Mairead O’Shea from See Her Elected (SHE) and Councillor Ita Reynolds-Flynn gave a very informative talk to TYs and Ms Morans Business class yesterday about women in politics and the importance of increasing female participation and representation in politics. Thanks to Leitrim County Library for organising the talk. SHE – See Her Elected Leitrim County Council
Category Archives: Development Education
TY FEAST Workshop
Thanks to Devin from FEAST Ireland for an excellent workshop with our TYs. Through the ‘Food from the Land’ workshop students learned more about the traditions of bread and butter making, about farmed and foraged foods and got the chance to practice some butchery skills with some wild pheasants. Lots of discussions on food sustainability, where our food comes from and a great opportunity for students to taste game meat which they all enjoyed with their freshly baked rolls and butter that they also made.
TY Digital Citizenship Workshop
Being more of a critical thinker about what we see online, how to spot fake news and the agenda’s around why its being spread & asking ourselves what kind of digital footprint do we want to have were just some of the areas discussed in today’s TY digital citizenship workshop. Thanks to Hugh Bergin from Self Help Africa for facilitating the workshop and to Ms Cooney for organising.
TY/Fifth Year Trip to Ploughing Championships
On 19th September, TY and 5th year agricultural science students travelled to the National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Stradbally Co. Laois. Students visited many of the exhibitions including Teagasc, Farmers Journal, Irish Bees Association, Cattle Breed exhibits, Sheep Breed exhibits, Poultry, Pigs and also a talk on the importance of agriculture and sustainability on a Global scale from our President Michael D Higgins. All of this forms part of key learning outcomes for Ty Science, Senior Level agricultural science and Global Citizenship Education.
Fairtrade Fortnight
TY FEAST Workshop
TY’s recently enjoyed a workshop delivered by Devin from FEAST Ireland as part of their global citizenship education class. A fun and informative workshop where students learned about sustainable Irish produce, how the food system affects climate change, food miles, impact that war, famine and brexit has on food availability and the practice of zero waste food. They tasted Irish oysters, granola made from spent grains, kombucha, sourdough and banana skin chutney. The workshop also got students thinking more about the SDG around zero hunger which generated lots of discussion. The workshop was funded through the WorldWise Global Schools programme our school is involved in.
TY Gender Inequality Action Project
As part of their YSI project, with the aid of Angela Horgan from YSI and Aife Kearns from Innovating Communities, the TYs used the Design Thinking approach to develop an action project around awareness of gender inequality. Over the past couple of months, students researched the issue and developed an approach to raise awareness.
This culminated in the group devising a poster campain in the school which outlined important facts and figures around the issue. To encourage students in the school to engage with the campaign, the TYs hosted a quiz last Friday for all junior students, with most of the questions being about information included in the posters.
To encourage engagement with the posters and quiz, the group had previously hosted a bake sale to fund desirable prizes including cinema tickets and easter eggs.
The event was a superb success, with students really enjoying the quiz and learning a lot in the process. No doubt our students will now be able to spread the word and help drive change around this important societal issue into the future.