EcoSchools Canada

📸✨ Congratulations to the 2025–26 Bondar Challenge winners!
With more than 700 entries this year, students across Canada set a new participation record, and the results are stunning.

Explore the winning photographs and artist statements at ecoschools.ca

Proudly presented in collaboration with EcoSchools Canada, Edge Imaging School Photography, and The Roberta Bondar Foundation

IT'S TODAY! We’re so excited to celebrate an incredible year of environmental action with students from across Canada.

⏰ 12:00 PM ET
📍 Live on YouTube

Tune in and join the celebration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwv4MtOOw2w

🎉 Celebrate a record‑breaking year of environmental learning and action!
With more schools than ever participating in the EcoSchools program, we’re excited to wrap up the year together at our Virtual Certification Celebration.
📅 June 18, 2026 (English only)
⏰ 12:00 PM ET — via YouTube
👥 All K–12 EcoTeams across Canada
(The French session will take place on June 17)
Learn more and register at ecoschools.ca

🎉 Rappel : Célébration ÉcoÉcoles aujourd’hui! 🎉
Joignez‑vous à nous pour célébrer une année record d’action environnementale.

📅 17 juin 2026
⏰ 12 h (HE) — sur YouTube
👥 Pour toutes les ÉcoÉquipes du Canada

[Note: The English Celebration Event will be tomorrow, June 18, at 12:00PM ET]

Regardez ici ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6la71N6c5g

🎉 Célébrez une année record d’apprentissage et d’action pour l’environnement!
Avec un nombre jamais vu d’écoles participantes au programme ÉcoÉcoles, nous avons hâte de clôturer l’année ensemble lors de notre événement virtuel de célébration.
📅 17 juin 2026 (en français seulement)
⏰ 12 h 00 (heure de l'Est) — sur YouTube
👥 Toutes les ÉcoÉquipes de la maternelle à la 12e année à travers le Canada
(La session en anglais aura lieu le 18 juin)
Pour en savoir plus et vous inscrire, rendez-vous sur ecoschools.ca/fr

🎉 Congratulations to our 2025–2026 EcoTeam Award winners! 🌱 These schools showed incredible leadership and creativity in driving environmental action across Canada:

🏆 Elementary (1st): Donald Cousens Public School
🥈 Elementary (2nd): Green Glade Sr. Public School
🏆 Secondary (1st): Pauline Johnson Collegiate and Vocational School
🥈 Secondary (2nd): Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School

Special Mentions:
🍃Kettle Creek Public School
🍃Doncrest Public School Richmond Hill
🍃St. Christopher Catholic Elementary School

Thank you for your commitment to sustainability!

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🎉 Félicitations à nos écoles récipiendaires des prix de reconnaissance ÉcoÉquipes Étoiles 2025-2026 ! 🌱 Ces écoles ont fait preuve d'un leadership et d'une créativité incroyables pour stimuler l'action environnementale à travers le Canada :

🏆 Primaire (1er) : École publique Donald Cousens
🥈 Primaire (2e) : École publique Green Glade
🏆 Secondaire (1er) : École Pauline Johnson
🥈 Secondaire (2e) : École secondaire Marshall McLuhan

Special Mentions:
🍃 École Martingrove Collegiate Institute
🍃 École Whistler Waldorf
🍃 École secondaire Paul-Hubert de rimouski

Merci pour votre engagement envers la durabilité !

Happy ! 🌬️
Huge shoutout to everyone who participated in our Clean Air Challenge! 🏆
Thank you for raising awareness and taking action, your efforts are helping create healthier school environments across Canada.

📸 St. Matthew, Binbrook
📸 Central Toronto Academy, Toronto

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Bonne ! 🌬️
Un immense merci à toutes les personnes qui ont participé à notre Défi Air pur! 🏆
Merci de sensibiliser votre entourage et de passer à l’action, vos efforts contribuent à créer des environnements scolaires plus sains partout au Canada.

📸 St. Matthew, Binbrook
📸 Central Toronto Academy, Toronto

Healthy Canadians, Canadiens en santé

🎉 Celebrate a record‑breaking year of environmental learning and action!
With more schools than ever participating in the EcoSchools program, we’re excited to wrap up the year together at our Virtual Certification Celebration.

📅 June 18, 2026 (English only)
⏰ 12:00 PM ET — via YouTube
👥 All K–12 EcoTeams across Canada
(The French session will take place on June 17)

Learn more and register at ecoschools.ca

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🎉 Célébrez une année record d’apprentissage et d’action pour l’environnement!
Avec un nombre jamais vu d’écoles participantes au programme ÉcoÉcoles, nous avons hâte de clôturer l’année ensemble lors de notre événement virtuel de célébration.

📅 17 juin 2026 (en français seulement)
⏰ 12 h 00 (heure de l'Est) — sur YouTube
👥 Toutes les ÉcoÉquipes de la maternelle à la 12e année à travers le Canada
(La session en anglais aura lieu le 18 juin)

Pour en savoir plus et vous inscrire, rendez-vous sur ecoschools.ca/fr

Indoor gardens are becoming a useful tool in classrooms. Check out Plantaform’s article on how indoor growing supports lessons in food systems, sustainability, and everyday science, while giving students opportunities to observe plant development, track growth, monitor progress, and take responsibility for a living system.

Read the blog post here: https://plantaform.ca/blogs/home/why-schools-are-choosing-the-plantaform-indoor-garden

EcoSchools can also access a limited‑time educational offer: $150 off plus 25% off 1‑year growing kits through June. A great opportunity to bring more hands‑on learning into the classroom. Visit the EcoSchools Market to learn more.

EcoSchools in ! 🌱
Are you, or a high school youth you know, interested in joining the 2026 Collaborative High School Action & Mentorship Program (CHAMP)?

CHAMP includes a four-day action-packed, experiential learning camp from August 16–19, followed by fall extra–curricular activities: five in-person weekend leadership days, and five online action project support sessions. Participants will learn new skills, meet other youth sustainability leaders from across the region, connect with nature, and enhance their knowledge on how to create change within Metro Vancouver schools and communities.

Apply today! https://registration.metrovancouver.org/youth4action/Pages/CHAMP.aspx

🚨 Application Deadline Extended! 🚨

There’s still time to join next fall’s Collaborative High School Action & Mentorship Program (CHAMP), Metro Vancouver’s youth leadership initiative designed to help you turn your ideas into real-world impact — in your school and beyond.

This program is open to students entering Grade 10–12 in the fall.

As part of CHAMP, you’ll:
🤝 Connect with youth from across the region
🌱 Create a sustainability action project that reflects your interests
🦸‍♂️ Learn from our inspiring mentors and through fun experiences

NEW DEADLINE: June 1.
Apply now via the LINK IN BIO.

Huge congratulations to the incredibly talented winners of the Photography category in the 2026 YRE Canada National Competition! 🏆

From striking contrasts of nature to powerful reflections on how climate change threatens our global food systems, these young photographers (ages 11-14 and 15-18) are using their lenses to investigate critical environmental issues.

🌱 Check out the 2026 YRE Winners and see the world through their eyes!
ecoschools.ca/yre/winners-2026/