Michael D Higgins Officially Opens The 2025 Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition In The RDS
The official opening of this years’ BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition took place yesterday with President Michael D Higgins officially welcoming 1,062 students from across the country who braved the treacherous weather conditions to present their projects to a team of 85 judges. Projects were based in areas of science, technology, engineering and math […]
BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2025 Prepares To Welcome 225 Schools From Across Ireland Including 10 From Tipperary
BT Ireland are preparing to celebrate their 25th year as custodians of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition which will be open to the public from Thursday January 9th to Saturday January 11th at the RDS in Dublin. The Young Scientist Exhibition will allow school students of ages 12-19 to showcase their projects based […]
Twenty-Seven Schools Across Tipperary Make Walking Their Main Mode of Transport for ‘National Walk to School Week 2024’
Today marks Green Schools’ National Walk to School Week 2024. For the next five days, pupils and teachers in twenty-seven schools across Tipperary have taken the challenge to make walking their main mode of transportation to and from school. This initiative was set up to promote active transport, healthy living and to create sustainable solutions to […]
Minister for Education Launches New 21st Century Folklore Project for Schools Nationwide
The Minister for Education, Norma Foley has announced the development of a folklore project for national schools across the country. This project will be completed with UCD Library and The National Folklore Collection. Open to all 4,000 primary, secondary and special education school across Ireland the project will be based on a similar venture which […]
Ministers Foley and Naughton launch second year of scheme providing free schoolbooks to over 555,000 primary school children
Minister for Education Norma Foley and Minister for Special Education and Inclusion Hildegarde Naughton have launched a second year of the scheme which will provide free schoolbooks, workbooks and copybooks to students in primary schools and special schools. Over 555,000 students in 3,230 primary and special schools will benefit from the scheme in the […]
Registration for free Grow-Kits from The Big Grow 2021 is now open for Primary School Teachers
Schools may be closed, but innocent and GIY are calling on teachers to sign up for free food growing classroom kits to welcome them back when the doors are open again. Today kicks off the tenth year of The Big Grow, a campaign started by innocent and GIY to get kids growing their own veg […]
Fyffes ‘Fit Squad’ Children’s Fitness Programme Goes Online
Banana importers Fyffes has taken its highly-successful primary schools ‘Fit Squad’ children’s fitness programme online in a series of short videos that can be viewed at home by pupils and parents at www.fyffesfitsquad.ie Each video is hosted by Irish fitness expert Tom Dalton, whose role over the past two years has been to represent Fyffes […]
innocent and GIY ‘Big Grow’ Kits now available for primary schools
innocent’s ‘Big Grow’ is back, recruiting a whole new bunch of the littlest veggie growers with the mission to help kids to eat more fresh fruit and vegetables. Now in its 9th year, innocent will once again partner with the growing experts at GIY and give primary school kids the chance to grow their own […]
Primary Schools have an opportunity to win a School Garden with GIY’s ‘Know It All’ Championship
GIY’s Michael Kelly and Dig in Diner’s Muireann Ní Chíobháin have joined forces with award-winning illustrator Fatti Burke to launch a riotous, fully-illustrated kid’s allmanac guide to growing and cooking food through the year. It is called ‘GIY’s Know-it-Allmanac’ and is a month-by-month guide to growing, cooking and eating food for all the family. To celebrate […]
Tipp Schools Reminder Texaco Children’s Art Competition
Tipperary teachers in primary and second level schools, whose pupils take part in the annual Texaco Children’s Art Competition, are reminded that the closing date for receipt of entries this year is Thursday, 28th February next. Last year over 600 pupils from schools in Co. Tipperary submitted entries to the Competition.
