PHYSICAL ACTIVITY 

Our School Day 

We have two playground breaks each day. When the weather is poor, children remain indoors and complete short physical activities with  teachers. 

Have a look at our Wet Day activities! 

Movement Breaks

The use of movement breaks are an important part of our school day. The children enjoy doing a variety of different types of breaks.This year we are using a variety of resources which includes Movement in the Classroom from the PDST/Oide and Bizzy Breaks from The Irish Heart  Foundation.

Our Active Yard

At St. Michaels, we all really enjoy Active Yard. All the children are divided into four groups. Each group has an Active Yard leader. Children from first to sixth class  get a chance to become an Active Yard Leader.We try to come up with lots  of different games that everyone enjoys!  

This year, each classroom gets a turn every three weeks on Active Yard. The Active Agents set up the equipment. 

Music in the yard
 

Throughout the year, our whole school is treated to some music in the yard at breaktimes. The chilldren are given opportunities to vote for the songs which they would like to hear on the yard. Its a big treat for us all! 

Our Active Walkway is use to: 

Our Walkway Route 

The active committee worked together with the help of teachers to plan our school walkway.They carefully measured our whole yard space using a trundell wheel.  Our whole yard measures ______. We use our walkway for daily movement breaks, for PE lessons especially for Outdoor and Adventure and to help us to learn Maths,English,Gaeilge and SESE. We even have some motivational statements to promote positive physical and mental wellbeing in our school. #Learningonthemove

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 Active Classroom Challenge

As a whole school, we started the Active Break Challenge on Monday 13^th November. Each class committed to completing at least one movement break each day until Friday 8^th December. During those four weeks, the children completed laps of the yard, danced to their favourite songs using Just Dance and did Go Noodle workouts. As a whole school, we also participated in the ‘Dare to Believe Olympic Movement breaks challenge’. We all enjoyed doing the movement breaks lead by a variety of Olympic athletes. Well done to everyone who completed the challenge!

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Run Around Europe Running Challenge

We kicked started our whole school Run Around Europe Running Challenge on 26th February - 22nd March. Over the four week period, all classes counted the number of laps ran each day and recorded it on their class 'Run Around Europe Challenge sheet. Everyone was encouraged to do their best and help others along the way! Each classroom tried to research each destination and find out some interesting facts!  Every Friday, children in each classroom calculated the number of laps completed per week. By 22nd March, we had ran to Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Belguim and London a total of 6,430 laps!

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European School Sports Day 

European School Sports day took place on 29th September. It is always our first active event of the new school year. On the day, each class started with some warm up exercises, played Wacky Waiter race,Quick Change Relay,Connect 4 and Bench ball.  

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Halloween Active Day 

The Active Committee kicked off our Halloween celebrations with some Active Halloween games for everyone. The children enjoyed playing Zombie Tag, Witch and Wizard, Smash the pumpkin and Monster says! We had a whole school dance to 'Wednesday' song and  had music in the yard to help us get into the Halloween spirit!Everyone had a great day to end our first term. 

Our Santa Dash

As part of our Active Christmas event,the whole school participated in our annual 'Santa Dash'on Friday 22nd December. The children looked very festive wearing their Christmas jumpers and Santa Hats!

FEEL GOOD FRIDAYS

During the month of February, we took part in Feel Good Friday  to promote 'Learning on the Move'. We had great fun learning and keeping active at the same time!

Have a look at how some of our senior pupils are learning on the move while at home! 

The Active School Committee worked together to plan our walkway route. We used our mathematical skills and a trundle wheel  to measure the walkway. One lap of the walkway is 200m, which means  that 5  laps equals on kilometre. We discussed the best places to put the control points. The senior pupils researched and designed some motivational quotes for the route also!  

We use our walkway our whole school running challenge, make learning fun, Movement breaks and P.E. lessons.  

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Get Moving!-decrease sedentary time 

Every classroom have decided upon three ways that they can get more active everyday at school! 

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Have a look on our social media pages for more photographs and videos of our Physical Activities throughout the year!