Third Class had a brilliant time celebrating getting the Amber Flag!
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Pieta House Fundraiser
The Amber Flag Committee would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to everybody for their amazing generosity in helping us raise €1542.32 for Pieta House. Our Pajama day was a raging success and we are so thankful for each and every contribution made. We are extremely excited to present our monies raised to Pieta House. […]
Mental Health Awareness Week in 5th Class
The week before our Easter holidays was a very exciting one for our school. Each class participated in Mental Health Awareness week as part of our Amber Flag initiative. 5th class girls enjoyed many activities such as mindfullness yoga and meditation, writing in their gratitude journal every morning, creating mental health awareness poetry, writing a […]
Mental Health Awareness Week in Room 6✨
As part of our work towards receiving Pieta’s Amber Flag for our school, we partook in lots of activities for Mental Health Awareness Week before the Easter break. In order to promote positive mental health and wellbeing we practiced lots of mindfulness and guided meditation as well as some mindfulness colouring. We also did a […]
Mental Health Awareness Week in 2nd Class!
The girls in 2nd class have had great fun all week taking part in all the activities for mental health awareness week. They enjoyed some mindful meditation, they created a gratitude tree with all the things that they are grateful for, went on a walk to Maypark for a mile with a smile, created amber […]
Parents – get involved in our Mental Health Awareness Week
Monday 22nd – Friday 26th March Our school is participating in our own Mental Health Awareness Week. The children will be doing daily activities with their teachers in school and I would love to get all parents involved too! Below is an example of how you can get involved at home with our big event happening […]
2nd Class are Wellbeing Warriors!
For the month of February 2nd class have been working hard at the wellbeing warrior challenge. Each week there were three different challenges for them to complete. These included, mindfulness breathing, having a dance party, doing a secret act of kindness, making a thank you card, going on a nature walk, mindfulness colouring and making […]
Room 5 Looking after our mental health #Well-beingWarriorChallenge
The boys and girls in room 5 have been working hard throughout the school closure with their online learning. With all that’s going on in today’s world, we all took time work on our mental health and well-being through the Well-being Warrior Challenge. The children of senior infants undertook well-being challenges such as; random acts […]
Well-being Warriors in Room 4
The boys and girls in room 4 have been doing fantastic work to earn their well-being warrior certificates. So far, we have listened to the story “In My Heart: A Book of Feelings”, we have practiced mindful breathing and we have made our own hearts full of feelings inspired by the story. It is so […]
Well-being Warrior Challenge✨
Monday, 1st February 2021 marks the beginning of Children’s Mental Health Week. In line with this and our work towards receiving an Amber Flag for our school, we will be aiming to complete some wellbeing activities from OLOC’s well-being calendar for the month of February. It is so important to look after our minds. We […]