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School Awards 2025/26:

The Future Leaders School Awards have proven to be a huge success and are very popular with schools nationwide. If you want your school to be recognised as a Gold, Silver or Bronze Future Leaders School for the 2025/26 school year, please complete this application form 

All Events throughout the year should be logged using the form and teachers are encouraged to fill in the form for each Future Leaders event organised.

The criteria for achieving Gold, Silver or Bronze Status are below. Please note that the School Awards criteria has changed for the 2025/26 school year. Final decision on awards will be made by the Future Leaders Steering Committee. 

 

Ideas for Future Leaders Events that link with local community:

  • Primary School Blitz
  • Primary School Fun Day
  • Primary School Coaching
  • Physical Activity Event
  • Wellbeing Initiative
  • Sustainability Event in community, maybe linking in with Tidy Towns Committee.

Ways to form an active Club-School Link:

  • Host a meeting with club representatives to explain what the Future Leaders programme is about and ways that your Future Leaders students could help their clubs.

  • Future Leaders students could get involved with their clubs in many ways, including;

    - Underage coaching / Assistant to the coaches

    - Performance Analysis for club teams

    - Refereeing Go Games blitzes

    - Helping the PRO with the creation of social media content and photography.

    - Helping the club with various aspects of organising both on-field, off-field and fundraising events

Award Winners will be announced on Thursday, May 21st 2026. 

The 2025/26 School Awards will be held in Croke Park on 16th September 2026.