Active School Committee

 Active School Committee

Our Active school committee is made up of six students from 1st class and six students from 2nd class. We meet twice a month on a Monday and are very motivated towards achieving our active flag.
The committee liaise with junior and senior infants too.

• the committee helps come up with ideas and organise Active School Activities throughout the year
• contribute to and help to distribute the Active Newsletter to all teachers to keep the whole school updated on their activity
• check PE store and keep it tidy
• attend active school meetings
• are playground leaders during break times and take the equipment out to the yard

May/June 2018 

Fingal Education and Sports Officer

We had the opportunity to have Owen McGrath from the Fingal learning portal run a 7 week education and sports programme that aims to teach children the reasons why we should undertake sport and physical activity.

The programme focused on 6 main areas with our second class children:

• What is physical activity?
• When and where can we participate in sport and physical activity?
• Physical benefits
• Mental benefits
• Social benefits
• The importance of a balanced diet
• Hydration

The programme is part of the SPHE curriculum by providing students with a base of information on healthy living. We had previously completed the Sports conditioning programme and we look forward to more education programmes from Fingal county council.