Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Young Social Innovators: Discussion

Ms Annie Sheppard:

Our school mission statement refers to "caring, challenging and achieving together", and that culture of academic excellence and our desire to be innovative make the Young Social Innovators module an attractive option for our transition year students each year. This module allows our students to work together to research and discuss issues that affect young people today. Once a class consensus is achieved on a topic, students start their project journey. Some projects merely want to raise awareness or money; we want to change the law with our project.