Active School 2024/2025 Updates
We are thrilled to announce that our school has been awarded the Active School Flag 2024/2025 – a huge achievement that reflects the dedication, energy and teamwork of our entire school community here in St Eithnes. Over the past year, students, staff and families have worked together to promote physical activity, wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle in fun and inclusive ways. Well done to everyone involved. We’re excited to continue moving, growing together and keep having fun as an active school.
Our Active Schools Slogan
Well done to our 2024/2025 active schools slogan winners. Our overall winner was “Move to Improve” by Jessica in 4th. We embodied this slogan all throughout the school year.
Partnerships
Dublin City Sport & Wellbeing Partnership: Some of our pupils were invited to attend a walking/ aerobics group with some lovely locals of Edenmore.
We are extremely lucky to have our local GAA Club St Monica’s that assist us with our Gaelic football skills each week. Anto our coach is extremely motivating and we are super lucky to have him work with us.
We covered the aquatics strand this year while attending swimming lessons in Ballymun Leisure Centre. The girls learned valuable life skills and had great fun while doing so.
Pupils involved in our Active School Committee
Our 6th class students have been a wonderful help throughout the year organising and maintaining our equipment for PE and yard time. Each day the girls ensure the yard has a variety of fun equipment for games to take place. They have also began to plan this year’s sports day activities. We can’t wait to see what’s in store.
Walkway routes/signposts within St. Eithne’s
In St Eithne’s we emphasise the importance of walking in our daily lives. This year we integrated walking into our learning during Maths, Science and SPHE. Recently our caretaker Arthur has added some colourful walking routes in our school grounds too.
Athletics
This year we were very lucky to receive some training from Athletics Ireland to improve our skills. We learned how to participate in relays, jumped some hurdles and also completed some shot putting.
Thank you to our coach Shane for all of his help. We had great fun. We are also really looking forward to representing our school later this month in Santry Sports Stadium in the Athletics competition.
Skip Around Europe
Each class in St Eithne’s had great fun completing the Skip Around Europe Challenge. We had a short skipping break in our classrooms each day, across the 4 weeks of the challenge. Working together as a class and as a school, we combined our skips and travelled to many of the capital cities across Europe.
Maths Trails
2nd – 6th classes took part in an active Maths Trail to celebrate Maths week. Each class walked 1km measuring the distance using trundle wheels.
Movement Breaks
We really enjoy getting active here in St Eithnes. We have been busy increasing our physical activity not only in the yard but also in our
classrooms.
#RelaysTakeOver initiative- September (2024)
As St Eithnes is an active school all classes participated in the #RelaysTakeOver initiative on Friday September 27th to show our appreciation for Ireland’s amazing relay athletes.
All students were encouraged to get involved in some fun relay activities. We practiced the skill of relay baton exchanges, a key element of a relay. We displayed a great sense of teamwork as we completed straight line and oval track relay races with our classmates. It was great fun.
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Active Week 2020
Our active week of 2020 was a little different to normal times, whereby it had to be conducted remotely in the safety of our homes. The girls also made an extra effort to be more active at home and filled in their Active Home charts each day. Those who partook, received a special cert and a little prize. As a school, we set the girls a different daily challenge and they uploaded a video or picture of themselves getting involved in the activity. At the end of the week, all the photos and videos were compiled together to create a whole school Sports Day. Check out our video on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/157071711003515/videos/1955056307960964
Our Active School Committee of 2020 conducted a survey on students’ active involvement outside of school. As you can see, we are an active bunch for our small school! The results are presented in a bar chart below:
27th of April 2020
Try this workout as Gaeilge from RTÉ Jr for Active Home Week 2020!
Our Active School members for 2019/2020
Our Active School Committee work very hard in making sure St. Eithne’s can be as active as possible. They come together to discuss different ways to make the school more active. These girls are responsible for helping with organising active events, leading the school in exercises and keeping everyone informed about all our new ideas and activities.
Active School Slogan
The Active School Committee had a difficult job in deciding on our Active School winning slogan after receiving so many, fantastic entries from every class. In the end, ‘Every day we run and play, try and be active every day!’ was chosen as our Active School logo. A special word of congratulations to Delia in 3rd class for coming up with the winning entry!
March 2020: Visit from Caragh O’Donovan
Recently, St Eithne’s welcomed a very special visit from the ‘Sports For Schools’ initiative on 11th March. Our morning started out with an intense workout, completing a series of short and vigorous exercises. Even the teachers completed a circuit themselves! Following on from this, we listened to a motivational talk from our special visitor Caradh O’Donovan.
Her talk was truly powerful and inspiring. She spoke of how she defied many obstacles and her message was clear- ‘To preserve and pursue your dreams’.
Caradh, who is on the Irish Karate Team holds multiple world, European and National karate titles. We even got a chance to see her gold World Cup Trophy. Caradh also demonstrated a few karate moves with some brave volunteers from the audience!
Training with Robyn
Our 5th and 6th class students recently partook in Gaelic football matches as part of the Cumann na mBunscoil. Our GAA coach Robyn helped prepare and train the girls before their matches.
We are very lucky to have Robyn, from St Monica’s GAA Club coach the girls in GAA skills. Robyn who is a former student of St Eithne’s trains all classes for 30 minutes every Monday. The girls love taking part in GAA training and look forward to their session each Monday! What a great way to kick-start our week!
Movement Breaks
Even when we are not outside on yard or doing P.E, that doesn’t mean we can’t be active in class! Our school loves to partake in quick movement breaks during the day in our classrooms. Second class’ favourite movement break is ‘Go Noodle’ which they love to do every day. Look at us go!
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