Borský Mikuláš elementary school invites the public to participate in the active mobility and green facilities at Borský Mikuláš elementary school project kick-off meeting. The meeting will be held on Friday 21th of May 2021 at 8.00 in the school's provisions. The main goal of the conference is to promote the project and activities related in addition to that.

The project is implemented within the SK-Klíma "Mitigation and adaptation of the climate change" programme financed by the Financial Mechanism of the EEA and Financial Mechanism of Norway in the 2014-2021 period.

Should you observe the meeting, please use the following link: 

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International Earth Day has been celebrated every 22nd of April since 1970. The main goal of activities is to emphasise the importance of environmental protection, which quality is crucial for sustainable existence on Earth. This topic was the main driver of activities during the entire week from the 19th of April to the 23rd of April 2021.

Earth Week in our school focused not only on theoretical educational activities but pupils and children took part personally as well by collecting waste and cleaning up respective flower beds and terrain to plant new plants.

All of us contributed to a better environment, and all of us hope that these activities will remain carried on in the future within the ClimaEdu project.

Parents were informed about the active mobility and green facilities at Borský Mikuláš elementary school project during the parent-teacher conference held on the 16th of September 2021. The conclusions of the analytical part of The school sustainable mobility plan were presented shortly afterwards. 

More than 120 parents were present at the parent-teacher conference to hear the essential information on the project and conclusions of the analytical survey directly from Cyklokoalícia, a project partner. The parents were informed about the project's goals and were explained the primary principles of fostering sustainable mobility at the school level. The plan includes recommendations based on the data. The project is to continue in the form of infrastructure proposals to increase transport safety in the municipality.

The project underway can be found here:Školský plán mobility prvá časť

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During the Bike to school 2021 campaign, which our school actively participates in, a ride of pupils and teachers over the streets of Borský Mikuláš was held. Besides, the ride was one of the milestones of the ClimaEdu project implemented thanks to promotion by the Norway Grants and the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic. Predominantly, our school focuses on sustainable transport as it may be perceived as the primary contributor to deteriorated air quality and catalyses climate change.

As the weather was nice, 150 cyclists were escorted by two cargo bikes in charge of the musical ambience. Cyklokoalícia, the project partner, provided the cargo bikes that aroused pupils' curiosity since they are still scarce in Slovakia. A brief speech wrapped up the ride.

Our primary school became in October 2021 the winner of the nationwide To School by Bike campaign as the school with the highest attendance among schools with more than 300 students. This is the best result for the school so far in this campaign. We are all the more pleased that it was successful in the competition of more than 350 schools from all over Slovakia.

The result is a clear proof that the topic of sustainable student mobility has been domesticated at our school for a long time. We are definitely pleased that the Active Mobility and Green Facilities project at Borský Mikuláš Primary School is a significant success in the first year of its implementation. The topic of green mobility has long been popular at our school. The overall result of 1,783 trips to school during the two weeks of the campaign is a significant contribution to climate protection, less air pollution, and better health for our students. If our students went to school by car instead of on a bicycle or scooter during the campaign, they would generate about 530 kilograms of carbon dioxide.

Within the activity 2 Units to dam the water, there were installed two plastic tanks near both buildings of the school in November 2021. These are aimed to collect rain-water which will flow from roofs of both buildings. Each of the tank has a cubage of 2.3 m³. Overflowing water will be taken away onto grassy area by catch-drains.

The main benefit of building such units is to lower consequences of climate changes. Collected rain-water will be used to water attached grassy areas.

Secondary effect of building the units is to solve the problem with free flowing out rain-water which flows from gutters situated on the building onto an asphalt area, which meant a danger of slip mainly in winter months.

Total costs of building units to dam water represents amount of 1,600€.

As part of the Active Mobility and Green Facilities project at Primary School Borský Mikuláš financed by Norwegian financial mechanism, we implemented additional physical measures in March 2022.

Between the 2nd pavilion and the school club workshop building we planted three pieces of ornamental Acer platanoides Globosum trees (Globular milk maple). In this way, we try to mitigating the impact of climate change on the environment as well.

We are already looking forward to how the newly planted trees will protect us from the strong sunlight in classrooms which windows face this space. But until then, we have to save the trees, take care of them and water them responsibly, so that this wish comes true for us as soon as possible.

World Earth Day is commemorated every year on April 22, since 1970. This day is focused to protect the environment, to which we can contribute by careful sorting and recycling waste, saving water and electricity, limiting the use of means of transport and detergents or not wasting food. Even the pupils of our school are aware of threats to nature and the environment, therefore they actively participated in the environmental activities organized during Earth Week from 25^th to 29^th April 2022. These eco-activities took place in classes, in the school club, school yard and in school surroundings. During this week, all classes started planting ornamental or useful plants in flower beds in the new Green Oasis, which was created on an unused area behind the workshop building. By planting plants from seeds and transplants, the students contributed not only to the beautification of the school yard, but also to the creation of a new climatic element and ecosystem, and hereby to an increase in biodiversity.

On May 18-19, 2022, the Cycletowns 2022 Conference - on mobility and quality of life in cities and towns, organized by the boys from the Cyclo - coalition, which our school has been cooperating for many years with, was held in the beautiful surroundings of the garden right on the town square in Trnava.

Many guests took the stage with their contributions, presenting the possibilities of improving transport in cities and towns, and there were also foreign guests.

We were honored by participation of our teacher Mgr. Vlasta Vajdová who presented the way how our children go to school, what successes we have achieved and regularly achieve, how we try to improve traffic conditions in front of the school, etc. This way as well, we as a school, could present ourselves and prove that we care about the healthy lifestyle and movement of our children.

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Cyclocoalition

To school by bike

Bicycles and students of our school simply belong together. Every year, for several years now, we have been successful in the nationwide Bike to School project. Therefore, even now, we have called on all students and employees of our school to join a campaign. During the days from 17^th October to 27^th October 2022 they went to school by bicycle. Of course, in order to encourage the pupils to commute by bicycle regularly- we have prepared a Peter Sagan card for them again, so called - CYCLE- EXCUSE. We marked, added, and sent the number of cyclists every day, and now we are just waiting for the results of the competition.

We regularly publish photos of our full bike racks on our website and on the project website. The current healthy lifestyle is closely linked to movement, and cycling is a kind of movement as well. And why do we "Búrania" ride our bikes to school? Because it's obvious and completely usual for us :-)

We strongly believe that our students will continue riding bikes to get to school because we all know that cycling is healthy, fast and environmentally friendly.

On 13^th December 2022 during Technology classes, Ing. Miroslav Mihál introduced a presentation on the topic of How a bicycle works, followed by a discussion, all of this in three classes (9A, 9B and 8A) Pupils thus had the opportunity to learn about the history of the bicycle, its construction, maintenance and the mandatory equipment that a bicycle must have when riding on public roads. In the discussion, students presented their own experiences with using a bicycle.

We believe that also this way we will contribute to even greater use of this means of transport to commute to school as well as for sports use.