Coláiste Bride has been a busy hive of activity in the last couple of months with lots of exciting activities and opportunities for our students in the world of Global Citizenship Education. Our school is currently collaborating with Trinity College’s ‘Critical Change Lab’ research project investigating the impact of SDG1 ‘No Poverty’ and its application to life in our local community in Clondalkin, West Dublin. Our students will take part in workshops every Monday with the facilitators from Trinity College and will participate in a group focus session in Trinity College towards the end of May where they will present their findings of their research project and have their experience published nationally.
On March 5, 2025 Coláiste Bríde hosted the ‘Healthy Futures 2025’ Global Citizenship Education summit, where five local secondary schools in our area sent a delegation to our school to participate in a workshop with the NGO ‘Development Perspectives’, Students listened to a keynote address by leading global access to medicine advocate Dr. Robbie Lawlor, and collaborated with students from other schools in creating a community health initiative which was distributed to each of the schools to help combat global inequality to access to good healthcare and well-being and what students can do on a local level to affect global scale change.
Our students also took part in Take1 Week where our TY sustainability class organised an SDG scavenger hunt for our first and second year CSPE classes. In the Transition Year Sustainability class, one of the core aspects of the class involves students going into the first year CSPE/SPHE classes and presenting on a topic of Global Citizenship Education to their peers in a form of peer learning/peer teaching which has been extremely successful. Students prepared engaging activities and lessons on the topics such as Violence Against Women, Human Rights, Disability Access, Homelessness, and more.
