Blinds for Schools Scheme
June 27, 2012
Galway based Printed Blinds Factory have launched their “Blinds for Schools Scheme” at the IPPN conference in Dublin on the 26th January 2012. Blinds are printed with educational designs such as Irish literacy, English literacy (alphabet), numeracy (numbers, multiplication table), anti-bullying, recycling and more. Each blind will be kindly financed by the sponsor.The scheme is not only about providing blinds to schools. It is a part of large scale research on energy saving EcoSunFilterTM fabric and how educationally printed blinds can improve learning. The participating schools will be asked to fill research forms before and after the installation, to provide first hand insights into the effectiveness of putting educational designs on window blinds in classrooms.Thanks to this idea schools not only get the blind they need but also utilize the unused window space as an educational aid.
We are offering prints in Irish and Gearóid from Foras na Gaeilge is supporting us making sure that the designs are correct.
Our short video presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZgqAM_MyjI
By using our blinds instead of blackout blinds children are not closed in a dark box for half the day. Children’s’ eyes are experiencing severe pressure when they sit in a dark classroom and then they go outside. The effect is similar to what we experience when coming out of the cinema, but the students experience that several times a day every day for many years of their life.
Through the scheme we want to offer the blinds to schools for free, and have them sponsored by companies and bodies that want to promote their educational messages on the blinds in the classrooms.We are a blinds company not an advertising agency and this is designed to help fund schools and provide them with free top quality blinds. The scheme was designed not to breach the anti-commercialism policies of particular schools.
Any primary school in Ireland is free to join the scheme, and can do so by calling the registration office (1800 254637, 091 799611) www.printedblindsfactory.com
