Active School Week No.2 - December

This week we ....ran around Ireland!
A lap of the school is 200m.
Each class took 10 minutes a day to walk/run as many laps as you can.
Every time a child completed a lap they put a brick in the basket.  We then counted up all the bricks, converted this into km, and used google maps to plot a route around Ireland.  Luckily we ran enough kilometers to get us home by Friday!!

6th class fitness test

6th class are taking part in the Irish Life Schools fitness challenge. The aim is to increase fitness over an eight week period. Last Friday, we completed the dreaded bleep test to record our starting fitness. We were amazed with the results, and some of us scored as highly as children up to 4th year in secondary school!

The real competition is a personal one though, and we are aiming to increase our individual fitness over six weeks. Miss Staunton has a fitness programme organised and we expect to be working very hard over the next while to get a higher result when we retake the bleep test after Halloween.

Stay tuned to find out more about our fitness programme and how much our fitness has improved!