Physical Activity

We know that active kids learn better so our aim is to be active as we can throughout the school day. We provide a range of fun opportunities to help the children learn on the move. Check out some of our recent activities!

Every day each class has two active breaks. Even when it is raining outside, we use Bizzy Breaks, Olympic Movement Breaks and GoNoodle to ensure the children remain active.

In September we had our Wake Up and Walk initiative. Each class went on a walk around the local area with parents.

To show our appreciation for Ireland’s amazing relay athletes, we had every class take part in the #RelayTakeOver on Friday 27th September. We watched short videos to teach us the skill of relay baton exhchange. We watched some videos of the Irish relay team at the Olympics too, we loved cheering them on! Look how much fun we had on our #RelayTakeOver day! We used batons, teddy bears and even water balloons!

We dressed up for Halloween and went on a ‘Witche’s Walk’ around our local area.

We loved participating in the four week Active Break Challenge. The children were responsible for ticking their active break challenge charts everyday. At assembly each week, each class that had completed an active break challenge everyday were entered into a raffle to win extra yard time! Thank you to Ms. Hodson for making a brilliant Padlet with lots of links to active breaks!

To end the Active Break Every Day challenge we held a Christmas Sports Day. It was a huge success.

We held our annual Santa Dash in December. We raised money for the charity, My Canine Companion. Andy the therapy dog in the senior school even made an appearance! We all ran lots of laps around the school yard in our Christmas jumpers!

For every lap completed, we put a sticker on the Christmas tree. Look how many laps we ran!!

We had a busy and active Seachtain na Gaeilge. We went on a parade around our local area, the infants had great fun practicing their Gaeilge through Cluichí Clóis and the first and second class children enjoyed Óga Yoga. The whole school learned the dance, An Dreoilín, and we performed it on yard!

Ms. Waters and Ms. Duffy set up our new Walk Way. We are ready to learn on the move!

Thanks to Tony for helping us!

We absolutely loved taking part in the Skip Around Europe Challenge. It was our goal is to skip our way across Europe — one kilometre at a time! We began by learning the ‘ready position’ and practicing our jumping skills. Each day, we skipped for 15 minutes, building our skills, and having lots of fun along the way. The children made huge progress!