Youth conference email - not a school trip

Please find some information on the Youth conference - PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A SCHOOL ACTIVITY - I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO MAKE TY STUDENTS AWARE OF THIS INFO - ITS UP TO U AFTER THIS - THE TRIP IS NOT ORGANISED BY THE SCHOOL AND THEREFORE THE SCHOOL HAVE NO PART TO PLAY IN THE WEEKEND AT ALL - ANYTHING U ORG OR DO IS TOTALLY DOWN TO U AND YOUR FAMILY

Dear Principal/T.Y. Co-ordinator,

The European Youth Parliament Ireland is delighted to extend the invitation for your school to participate in this year's regional session, which will take place in Galway city from November 29th to December 1st. The session venues will be a secondary school and NUI Galway. Accomodation will be in Snoozle's Hostel, which is perfectly located near the train and bus station. The theme of the session will be Mental Health and we shall have speakers who are experts in this field that will attend the session.

The European Youth Parliament (EYP) is a unique forum designed to actively engage young people in the moulding of their future society. EYP Ireland runs four  regional sessions each year, culminating in the annual national session where 4^th and 5^th year students from secondary schools all over Ireland will have the opportunity to debate topics relating to the future of the EU. Some students have the opportunity to represent Ireland all across Europe from places as diverse as Istanbul and Amsterdam. 

Each session involves three parts; the first is team building where each delegate meets the other delegates in their committee and spends some time getting to know their fellow delegates and working on practical problem solving games as a group. The aim of team building is to allow the delegates of the committee who have never met before work together in a coherent way during the rest of the session. The second part of the session is committee work, where each of the ten committees discuss a set topic and agree on a motion for a resolution. The final part of the weekend is General Assembly, where all the committees come together to defend, debate and vote on each of the committee motions. Our sessions have been rated amongst the best youth conferences in Ireland. The attached booklet describes our sessions in more detail.

We would like to invite five students from your school to participate. The cost for participating is fifty euros per student. Due to budget reasons, we cannot host students from Galway city or county for the nights at our accommodation venue, however if there is a problem with this please feel free to get in contact with me. School rules apply during the session and the students will be supervised at all times. Once the delegates have registered, I will be getting in touch with them by email to give them more instructions and to help them choose their topics which they will be debating at the session. We are not looking primarily for experienced debaters, many of the students that participate have never debated before and have only a passing interest in politics, so anyone is welcome. To register, the students must click this link and sign up: https://docs.google.com/a/tcd.ie/forms/d/1n0Dl13aQa0vfHUHV4CAVVbbplTSB9NFcUNLT1FjiqIA/viewform

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Kieran McNulty.