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10@10 – Operation Transformation

Well done to all the boys and girls who participated in the 10@10 this morning.

Primary schools all over the country got up and moving this morning as part of a country wide initiative called 10@10.  The 10@10 is an Operation Transformation initiative to get children to do 10 minutes of exercise at 10 am during the RTÉ One series and to continue the mini-workout into the future.

The popular lifestyle programme is celebrating its tenth year making this morning’s workout, that is happening in primary schools nationwide, all the more special.

The boys and girls in our school were divided into mixed aged groups with children from each class. The children who are on the Active Schools Committee were the leaders of each group. They had to guide the younger children and ensure that their team stayed together and kept moving!!!

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We set up six stations with a leader at each station explaining what to do. To begin with we did a short warm up and when the whistle blew, we got started. We spent 1 and 1/2 minutes at each station. Once the whistle blew we moved again! We even had music to add to the fun!

Station 1: Running, side steps, high knees and heel kicks!

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Station 2: Hula hooping!

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Station 3: Squats, squat jumps, squat punches!

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Station 4: Skipping!

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Station 5: Jumping jacks, scissor jumps and hip jumps!

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Station 6: Exercises with Jim and Keith!

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Congratulations to the pupils from 2nd-6th class who have completed an 8 week schools swimming programme in The Waterfront, Enniscorthy.

All pupils made great advancements at various levels.

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Here they are receiving their Swimming Skills Award certificates.

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Well done to all pupils in Kiltealy N.S who took part in our National Spring Clean Day on Thursday 27th April. Each class group covered a different area of the village and did a great job in cleaning up their allocated area. Areas covered were the school grounds, Griffith Avenue, the hall carpark, the main street, the church carpark and inside the graveyard walls. 

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3rd & 4th

 

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1st & 2nd Classes

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Active Archie’s Adventures

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Through our Active Flag we are raising awareness of fitness among children. We will be aiming to explore as many avenues as possible to keep the children fit and active.

Active Archie has arrived in Kiltealty N.S. and has visited the children to say hello. As his name suggests, he likes getting lots of exercise and he really enjoys trying new activities.

We would like to invite boys and girls in the junior classes and their families to bring Active Archie along with them if they are doing some kind of physical activity, or going to a sporting event as either participants or spectators.

Active Archie will help us see all the activities that the children are involved in at home. This may be organised activities or simply bouncing on the trampoline. Active Archie will be having all sorts of exciting adventures in the next few months!

It would be great if the boys and girls could write about what they did with Active Archie and/or draw a picture about their adventure. Hopefully Active Archie will get to do lots of fun activities with the boys and girls and their families.

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Mini Sevens Hurling and Camogie News

Congratulations to both our hurling and camogie team on reaching Round 2 of the Allianz Cumann na mBunscoil Mini Sevens League.

Our camogie team had an impressive victory over St. Aidans in Round One ensuring a place in the 2nd Round.

Our hurlers played 2 games in Round One and emerged as group winners. They had quite a comprehensive win over Boolavogue in their first game. They beat St. Aidans in the second game on a scoreline of 6-5 to 0-2.

Well done to both teams and best of luck in Round 2. These matches will be played next week.

Mini Sevens Hurling Team:

Michael Murphy, Jacques Neville, Padraig Waters, Danny Fitzhenry, Noel Cowman, Dylan Purcell, Ciarán Murphy, Cillian Hanrahan, Steven Kavanagh, Tomás Murphy, David Nolan (injured)

Mini Sevens Camogie Team:

Libby Cullen, Aimee Neville, Ellie Watchorn, Heather Boyce, Lauren Smyth, Emma Healy, Katie Bowe, Niamh Armstrong, Maria de la Paz, Caoimhe O’ Brien

Swimming will begin Tuesday the 31st of January. Children from 2nd to 6th class attend swimming lessons in the Waterfront Leisure Centre in Enniscorthy. Children travel to and from Enniscorthy by bus, which is supervised by teachers from the school.

