Our Active School Walkway

The Active Flag committee took each class on a tour of the walkway and explained its use and the options that are available to the pupils and teachers when using this wonderful resource.

There are 14 different stations located around the school grounds. There are suggested activities that can be completed at each station including simple exercises and fundamental movement skills.

There are also a range of worksheets that can be used making it an excellent opportunity for the pupils to practice their orienteering skills.

See photographs of our Active Walkway Stations and photos of

our committee members as they give second class students a

demonstration of the suggested Active Walkway activities.

Skip Around Europe

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The Skip Around Europe initiative focused on participation, inclusion and fun with lots of learning opportunities along the way

for all the children.

All classes, at all levels were encouraged to build a short skipping break

in to their daily routines, across the 4 weeks of the challenge.

Working together as a class, and as a school, our combined skips

allowed us to travel to many of the capital cities across Europe.

We had great fun doing this and adding up the skips each week.

In the end we had completed 143,002 skips, what a fantastic

achievement for the boys and girls of Dromin NS.

Physical Activity

Active Homework is an initiative set-up to increase the physical activity levels of school-going children, thus helping each child reach the national recommendation of 60 mins daily. As part of Dromin School Self-Evaluation we have decided to send home Active Homework Ideas.

From November 18th to December 13th the pupils took part in The Active Break Challenge. We all took a break from school work for 5/10 minutes every day to move. There was a buzz of physical activity for the four weeks as teachers and children undertook some indoor and outdoor activities including GoNoodle Dance Breaks, Bizzy Breaks, mindful walks, yoga and many more.

The Active Committee recorded the active breaks on charts which were displayed in their classrooms. The teachers and pupils enjoyed the challenge and were committed to achieving our goal to increase movement and physical activity throughout the school day.