Enjoying our Active Walkway! (May 2023)
The children are making great use of our new Active Walkway at break and lunch times. It is great to see them engaging with the walkway and enjoying the activities between the different locations. They are getting lots of movement in. Well done everyone! Keep it up!
Playground Leaders
Each Wednesday our playground leaders organise and run games for the junior classes during their break time. It is a great way to give more ownership to the pupils in the Active Schools process and the children in the junior classes love the games their organise.
Run Around Ireland Challenge!
(April - May 2023)
We are well into our Run Around Ireland Challenge, with only one week left to go! The Run Around Ireland Challenge is a four week challenge in which the children complete laps of the court. Each lap represents 1km. The aim is to visit as many of Ireland's landmarks as possible! The children are showing great determination and have already covered a lot of kilometres!
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Relaunch of our Active Walkway! (April 2023)
We've relaunched our Active Walkway here in St. Dominic's! Our students made lots of use of our previous walkway but we have upgraded our walkway points/controls to allow us to make even greater use of it in lots of different subject areas. Our new walkway provides even greater opportunities to integrate movement into different subjects such as maths and SESE! Our students can also use the walkway themselves at break and lunch times! Have a look at the video below to see some of our Active Schools Committee members demonstrating the different activities that can be done between the control points!
Active Playgrounds
We try to make sure that there is lots of equipment available to use at break and lunch times so that all children have an opportunity to be active! The Playground Leaders show great responsibility, putting out and tidying away the equipment each day!
Active Schools Easter Egg Hunt (April 2023)
The Active Schools Committee organised an Easter Egg Hunt for our pupils. Great fun was had running around trying to find the hidden Easter eggs, despite the weather!
Movement BreaksMovement Breaks are an important part of our day in St. Dominic's to ensure that we are reaching our physical activity target and also to help to keep our minds fresh and alert! Dance breaks are one of our favourite movement breaks, as you can see from Ms Lennon's class!
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Lá Glas 2023 (March 2023)
We incorporated lots of movement into Seachtain na Gaeilge this year, with the children learning and performing An Haka Gaelach and having a céilí in the school yard!
Active Lines Keep Us Warm! (January 2023)
Our Active Lines are a great way of staying warm in our lines in the mornings during this cold spell!
Dancing our Way to the Holidays (Christmas 2022)
A couple of photos from our 5th Class Christmas dance performances!
The Cold Never Bothered Us Anyway... (December 2022)
The cold weather wasn't going to stop us from being active here in St. Dominic's. We had great fun in the snow! :-)
Brain Breaks (October 2022)
Brain breaks are an important part of our day in St. Dominic's. We try to include some movement between lessons. Senior Infants and 1st Class love doing some yoga and dancing for their brain breaks.
Music and Dance! :-) (October 2022)
We are trying to incorporate more movement into our subjects and music gives us a great excuse to get up and dance! :-)
Active Playgrounds (May 2019)
We recently took delivery of lots of new PE equipment and a rota has been drawn up for use of the equipment at break and lunch times. The children are having lots of fun trying out and making up different games.
Yoga in Ms Finn's Room (3rd May 2019)
Ms. Finn's class took time out from classwork during the week for an active break, with some yoga in the classroom! :-)
St.Dominic's N.S is full of sporting heroes! (April 2019)
Congratulations and well done to everyone on their various sporting achievements!
Spar FAI 5 a-side soccer: Finalists
Spar FAI 5 a-side soccer: Finalists
Under 13 Community Games Basketball: Finalists
Under 10 Community Games Indoor Soccer: Winners
Irish Dancing
Martial Arts
Active Lines are going strong.... (April 2019)
Our active lines are going strong. The Active School committee members and playground leaders have really stepped up, taking responsibility for running the lines each day.
Active Walkway (March 2019)
Our Active Schools committee wanted to make our active walkway in school even more active! So they came up with different activities we could do at each marker and roped in some students from 6th class to help them to make videos for each marker, demonstrating the activity at each one. The students making the videos had great fun, hopefully everyone will have equally as much fun trying it out themselves.
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Cycle Safety (February 2019)
The Green Schools committee organised a cycle safety workshop for the school on 27th February 2019, as part of their work towards the travel flag. It worked in our favour also as it got lots of students cycling to school! :-) Many thanks to Ann-Marie for taking the time to show us how to cycle safely to and from school.
Busy Breaks..... (February 2019)
Rainy days won't stop us.....Our Active Schools committee members have come up with a 3 minute video for both the junior and the senior end of the school, which will make sure we stay active, even when the rain stops us from getting out at lunch. You might even do them on the days you do get outside for lunch as well to help us to become even more active!
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Our active lines are back with a bang.... (January 2019)
It's a new year and this January has seen a new set of active lines in the school yard. They run from Monday to Thursday, leaving way for "Free Dance Friday"! :-) We've changed up the activities, and our Active Schools committee members have put together a series of videos so that everyone knows what activities they are doing each day. Remember when the bell rings you line up as usual and on the next bell you begin the first activity, on the third bell you continue with the second activity and on the final bell we will all be standing in our lines quietly, ready to go back into class. Our Active Schools committee members and playground leaders will be at the top of each line to lead you. Remember each week we will be watching out for the MOST ACTIVE line! :-)
MONDAY's ACTIVE LINE activitiesJumping Jacks
Jogging on the Spot |
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Wednesday's active line activitiesSide Steps
High Knees |
Tuesday's active line activitiesScissor Jumps
Hopping & Skipping |
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thursday's active line activitiesTouch Your Toes
Ski Jumps |
Club Survey (December 2018)
We were curious about the types of clubs in the area everyone belonged to so the Active Schools committee carried out a survey to find out. There was great variety in the types of clubs everyone belonged to! :-)
Let's Get More People Walking, Cycling and Scooting to School (October 2018)
Tiarnan McClusker visited our school on 10th October 2018, to aid the Green Schools committee with their work on the Green Schools Travel Flag. A group of children from the school walked the routes from the different housing estates to the school to establish if it was possible for children from the different estates to walk/cycle or scoot to and from school and if so how long it would take. The good news is the distance from the majority of the estates is completely doable, with the length of time taken to walk from one of the furtherest estates, Cloughree Well only taking 16 minutes! :-) Walking, cycling or scooting to and from school is a great way to get some more exercise in during the week and is lots of fun, particularly if you meet up with your friends along the way! :-)
Active lines
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We started our active lines in spring 2018 and the are a big hit. Everyday each class takes part in the active lines when the bell rings after break. We have different activities each day. We are hoping we will see an improvement in our fitness by the summer time! :-)
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