The Active group,also Cloadagh and Abi were given a number of games to explain and play with the other children. They explained the rules, set up the game and put the children into groups.
Our Be Active after school is going very well so far.We have had a great turn out from the children. Thank you to all the parents that have helped out so far. We are getting fit and having great fun. It continues next Tuesday May 30th at 3.10pm.
The active committee carried out a questionnaire with all children to see what local clubs they were involved in. Here are the following results:
Irish Dancing-Etna Fahy
St.Kevins GAA
Kings Basketball
Horse Riding
Castlerea Celtic
Creggs Rugby
Comans Swimming
Boxing
Karate
The children were very lucky recently as Michael agreed to show the senior room how to play handball. The children really enjoyed this sport, as it was something new to everyone.
Tennis has taken over in term 3 as the sport that is most popular among all classes during break and lunch time.
Well done to the following students on their recent art competition results in Castlerea.
Boys U.8 1st-Michael Kearns 3rd-Sam Bligh
Girls U.8 1st-Zoe Joyce 2nd- Aisling Gunning
Boys U.10 2nd-Daniel Diggins
Girls U.10 1st-Elisha Joyce
Girls U.12 2nd-Kacie Joyce 3rd-Roisin Connolly
Boys U.12 3rd-Shae Gaffney
Girls U.14 1st-Abi Flanagan
Our last day consisted of GAA with Gemma’s mum and cycling with Noel Feely from Roscommon Sports Partnership.
The children also got a chance to draw their favourite sport for the local Community Games Competition.
We decided to have an Annual Sports Day on day 4 of the Active Week.
In the morning we started with Drop and Do 10. Here we increased the exercises from Monday by 5 more.
For the Sports Day the highlight was taking penalties against the staff. All staff members could now become very competitive goal keepers!!.
Other activities included, the egg and potato race, races, relay, wheelbarrow races, a skipathon and we climbed 16 mountains based on the activity-How many mountains can you climb. (counting the skips for each child)
We met at 9.10am at the top of the road to all walk to school together for our Walk On Wednesdays. Again we wore our High Vis jackets.
Once we got to school we continued our Run a Mile with a Smile as we have been doing since October. We have our Annual 5k road race on June 11th. This running each week is really helping us to get ready for the day.
We were super lucky to have Ciara from our local gym Pulse Fitness come to do mini circuits with us. We completed the plank, shuttle runs, jumping jacks, balance positions and squat holds. Ciara has asked us all to keep practicing the above. She also spoke to us about healthy eating and the amount of sugar in foods that we eat.
Playground games-Duck Duck Goose for the Junior Room and Rounders for the Senior Class.
At 2pm we all followed Mary out to the garden with Wayne to help out with planting vegetables and flowers.
Each day the classes wore their sports clothes. Having no uniforms for the week was great fun!!. We started Tuesday morning with DANCE- The Junior room did the Cha Cha Slide and the Senior Room completed The Haka.
We were delighted to welcome Sinead and Antoinette from the Ladies Tug of War team. A new sport for everyone to try out, staff and students. They had recently won Gold for Ireland at the indoor UK and Irish Championship in Castlebar. They were able to show this on Utube.
The playground games was hockey and active lines.