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Active Week 2022

10/6/2022

Active Week was postponed to June in order to have the good weather and with testing! Then comes the rain...... we had Active week over two weeks to ensure we got all our planned activities in!!

6th class created activities for the Junior school and helped with organising them on the day! They did the same for the Senior school! Great fun including races - running backwards, racing on our knees, in pairs and lots more! Tug o war was great fun and all the parachute games too.

Fun and Run was one of the days activities: the full set being used in the senior school- even in rainy weather. junior school used the movement circles.

Basketball!

FYI dance with Zoe saved the day on a wet Thursday!

Mathletics participated in our Active week!

Walks, classes went on extra mindful walks!

Badminton skills!

Destination running- we incorporated Run around Ireland into Active Week as it was such a success previously!

Standing Challenge!- Stand for ten minutes in a lesson..... harder than it sounds for some classes.

What we enjoyed during Active Week

20/5/2021

Active Week 2021

13/5/2021

From the 10th- 14th May we had our ACTIVE WEEK in school, although the weather was up and down, the boys and girls had great fun from going out on walks, to active breaks in the class, challenges of standing for part of a lesson, running for 5 minutes for stamina and

Monday we had relays to participate in alongside our movement challenges

Tuesday we had Fun and Run in the senior building and the fun and run circuit spots in the Junior school.

Wednesday we took part in FYI dance with Zoe in our classes.

Thursday was target practise with balls and beanbags practising our FMS throwing skill, a timed activity to see what score we could reach in our pods and in our classes as a whole- lots of fun with some competition.

Friday we participated in circuits outside alongside an active assembly held by Ms.Doyle's Junior infants and Ms. Meldon's 3rd Class via zoom!

Active week challenges 2021

10/5/2021

Below are the challenges for homework, decided on by our committee!

Keep your record and fill in your activity on your record sheet in school the next day! Good luck :)

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Active HOME Week 2020

18/5/2020

From the 27th of April until the 3rd of May, Newtownmountkennedy P.S. took part in an Active HOME Week challenge. Pupils were active for 60 minutes and completed 4 different types of exercise every day. Each day of Active HOME Week the children picked two new activities to try. The challenge was all about getting up, moving as much as possible and having fun. You can see in the pictures below that Josh from 2nd class, Adam from 5th class and Dylan from 6th class did a great job completing the challenge and had brilliant ideas of ways to stay active. Well done to all the children who participated in Active HOME Week!

Active Schools Week

3/10/2018

We participated in active schools week from Monday the 24th September to Friday the 28th September.
On Monday we set off on our first challenge which was run around Europe. Children ran laps of both school yards with the aim of reaching as many countries in Europe as possible. By Friday the school had reached 4571 kilometers, this meant we made it to over 30 countries in Europe.
On Tuesday the children all got to dance in their classroom which was great fun. On Wednesday all classes participated in yoga. On Thursday the children in the junior school took part in circuits while the children in the senior school took part in fun and run. On Friday we raised our active schools flag and celebrated the school receiving the active flag at the end of the last school year. We had a great week.

Active Week- Marathon Challenge

30/5/2018

As part of our Active Week in May, the pupils were challenged to run a marathon -over 26 miles- as a school. They far exceeded expectations and together managed to run 6 marathons! Well done to all those who took part!

Active Week- Athletics Day 22.5.18

30/5/2018

As part of our Active Week in May Wicklow Sports Partnership visited our school. Pupils really enjoyed the Athletics Day with the coaches and had lots of fun practising skills they knew and learning some new ones!

Active Week

22/3/2018

The whole school took part in Active Week from Monday the 26th September to Friday 30th September . The students and teachers took part in a variety of active activities each day. Students took part in the ‘Run around Europe’ campaign. Students also took part in a Skipathon. On Friday each class in the Junior School took part in circuits. Activities included hook a duck and do the exercise, skipping, limbo and bean bag throwing. Junior classes were helped by students in 2nd class. Everyone had a great week!

Run Around Europe- September

15/3/2018

First, each class got a time out on the yard.
Then they all lined up to start off with, then we all did the whole perimeter of the yard. Each person had to do ten laps.
If people had finished their ten laps they could do more.
Then the teachers could write the number on the scoreboard and tally them up to see how far we've got.
The class who had the best score would get extra time out on the yard.
We had so much fun!

by Ava Davis, 4th Class