Nature Walks and Biodiversity in Knockskeagh

Last Wednesday the 2nd of October, all classes spent time in our beautiful garden and surrounds planting seeds, looking for helicopters and making seed bombs. Thank you to Jessica Mason for a very informative and fun day, we really enjoyed your visit.

Fitness Friday

Fitness Fridays at Knockskeagh have proved a great hit in our school recently since our return to in school education Every Friday our school has a whole school policy providing and promoting exercise on a Friday. We've adopted the name "Fitness Fridays". During...

Virtual St Patricks Day 2021

This year's St Patrick Day celebrations were a bit different than others but it was a day that we'll certainly remember. Our school took part in the local virtual parade organised by the Clonakilty Mayoral Town Council. The theme for this year's parade was "Heroes". ...

Santa Dash

We did it!!!!! Well done to all our students for reaching our goal distance to Lapland of 3526km over the last number of weeks around our track! We finished our journey with our Santa Dash today to great excitement!! Well done everybody Latest News

Active Break Day

All classes took part in circuit classes today for the active break day. Each class in the school completed its circuit at 10.20 am. It was a fantastic success! As part of our Santa Dash around our track on December 18th, all classes will travel to Lapland between...

Active Flag Homework

As part of our ongoing Active Flag application process, we commenced PE Homework for all pupils in the school today. The Active homework ideas document displayed will be used by all pupils to track and monitor their exercise over the next 4 weeks. Pupils can select...

Active Flag Initiatives

As part of the Active Flag , we practice some of the following initiatives to promote regular physical activity in our school. Our school uses different activities to decrease sedentary time for the children. These include movement dance breaks, doing some...

FMS Landing

As part of our P.E. curriculum - this month our school is practicing Landing as part of our Fundamental Movement Skill (FMS). Please see the video from the Scoilnet website on the correct technique for this month's fundamental movement. ...

Games Galore in P.E.

As part of our P.E. curriculum. All our classes are taking part in the Games strand. Please see some pictures of 6th and 2nd classes in action during recent P.E lessons. Our 6th class practiced soccer skills and played small-sided soccer games. Also as...

Dare to Believe

Our sixth class are taking part in the ‘Dare to Believe’ Irish Olympic Schools programme. Today, we had a fantastic zoom call with Irish Olympian Boxer Gráinne Walsh. It was fascinating to hear all about Gráinne’s career highlights. She spoke about how an Olympian...