Amber Flag

Amber flag is about suicide aware.  Depression is one of the main causes of suicide, approximately 1 in 10 people in Ireland are depressed at any one time.  Amber flag is a way to raise awareness about suicide and depression and informing people how to help in these situations.  Amber flag's aim is to encourage organisations such as schools, colleges or groups to promote and actively bring about a culture change in the promotion of positive mental health within the educational system and other groups and organisations.  

Transition year is the perfect year to do projects and other things that we couldn't do in a more academic based year.  In religion both class Merkel and class Lagarde have come together to work on getting the amber flag for our school. There are a few different groups within our year group there is events, audit, web and pr group.  I am on the web group which means I write on the website with things relating to the amber flag and our events etc.  Anna G and I are currently writing a post about the fun walk it is very well written since we wrote it.

Fun Walk

On Friday the second of october our whole school dressed up in 7 different colours:

• 1st years: pink
• 2nd years: purple 
• 3rd years: green
• transition years: yellow
• 5th years: blue
• 6th years: Black and white

Everyone came in at 9:05 with crazy brightly coloured clothes in so many different colours and they were all being very secretive about their dances and songs they would be preforming later.  We had our first two classes which for my class was a double science so I was happy.  After break we had Irish which we just spent doing face paint and  then a tutor class which i spent learning the dance because I was out but I learnt it in time and our class did very well.

Sadly we didn't win but it was a good day altogether.  After the 5th years had preformed some ty's had to leave to stand at the roads and tell people where to go I was one of them, I was with sarah and our spot was in the middle of st.Rapheals.

For my classes fun walk we decided to dress up as sunflowers and thunder clouds and our tutor dressed up as a mexican sun.  It was a great day and we had lots of fun.