Gaisce

Gaisce - The President's Award is Ireland's National Challenge Award for young people, the country's most prestigious and respected individual Award programme. It is a challenge from the President of Ireland to the young people of Ireland.

Gaisce works on the basis of a personal challenge set by the young person. You will set your own challenge and agree it with a President's Award Leader (PAL). You won't be competing with other participants, as each challenge is completely individual… so the only person you will compete with is yourself

The above is an outline of what many of us, hopefully will be completing throughout TY. Basically the challenge to complete the Bronze award is as follows:

• You must complete 13 weeks of a physical activity of your choice
• You must complete 13 weeks of an activity involving community involvement.
• 13 weeks of learning a new skill.
• You must do an additional 13 weeks of any chosen activity.
• We have to do an adventure Mountain hike too!!

It sounds like a lot of work- no doubt it will be! But we are all ready for the challenge and looking forward to the hike!