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!