In 2019 our school achieved our second Active School Flag. Some of the highlights of our year are outlined below.
IWS PAWS Swimming Certificates
Children in First - Sixth Class received IWS PAWS Swimming Certificates following completion of their swimming lessons at Fermoy Pool during Term 1. Well done:) Some of Third and Fourth Class are proudly displaying their certificates in the photo.
Land PAWS Certificates
Playground Equipment
Playground Leaders
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Active School Walkway
Run Around Ireland Challenge
Active Breaks
Golden Time Outside
Just Dance
Active Calendar of Events
Santa Run
Lá Glas 2019
Ar fheabhas:)
Bunny Hop Challenge
(Easter Fun Event)
Well done to Sixth Class for designing, creating and leading three 'Bunny Hop' obstacle courses. Second and Third Class made beautiful bunny masks for children to wear during the activity:)
Come on the Bunnies!.mp4Bunny Hop Mile Challenge.mp4Bunny Hop Mile Challenge Infants.mp4
Active Achievers
Indoor Hurling County Champions 2019!
Sciath na Scol Indoor Hurling & Camogie
Sciath na Scol Indoor Football (Pella)
Sciath na Scol Football
Anglesboro Harvest Fair
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What club are you in survey completed by Sixth Class March 2019.pdfSchool Walk.pdfGymnastics
Our Gymnastics sessions in January / February were a wonderful success. Well done to all the children that have learned great new skills:)
Tag Rugby Sessions
GAA Football & Hurling / Camogie
During Term 2, children in Junior Infants - Fourth Class received excellent GAA skills sessions in Football & Hurling / Camogie from Martin O'Brien (Coaching Officer with Rebel Óg).
Tennis
During Term 1 2018, Senior Infants got the opportunity to go to Mitchelstown Tennis Courts with their Class Teacher to practise their skills.
Third - Sixth Class Orienteering: Corrin, Fermoy.
June 11th, 2019
Cork City Sports Races
Well done to all the children that participated in the Cork City Sports races at Ballygiblin Pitch on Tuesday, 26th March 2019. Congratulations to the boys and girls that qualified for the Cork Primary School City Sports on Thursday, 30th May 2019.
Cork Sports Partnership
Third Class Athletics
Many thanks to Fiona O'Driscoll (Cork Sports Partnership) for facilitating the delivery of this great programme in our school. Third Class participated in a fun blitz day on Wednesday April 10th in Mallow GAA Complex.
Road, Farm & Water Safety Awards
Vertigo, County Hall 10th April 2019
Well done to the children and their teacher that received the award fro the Lord Mayor of Cork on behalf of 5th and 6th Class. The children worked as teachers of safety in our school.
Scoot to School
Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class enjoyed a great scooter session with Hans from @GreenSchoolsIre on 22nd March 2019. Well done to the Green Schools Committee for organising this event.
Active School Week 2019.
Active School Week Video 2019
Ballygiblin_N_S_ASW19.mp4Karate Mile Challenge
Karate is also our 'New Activity' for this year's programme.
We completed our 'Karate Mile Challenge' on Monday, April 8th. Many thanks to past pupil, John for his excellent tuition to all classes. Sixth Class even learned how to count in Japanese! Great cross-curricular work! (See video link)
Karate 6th Class learn Japanese Numbers.mp4
Bootcamp Mile Challenge
We completed our 'Bootcamp Mile Challenge' on Tuesday, April 9th. Every class had a 30 minute fun workout, with each class achieving over 2 miles. Well done:)
Bootcamp Mile Challenge.mp4
Football Mile Challenge
We completed our 'Football Mile Challenge' on Wednesday, April 10th. Many thanks to John from Mitchelstown Ladies Football Club for giving every class an action packed 30 minute taster session. The Infants set a high standard by achieving their mile challenge through excellent team work. 'Teamwork makes the dream work':)
Football Mile Challenge Infants show that teamwork makes the dream work..mp4
Solo Hurling Limbo
(Whole School Fun Event)
We completed our 'Solo Hurling Limbo' Mile Challenge on Thursday, April 11th. This was our 'Whole School Fun Event' for Active School Week. All classes participated in this event at the same time. The children wore their county colours and marched to 'The Sunday Game' tune in their class lines. They soloed and did the limbo underneath a hurley, that was held by 'Limbo Leaders' at the end of each line. It was great fun:) See video link.
Solo Hurling Limbo and The Sunday Game.mp4
Solo Hurling Limbo. We did it!.mp4
Bunny Hop Challenge
(Easter Fun Event)
We completed our 'Bunny Hop' Mile Challenge on Friday, April 12th. This was also our 'Easter Fun Event'. Well done to Sixth Class for designing, creating and leading three 'Bunny Hop' obstacle courses. Second and Third Class made beautiful bunny masks for children to wear during the activity. It was great way to end a fabulous week of activity:)
Come on the Bunnies!.mp4
Bunny Hop Mile Challenge.mp4Bunny Hop Mile Challenge Infants.mp4
Active School Walkway
Great to see families using our school walkway at 8:30am during Active School Week!
Rock-Paper-Scissors!
Active School Walkway at 8.30am Rock-Paper-Scissors.mp4Pull up your Shorts!
Active School Walkway at 8.30am Pull up your Shorts.mp4
Skittles
Many thanks to Grandparent Mary O’Brien for teaching Fifth and Sixth Class how to play ‘Skittles’ during Active School Week. They had great fun learning this new skill from Mary, who is a former All Ireland Champion. Skittles was a game that was traditionally played in the area for many years in the last century. We are delighted that Mary has passed on her knowledge for this wonderful game that is extremely inclusive.
skittles.pdfActive Line Dancing
'Class Lines' after break time enjoyed 'Active Line Dancing' for Active School Week. Well done to our leaders for leading the dances:)
Move and Freeze 'Active Line' Dance.mp4' An Dreoilín' Active Line Dance.mp4
Cross-Curricular Activities
Children from all classes engaged in activities that involved using physical activity in many areas of the curriculum. These included learning to march as a class while playing the tin whistle, using action songs for Gaeilge and English, saying action rhymes, becoming an active orchestra and practising multiplication while using our walkway.
Tin Whistle Marching.mp4
North Cork Athletics Blitz
Third Class really enjoyed the @CorkSports @HealthyIreland @Corkcoco North Cork Athletics Blitz @carrigoon (Wednesday, 10th April 2019) during Active School Week. We are very grateful for the new athletics equipment that the children received on the day and to Garda Vetted parents that helped staff on the trip. On returning to school, the children completed their “Football Mile Challenge”, well done!
Great fun using our new equipment!
Athletics Obstacle Courses.mp4
Indoor Active School Week
Ballygiblin N.S. Indoor Active School Week took place on the week beginning Monday, November 26th 2018. The committee decided to have a week dedicated to promoting physical activities that can be done indoors on wet days. We organised many fun events on the week such as ‘Just Dance Mania’, an ‘Indoor School Walkway Marathon’, ‘Floating Football’ and an ‘Animal Pentathlon’. On Wednesday, each class had an Irish Dancing session with Eileen Reilly. Many thanks to Eileen for coming to our school, we really appreciate it.
The ‘Animal Pentathlon’ was also a fundraising event for P.E. equipment. There were five activities that the children did for Circuit 1 (2 minutes per station) and Circuit 2 (3 minutes per station). These were Flamingo Hop, Penguin Waddle (Stay safe on the ice!), Gorilla Run, Crab Walk and Joey Jump (jumping for height). We had music playing on our sound system and games at each station. For example, the penguins had to mind their eggs! The committee would like to thank everyone that sponsored children for the event.
Indoor Active School Week.pdf