On Friday, we travelled to O'Reilly Hall in University College Dublin, Belfield for the very first Irish Young Philosopher Awards. We have long participated in philosophy in this class and school in general, with Mr. Caulfield leading us in Philosophy 4 Children circle time sessions. After our involvement in the Newpark project, much of our discussions in these circles revolved around ageing and wisdom. As such, we decided to create individual projects (in the form of booklets) based on some of the questions around these topics which came up in circle time, and these were so good that we entered them in the Young Philosopher Awards, which only began this past September.
Unfortunately, our projects did not win any awards on the day. However, our students did fantastically well in presenting their work to judges and members of other schools. See if you can spot the special guest who spoke to the crowd at the end of the day!
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