In our group we were working on promoting our fact/slogan, ‘’If you spend €4 extra on guaranteed Irish products, you will create 6200 jobs.’’  We were thinking of good ways to put across this. It was put forward in class that we dress up as big €4’s, so we went ahead with this idea as we all thought it was a great idea. We looked into where we could find big posters to do this. We were talking to our vice-principal Ms. Duhig about this and she mentioned that she had old election posters that we could use. She brought these in for us and we cut and washed them. We then stencilled €4 onto in green paint. They stood out and looked great. On Thursday the 20th of December, with the permission of the school and Tesco New Ross we stood outside and tried to get our message across. We had also made stickers to give out with the slogan printed on them. Unfortunately this didn’t go as well as we had planned. The people were mistaken and thought they had to give us €4. Some people stopped to ask, and we explained our project and they thought it was a very good idea.

Our Y.S.I.  Project: Be Irish, Buy Irish, decided to hold an adjoined bake sale with the other Y.S.I. project: Simply Smile on Wednesday 12th of December 2012 in order to promote and kick start our project in school. It was put forward that we hold a bake sale together in order to wipe out any competition between the two projects. Our Y.S.I project: Be Irish, Buy Irish’s aim of the bake sale was to promote our project but also to raise money to pay for the publishing of our Christmas brochures and other funds in order to make our project more effective in the future.

  To make the bake sale more unique and festive we decided that the bake sale would be Christmas themed, therefore everyone from each Y.S.I class brought in traditional bake sale items along with yummy festive delights.

   In order for the bake sale to be a success, a bake sale co-ordinator was chosen and everyone was appointed a certain job to do. Some of the jobs included:

·         Preparing and making a school announcement said on the days running up to the bake sale, to entice and remind people to come and support our bake sale. Also a thank you notice after the bake sale, for their support.

·         Printing posters to put around the school about the bake sale

·         Asking permission of the principal to hold a bake sale

·         Making sure everyone brought in something

·         On the day of the bake sale: organising the area where the bake sale was being held and organising the selling items onto trays

·         Some were appointed to look after the money and the float

·         Some has the role of selling the items

·         Tidying up

In order to incorporate our project into the bake sale, we used all Irish ingredients when making our bake sale items and we also inserted little Irish flags into the items being sold at the bake sale, to remind people of what our project; Be Irish, Buy Irish.

  The bake sale was very successful and it wouldn’t have been without the support from both the students and the staff of the school. We were informed later on that it was one of the nicest and most successful bake sale the school has ever had, having being organised by students.

   We raised about €153, which was great considering we spilt the money in half with the other Y.S.I. group. We were all very happy with the success of our bake sale and we fulfilled our aim.