Active Archie’s Adventures

Through our Active Flag we are raising awareness of fitness among children. We will be aiming to explore as many avenues as possible to keep the children fit and active.

Active Archie has arrived in Kiltealty N.S. and has visited the children to say hello. As his name suggests, he likes getting lots of exercise and he really enjoys trying new activities.

We would like to invite boys and girls in the junior classes and their families to bring Active Archie along with them if they are doing some kind of physical activity, or going to a sporting event as either participants or spectators.

Active Archie will help us see all the activities that the children are involved in at home. This may be organised activities or simply bouncing on the trampoline. Active Archie will be having all sorts of exciting adventures in the next few months!

It would be great if the boys and girls could write about what they did with Active Archie and/or draw a picture about their adventure. Hopefully Active Archie will get to do lots of fun activities with the boys and girls and their families.

They pupils and teachers had great fun celebrating world book day

Congratulations to both our hurling and camogie team on reaching Round 2 of the Allianz Cumann na mBunscoil Mini Sevens League.

Our camogie team had an impressive victory over St. Aidans in Round One ensuring a place in the 2nd Round.

Our hurlers played 2 games in Round One and emerged as group winners. They had quite a comprehensive win over Boolavogue in their first game. They beat St. Aidans in the second game on a scoreline of 6-5 to 0-2.

Well done to both teams and best of luck in Round 2. These matches will be played next week.

Mini Sevens Hurling Team:

Michael Murphy, Jacques Neville, Padraig Waters, Danny Fitzhenry, Noel Cowman, Dylan Purcell, Ciarán Murphy, Cillian Hanrahan, Steven Kavanagh, Tomás Murphy, David Nolan (injured)

Mini Sevens Camogie Team:

Libby Cullen, Aimee Neville, Ellie Watchorn, Heather Boyce, Lauren Smyth, Emma Healy, Katie Bowe, Niamh Armstrong, Maria de la Paz, Caoimhe O’ Brien

At the beginning of March we had a visit from Clíona Connolly, Environment Awareness Officer with Wexford County Council. She came to see how we were getting on with our efforts to achieve our next Green School Flag. Great work has been done over the last 18 months and Clíona Connolly was very impressed with all the initiatives going on at present. Clíona visited our classrooms, met with the Green Schools Committee and inspected our very informative Green Schools Notice Board.

Congratulations to all pupils and  in particular Our Green School Committee who gave Clíona a comprehensive overview of the work being done in our school. We will soon be submitting our application for the Energy Themed Flag and are very hopeful to be successful in achieving this. Keep an eye on our website and hopefully we will have good news in the coming months!!

Third and fourth class learned all about Shrove Tuesday!

We even had a chance to taste some pancakes with some of our favourite toppings!

Our Energy Rap created by 5th & 6th Class Pupils

Energy Rap

We’ve got one flag, We want one more,

Lets get to work, its not a big chore.

Lets try to stop wasting energy,

By using less electricity.

We need to decrease our usage in light,

Our classroom doesn’t need to be so bright.

TAYTO is our motto-not the Crisp,

Turn All Your Things Off-there’s a good tip!!

Last Out Lights Off-LOLO’s what we say,

We chant this as we’re going out to play

Shut the door!

We’ll say no more!! (mic drop)

An Active School meeting was held on 13/02/17.It was confirmed that the 10@10 was a great success and it will be done again in the coming weeks.

The Active School Committee shared ideas on Active Lines,Active Breaks and Active School Tours.Active Homework was discussed.The “Drop Everything And Dance” initiative is to begin in all classes.The committee reminded us to keep an eye on the active notice board for details on the school run.Children will aim to run from Malin Head to Mizen Head,between now and the end of the school year.

Well done to all the boys and girls who participated in the 10@10 this morning.

Primary schools all over the country got up and moving this morning as part of a country wide initiative called 10@10.  The 10@10 is an Operation Transformation initiative to get children to do 10 minutes of exercise at 10 am during the RTÉ One series and to continue the mini-workout into the future.

The popular lifestyle programme is celebrating its tenth year making this morning’s workout, that is happening in primary schools nationwide, all the more special.

The boys and girls in our school were divided into mixed aged groups with children from each class. The children who are on the Active Schools Committee were the leaders of each group. They had to guide the younger children and ensure that their team stayed together and kept moving!!!

We set up six stations with a leader at each station explaining what to do. To begin with we did a short warm up and when the whistle blew, we got started. We spent 1 and 1/2 minutes at each station. Once the whistle blew we moved again! We even had music to add to the fun!

Station 1: Running, side steps, high knees and heel kicks!

Station 2: Hula hooping!

Station 3: Squats, squat jumps, squat punches!

Station 4: Skipping!

Station 5: Jumping jacks, scissor jumps and hip jumps!

Station 6: Exercises with Jim and Keith!

Congratalutions to Oran Bowe who won   213 euro in Split The Pot  on 6/2/17.

Thank you for your continued support of this fundraiser.