(THIS COMPETITION IS NOW ON PAUSE DUE TO COVID-19, ENTRANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED WHEN IT RESUMES )
With a massive €30,000 prize pot up for grabs for Irish primary schools, leading Irish convenience retail group, Gala Retail is back with its ‘Gala Gifts for Schools’ campaign. Gala has teamed up with TV and radio presenter, Lucy Kennedy for the 2020 competition, which will see six primary schools win a €5,000 cash prize!Visit Gala.ie to enter. gala.ie

Different Families: Same Love which aims to highlight and celebrate the diversity of families in Ireland. This year you can enter from home instead of school! Tell us what you know about different families. Be creative, write a story, poem or song, make a video or piece of artwork, it's up to you! Prizes: €100 Smyths voucher for you and books for your schoolwww.into.ie/lgbt/dfsl-competition
e: lgbt@into.ie
35 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1

(this competition has been deferred to 2021 due to covid 19) Now is the time for your Parents Association to send in your entry for the NPC Fred O'Connell Award 2020. The NPC Fred O'Connell Award recognises innovative partnership work between parents and schools which supports children to have the opportunity to reach their full potential. The winning Parents Association will receive €500 in prize money and a plaque engraved with the name of their Parents’ Association and the year it was won. They will also receive a free year’s membership to NPC. www.npc.ie
e: info@npc.ie
National Parents Council Primary, 12 Marlborough Court, Marlborough Street, Dublin

SSPC has launched our Backyard Science Competition for primary school pupils across Ireland. It involves 4 STEM challenges over the next 4 weeks for primary school pupils. We have prizes for the winner each week and their class will get a SSPC pack full of goodies! Each week the competition will be launched on twitter @SSPCentre. Week One is up and running and details can be found here. @SSPCentre