Another Successful Spex Day
By Tara Tisdall
NCBI’s Spex Day has again proven to be a great success in schools nationwide, with over 10,000 students taking part in the 2011 national event. Spex Day aims to raise awareness about sight loss among primary school students and promotes children wearing their prescriptive glasses.
Students in 100 schools across the country helped raise awareness about sight loss by following NCBI’s educational booklet “Finding Out About Sight Loss”. This booklet and accompanying CD provides lesson plans and activities on subjects such as looking after your eyes, living with sight loss and Braille.
Each student was also given a pair of NCBI spex to decorate and enter into our national competition to win a hamper of Faber-Castell supplies for their class. Winners were chosen before NCBI News went to press but we will carry photos in the next issue.
NCBI would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our sponsors and supporters for their help in making Spex Day a success. Faber-Castell, our main sponsor, came on board in the first year of the Spex Day campaign and have continued to support us by providing packs full of arts and craft supplies for every participating school and sponsoring the prizes of our spex competition. The Irish National Teacher’s Organisation have been a great support in this campaign since its inception, providing us with great promotional opportunities in the In Touch magazine. Finally, thank you to all of the staff in NCBI for their continued support and help with this campaign over the last three years!
Spex Day is now open to both primary and secondary schools, playschools, scout or guide groups and registration is open year round. More information and resource material are available at www.spexday.ie or you can call Tara in the fundraising department on 01 8307033.