We love our active lines in OLOC, the active monitors in 6th class do a great job of making sure every class in the school is moving and staying active in their lines!
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WOW Wall. 🏆🥇🏅
This year with the Active School Committee we wanted to make connections from the children’s partaking in sport outside school, and bring it into our school. Below are images from our WOW wall which takes pride of place at the main hall of our school, and our Active Notice board. The children shown take part […]
FMS in action. 🏃♂️💨
The girls have been working on the development of their fundamental movement skills (FMS). FMS are so important for everyday movements. The importance of FMS research is highlighted in recent literature showing that one in every four children cannot run properly, that one in every two cannot kick a ball (Behan et al., 2018). Failure […]
St Patrick’s Day Céilí Mór
This year we were able to celebrate St Patrick’s Day as a whole school by getting active! The children all took part, wearing their St Patrick’s Day colours, and danced around the yard to Irish music. We even had a special performance from some of our Irish dancers and the teachers and staff in the […]
Fyffes Fit Squad 🍌
This year our school is taking on the Fyffes Fit Squad challenge to encourage us to move more and be active during the school day! The challenge involves doing daily exercises and logging them in our activity trackers, we have to record our: push ups, sit ups, lunges, squats, mountain climbers, fast feet and jumping […]