Active School

The Active Flag

The Active Flag is a Department of Education and Skills initiative that recognises schools that “strive to achieve a physically educated and physically active school community”.
Our pupils, staff and parents are committed to making activity and exercise a fun and everyday way of life in our school. We have been enjoying our active flag journey and our active flag committee have been leading us in many initiatives to keep us healthy and active.

Physical Education Programme

Here at Parteen National School we follow the Physical Education curriculum. The children participate in P.E class twice a week and wear their tracksuit to school on these days. The strands of the P.E curriculum are Athletics, Dance, Gymnastics, Games, Outdoor Adventure Activities and Aquatics. We have prioritised the strand of Dance. Our wonderful facilities including a state of the art astro-turf, large playing field, Playground and halla, our school grounds allow us to cater for the P.E curriculum.
Involvement in sport and recreation is beneficial for each childs personal development. Our school ensures that children with special needs can play a full role in all PE opportunities. The school provides opportunities for pupils to participate in a wide variety of sporting activities including Hockey, Rugby, Gaelic Football, Hurling, Basketball, Tag Rugby, Rounders and Athletics.

Partnerships

Pupils in Parteen National School are offered wonderful opportunities to participate with local sporting partnerships throughout the school year. Coaches come to our school to help develop the children’s skills in Rugby, Gaelic, Basketball and Cycling.

Active School Week 2025

Move it Monday

Our Active School Week started off with a whole school exercise class, dancing and running laps to keep on the move!
Teamwork Tuesday

3rd - 6th class took part in a soccer tournament & Junior Infants - 2nd class were involved in team building games. There was lots of great sportsmanship and collaboration.
Wellbeing Wednesday

All classes engaged in Yoga and mindfulness sessions on our Astro-Turf as part of our Wellbeing focus.
Try it Thursday

Everyone had the opportunity to try out our table tennis sets and improve their skipping and hula hoop skills.
Fitness Friday

Running, novelty and relay races were our focus for keeping fit and active to finish off our Active School Week 2025!
Bike Week Celebration

We were lucky to get funding for bike week during our Active School Week- 5th Class cycled the Limerick Greenway with Barnagh Hub.
Teachers v Pupils

Our teachers took on pupils from 3rd - 6th class in Basketball & Soccer matches - the teachers were triumphant!

Our Active Flag Initiatives 2024/2025

Active School Slogan

Every class took part in creating our new school slogan- On the pitch, in the pool we stay active as a school!
Active Break Everyday Challenge

We recognise the importance of movement breaks and keeping active during the school day - classes avail of regular active breaks. We especially enjoy running our daily laps.
Skip Around Europe

We really enjoyed our Skipping challenge, we practised our skipping skills everyday throughout April/May. Older classes assisted the younger pupils using hula hoops and our brand new skipping ropes.
What Clubs Are You?

Our active committee completed surveys with classes to see what clubs they were apart of- they compiled the data and we have them dispayed on our active noticeboard.
Active Committee/ Playground Leaders

Our school Active Committee is made up of two children from every class from Juniors - 6th Class. The Committee plan and run our active events, set up equipment everyday for playground breaks and monitor our equipment. They play a huge role in keeping active and fit in Parteen!
Basketball Coaching

Eagles basketball club visit our school twice a week for basketball coaching, from this we have also established our own girls & boys basketball teams this year.
Pupil & Parent Survey

Our pupils and parents had the opportunity to engage in a survey sharing their ideas and feedback in relation to the levels of physical activity in our school.
Parent survey:

Parent Survey
Our Active Walkway

All classes have enjoyed lots of learning on the move using our active walkway signs!
GAA Partnership

We are so lucky to have Jim from Clare GAA who coaches every class in the school in Hurling, Camogie & Football throughout the year. We focus on our core skills of dodging, striking, throwing, catching, striking with hands and striking with an implement.
Water Safety

PAWS Water Safety is taught to various class levels during the summer months- teaching kids to be safe around water.
Playground Breaks

Every class completes a different playground activity everyday with different activities and varied equipment for junior & senior pupils. Our playground leaders from our active committee follow a weekly roster and work together to ensure every playground break is catered for.
Drop Everything & Dance

Our active committee visited every classroom to help reduce sedentary time- everyone had to spontaneously drop everything and dance!

Active School Week 2022

Active Walkway

Our Active Walkway has been a massive hit during ASW 2022. Pupils and staff throughout have enjoyed following the trail around our school and taking part in the wide variety of orienteering activities.
Donkey Derby

The Donkey Derby races were a firm favourite amongst our pupils this year. We used pool noodles and uni hoc sticks as our donkeys and we races on our astro-turf. There was lots of cheering and ‘hee-hawing’ along the way!
Yoga

We had a very zen Wednesday morning during ASW. Pupils from Junior infants - 6th class took part in yoga classes. The yoga activities were very fun and interactive. We learnt a variety of yoga poses, breathing techniques, followed guided visualizations and totally relaxed!
Munster Rugby

On Thursday of our ASW three coaches from Munster Rugby spent the day doing rugby drills, games and teaching all of our pupils fundamental movement skills. Children from Junior Infants right up to 6th class thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Thank you Munster Rugby!
Splash! Water Fun Event

What better way to finish up our ASW week than a whole school water fight! Our pupils had so much fun spraying and splashing each other and some teachers got drenched along the way…
Basketball Golf

Pupils tried out a new and interesting game of basketball golf during our ASW. It was a fun shooting game where you shoot a basketball from a variety of spots. Like golf, the goal was to shoot par or below. It was a big hit!
Active Homework

There was no written homework for all classes in Parteen National School during ASW. Instead, pupils just focused on completing as much active homework as possible. We also followed the Irish Heart Foundation Bizzy Breaks.
Bubbles Magic Fun Event

Our pupils had so much fun blowing, catching, chasing and bursting as many bubbles as they could during our Bubbles Magic fun on our playground.
Cha Cha Slide

Our whole school learnt the dance the Cha Cha Slide. We had so much fun following the steps- we preformed it altogether on our last day of ASW.

Our Local Hero

As part of our Feel Good Fridays, pupils and staff were delighted to receive such positive and encouraging words during our Active School Week from our local hero - Keith Earls. Keith grew up locally and we are so proud watching him play rugby for Munster and Ireland.