Junior Cycle Well-being Programme – An Access & Outreach Initiative
The ‘Sport for Life’ Junior Cycle Well-being Programme offered a series of workshops and sports activities on campus to a number of DEIS secondary schools to promote well-being, leadership, emotional resilience, mental health and positivity in daily life.
Over 350 first-year pupils from 8 schools attended the 6-week programme. Students received 6 weeks of activities, including study skills, well-being & sports workshops, with a closing award ceremony in St Laurence's on the University's Grangegorman Campus last month.
Each week the students were offered the chance to participate in a sporting activity, including Soccer, GAA, Basketball, Cricket, Pickleball, Tag Rugby, Circuit training, and Boxing, via an amazing squad of sports development coaches from TU Dublin Sports, Leinster coaches and Dublin City Council's Project Officer Mitch Whitty. Students also participated in workshops to promote positive mental health and well-being.
This programme is one of many successful activities run by the Access and Outreach Service in TU Dublin, which delivers various projects, taster workshops and information sessions with DEIS schools, community groups and Further Education colleges to engage with prospective students of all ages.
The well-being programme was supported by colleagues in TU Dublin Sports along with Dublin City Council Sports & Well-being Partnership and funded by external partners basis.point.
If you have questions about next year's programme, please get in touch with Conor O'Malley.