As part of our Active Schools Programme and the TV show “Operation Transformation”, all the boys and girls from St. Finian’s took part in 10 minutes of exercises at 10 o’clock on Friday the 10th of February. This fun initiative was carried out by most primary schools in Ireland. The aim was to have every boy and girl in the country being active at the same time.All the teachers took part too. It was great to see everybody exercising and having fun! Well done everybody!
This month we are taking part in the Big Travel Challenge with lots of other schools across the country. For ten days we are encouraging children to ‘Park’n’Stride’ to school. This not only helps the environment, but is also really good for keeping us healthy and it is a lot of fun! Yesterday, 92 out of our 100 children walked to school. Lets keep up the great work for the rest of the challenge. We want to say a huge THANK YOU to all the parents who are helping out. We could not do it without you!
We have started work on our fourth travel flag under the theme of travel. We want to encourage everyone to chose a sustainable mode of travel like walking or cycle. We undertook a traffic survey and a walkability audit to help us with our action plan. We also mapped out the area around the school so we could identify where pupils and staff are travelling from.
Well done to everybody who got most stars this week!
Here are the boys and girls who have a full sheet this week!
Look at all the Gold Certificates this week, well done everyone!
Congratulations to our Pupils of the week!
Happy Birthday Tristan, Mrs Bellew and Katie!
At Assembly the boys and girls of our Green School’s and Active School’s Committees presented our new flag boards which will be displayed on the fence at the front of the school. Our school has been very busy achieving all these flags, which is a sign of our hard work and progress. So far we have an Active School’s Flag for promoting and encouraging physical activity at school. We have 3 Green School Flags for being environmentally friendly. We are in the process of going for our 4th green flag for “Travel”. Well done boys and girls.
