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!

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

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

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.

Easter Egg Hunt

The Active School Committee really excelled this week.
The whole idea from start to finish was theirs - they came up with the idea, made up the clues, set up the treasure hunt and monitored how the teams did on the day.
 They even organised the beautiful weather!!

 The whole school gathered for their small chocolate eggs as a reward.  

The ASF committee look on proudly.

There was a mysterious white bouncy visitor spotted around the school!

Did you see him??

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.

Ceilí Mór

Bhí Ceilí Mór againn ar Deardaoin 16ú ag ceiliúradh Seachtain na Gaeilge 2017.
D'fhoghlaim na páistí Ballaí Luimní agus Ionsaí na hInse.
Bhí siad go hiontach. Agus mar is soiléar óna pictiúrí bhain gach duine sult as!

We had a Ceilí Mór on Thursday 16th to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge 2017.
The children learned The Walls of Limerick and Siege of Ennis.
They were brilliant!  And as is clear from the pictures everyone enjoyed themselves!

Playground Leaders

Did you know........

every Monday and Wednesday 5th and 6th class volunteers take the infant classes to do playground games with them for 15 minutes at lunch time.

The leaders have been trained by Ms Staunton and they have learned how to plan their game in advance.  They have to organise equipment and space for the infants to play their games.

The volunteers are brilliant!  

The infants really enjoy the games!

Well done to all. Great work!

World Book Day Walk

                                                 This is 5th and 6th class pupils doing a 

World Book Day walk along the paths of Manor Kilbride.

The weather was awful but it didn't dampen our spirits!

                                            Junior infants and Senior infants also did a World
                                              Book Day walk but for a shorter distance.
                                         

By Jennifer and Rionach

10 @ 10

Today, the 10th of February we all took part in 10 @ 10.  It was fun especially when you saw the whole school being  active. My favourite activity was doing gymnastics on the mats.
by Emma.