By Jane Hackett The landscape of our streets has changed dramatically since the 2020 lockdown. We noticed the sudden overnight flip from the din sound of whizzing traffic to the sounds of insects and birds reclaiming space. Movement was slowed, yet not before long, there has been a positive influx of cyclists taking to the […]
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El Villar esplanade, full of trees
Just a bunch of pics to ilustrate what’s the esplanade like currently after three days planting trees. Congrats everybody!
Our Erasmus project, part of Cyclist.ie highlights and achievements
By Damien O’Tuama Our Irish partner and friend Damien sends the highlights and achievements of Cyclist.ie (Irish cycling advocacy group). Thanks for including our Erasmus project among your most important events and achievements of the last two years! International Engaging through the European Cyclists’ Federation on EU level processes related to mobility and road safety. https://ecf.com/ […]
Green-Schools premier Ireland’s first Travel Conference for schools
On November 18th 2020, Green-Schools Travel launched the first-ever Travel Conference for both primary and secondary schools nationwide. The conference was proudly supported by the Department of Transport and the The National Transport Authority The much-anticipated conference, which had been due to take place earlier in March, was delivered virtually on a televised-style platform to a wide network of Green-Schools schools. […]
Planting trees is so fun!
By Elaine Acosta and Luis Andía Riccobene Today, Thursday, December 3 (and Navarra’s Day) we have resumed planting trees in Villar esplanade, this time in another area. At 10:00 in the morning we started working! Before we arrived Biciclistas de Corella, the organizers of the workshop, were making the measures to place the trees well […]
My first planting workshop
By Aitana Ayuso Torres I went with my friends to plant lots of trees in El Villar’s esplanade on Saturday, November 28th. We went to the Villiar at 10 a.m. biking or walking and we started to work. We worked hard to plant 151 trees: ashes, maple trees, acacias… 30 people collaborated to plant, 15 […]
First visit to nursing home since lockdown
Toño Peña, our Erasmus coordinator, has visited today San José nursing home in Corella and their lovely and kind residents. Yolanda, one of the caretakers, asked him to give a helping hand with the tree inventory. They hadn’t seen each other since late February, when we had our last trishaw ride. No wonder the enthusiast […]
Erasmus boards
We’ve just set up two Erasmus boards in the main entrance of Alhama High School. The real boards will be displayed in Erasmus Park, 1 km from our school, very soon. Besides, we’ve set up two more board explaining the «Ruta saludable y cultural del Alhama» (Alhama Healthy and Cultural Trail). This trail was actually […]
Elders pitch in with tree inventory
3rd and 4th ESO students in Alhama High School have noted down the number of trees and their species on Corella’s streets. Unfortunately, they couldn’t get in the nursing home because of Covid. Anyway, several elders of San José Retirement Home have found a way to help us with the tree inventory of Corella. So […]
Sustainable Travel conference: Ireland’s 2040 Vision
The theme of the conference, which takes place on November 18, is Ireland’s 2040 Vision and students have an opportunity to learn about sustainable travel, the Sustainable Development Goals, air quality and many more topics. There are two conferences taking place on Wednesday, November 18 as follows: Primary School Conference – November 18 at 10am-11am – for 3rd – 6th class […]