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Mother Seton School Recertified as Sabillasville

a 2018 Maryland Green School Elementary

Courtesy Photo School Class
Mother Seton
School (MSS) is Wins Prize for
pleased to announce
that the Maryland Video Entry
Association for
Environmental and The fifth grade class from
Outdoor Education Sabillasville Elementary won the
(MAEOE) has class prize for their entries into
recertified MSS as a the Classmates4life video contest.
2018 Maryland Green Students created public service
School. Maryland announcements to persuade
Green Schools are students not to use illegal drugs,
part of a national and to highlight the dangers of
and international drug abuse.
community of
sustainable green
schools. There are Mother Seton School Green School Coordinator Danielle Kuykendall
618 active Maryland gives a hands-on lesson in environmental science to her seventh-grade
students.
Green Schools, over
27 percent of all Maryland schools, a 2 percent growth from 2017. MSS was the
first Catholic school in Frederick Country to receive Green School certification,
having first been certified in 2009.
The Maryland Green Schools program encourages educational opportunities
for Pre-K–12 schools that increase awareness and understanding of
environmental relationships that impact public health and the local community.
A few of the initiatives adopted by MSS include lunchtime composting, the
Monarch Waystation, and integration of the Trout in the Classroom program,
where seventh-grade students raise trout from eggs to fingerlings before releasing
them into the wild.
“Our recertification demonstrates our commitment to teaching our students
values such as stewardship, that we are responsible for God’s creation and have a
duty to protect and care for the earth,” said Mother Seton School Principal Sister
Brenda Monahan, D.C.