The Active Flag
The Active Flag is a Department of Education and Skills initiative that recognises schools that “strive to achieve a physically educated and physically active school community”. See website www.activeschoolflag.ie for details. Our pupils, staff and parents are committed to making activity and exercise a fun and everyday way of life in our school. We have been enjoying our Active Flag journey over the last number of years, we were delighted to receive our third Active Flag this June, and our Active Flag Committee have been leading us in many initiatives to keep us healthy and active.
Physical Education programme
Each class participates in a minimum of one hour timetabled physical Education per week. Pupils take part in lessons that cover the strands of the Physical Education Curriculum - Athletics, Dance, Games, Gymnastics, Aquatics and Outdoor and Adventure activities. Our Curricular focus in P.E. for this past year was Gymnastics. We were lucky enough to have some fantastic coaches in Sixth Class who were able to pass on their expertise to the children in the younger classes
Physical Activity Initiatives
In addition to PE lessons pupils take part in many fun activities to stay active. Our school day is regularly revitalized within the classroom with ‘brain break’ activities such as yoga, dance, aerobics and Zumba thanks to the Go Noodle website, the Bizzy Breaks programme and teacher led physical movement breaks. These regular brain breaks boost energy levels fuelling the children’s brains for further learning. These breaks are particularly important on rainy days when we can’t get outside and movement breaks are extended on these days.
We have many initiatives to promote activity throughout the day and school year. These include the skipping challenge, our Tour of Europe, zoned playground games, school discos, whole school walks, céilís, using the playground markings and having active rewards, such as extra playtime for best líne of the week.
Teachers also use activity throughout the curriculum. For example maths trails, nature walks, tours of the school, Deir O Gradaigh as Gaeilge etc.
Active School Week
We have had a very busy and successful Active School Week this year, held during the first week in April 2019.This will be a yearly feature in our school calendar as we are committed to making activity a regular part of school life. We had lots of different activities during active week this year, some of which included- A beach walk, dance fit, lunch time boogie, smoothie making, playtime stations etc.
Active Flag slogan
The children came up with all sorts of catchy slogans to remind us to stay active. These can be read on our active school board. The active schools committee decided that this slogan was a really fun slogan and it is now our active school slogan.
"Walk, jog, run or play, just do something every day."
The Active Flag is a Department of Education and Skills initiative that recognises schools that “strive to achieve a physically educated and physically active school community”. See website www.activeschoolflag.ie for details. Our pupils, staff and parents are committed to making activity and exercise a fun and everyday way of life in our school. We have been enjoying our Active Flag journey over the last number of years, we were delighted to receive our third Active Flag this June, and our Active Flag Committee have been leading us in many initiatives to keep us healthy and active.
Physical Education programme
Each class participates in a minimum of one hour timetabled physical Education per week. Pupils take part in lessons that cover the strands of the Physical Education Curriculum - Athletics, Dance, Games, Gymnastics, Aquatics and Outdoor and Adventure activities. Our Curricular focus in P.E. for this past year was Gymnastics. We were lucky enough to have some fantastic coaches in Sixth Class who were able to pass on their expertise to the children in the younger classes
Physical Activity Initiatives
In addition to PE lessons pupils take part in many fun activities to stay active. Our school day is regularly revitalized within the classroom with ‘brain break’ activities such as yoga, dance, aerobics and Zumba thanks to the Go Noodle website, the Bizzy Breaks programme and teacher led physical movement breaks. These regular brain breaks boost energy levels fuelling the children’s brains for further learning. These breaks are particularly important on rainy days when we can’t get outside and movement breaks are extended on these days.
We have many initiatives to promote activity throughout the day and school year. These include the skipping challenge, our Tour of Europe, zoned playground games, school discos, whole school walks, céilís, using the playground markings and having active rewards, such as extra playtime for best líne of the week.
Teachers also use activity throughout the curriculum. For example maths trails, nature walks, tours of the school, Deir O Gradaigh as Gaeilge etc.
Active School Week
We have had a very busy and successful Active School Week this year, held during the first week in April 2019.This will be a yearly feature in our school calendar as we are committed to making activity a regular part of school life. We had lots of different activities during active week this year, some of which included- A beach walk, dance fit, lunch time boogie, smoothie making, playtime stations etc.
Active Flag slogan
The children came up with all sorts of catchy slogans to remind us to stay active. These can be read on our active school board. The active schools committee decided that this slogan was a really fun slogan and it is now our active school slogan.
"Walk, jog, run or play, just do something every day."