Active School Week 2021CONGRATULATIONS to our Active Slogan winners: Junior Infants: Freya Mc Kenna and Conor Tierney Senior Infants: Matthew Dolan and James Connolly 1st Class: James Mc Kenna and Sophie Higgins 2nd Class: Conor Brady and Ciara Mulligan 3rd Class: Liam Mc Cormack and Darragh O' Malley 4th Class: Frank Connolly and Niamh Eannetta 5th Class: Katie Mc Crystal and Ryan O' Malley 6th Class: Ryan Robb and Eimear Bell An extra CONGRATULATIONS to our OVERALL winner.... Katie Mc Crystal!! ![]() Friday. We rounded off the best week with even MORE fun!! Today we had GAA coaching with Chloe Sherry who plays for Monaghan ladies. Thank you Chloe the children loved it so much! We had an outdoor disco, our senior room played the final of their Champions League....it was nail-biting stuff! We had some balloon keepie uppie fun on the pitch, wall sit challenges, more Active Walkway learning and completed many more laps taking us around Ireland AGAIN!! Thursday. Another busy day today! A huge thank you to Rhea Mc Kenna for coaching our pupils and helping to develop their Gymnastics skills, they really enjoyed this! Senior Infants and 1st class enjoying some Active Addition on our Walkway! The Senior room, actively coming up with strategies to help estimate the area of our school yard. The senior room's Champions League is going so well! This is definitely one of the highlights of the week! Wednesday. Wednesday began with an active zoom call from Ciarán and Orlagh from Coral Leisure Monaghan. They really put the children through their paces. Thank you so much Ciaran and Orlagh! 4th to 6th class headed away to Rossmore Park for a History/Outdoor and Adventure lesson. To say they were tired on their return would be an understatement!! Thanks so much to Mr. Finlay for the wonderful, fun day that the pupils will always fondly cherish. Scavenger huts have become a firm favourite, Here are Senior Infants and 1st class enjoying theirs. Counting, sorting, matching, recognising digits and problem solving along with plenty of ACTIVE FUN!! 3rd to 6th didn't have the chance to rest much when they returned...here they are enjoying another fun cycling lesson with @Bikegreen_ie Thank you Active School Flag for our Twitter frame. Tuesday. Tuesday's Active Homework challenge was quite special with Active Challenges from Monaghan GAA football star Karl O' Connell. A HUGE thanks to Karl for sending in these challenges!! Click on the link below to view... twitter.com/i/status/1387138116494970888 Today we scooted to school, completed Active Walkway Challenges, enjoyed some yoga, ran to more places of interest for our Run Around Ireland Challenge and danced to Go Noodle. Monday. What a BRILLIANT start to Active week. Thank you to Aideen Treanor who had the children complete some very fun and challenging activities. There were many tired legs afterwards!! Thanks also to Paul Carragher from Monaghan Sports Partnership for organising this coaching session. Mr. Finlay's room enjoyed a virtual tour of Croke Park on Monday. Thanks to the GAA museum and Tours. Today the pupils also completed some Active Walkway activities, played rock paper scissors....HOP, had some fun scavenger hunts and the senior room's Champions League tournament began! Active Homework during Active School Week!! Such a wide range of Active Activities continuing at home. Have a look to see... golfing, dancing, secret handshakes, throwing to a target, Olympic diving exercises, GAA drills, cycling(Clink on this link to see our budding cyclists... twitter.com/i/status/1387893459906879493 We will be celebrating our Active School Week the 26th-30th April 2021. Keep your eyes peeled for updates.
See links below for some great Family Fitness at home activities you can use anytime to keep your children active and meeting the minimum requirement of 60 minutes physical activity everyday! www.sportireland.ie/keepwell/familyfitness https://www.sportireland.ie/sites/default/files/media/document/2021-02/keep_well_kids_activity_booklet.pdf https://www.safefood.net/start/active-play-and-games-ideas https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDiumnib21kOkhUAI0cr73MU7gAHVakSs https://rtejr.rte.ie/category/rtejr-blog/yoga/
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