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!

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??

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.