Tipperary school wins national farm safety programme
From left: St Patrick's NS Kyle Park chairman of the board of management Tom Kennedy; Agri Aware executive director Marcus O'Halloran; school principal Marie Murphy; Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Martin Heydon; Paddy Cahalan; and pupils.
A school in Co Tipperary is celebrating its win in a farm safety programme.
St Patrick’s National School Kyle Park, near Borrisokane, was crowned the national winner in the school category of Agri Aware’s ‘Safe Farm Futures’ programme.
The primary school came out on top out of almost 330 participating in the programme to win the prize of €2,000. The school intends to put the prize money towards student wellbeing/learning.
The purpose of the Safe Farm Futures programme is to deliver a rounded guide to farm safety, ensuring that the work that is done on farms is safe by recognising and increasing awareness around the dangers on farms.
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Martin Heydon congratulated the students, who showed “passion and commitment” to farm safety through educating themselves on machinery and livestock safety.
Agri Aware executive director Marcus O’Halloran said the pupils “prepared an excellent project as part of the programme”.
“From excellently created and informative farm safety posters, through engagement with our farm safety webinars and to visiting a local dairy farm to put the knowledge learned in class into practice, their engagement with the programme really shone through in their project and the school is thoroughly deserving of first prize,” Mr O’Halloran said.
“I would also like to congratulate third class in Kilnaleck National School in Co Cavan who won the top prize for a class submission, which is a VIP trip to a local farm of the school’s choice.”
Approximately 23,500 students across almost 330 schools took part in the programme since its launch earlier this year.
