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Active School Week – Day 4

Thursday started off with the students washing the staff’s cars. They were in luck as Mrs. Connolly and Mr. H had really dirty cars!! One of the passers by was so impressed by the students’ hard work that she asked if they would clean hers as well! The lady kindly donated €10 towards our school

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Active School Week – Day 3

Wednesday saw the students jog/ run around the yard in the ” A mile with a smile” challenge. It was so encouraging to see our Infants tearing around the yard brimming with energy. After lunch, skipping challenges took place  both at individual and at group levels. Competition was fierce but also great fun. The junior

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Active School Week – Day 2

Tuesday started off with the students skipping around the yard to accomplish their “A Mile with a smile” challenge. Some students reported an increase of their fitness already so that was a great boost to them. Just as well really as after break Jonathan Davis a qualified fitness instructor set out a rigorous boot camp

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Active School Week – Day 1

The sun shone brightly as we kick started the first active morning with our “walk a mile with a smile”. The 6th class calculated it would take 21 laps all around the perimeter of our school yard to clock up this distance. We partnered a senior room and a junior room student together to complete

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Sport is fun!

All the pupils enjoyed a 6 week golf lesson stint with Kenmare Golf club expert Adrian. They loved all the pitching and putting shots and even designed their own golf course in the yard. The Senior room have converted our top yard to a badminton court and here they are playing a doubles match  

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Clever Coders

In keeping with our commitment to information technology education, we have recently purchased four new laptops for our pupils. This has enabled us to add a new subject – coding. This has been enthusiastically taken up by our pupils, as can be seen from the pictures.