The swimming coaches place the children into groups of similar swimming abilities enabling them to make steady progress throughout the lessons.

The swimming lessons run for 8 weeks and all children who have attended receive a certificate at the end of the 8 weeks.

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The Christmas Disco!

The Christmas Disco was a great success. There was lots of dancing and singing and most importantly, lots of fun! Although it was hard to catch them standing still, we managed to get a few photographs of the boys and girls during the Christmas Disco.

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Santa Dash!

Santa Dash!!!! Dashing through the village !!! Well done to all the boys and girls who wore Santa hats and Christmas jumpers for our annual Santa Dash!

 

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Children from 1st -6th class enjoyed harvesting the lovely vegetables sown last Spring. 4th & 5th class pupils were very eager to see the produce from their mini garden which they cared for so well since the Spring.  Thank you to Jim Hanrahan who helped set up and maintain our garden. Jim passed on lots of gardening knowledge to our garden carers. Well done to all involved. Enjoy our photos below.

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Above: Some of our Active Committee ready to distribute the Super Trooper Packs to teachers and children.

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Kiltealy N.S. have commenced Super Troopers, Ireland’s first “health homework” programme.

This programme is fun, free and friendly for all teachers, children and parents to take part in.

The programme focuses on increasing physical activity levels among children, encouraging a healthy lifestyle and improving well-being and food habits at a young age.

Super Troopers is all about ensuring children have as much fun as possible while getting active. Its not about winning or losing, but ensuring that kids take part and try their best.

Each child received their Super Trooper Active Journal and wall charts and can follow the weekly schedule of activities to keep active.

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There was great excitement as the pupils of Kiltealy N.S. were asked to cheer on the An Post Rás na mBan participants as they whizzed past our school on Friday afternoon. Cycling was our selected sports focus  of the week. Over 90% of our Pupils own bikes and love to cycle

 

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Active School Committee 2016/2017

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(Posted 9/6/16)

Whistle blown,sun shining and teams ready.Welcome to our Sports Day.

Nine teams assembled,each with their lucky mascot.

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The day began with  relay races – running relay, ball relay, wheelbarrow relay,, t-shirt relay,, mini hurl relay, frog relay and human relay.

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Congratulations to the winners of the best mascot-the Purple and Red teams.

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Well done to the Purple team,the overall team winner.Find below the photograph of our proud winners of Captain of the Day.Well done lads.

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Due time for a rest.

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A big thank you to the parents who organised ice-cream for all the pupils.

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The stations were an important part of our day.

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The afternoon was busy  with group games , a   hurling blitz and the confirmed favourite-the teachers versus the students Tug of War .  The sixth class will happily update you on the winners of the Tug of War.  It was a busy but fun filled day.We hope you enjoyed our photographs.

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Army drills get us active

 

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Spring Clean time in Kiltealy. Everybody worked hard collecting rubbish around the village. First and Second class ensured that their section around the hall was spotless! Well done everybody!

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We went on a nature walk in search of signs of spring!

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We keep active by gardening….we love to weed and water our plants!!!!

 

Third and Fourth Classes had great fun planting vegetables in our school garden. We planted peas,potatoes, onions, lettuce, carrots and parsnips. Thank you to Mr. Hanrahan for teaching us how to sow the vegetables. We have lots of volunteers to go and water the vegetables every day!!

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YOGA MOVES !!!

5th & 6th enjoyed their Yoga for Kids Programme  in P.E. over the past 6 weeks. Each yoga position had a name eg. hero, bridge, happy cat, up dog, sprinter.   Groups of children wrote stories using the vocabulary of the yoga positions. They then narrated the story while acting out their yoga positions.

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Zumba Fun !

3rd & 4th class had great fun learning Zumba dancing for active week.

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Active Archie’s Adventures

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Through our Active Flag we are raising awareness of fitness among children. We will be aiming to explore as many avenues as possible to keep the children fit and active.

