnika. They carefully prepared for the event by making banners that they used when marching.