GAA Training

Sixth class have been enjoying GAA training every Tuesday afternoon with Cormac. We have learned plenty of new skills and played lots of great games to practice. One of our favourites was this Rock, Paper, Scissors chasing game.

Avondale Cross Country Relay

On the 3^rd of October we went to Avondale. Four girls and four boys from 3^rd to 6^th class took part in this event. 5^th class girls Cameron, Shauna, Alannah and Asia got bronze medals.  It was great to see new faces from our school getting a chance to run for the first time. It was around 1 hour 10mins journey on the bus. Once we got there we warmed up and the relay races started. Every race we ran we did well. Everyone tried their best and conquered the hill. The teachers that came were Ms.Staunton and Ms.Higgins. We all had a great day and all the best next year. Everyone did very good, tried their best and never stopped running. We all had a great day.

By Cameron (5^th class) and Gavin (6^th class)

3rd class

4th class

5th class

6th class

Valleymount Cross Country

 At quarter to ten we got on the bus heading for Valleymount .We were all ecstatic to run our races. The bus was loud and cheerful. We finally arrived at Valleymount and we walked down to the big grassy track . Everybody was very disappointed because the big famous red tractor wasn’t there.We all warmed up for our races. Finally, it was race time . We all tried our best and did a wonderful job !! We left with lots of medals . It was a great day and we all enjoyed every single second of it !!!

                     By Aoibhín and Millie (6th class)

Active School Week No. 1 - October

This year we are changing things a bit. Instead of only 1 active school week per year we are going to have 5!! One or two per term, with active Homework every night during this week.
Ritchie and Sinéad from the Active School Flag Committee have written about our first one.

Last week was active school week. The school did 'Drop Everything And Dance' and skipping.
'Drop Everything And Dance' was really fun. Every day at different times music would come on and everyone would start dancing. That was fun. The school also did skipping on little break. No balls were allowed out on yard, only skipping ropes were.
By Sinéad (4th class)

Last week we ran a K a day. 3rd and 4th class went first then 5th went and then 6th went. We ran down to the black and yellow pole. The parents were on the road to keep an eye on us. When everyone was back 1st and 2nd went and when  1st and 2nd were back everyone went inside to do some  work.
Ritchie (4th class)

We did it!!!!

I am very proud of this amazing committee.  They worked so hard.  Connor and Casie are missing but they played their part too.  The whole staff were brilliant and everyone worked so hard.
Ms Higgins
I am very proud of us for finally getting our active school flag after working so hard
Aoibhin 5th class
I am very proud of not just our committee but all of St.Brigid's, we work so hard to get our Active School Flag
Patrick 5th class
I am very proud of getting our Active School Flag because we all worked so hard and we finally achieved the flag and I think we deserve it
By Emma 5th class
 I am very proud of  all the events we have organised and all the events that have turned out tremendously well! All of the committee's hard work has payed of since we received the Active School Flag yesterday!
by:Jennifer 6th class
I am very proud of how our school has progressed Actively and all the hard work from the Active School Committee and all the students in our school. I really enjoyed it and I am so happy we finally got the Active Schools Flag :)
by Rionach 6th class
I am very proud of the ASF committee because we put a lot of work in to getting the active school flag and for trying to get the active school flag
by Conor 3rd class
I am very proud of the ASF and all the events such as the Santa dash, Easter egg hunt, "k a day" and the Halloween spooky walk .
by Tim 4th class

More sports day photos

More Sports day photos

Ms Coakley shows us how to do it!

Parachute Juniors and Seniors

Sack race 1st and 2nd

Sports day

Rounders 5th and 6th class

Slow and steady wins the race 1st and 2nd

Orienteering

This is the map used by 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th for their orienteering. 

Great fun was had by all.

Well done to Ms Staunton and Ms Coakley for organising this!

Outdoor and Adventure Month - June

 For the first time ever this year we had Orienteering on Sports day.

