Saturday, 29 April 2017

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!


Sunday, 9 April 2017

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??


Monday, 3 April 2017

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.





Thursday, 30 March 2017

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.


Sensory Room


Did you know .......
Our sensory equipment is used regularly in the second resource room for various children throughout the school.  The equipment is for sensory play which can help with concentration and regulation.
This equipment was bought with money raised by parent's association.
Go raibh míle maith agaibh.





Wednesday, 22 March 2017

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!