Physical Activity

Today the boys and girls from junior infants, senior infants, and first-class completed our 4-week walking challenge. At the start of the challenge, we set out to walk to landmarks such as Doneraile Park, Thomond Park, Fota Wildlife Park, Blarney Castle, and Croke Park. Not only did we reach these targets we walked much further…

During lunchtime on Monday and Tuesday, First Class are showing junior and senior infants how to play different playground games. It is a great success and the kids love it.

We were delighted to launch our new “Active Walkway” on March 16th by having our St. Patrick’s Day Parade around the school. We have 15 posters up around the school so the children loved walking to each of them. It was a great day.   Click on the videos to watch us in action. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V00AJD8N4yywTPsk2y0KlpAgWPOuOmo6/view?usp=sharing…

For the next few weeks the children will be going for walks and hoping to reach different destinations around the country. 1 lap of the park = 1km. We are hoping to walk to Doneraile Park (17km) Thomond Park (36km) Blarney Castle (48km) Fota Wildlife Park (58km) Croke Park (199km)  

For the next 4 weeks on Fridays, the boys and girls will use skipping ropes and hula hoops to get more active. They were a great success today. Click on the links to watch us skipping and using the hula hoops https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Opw5g0Lj0RGBKSkYPE86OUWxFXxJm0bS/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OGG0EfwiY572PQqtwqYxhw33tXZl57os/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OPpRwmIbIM1UHGidluCas4K7F1MApqJA/view?usp=sharing  

We had great fun this morning on our Santa Dash. We even spotted Santa ;looking for his reindeer in the park. Click on the links to watch the videos.   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LQJSzfK-QDlipA_sns8aM2xogaNMtaZZ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LPp4Uk-kFfXNZ5AHq1E8wDoutHiduiue/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LHkcJR0xaUq7o8nXlIvUjwaQhmqgLRgZ/view?usp=sharing  

This week for our active break challenge we are doing Joe Wick’s 5 minute workouts. The kids had lots of fun doing it. Click on the video links to watch them in action. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hpa7AH_KnSAIQ8-C425y3jC0zAYh9-Uc/view?usp=sharing   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HZ184U0rR_cHoA0XvSgn7RCj3qcT50dG/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IF_2jqH9BV-fopQFbBt-Wup3IwZTiv-R/view?usp=sharing        

This week we are doing dance for our Active Break Challenge. The children are loving the music and following the dance routine.   Click on the link to watch the videos of senior infants and first class dancing   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H3r682Xd2nfMkmShcHzlE4ZnOef2_9Nk/view?usp=sharing   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GpjP5FjpEOwH6SUVwYskS3ef3rPcsvcN/view?usp=sharing   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gu6ag1rTuMPaNRKXOROgi1yU_xIlyMPh/view?usp=sharing

Every class started our active breaks this week. This week we are spinning a wheel for “funky fruit”. The kids are loving the movement break during the day. Click on the link to watch a few clips of the active breaks this week. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GbxJJIQtSRBTzBdhDTqfkcAocdt9Vr6l/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gid8kVCV61BPCj5kMz_QxaW45oZllaBl/view?usp=sharing  

We had a great day in school celebrating National Fitness Day. We did dance, an obstacle course and stations on the yard. It was so much fun.  

  We had great fun on our “Spooky” walk in the local town park. Click on the link to watch a video clip of our walk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ET32o9OjJPm4OmcP7vtGKPMsnDrjJxeW/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ETW4VROlf2d5Kii6FemS-4jqqGHqwTYm/view?usp=sharing     “