TY Students Win Trip to European Parliament
Feb 8, 2012 | Category: General
Thursday January 19 2012 By: Mike McGrath
THE Transition Year students of CBS Charleville who have won a trip to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the May 3 next by virtue of their success in designing a web page with a European theme for the school's website.
The competition was part of the Euroscola Programme which invites schools, teachers and students from all 27 European Member States to participate in the European programme and gives students a chance to spend a day in Strasbourg in the shoes of an MEP.
The CBS boys, under the direction of teachers Mary Mulroe and Carol Merrick won the competition for their very attractive, yet practical design of a web page which tells of the Euroscola programme, local MEPS and the European students attending the school from Poland, Germany, Portugal, Spain and England. The students are part of the Ballyhoura Community Exchange Project and they bring a rich diversity of cultures to school life and also enrich the school's learning environment.
Euroscola allows students to get together, debate, take sides, negotiate, amend, vote and finally adopt resolutions on real European issues. To be able to take an active part, the 600 participating students prepare themselves in their schools months ahead of going to Strasbourg so that when they get there they are already acquainted with the issues up for discussion.
The day starts with a breakfast meeting where the students get to know each other. Interaction with their new European counterparts is very important as the participants will cease to represent their schools and become part of the multilingual working groups, each consisting of approximately100 participants.
Students of the 20-strong TY class are eagerly looking forward to their trip to the Parliament and already they have had MEP Sean Kelly in to talk to them about the workings of the European Parliament. He congratulated the class on their magnificent achievement as did Ms Maxine Judge the European Studies co-ordinator in Belfast and the European Parliament Office in Dublin.
This is the link to their winning entry: http://www.europarl.ie/ressource/static/files/cbs-charleville.pdf
