PE in Junior Infants

We have started PE lessons! This month we are learning lots of new skills like balancing and throwing and catching. We are using beanbags to practise these skills.

Gymnastics in Junior Infants

Ms McHale's Class have been learning how to do Gymnastics in PE.

We are learning tumbles, balancing, crawling, travelling using our hands and our feet.   It's tough going but we're getting better and better. 

JI Gymnastics 2015

Sports Day 2013

What a fantastic day we had on Sports Day this year.  It was a beautiful sunny day and the whole

school went over to the Bray Emmets GAA club .  There was a wonderful timetable of events organised for the Junior classes and the Senior Classes.

We had sack races, water races, a funny hat relay, a fantastic obstacle course and we played bean-bag golf.

Thanks a million to Mary Collins and Ms Byrnes for organising the day, and to all the teachers and parents who helped us with all our activities.  We had a brilliant time.

Here are some of our photos from the day.

Going on a Bear Hunt

Ms McHale's class learned all about Journeys in March. 

We had a post office in our class room and we went on lots of journeys around the school to deliver all out mail.  When we came back we drew maps to show the journey we took when delivering our mail.

We also read books about journeys.  Our favourite book was "We're Going on a Bear Hunt".  We acted out the story and did lots of art work for our bear hunt display.  We also drew our own bear hunt maps to show how well we remembered the book.

When we were finished the story we went on our own Bear Hunt in the school garden.  Ms McHale hid lots of coloured bears around the garden.  Each team had a map with pictures of objects in the garden on it.  We had to find the object in the garden and then colour in the bears on our map.  It was a great day.

Picnic in the Garden

Gymnastics in Junior Infants

For the last two months Junior Infants have been doing Gymnastics in PE.


We are learning lots of different ways to travel using our hands and feet, we are learning different types of rolls - pencil roll, ball roll and the forward roll, and we are learning to use some gymnastics equipments like benches and mats.

It has been lots of fun.  Here is a video of us in our PE class.

Step it Up - Keeping Healthy during Operation Transformation

We are taking part in Operation Transformation in our school. Everyone is trying to be more healthy, to eat better and to do more exercise. Our parents and staff have even set up their own Operation Transformation Groups.

 

To help everyone in the school be fitter and more active the girls from 6th class went to every other class in the school to teach them the Step It Up dance. They came to visit us today and we danced and jumped and clapped. It was a great idea to keep us warm on a cold day.

You can see the official Step It Up video on You Tube by clicking here.

Here is a video of the 6th class girls teaching Junior Infants the Step it Up dance.