The clues were very well laid out and there was a lot of running.  I really enjoyed the team work.
By Patrick (5th)
It was great to have orienteering this year.  The groups were a mix of 3rd, 4th, 5th 6th boys and girls.. I found it was great fun because the map with the whole school on it could be confusing, but our team worked together to get all the letters.  No one was left behind.
By Conor (3rd)

More photos from ASW 2017

Mini Races

1st and 2nd class enjoying our mini sports day races during ACTIVE SCHOOL WEEK 2017

Active Maths

Look at our ACTIVE MATHS classes all outdoors during ASW 2017.

1km Friday

Last year we did a 'K a day'

This year we had different activities every day and kept our km run for Friday

Well done to all, especially to our parents who helped out with traffic management.

Active Travel - Cycle Safety

Many thanks to our local community guard Mick O'Rourke who visited us last week to check the bicycles and talk to the children about cycle safety and teach the children some skills.
Thankfully it was a beautiful sunny day and nearly every student cycled to school.

3rd to 6th took part in an usual race where the aim was to go as SLOWLY as possible, where the children learned the importance of balance and bike handling.
The children were reminded to wear their helmets and it's great to see so many cycling to school in the good weather.

Hurling After School

Ms Shone and Ms Staunton have resumed after school hurling on Mondays this month.

Well done to all who take part.

Greystones Athletics

Unfortunately this year we only got to bring 5th and 6th class to Greystones.

However they did the school proud with their excellent behaviour and sporting achievements.

The girls are ready to go in their race.

Tug of War teams in action.

5th class relay medal winners.  Well done boys!

Other medal winners on the day were

5th class  girls relay team also won bronze.

Sam won 2nd place in the javelin and Emma won 2nd place in the 600m.

Not bad for a small school!!

Well done again.

Drop Everything And Dance!

During Active School Week we did Drop Everything and Dance (DEAD).  This is where Charlotte would play a song and we would stop what we are doing and dance.  It is a fun part of the day.  Charlotte wasn't in at the start of the week so she put on 2 songs on Thursday and Friday.  Not everybody dances but most people do.  The songs Charlotte played were 'Shut up and Dance', 'Wagon Wheel', 'I've got a feeling', and 'Happy'.  Everybody really enjoyed it and looked forward to it every day.  We hope we can do it again next year.
By Emma and Aoibhín

Active School Week - active homework

Last week was Active School Week.  We all had great fun.  We got Active Homework every night.  We had to add up all our minutes to make 1 hour a day.  The thing I liked was that we didn't get that much written homework but more active homework.  I was the best week ever.
By Casie

Active School Week 2017

This is the plan we decided upon for the week

	Activity
Dé Luain	Skipathon
Dé Máirt	Sports Hour (races)
	Avondale x Country 3rd-6th
Dé Céadaoin	Active Maths Basket ball with Lennie Infants, 5th+6th Swimming 3rd+4th
Déardaoin	Obstacle course relay race
De hAoine	Run a km
	1st and 2nd class football blitz

We will post photos of these events.  

Other daily events included

• Active Travel
• Healthy lunches
• DEAD - Drop Everything And Dance
• Active Homework

The Active School Committee wrote reports on these 

Healthy eating

Healthy Eating

This week for active schools week we are doing a healthy eating programme. Every day the (ASC) active schools committee check the other students lunchboxes, to see if they have healthy lunches . One piece of fruit is worth two points, two pieces of fruit is worth five points, three pieces of fruit is worth ten points and any vegetables is worth twenty points .The class that wins gets extra playtime out on yard, not just to make their eating healthy, but to make them exercise too! There has been a big healthy improvement and all the students in St. Brigid’s N.S will all be looking like human shaped carrots by the end of the week!

1st and 2nd class football blitz

The blue team and the white team!

Both teams did very well and all the boys and girls played their best.

Some of them had never played football before!

Some of them were great at showing off their skills!

A big thank you to Liam Creighton for managing and coaching too!