Active School Flag
The Active School Flag (ASF) is awarded to schools that strive to achieve a physically educated and physically active school community. The process aims to get more schools, more active, more often.
  We have a whole school PE plan in place which was drafted by the principal and teachers. Regularly, our teachers participate in Continuous Professional Development in the area of PE. Ideas, strategies, tips and resources from these CPD sessions are shared with all staff members. Fundamental Movement Skills This year we have decided to go right back to basics and focus on the Fundamental Movement skills of:
All our P.E. lessons will take place outdoors in line with COVID-19 Guidelines. Priority Strand 2020-2021: Outdoor and Adventure Have a look below at some of the fun and learning going on around our priority strand. This learning didn't end over lock down either, it became a great way to get the whole family involved!! We have planned some VERY fun activities during the month of May which will really target this strand, we are very excited!! Watch this space for updates. Our new Active Walkway is proving a BIG hit. The senior room are enjoying the good weather while completing some Literacy activities. Have a look at what else we have been doing in PE since September 2019! Games Rock Paper Scissors.... JUMP!! GAA training with Ann is always a HUGE hit!! We challenged the pupils... The teachers challenged our pupils learning from home to a keepie uppie challenge with a difference. Have a look on our YouTube channel to see how the teachers and pupils got on!! It was definitely much trickier than it looks....Why don't you give it a go? :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq3PBykwFvo Dance Our pupils from Junior Infants to 3rd class really missed their siblings, cousins and friends that were still remotely learning from home. We decided to come together by learning the "Jerusalema" dance and performing it together. It was fun remotely learning together even though we were apart!! You can see the finished video on out YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtbJnRmOifCNJuyUQXv1pqA/videos and on our School Twitter page: https://twitter.com/StDympnasNs. Athletics Aquatics Our Junior Infants thoroughly enjoyed completing the PAWS (Primary Aquatics Water Safety) lessons. Gymnastics This strand will be covered in May Active Homework  During school closures, PE lessons were still completed at home. We had fun challenges and daily active homework choice boards to complete.
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Movement Breaks Movement breaks are a very important part of the school day. The children enjoy Go Noodle, Yoga and Running breaks which are timetabled everyday. This year we have also began using the Bizzy Breaks from the Irish Heart Foundation. Go Noodle Yoga Running Breaks/ Run Around Ireland Stability Balls We are very lucky to have the privilege of taking part in the Active School pilot for "Active Sitting". We use the stability balls whilst completing work but we also utilise these in our movement breaks!! We are so excited to get started! Active Homework We have Active homework every Thursday. Have a look at an example of the homework we complete.  Active Playground Active break and lunch times are encouraged. Our active yard monitors ensure that pupils in their playground are actively engaged at all times. They are well equipped with games and playground equipment to encourage everyone to keep active! We even use our outdoor classroom seating to keep active and enjoy the beautiful outdoors!! https://twitter.com/i/status/1379175681163202562 Actively scooting to school 2021 Click on the link below to see how well we can scoot! https://twitter.com/i/status/1374813961003094022  Active Easter/ Walkway launch celebrations 2021 Click here to watch as we launched our walkway. Thank you to Eimear and Eamonn president and vice-president of our Active School Committee. They gave a fantastic speech along with cutting the ribbon! twitter.com/i/status/1375400974580387845 Run Around Ireland Challenge- March 2021 Have a look at our Infants enjoying their daily laps. twitter.com/i/status/1384245258112753665 As a whole school we have made it to: Week 1: Armagh Observatory, Aviva Stadium, Bunratty Castle, Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, Corlea Bog, Croagh Patrick, Devenish Island, Dunmore Cave, Glencar Waterfall and Proleek Dolmen. Week 2: Gobbins Cliff Walk, Killarney National Park, Leap Castle, Mondello Race Track and The National Aquarium of Ireland. Week 3: Spike Island, Sport Ireland Campus, The Viking Triangle and the Ulster Americal Folk Park. We managed to run further than plotted on the map by week three- as a whole school! We are still continuing to calculate the distance we run in our class groups.  Active St. Patrick's Day 2021 Click on the links below for a glimpse of all the ACTIVE fun we had! https://twitter.com/i/status/1371857824993660928 https://twitter.com/i/status/1371864584861184001 Active Halloween 2020 Active Halloween 2019 Active Halloween 2018 
Cycling Ireland Please follow the link below if you are in interested in developing your cycling skills. Cycling Ireland is current;y running a free online programme beginning Monday 10th May 2021. www.cyclingireland.ie/page/programmes/gearing-up-skills Your child can:
Cycling Workshop-April 2021 Thank you @Bikegreen_ie Click on link below to see how we got on. https://twitter.com/i/status/1382647624717762561 Findings from our Active School Parent and Pupil Questionnaires. Click on the links below. www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-DFPSF52L9/ 
Live Zoom with Ulster All Star Winner Ellen Mc Carron! The pupils absolutely loved this, a huge thank you to Ellen Mc Carron and well done to all who participated!  GAA Coaching 2020 We had six weeks of Gaelic coaching with Ann Mc Kenna. Thank you Active School Flag for our lovely playground leader bibs! Well done to our 4th class who participated in a recent Blitz. Walk on Wednesday. Thank you to our parents who came to help out! We would also like to say a big Thank You to Mr. John Mullen for his kind donation to St. Dympna’s N.S. This donation has allowed us to purchase a range of new equipment.  Active Flag raising ceremony A huge thanks to Rory Beggan who raised our active flag. He, along with members of Scotstown GAA also gave their time to complete some fitness challenges and coach our budding county players!! A big well done to Jamie and Caolán who competed in a blitz in Co. Derry with their club, Scotstown GAA. 
 "Active School Week 2020" became "Active Home Week 2020". Things may have been very different to what we were accustomed to but that didn't stop us from having a fantastic, fun, active week! Here are some of the active activities we got up to... "Walk a mile with a smile" "Sunrise walk" Yoga Joe Wicks DAILY activities Scavenger hunts Dances- Haka Teacher challenges- The wheelie bin challenge! Cycling Daily Running challenges Walking in our locality- scavenger hunt for historic artifacts. |
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