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!!

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)

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.

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 

Road Safety

Last September Junior Infants learned about Road Safety.  They all got new High-viz jackets.

Maybe they can find them and use them for Active Travel after Easter.

4th Class Cycling Flash Back

Every Year 4th class take part in a cycling safety programme run by 'The Cycling Safety School' from Celbridge.  The instructor comes to our school and teaches 4th class various skills in cycling safety.  The cycling school were booked out early this year but have put us down for Autumn 2017.
Here are some photos from previous year - see if you can see any familiar faces.
Hopefully the skills will be useful for our Active School Week - Active Travel Improvement Aim.
Let's see loads of bikes next week and After Easter.

Coming Soon ....... Active School Week

Active School Week is straight after the Easter Holidays 24th - 28th April.
The plan will be sent home next week with a different activity every day.
There will be a 60 minute a day activity challenge as Activity Homework.
We also aim to improve the number of pupils who take Active Travel to school. Our Active School Committee are conducting a survey at present showing about 75% of the pupils come by car.  They will conduct another survey during Active School Week to see if we can improve this.
Watch this space for some  Flash Backs to previous efforts made at Active travel during the past year.
If we all make a big effort after Easter we will make a difference to our health and to the environment by having more pupils using active travel more often.

Look Back to Active School Week April 2016 - Fruity Friday

Charlotte was busy in the staff room preparing fruit for Fruity Friday!
A fun end to Active School Week 2016

Look Back to Active School Week 2016 Pupils v teachers basket ball match

Everyone enjoyed the pupils v teachers basket ball match.  Who won again??

Look back at ASW 2016

We had a great week 25th - 29th April 2016.
The main focus of the week was running a k a day.

Our '1' balloon shows we ran 1 km every day and at the end of the week we were very proud of what we achieved.

Run A K A Day

One of the highlights of Active Schools Week was Run A K A Day.

By the end of the week, all of the children from 1st class up to 6th class had run 5 kilometres!

All of the children and even the teachers took part, and everyone said they felt much fitter, healthier and happier at the end of the week.