Active School - Physical Education
#Feel Good Friday - Active Walkway Day
On Friday the 25th of March all classes took part in our Feel Good Friday Walkway Day Challenge. All of the boys and girls used our school walkway to promote 'Learning on the Move'. Each class engaged in various different cross curricular challenges in an active way. We showed that we can learn on the move and be active while practising skills from other subject areas. Have a look at some of our photos and videos below!
Junior and Senior Infants used our Walkway Route take part in a Fairy Trail. The children located the fairies at each point on our Walkway Route and completed a fairy's favourite exercise and worked together with their partners to draw the various fairies favourite shapes and colours on an orienteering chart.
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Seniors, First and Second Class used the Fairy Route on our School Walkway to practise their 2D Shapes and Colours as Gaeilge.
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Third and Fourth Class used our School Walkway in order to practise telling the time in analogue and digital. They also used the letters along the Walkway to create short sentences as part of Literacy!
Fifth and Sixth Class used the School Walkway to link in with Geography.
At each point the children had to draw the flag located on the key card and write down the country associated with each flag. A tricky task no doubt but the boys and girls enjoyed the challenge!
At each point the children had to draw the flag located on the key card and write down the country associated with each flag. A tricky task no doubt but the boys and girls enjoyed the challenge!
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Run Around Ireland Challenge
March 14th - April 8th
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From March 14th to April the 8th Scoil Mhuire Magherarney took part in a 4 week Run Around Ireland Challenge. This 4-week challenge encourages schools to build a running break into every day. It’s an excellent way for children to learn about some of Ireland’s most famous landmarks and ideal for bringing learning outdoors. We worked out the distance from our school to each of Ireland's most famous landmarks. Each day, each class took to the track as part of their Active Break and totted up their total distance as a class daily. When a landmark was reached it was marked off the map and the next landmark was set as a goal. The boys and girls really enjoyed the challenge and were amazed by how far they could run as the weeks went by. We also used this opportunity to learn about beautiful places in Ireland we did not know about and hope to visit in the future.
Well done everybody!
Take a look at us in action below.....
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