Young Environmentalist Award for Patrician Academy

September 23, 2021 Featured Stories, Home Slider, Mallow Star

The Global Citizenship class in the Patrician Academy recently won the SDG Award at the Young Environmentalist Awards for their project titled Wake Up to Academy’s Waste. Pictured at the school where Cork County Council) presented the award to the students are (seated) Niall O’Keeffe (Mallow Tidy Towns), and Louis Duffy (Director of Services, Cork County Council) with students Leon Baja, Rory Healy, Patrick O’Grady, Aristjon Mirashi, Kieran Duggan, Harry Bull, Robbie O’Brien, Connor Brennan (absent from photo, Darragh Nolan and Richard Svaza), plus Jer Holland (school Deputy Principal), Ann-Marie Walsh, Regina Glynn, and Elaine O’Regan (Principal).

The Patrician Academy won the SDG Award at the Young Environmentalist Awards for their project titled ‘Wake Up to Academy’s Waste’. They won the award in recognition of their promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals. The Transition Year Global Citizenship class organised, along with the T.Y. Art students, the creation of a large mural of the Sustainable Development Goals which hangs in the main entrance to the school. The students also put up a poster of the goals in all classrooms and the teachers have incorporated the goals into their class planning for the year. Louis Duffy, Director of Services at Cork Co. Council attended the school last Friday, along with Niall O’Keeffe of Mallow Tidy Towns, to present the award to the students.
It is a fantastic achievement by all concerned to win such a prestigious award; well done and best of luck to this year’s Global Citizenship class.