What is Spex Day All About?

• Spex Day is a national school campaign to promote children wearing their prescribed glasses and increase awareness about vision impairments
• Each pupil will receive a pair of NCBI spex to decorate and wear for the day
• Classes can go through the educational activities in our booklet Finding Out About Sight Loss to learn more about vision impairments

Why should we sign up?

• Raise awareness about sight loss and make glasses "cool" with....
  • Interactive lesson plans around the subject of sight loss that have been designed to fit into the primary curriculum
  • Spex Day resource pack including NCBI spex, certificates and posters
  • Faber-Castell supplies ( participating schools only, subject to availability)

What does the school have to do?

• Go through the suggested lesson plans about vision impairments
• Encourage students to customize their glasses frames and wear them
• Choose a winning pair of "spex" for each class level to enter into the Faber-Castell competition
• Collect €1 from participating students
• Most importantly.......Have Fun!

What will the money we raise go towards?

• Funds will go directly towards continuing to provide a support system to those living with sight loss in your area