• Wellbeing and Physical Education             

• Physical Activity                    

• Partnerships                    

• Active School Week              

   

  We are trying to renew our active flag this year.To learn more about the Active School initiative, visit their website by clicking on the link www.activeschoolflag.ie

Our active school committee is busy planning lots of ways to keep the pupils and staff healthy and active during these strange pandemic times.

The committee are currently choosing three of the fifteen fundamental movement skills for our school to focus on after Christmas, as part of our commitment to the Active Schools initiative.

The 2020/2021 Committee includes pupil representatives from 1^st – 6^th Class: Lilia-Jane, Mya, Olivia,Seán, Tara-Rose, Emma, Charlotte and Cillian.

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Local Sports Hero Challenge April 30th: Kilkenny Camogie Allstar 🙂

Claire Phelan is from Lisdowney and is a Kilkenny Camogie player. She plays full back or centre back on the Kilkenny team. She is our local hero and all the boys and girls look up to her . Many of the girls aspire to be on the Kilkenny camogie team just like Claire. Claire set a knock the hurl challenge. The children had great fun doing it and the atmosphere in the school was brilliant last Friday. In the Junior Room we had a few children knock the hurl once and we had one girl knock it twice ! In the Middle Room a few children knocked the hurl once and one person knocked it twice also. In  the Senior room a few children knocked it once and again one child knocked it twice ! Well done to everyone who took part. 

The Children took on the challenge with great excitement and determination. Well done to all :). 

Partnerships

Go Handball

Lisdowney GAA

Lisdowney hurling visited the school after a sensational win in the county final in October 2020.  Well done, such a brilliant achievement. 

Thanks to Brian Ryan who is the GAA Development Officer who visits our school regularly and trains the middle room hurling skills.

Paws Water Safety

Children learned all about water safety and designed water safety posters.

Useful websites

https://activeschoolflag.ie/

https://irishheart.ie/

https://www.sportireland.ie/ga

https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/healthwellbeing/healthy-ireland/

www.hse.ie

http://kilkennygymnastics.ie/classes/

https://www.krsp.ie/

https://watersafety.ie/primary-school/

Physical Activity

Active Homework

Active Walkway

Our Active Walkway is up and running. Over the coming weeks we hope to use the walkway while engaging in other subjects. 

Run Around Ireland Challenge

In term 1, all classes participated in at least two active movement breaks for 4 weeks before Christmas. The teachers and children found it really helped them work harder and focus better. Children did various different types of active movement breaks from running around the school, to a quick hurling session, to dance to yoga, to name but a few ! As part of our movement break initiative the whole school did a run to Croker to tie in with the hurling and  football All Ireland’s happening in December. The whole school ran/walked a total of 102km over the course of the 4 weeks. Well done to all !  We will definitely keep up the active movement breaks for the year.

 Monster mile

Well Being & Physical Education

There are 6 PE Strands in the curriculum. The strands are Athletics, Dance, Games, Swimming, Gymnastics and Outdoor and  Adventure .To achieve an active flag status at east 5 of the 6 strands must be covered. Each year we normally go swimming but this year  due to the pandemic we are going to do the strand of gymnastics instead.

Whole School PE PLAN

Children do all 6 strands every year and a 3 year plan has been put in place to cover all the Fundamental movement skills which help children develop important skills.

Whole School PE PLAN

April & May Gymnastics

The children are really enjoying gymnastics this month. We are hoping to buy some more equipment for it soon. 

What time is it Mr Wolf? 

Landing game with Fundamental movement skill: landing

In March &  the first week in April the children did Athletics  and they really enjoyed it.

In December and January(remote learning)  all classes did Dance. Each class participated in dance lessons outdoors and the Junior room were able to do some dance indoors as well. The Fundamental movement we are working towards in Dance is the side step. Each class has been learning the Cha Cha slide to incorporate the side step into their dance.