The strand units of the Games curriculum include: Sending, receiving and travelling Creating and playing games Understanding and appreciation of games During Games lessons children are provided with opportunities to develop skills, create and play games, understand...
Athletics is our strand for development this year and we focused on this strand in our Physical Education lessons in September and again in April/May. This coincided at the same time as our Run Around Europe initiative and it also helped us when training for the Cross...
We use lesson transitions regularly throughout the day. These are 2-3 minute classroom based physical activity breaks which are easy to fit in and have the added benefit of increasing focus and concentration for the lesson that follows. This shows us how a little...
On Thursday 27th September, Scoil Chlíodhna CNS were invited to take part in the East Cork Schools Cross Country Races in Fr. O'Neill's GAA, Ballymacoda. We took a selection of Senior Infants, First Class and Second Class children and we were so proud of them all - we...
Physical Activity is the promotion and engagement of exercise and movement in addition to the 60 minute per week timetabled curriculum subject of Physical Education. Here at Scoil Chlíodhna we actively promote the message that children require 60 minutes of...
Friday was the last day of our Active Week celebrations and what a way to finish! From early morning, preparations were underway for Sports Day 2018. Our boys and girls had the time of their lives running and racing, skipping and splashing, bouncing and building,...
Partnerships within and outside the school are an important aspect of the Active School Flag. When a school participates in the Active School Flag Programme it is vital to interact and engage with other organisations and clubs. Active School Committee In Scoil...
Monday What a fantastic start to our Active Week! Thanks to Finny O'Regan from Munster Rugby for showing us some new rugby skills, the children loved it! We practiced different drills and learned about some of the rules involved when playing rugby! Tuesday Today we...
Our school organises an Active School Week as part of our annual school calendar. This is one of our favourite weeks of the school year. We wear our tracksuits for the whole week. During Active School week we travel to school as actively as possible. For some this...
This year Sport Ireland and Active School Flag encouraged schools to put on their running shoes and visit some of the most famous landmarks in Europe. Scoil Chlíodhna CNS decided to run the distance from Cork to The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France which was 778...
