The Transition Year students with Ms. Colum and Kay Maguire from Ballinamore Tidy Towns carried out some community gardening at St. Felims. The students removed the weeds from the window boxes and refilled them with compost. They also tidied up …
Transition Year’s undertook a variety of activities around the area of world hunger and food poverty for their DE Module. They participated in a CONCERN workshop on the area of World Hunger and learnt more about how people in developing…
As part of DE (Development Education) in school this year and to tie in with this years focus theme (World Hunger) the TY’s participated in three workshops over a three week period led by Dorothy Jacob and her daughter Jess…
On Tuesday 3rd March we held our Green Schools Action Day as part of our work on achieving our fourth Green Flag for the theme of TRAVEL. There were a variety of activities on the day to promote greater awareness…
As part of the Development Education (DE) module being carried out in school the Transition Year group participated in a workshop on World Hunger which was facilitated by Claire O Carroll from Concern. Some shocking facts learnt – 1 in…
Dodeca Cycle is an electronic and mechanical music installation designed and built by Ed Devane in 2014. The system allows people to make intricate rhythmic and melodic music. TY students took part in the workshop on the 26th February in…
Fair-trade is an alternative approach to conventional trade and is based on a partnership between some of the most disadvantaged farmers and workers in the developing world and the people who buy their products. Fair-trade offers us a powerful way…
Congrats to all our TY Mini Companies who took part in the Leitrim final of the student enterprise awards today in Carrick on Shannon especially to the company “Krafty Kards” who took home third prize….well done to all and their…
