WHAT IS AN ACTIVE SCHOOL?
The Active Flag is awarded to schools who endeavour to achieve a physically active and physically educated school community. The initiative aims to promote
‘more schools to become more active, more often’
With much hard work and dedication from our Active school committee, pupils and staff, St Michael’s was officially recognised as an ‘Active School’ in 2017.
Since then, we have remained active through Active Yard, Go Noodle, Tennis, Gymnastics, Dance and participating in cross country, gaelic and soccer events. Have a look at the photographs from our Active School Week 2018, 2019 and 2020!
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We were awarded our second
Active School Flag in June 2021. This was a fantastic achievement for pupils and staff who remained ACTIVE during Covid 19 school closures.
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ACTIVE SCHOOL FLAG- UIMHIR A TRÍ
2021- 2024
Over the last three years, we have working towards achieving our THIRD active school flag!!
What does being ACTIVE really mean?
As with all areas of school life, the support and participation of all members of our school community including pupils, staff and parents is hugely important to ensure St. Michael’s is an Active School.
Our Active School Slogan
Run, Jump, Skip or Play lets get Active everyday, remember keeping active helps your body,mind and attitude!
Congratulations to Ellie Rose & Jake for their winning Active School Slogan!
Meet our Active School Committee 2023/2024
Our Active School Committee encourages us all to keep active through leading movement breaks in their classrooms and organising equipment during playtime. Each week, they are responsible for choosing games for each of the four active stations, setting up equipment and explaining how each game is played to each group.The Active Agents have regular meetings to share suggestions from their class, discuss and plan active activities for the whole school. They are also responsible for delivering active messages to teachers and their classroom! Each child in our school is encouraged to share any new ACTIVE ideas they might have with a member of the Active School Committee or place their suggestion in the folder on our Active School Noticeboard.
St. Michael's N.S. ACTIVE together!
Our Active School Noticeboards
Our Sports Facilities
Our PE Hall
Corcaghan Community Centre
We are extremely lucky to also have access to our local Community Centre located across from our school where we can still get Active in poor weather conditions!
Our School Playground
We are really lucky to have a large spacious playground with basketball nets and goal posts!
Our Astro-turf Pitch!
We are thrilled to have a new Astro- turf pitch to play on!
Our Green Area
When the weather is good, we use our green area for Physical Education lessons, to play soccer,gaelic and to practice for Cross Country running and Sports Day.
Our P.E. Store Room
We conduct our annual P.E. audit in October. The Active Committee sorted all our equipment into different types of boxes and labelled them for everyone to be able to see them clearly!
