St. Oliver Plunketts WOW Days!

Despite cold and wet conditions over 100 pupils from St Oliver Plunketts, accompanied by their parents walked to school this morning on one of the regular WOW Days (Walk on Wednesday) which encourages children to think green and walk rather than drive to school.

The ‘Ollies Walking Bus’ started at Biscayne and by the time it left the Coast Road over 200 pupils had joined it en-route.

While the WOW Initiative and ‘Walking Bus’ are a regular happening todays occurance had special significance. To raise funds for schools in Haiti all children were allowed dispense with uniform for the day and wear tracksuits on making a contribution to this much needed appeal. Also cars on the route were encourage to make a donation.

As an added bonus the scenes were filmed by RTE for their programme ‘Operation Transformation’ as Malahide man Conor O’Connor is taking part in the show. Conor is also using the Arena Leisure Centre at the Grand Hotel Malahide as part of his weight loss and fitness regime.