Amber Flag Day

We launched the Amber Flag campaign in our school on Friday. Everyone in TY wore amber clothes in for the day. We had no classes, but instead had workshops and singsongs all for positive mental health. 

Our school's Amber Flag website was launched too! It's being run by the Amber flag web committee, and now it's officially live!

Before our school's lunchtime we had our food earlier, as the majority of the events were to happen at the break. We had a bake sale in the hall, face painting in the library, and I was on the "emoji boards" with a few others. We had face cutouts with positive quotes on them (obviously the cutout boards were amber!) and we had cut out big face sized emojis (only the smiley ones though!) We took photos of teachers and students all holding the cutouts or emojis at their face. 

It was a very successful day, the bake sale raised the guts of €400 for both Suicide Aware and Pieta House, both of which are great charities working for mental health. We raised awareness around the school about the Amber Flag project, and everyone seemed to have a very positive Friday indeed:)