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Welcome to our Active School page. We are aiming to achieve the Active flag for our school by becoming more active everyday. We will do this in lots of fun ways and will work as a school community to do this. Click on the tabs below to find out more information.
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October 2019- Getting set up.
Step 1: We set up a committee of 10 girls from 2nd to 6th class.
Step 2: We held our first meeting and got our classes to hold a slogan competition.
Step 3: We found a winner to the slogan competition with a school wide vote.
Step 4: Our teachers Ms O Carroll and Ms Butterly signed up for a training day in 'Move Well, Move Often'.
Step 5: We started adding information to our active noticeboard.
Step 6: We are excited to have our first active challenge beginning on November 11th for one month. We are ready for our active breaks.
Step 2: We held our first meeting and got our classes to hold a slogan competition.
Step 3: We found a winner to the slogan competition with a school wide vote.
Step 4: Our teachers Ms O Carroll and Ms Butterly signed up for a training day in 'Move Well, Move Often'.
Step 5: We started adding information to our active noticeboard.
Step 6: We are excited to have our first active challenge beginning on November 11th for one month. We are ready for our active breaks.
A huge congratulations to the winner of our Slogan Competition Laura Stokes. Here she is with her fabulous poster.
We had 5 super finalists and Laura came out the ultimate winner. Laura was presented with some lovely active prizes.
The finalists were:
1-The elevator will not elevate your motivation.
2- Play together, Friends forever.
3-Have some fun, that's all that needs to be done.
4- Get up and exercise, being fit is very wise.
Our new slogan is: Walking, running, playing tag, Time to earn and Active Flag.
Well Done Everyone
We had 5 super finalists and Laura came out the ultimate winner. Laura was presented with some lovely active prizes.
The finalists were:
1-The elevator will not elevate your motivation.
2- Play together, Friends forever.
3-Have some fun, that's all that needs to be done.
4- Get up and exercise, being fit is very wise.
Our new slogan is: Walking, running, playing tag, Time to earn and Active Flag.
Well Done Everyone
Take a look at the active noticeboard we have started.
Meet our committee 2019-2020.
The committee has 2 representatives from each class from 2nd class to 6th class. They meet every fortnight to discuss what is upcoming and report these messages back to all classes. The committee members from each class are:
2nd class- Saoirse Carr and Sheham Sekatawa.
3rd class- Caitlín Gaffey and Gabriele Ratkeviciute.
4th class- Afeera Salam and Catriona Lube.
5th class- Meredith Roach and Kayla Dunne.
6th class- Winnie McDonagh and Abby Dixon.
2nd class- Saoirse Carr and Sheham Sekatawa.
3rd class- Caitlín Gaffey and Gabriele Ratkeviciute.
4th class- Afeera Salam and Catriona Lube.
5th class- Meredith Roach and Kayla Dunne.
6th class- Winnie McDonagh and Abby Dixon.
2020 Updates:
We have been very busy since we came back on January 6th. We made 'Active homework' our focus for the month and it has been going great. Each class decided what would suit them best to do. The girls got really excited and loved telling their teachers about what they had done each week. Some class chose a daily or weekly activity and some did a monthly challenge sheet, where the girls picked a different activity each night. We got great feedback in our meeting with the Active Committee about how each class was doing and the attitude to it was extremely positive. We will begin another new challenge after the midterm.
We have also been on contact with the local Louth sports unit to see if they can aid us in our attempt to become more active as a whole school.
Check out our updated Active information board here too!
We have also been on contact with the local Louth sports unit to see if they can aid us in our attempt to become more active as a whole school.
Check out our updated Active information board here too!
Our Active Walkways
A huge thank you to our caretaker Diarmuid who spent time collaborating with Ms O Carroll to figure out the best way for our school to create and Active walkway. As we have two yards we decided to create a senior walkway and a junior walkway. Diarmuid placed them at the pupils eye level on the walls and the building at the periphery of the yard.We intended these for lunch time use but unfortunately we could not use them due to Covid-19.
e are trying to think outside the box and we hope to explore ways to use out walkways during the rest of the school day. One way we have used it was for the Christmas Santa Dash. We are looking forward to getting a lot more use from our Active Walkways once we get back to school.
e are trying to think outside the box and we hope to explore ways to use out walkways during the rest of the school day. One way we have used it was for the Christmas Santa Dash. We are looking forward to getting a lot more use from our Active Walkways once we get back to school.
June 10th 2021- The day we became an Active school.
We are delighted to announce to you all that we are officially an Active school. We will raise our flag in an exciting ceremony on the last week of school. Keep watch for some exciting pictures!
Continuing our active ways in the 21/22 school year
Now that we are officially and 'Active School' we want to keep up the good work. Out flag is flying proudly in the front yard for all to see. We will begin our first challenge of the year on September 6th with a 'Run round Europe' challenge.
We are excited to keep active this year.
We are excited to keep active this year.
