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.
12 Year Old Children Make Classroom Sales Of €220,000 With JEP
The Junior Entrepreneur Programme (JEP) has launched its 2019 recruitment programme, inviting primary schools across the island to participate in its entrepreneurship programme. The programme centres around primary schoolchildren in 5th and 6th class learning about entrepreneurship and launching classroom businesses. The businesses range from clocks to games to books and solutions for everyday problems. JEP) […]
Tipperary Primary Schools Invited To Apply For Free GIY Pack
GIY and innocent drinks team up to launch the seventh annual food growing initiative, a project that will enable 43,000 primary school children across the country to learn how to grow their own food this spring with ‘The innocent Big Grow’. Primary schools across the country can apply now for a free Big Grow […]
25 Tipperary Schools To Share In €47 Million Summer Works Scheme – Mattie McGrath
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has said he is delighted to confirm that The Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton will today announce the provision of €47 Million through the Summer Works Scheme, to provide for major improvements in primary and post primary schools, 25 of which are in County Tipperary. Deputy McGrath was speaking […]
Entrepreneurs Call on Primary Schools to Sign Up to Junior Entrepreneur Programme
Many of Ireland’s most successful entrepreneurs are calling on primary schools nationwide to participate in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme. The free nationwide programme gives children between the ages of 10 and 12 years a real insight to the business world, by enabling them to convert their commercial ideas into real business opportunities, complete with management […]
