Scheme Evaluation Card
In Brief
Recommendation: (details)
Classmate is a non-commercial, non-profit publication for primary school children in the Dublin City area. The magazine has many items that could be used by teachers or to generate children’s interest in curriculum content.
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Dublin City: Classmate magazine
Name:
Classmate – Iris do Bhunscoileanna
Sponsor:
Dublin City Council
Objective:
To raise awareness about waste management, recycling, events in Dublin City Libraries, City Hall, the Hugh Lane Gallery and the National Museum.
Classification:
Non-commercial magazine for primary school children in the Dublin area.
Year: 2006 (First published in 1967)
Past Record: [top]
Classmate started out as a waste management awareness newsletter in 1967. Since then Dublin City Council have expanded the material included to form a magazine for primary school children in the Dublin area with news about events in the City and some history of the city.
Materials: [top]
Schools in the Dublin area receive four issues of Classmate each school year. The 16 page magazine contains no commercial advertisements. The only logo present in the current Spring issue is that of Dublin City. The Autumn issue does however contain an advertisement for the MS Readathon bearing the Specsavers logo.
Comments: [top]
Classmate is sent to 45,000 primary school children in Dublin City and it is also stocked in public libraries.
The current Spring issue of Classmate includes articles on Spring Festivals around the world, the Saint Patrick’s Festival, Cumann na mBunscoil, modern art and the Hugh Lane Gallery, canals in Dublin, book reviews, amhráin Ghaeilge do Lá Fhéile Phádraig, the 1916 Easter Rising, Dublin Fire Brigade competition winners, as well as a letters page, where children can write to ‘Anto’ about environmental issues, and puzzles and a Design a Front cover competition. The prize for this competition is a gift voucher for Eason’s Book Shops.
The magazine contains a large amount of Irish throughout – titles on all pages are in both Irish and English and there is a Tráth na gCeist included in the magazine.
Recommendation: [top]
Classmate is a non-commercial, non-profit publication for primary school children in the Dublin City area. The magazine has many items that could be used by teachers or to generate children’s interest in curriculum content.
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The magazine includes the Irish language and recognition of the growing multiculturalism in our schools.
The magazine does not endorse any companies or products or seek to influence spending in anyway and so the Campaign regards Classmate as an acceptable publication for primary school children.
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