Physical Education

Physical Education in our School

PE (Physical Education) is an important part of our school curriculum. The curriculum contributes to children’s overall development by helping them to lead full, active and healthy lives. The PE curriculum provides a balanced range of activities for children through the six strands:
Athletics
Dance
Gymnastics
Games
Outdoor and adventure activities
Aquatics.
We teach P.E. in line with the fundamental movement skills using resources from the PSSI, PDST and 'Move Well, Move Often'.
Each class has two half hour timetabled slots for PE each week as well as active movement breaks daily.

Active school motto

Thanks to past pupil Holly Brady for our Active School Motto. We educate our students on the benefits of daily movement and exercise and ways to build it into their day to day lives. It is a skill for life!

PE Homework

PE Homework is assigned weekly in our school using the 'Super Troopers Journals', choice boards or teacher assigned tasks.

Beyond the Classroom

The PDST have created a new resource called beyond the classroom to help parents engage in their child’s physical literacy journey. They will be uploading videos to show children different activities that they can do at home to continue to develop different skills.
Check out the videos below for some great games and activities you can practise at home.

Throwing
https://vimeo.com/211489230
https://vimeo.com/400896888
https://vimeo.com/402212771
https://vimeo.com/402220846

Running
https://vimeo.com/211489161
https://vimeo.com/404404521
https://vimeo.com/404409956
https://vimeo.com/404412589

Balancing
https://vimeo.com/214481395
https://vimeo.com/409588960
https://vimeo.com/409589413
https://vimeo.com/409589781

Catching
https://vimeo.com/211488363
https://vimeo.com/412274551
https://vimeo.com/412280738
https://vimeo.com/412282658

PE Equipment

We have 3 PE storage areas in our school. One close to our PE Hall which is our store for indoor equipment. One downstairs close to our playing field for outdoor equipment and our 3rd store is close to the main entrance/our yard area and stores lunch break equipment which our playground leaders distribute each day.

Our Active Walkway

During European School Sports Day, we launched our Active Walkway. We went on a wellbeing walk to mark the occasion. We have a 'Slí na Sláinte' map that lays out our walkway and the different distances we can cover for various activities. We had great fun this year using our Active Walkway during Maths Week.

PE Surveys

In April 2020, we issued PE surveys to both parents and students using Survey Monkey. We collected and analysed the results to further improve both PE and break times in our school to keep the children as active as possible. Here is a summary of the results below!

Student Survey
Do you enjoy PE class?

Parent Survey
Does your child enjoy PE?