Active Archie has arrived in Kiltealty N.S. and has visited the children to say hello. As his name suggests, he likes getting lots of exercise and he really enjoys trying new activities.

We would like to invite boys and girls in the junior classes and their families to bring Active Archie along with them if they are doing some kind of physical activity, or going to a sporting event as either participants or spectators.

Active Archie will help us see all the activities that the children are involved in at home. This may be organised activities or simply bouncing on the trampoline. Active Archie will be having all sorts of exciting adventures in the next few months!

It would be great if the boys and girls could write about what they did with Active Archie and/or draw a picture about their adventure. Hopefully Active Archie will get to do lots of fun activities with the boys and girls and their families.

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Surfs up !!!!

 

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Pupils from 3rd to 6th Classes are very excited about our School Tour.

We will be attending Tramore Surf School on the 14th of June!!

More details to follow.

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Rugby News!!!

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All the pupils in Kiltealy N.S. are looking forward to the Tag Rugby Season commencing in May !!

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Easter Egg Hunt!

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We had great fun on our Easter Egg Hunt! We had to work in groups to follow the clues and find the tokens to collect our Easter surprise!

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Yoga Fun!!!

All teachers and pupils  from Infants to Sixth Classes are having great fun trying out our new yoga poses. Check in with us next week to see our progress !!?

 

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Christmas Disco!

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The Christmas Disco was a great success. There was great excitement when Santy came to visit the children. Although it was hard to catch them standing still, I managed to get a few photographs of the boys and girls during the Christmas Disco.

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Santa Dash!!!!

Dashing through the village !!!

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First and Second Class took part in this years Santa Dash! They sang Christmas songs and waved to everybody as they walked through the village.

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Witch Walk Fun!!!!!

Halloween in Kiltealy-witches galore and much more.

 

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Active Week

First and second class have been super active this week! Everyday they have been running a certain amount of laps each day to try and reach the whole school target of 10k. The children also got the chance to show off their dance moves with Drop Everything and Dance initiative which saw the children getting up and dancing when different songs were played throughout the day! They further got to test their dance and rhythm skills when we went down to the hall for a Zumba class!!

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3rd & 4th class had great fun learning Zumba dancing for active week.

 

 

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The Active School Committee

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The Active School Committee were elected in October.The first committee meeting has taken place .The Active Notice Board has more details.

 

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(posted October 2015)

Kiltealy School are now working on getting an Active Flag.

The pupils are currently working on their presentations, as they prepare to look for votes for the Active School Committee.

 

December  Meeting

(posted Jan  2016)

The active school committee held their meeting.The agenda was as follows

  • Snnta Dash
  • Active Lines
  • Active Breaks

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The active school committee held their meeting.The agenda was as follows

  • Active Art Sheet
  • Active Lines
  • Active Homework

The idea of implementing an active class of the month was considered by the committee.A small prize could be given to the monthly winners.

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We had lots of fun in PE.

We worked in small groups to complete an outdoor & adventure trail :-)

Jump for the stars!

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Fun in the Sun – Orienteering

Ms Byrne’s Junior and Senior Infants have being making the most of the sunshine!!

We had great fun orienteering during P.E. Children worked in pairs. Each pair received a card with some pictures on it. These pictures were scattered all around the school yard. The pairs worked together to find the pictures they had, and then coloured the corresponding box with the correct colour crayon.  When we were all finished, each pair compared their card with a pair that had the same card. It was great fun to run in the sun ;)

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Minibeast Hunt  

Yesterday, Ms Byrne’s Junior and Senior infants had fun exploring the school garden habitat. They found lots of different mini-beasts in the garden.

Before they started exploring , we looked at some pictures of different flies, insects and other creepy crawlies to see how many we could name. We then examined some of the “tools” we were going to use in our hunt, which included various containers and also magnifying glasses.

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1st, 2nd , 3rd & 4thClass School Tour 2015

The girls and boys enjoyed a great day on Monday when they visited the Watershed in Kilkenny for a day filled with sports and activities on their school tour!

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