St Oliver Plunkett Boys National School have been announced as the overall winner of the Arcadia Creative Climate Awards 2023.
The school took part in the Arcadia Creative Climate Awards 2023 where they were tasked with coming up with ideas to help the environment.
The Arcadia Creative Climate Awards project is being run in conjunction with the Cllr.Frankie Keena, ‘Junior Mayor’ initiative, with its central theme of ‘giving young people a voice’.
Primary School overall winners St Oliver Plunkett Boys National School’s team consisted of Michael Declan O Donnell, John Mitchell, Conor Dwyer and Joshua Yorke.
The boys demonstrated great knowledge of recycling awareness and really helped to highlight this issue both in their school and also in their homes and local community. The boys presented their projects excellently and their interaction with judges and presentation skills was something that was highly commended.
The boy’s teacher Enda Keena, commented “We would like to sincerely thank Fiachra McLoughlin and all at the Arcadia group and Councillor Frankie Keena for the organisation of this competition. Their interaction with the schools throughout the year really helped add to the anticipation and prestige of the competition. This culminated with a wonderful day out in TUS on Tuesday last where each school demonstrated and presented their projects. The day was filled with fun, excitement, lots of treats, excellent guest speakers and perhaps most importantly it gave the boys the platform and opportunity to nurture the very important skills of presentation and public speaking. We would also like to extend our appreciation to all at TUS for their involvement and engagement with the competition. It really added to the prestige and professionalism of the whole experience. Roll on the Arcadia Climate Action Project 2024!”
As well as being the Primary Schools overall winner Guardians of a Greener Earth, St. Oliver Plunkett Boys National School, won the awards of “Best Community Engagement” & “Most Interactive Stand”.
Fiachra McLoughlin, Director Arcadia Retail Park, commented that “we would like to congratulate the winners of the Arcadia Creative Climate Awards 2023. We would also like to thank each of the schools for their participation, there was a tremendous amount of effort put in by all the teams and their teachers. The standard of entries and work done by the students was exceptionally high.”
