by St.margarets | Oct 1, 2021 | Physical Education
As we are an active school, every Thursday the children are assigned some active homework. This varies every week and within every class. This year we are using the Daly Exercise+ app to assign homework. Homework tasks involve body weight circuits (no equipment needed) that a child and parent can complete together.
by St.margarets | May 9, 2019 | Physical Education
All of the children in St. Margaret’s National School have completed the land PAWS programme. The programme is taught as part of the Aquatics PE strand and the SPHE curriculum. It outlines life-saving guidelines for children of every age. PAWS (Primary Aquatics...
by St.margarets | Mar 14, 2019 | Physical Education
The children in Junior Infants, Senior Infants, First Class and Second Class are enjoying their weekly gymnastics lessons with Coach Jan and Coach Craig from Activate...
by St.margarets | Feb 18, 2019 | Partnerships, Physical Education
The Irish Heart Foundation, the national charity fighting heart disease and stroke, runs teacher training workshops for Action for Life. The teachers here at St. Margaret’s N.S. recently completed the Action for Life workshop which is supported by the Department of...
by St.margarets | Oct 10, 2018 | Active Schools Week, Physical Activity, Physical Education
Each teacher is asking their class to continue to complete some form of PE homework every Monday night. This varies every week and within every class. It could be a simple task like getting out for a walk or cycle in the fine weather or some teachers have even...
