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Extra Curricular Activities
365 Hurling and Football
We aim to encourage more physical activity as part of our Health Promoting Schools Campaign. Participation in team sports helps our pupils develop social skills and team spirit, which we love to promote in our school.
Swimming
We aim to have swimming lessons at the Apex Sports Complex each year. All levels are catered for. We have been fortunate enough to receive funding from Swim Ireland to subsidise the much loved weekly swimming lessons making them both fun and affordable.
- Active ProgrammesRead more...Aistear The Early Childhood Curriculum Framework (2009) was developed in partnership with the early childhood sector. It covers an age range from birth to six. The framework recommends the use of play as a teaching and learning methodology for one hour per day in the infant classroom. Play as...Read more...STAY SAFE As a school we place children and child protection issues at the heart of everything we do. Therefore we teach the Stay Safe Programme every year to all our pupils. Our Child Safeguarding Policy states that we will teach the Stay Safe Programme in the 2nd school term every year. A...Read more...Reading Recovery Reading Recovery (RR) is a school-based intervention designed to reduce literacy problems within an education system. It is an early intervention, giving children who have particular difficulties in reading and writing after their first year in primary school, a period of...Read more...Maths Recovery There are 3 Maths Recovery Teachers trained in our school working with students. Maths Recovery offers a unique approach to extending children’s number knowledge, understanding and strategies. The programme offers an extremely detailed profiles-based assessment of pupils in...Read more...Maths for Fun Maths for Fun takes place in first and second classes in Term 3. We have lots of fun games to help children develop their mathematical understanding. Parents and volunteers play the games with small groups. The children get a great buzz out of Maths for Fun.Read more...Literacy Lift Off - The Gift of Reading! Our main aim is to pass on our love of reading to our pupils. This gift opens a whole world of excitement and opportunity. Following the success of Reading Recovery, with specialist trained teachers, the Literacy Lift Off programme was devised so that...Read more...Super Troopers Our school is actively participating in the Super Troopers programme. We feel it is a very important and fun programme that the whole family can enjoy and learn from. Super Troopers, is the first ever health homework programme in Ireland. It encourages children and their...Read more...Zippy's Friends While in First Class your child will partake in a programme called Zippy’s Friends. Zippy’s Friends is a programme that helps young children – five, six & seven year olds – to develop coping and social skills. It is currently running in primary schools and kindergartens around...
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