Global Citizenship assembly

We had an assembly recently to celebrate the hard work the children had been doing to be better global citizens.

Green School members!

The Green School members all talked about Fair Trade and Global Citizenship. They were super!

All the children designed 'Freddie the Flag' which will be our Global Citizenship flag. The overall winner was Alanah. Well done Alanah! And well done to all the other finalts. Everyone did a great job!

Alanah in Senior Infants-the overall winner :)

Aisling, Alanah, Beth and Dara

Each class received a Global Citizenship Award. Here is Jacob and Daniel from Mrs. Bowe's class holding their award and  Fair Trade tag.

Global Citizenship

We have been working hard lately working towards our sixth Green Flag for Global Citizenship. The children have been learning all about it. 

What is Global Citizenship?

Some people are citizens of Ireland and some are citizens of Ireland and other countries. Even though people may come from other countries we are all equal.  We are all different. We have different talents and we all like different things. But it is really important to remember that we are ALL still equal and we all belong to the same world.

We are all different but equal.

This bar chart shows all the different nationalities in our school. 

Fair Trade

By choosing to buy Fair Trade products, we can be better Global Citizens. Ghana is one of the top producers of cocoa in the world and being a cocoa farmer is hard work. Some greedy, local cocoa buyers will try and ‘fix’ the scales giving farmers unfair prices. Fair Trade has made sure that Ghana’s cocoa farmers get better prices for their cocoa crops. Here are other Fair Trade products. 

Here is our Green School/Fair Trade board. Many of the children brought in Fair Trade products for us to add to it.