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Playground Leaders
Breaktime is the perfect time for children to be active. Our infant classes get great support from the Playground Leaders from 2nd Class who help them to stay active and lead them in a range of activities and exercises. All 2nd Class children get to have turns at being ‘Playground Leaders’, a role they take the role very seriously.
Click here to view a video of 2 of our Playground Leaders in action!
Outdoor and Adventure Development
This year the whole school has been working on developing the ‘Outdoor and Adventure’ strand in PE. We’ve had all sorts of fun orienteering lessons as well as outdoor activities on our school walkway, lessons involving walking and outdoor running challenges. We’ve especially worked on linking PE with other subjects to provide lots of active learning opportunities in subjects such as maths, geography, history and science. We even had a few Easter Egg Hunts! It’s been a real team effort from all the teaching staff and the Active Committee with new resources and ideas and it’s been hugely involved by all.
Moorefield GAA and Scoil Mhuire Junior
We are so lucky to have such a successful partnership with Moorefield GAA which has gone from strength to strength each year.
Coaches from the club regularly come in to work with our classes developing football and hurling skills. Coaches from Moorefield even help train our 2nd Class footballers. Thanks to all in Moorefield for all your work with the school.
Lots of our pupils are members of Moorefield and attend the club’s ‘Mini Moores’ training on Saturday mornings. We highly recommend it for all our pupils! Find out about Moorefield’s ‘Mini Moores’ here.
Gymnastics
Another successful year of working with Sandra from CiDS Gymnastics on developing gymnastic skills. Sandra works intensively with each class in the school on a range of gymnastic skills. The benefits of gymnastics are huge in terms of fitness, flexibility, balance and co-ordination and gymnastics can form a strong basis for any sport. Gymnastics is one of the strands in the PE curriculum and the school places great importance on all strands being given ample curricular time in order for the children to learn and develop. This is a wonderful experience for the children who progress so much each year. Recently our Junior Infant classes received their Level 1 certificates!
Click here to view a video of one of our Junior Infant classes in action!
More info on CiDS gymnastics can be found here.
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Active School Week 2017
Have a look at our video of Active Week 2017!
Click on the link to view video.
Details of Active Week 2018 coming soon!