Pottery Workshop Completed
Fifth and Sixth Class pupils really enjoyed Fin’s fabulous pottery classes.
Active Week Fun
Active Week took place from Monday 16th – Friday 20th May 2016.
Pupils had brilliant fun exercising. Pupils took part in many activities.
Pupils from 1st Class to 6th Class have completed an acrostic poem about Active Week – all poetry will be displayed on the Active School Notice Board.
Fun on our Bikes,Trikes,Scooters and Flickers
We had a marvellous day cycling all over the school grounds and the church avenue for Bike Day during our Active School Week.We are an ACTIVE SCHOOL!
We are a Health Promoting School
A Health Promoting School can be characterised as a school “constantly strengthening its capacity as a healthy setting for learning and working.”
Abbeyleix South National School decided to become involved in the Health Promoting School Initiative last year in order to formalise our commitment to health. Through our involvement with the HSE Health Promotion Department we hope to bring this health promoting commitment to a new level.
Abbeyleix South National School, as a health promoting school, is one in which the Board of Management, staff, pupils, parents and relevant agencies work together in a planned way to promote the health of everyone in the school community.
Who is involved?
- All Pupils
- The Health Promoting School Committee
- All Staff
- Parents / Guardians
- Whole School Community
Aims
- To improve the overall health and well-being of our school community
- To achieve a co-ordinated approach to social, emotional, physical and environmental needs
- To raise the self – esteem and self – confidence of pupils
- To provide better understanding of the school’s health aims
- Relationships within the school will be enhanced
- There will be involvement of parents
- Involving pupil participation and empowerment
- Collaborating with parents/guardians and the wider community
- Seeking continuous improvement through ongoing monitoring and evaluation
- Setting realistic goals built on accurate data and sound evidence
Where are we now?
This school year (2015 – 2016) has been very productive in terms of starting off our Health Promoting School Programme. We are applying for recognition as a Health Promoting School, next week and hope to achieve a Certificate of Active Participation. This time next year we aim to have achieved a Health Promoting School Flag, for our school.
Well done to everyone on all the work which has been done this school year, in order to make our school an even happier and healthier place to work and learn. 🙂
Dancing during Active Week :-)
We had so much fun dancing yesterday, for Active Week! 🙂
Our Zippy’s Friends Posters
First and Second Class have now completed their Zippy’s Friends Workshop.Here are their posters which they created relating to the various aspects of the programme which were important for them.
Our 5th Pottery Class
Our Pottery Classes just can’t get any better!Today we were making houses! So that is what the slab of clay was for!
The Finished Product!
Do you like our clay heads and our pottery pot?
Our Fourth Pottery Session
We have no idea what this slab of pottery will turn out to be. Finn will tell us next week. We worked hard to make this slab. It was such fun. We had to work in pairs which was a great idea. We could help each other. Teacher made her own slab too. She had lots of help!
Cherry Blossoms
The Senior Infant Pupils made lovely Cherry Blossom Trees yesterday. They wrote wonderful poems about their trees, too. We discussed how Cherry Blossoms look, smell and feel, and based our poems around this. 🙂
