Active Schools Flag


​This year, we are working towards getting an Active Schools Flag for our school.

The aim of the Active Schools Flag is to encourage schools to be more active, more often.

It links in with all of the work we are doing throughout the year on Healthy Living - being active, getting exercise, taking care of our minds and bodies.

  For more information on the Active Schools Initiative, see  https://activeschoolflag.ie/

You will find all the latest Active Flag news below.

The P.E. Curriculum​
There are 6 strands in the P.E. curriculum: 

  • Athletics

  • Dance

  • Games

  • Gymnastics

  • Outdoor and Adventure

  • Aquatics


5 out of the 6 strands are covered each year, with Aquatics being taught both in the classroom (water safety) and in the swimming pool (lessons begin in 2nd class).

If you wish to take a look at the curriculum, it can be found on the NCCA website. https://ncca.ie/en/

Physical Education is allocated 1 hour per week of overall teaching time.

What is the Active School Flag?

The Active School Flag is a Department of Education and Skills initiative supported by Healthy Ireland.

The Active School Flag is awarded to schools that strive to achieve a physically educated and physically active school community.

The process aims to get more schools, more active, more often.

Our challenge will be to find interesting and exciting ways to energize the school day because active children are happy learners!

Our Active School Flag Committee

Our ASF Committee 2022/2023 is made up of teachers and students. We have brilliant students that were elected from both the Junior and Senior classrooms:

Mr Barnes (Active School Coordinator)

Bosco

Layla

Asha

Rory

Emma

Isabella

Our first job was to have a poster competition in the school to come up with an Active School Flag Slogan that we would have for our whole school to remember and follow for the year!

We had a brilliant response with lots of entries and we had some really catchy mottos!

Congratulations to our overall winners Layla and Isabella who came up with beautifully designed posters! The slogan chosen by the Active School Committee was

“Jump, play,

Practice everyday!”

Active School Flag Survey

In term 1 our Active School Flag Committee carried out a survey in all of our classes to find out the following:

  • How many children and teachers are part of a sports/physical activity club outside of school?

  • What types of clubs the children are part of?

  • How do the children normally travel to school?

The results were very interesting and helped us to identify what activities we could try to implement more of during school time and also some ways that we can help and encourage our children to walk or cycle to school.