On Saturday, 4th June, over the very Seaman's Day weekend, there was
\nFun and games in the good weather at the Nor\u00f0urberg nursery school. The annual summer festival was held at
\nthe nursery school and in addition, the nursery school was presented with the Green Flag for the seventh time for
\nrecognition of the nursery's environmental policy. A representative from Landvernd, Katr\u00edn
\nMagn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir presented the flag to the Children's Council, and they, along with guests, walked,
\nFollow the team to the nursery school's flagpole and raise the flag. There was a lot going on.
\nThe group enjoyed the fine weather, as there was much on offer, such as music, art, waffles and planting.<\/p>\n
The Green Flag is an environmental award that is respected worldwide as a symbol of good environmental education and environmental policy in schools. The flag is awarded to
\nschools following projects intended to raise awareness among students, teachers and
\nFamilies on environmental issues. This winter, the nursery worked with the theme \u201eConsumption\/Plastic Consumption\u201c. The aim of the project was to minimise all
\nthe use of plastic in daily life and make children and adults more aware of
\nits harm to the environment. All age groups worked on a variety of tasks.
\nover the winter. The staff of the eldest children went to
\nCooperation with the children's homes with a small homework task. All the children received it for free.
\na reusable shopping bag (thanks to Sorpu) and took it home along with an instruction for
\nthe parents about what the project entailed. They were to collect all the plastic that came
\ninto the home for three days and put it in the bag and bring it to the nursery on
\nOn the fourth day, the group met, went over what had come in the bag and packed it into Perspex boxes.
\nfor all to see. The delicacies were weighed and it was found that each family
\ngenerates just over 29 kg of plastic each year! The nursery school has 137
\nfamilies and these families therefore release a combined total of approximately 4 tonnes of plastic on
\na year! A very high figure, especially in light of the fact that plastic does not decompose in soil and
\nis a significant threat to wildlife and nature. Part of the winter's project was to
\ndiscuss what could replace plastic and whether plastic always needed to be used. Those who worked on the project found that much could be done to
\nto curb the amount of plastic, use reusable shopping bags, for example, avoid putting vegetables and fruit in plastic bags, choose products based on
\nthe amount of packaging and by recycling the plastic and trying to reuse it
\nas much as possible of the plastic that comes with consumer goods. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Laugardaginn 4. j\u00fan\u00ed, \u00e1 sj\u00e1lfri sj\u00f3mannadagshelginni, var l\u00edf og fj\u00f6r \u00ed g\u00f3\u00f0a ve\u00f0rinu \u00ed leiksk\u00f3lanum Nor\u00f0urbergi. \u00c1rleg sumarh\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0 var \u00ed leiksk\u00f3lanum og a\u00f0 auki f\u00e9kk leiksk\u00f3linn afhentan Gr\u00e6nf\u00e1nann \u00ed sj\u00f6unda skipti\u00f0 fyrir vi\u00f0urkenningu \u00e1 umhverfisstefnu leiksk\u00f3lans. Fulltr\u00fai fr\u00e1 Landvernd, Katr\u00edn Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir, afhenti Umhverfisr\u00e1\u00f0i barna f\u00e1nann og gengu \u00feau, \u00e1samt gestum, fylgtu li\u00f0i a\u00f0 f\u00e1nast\u00f6ng leiksk\u00f3lans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13042"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}