Kildare school to receive award for promoting inclusion and diversity

A Kildare school is to receive a Yellow Flag recognising its progress in building inclusive and actively anti-racist schools and communities.

The unidentified school is one of  four primary and ten secondary schools from Kildare, Dublin, Cork, Galway, Louth, Waterford and Wicklow.

The prize giving event in Dublin will be launched by Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O'Gorman and MC’d by award-winning author, advocate and Traveller cultural collector Oein DeBhairduin. 

The Yellow Flag 2024 awards take a special focus on the power of community, and how it positively contributes to integration.

What is The Yellow Flag Programme?  

A whole school initiative that supports primary and secondary schools to become more inclusive of all cultures and ethnicities, celebrate diversity and challenge racism and discrimination. Following the completion of the 8-steps schools are awarded a Yellow Flag.