Wellness Month

We had a Wellness Month last December where pupils from all classes reflected on positive things in their lives as part of their homework. Each class reduced written homework and in its place children reflected on their day in their gratitude journals. Other classes were encouraged to chat with the family at home as part of the month. This led to open family discussions around questions like;

What makes us happy?
What did we do well today?
How were we kind today?

As well as this, each class had an ‘Advent Act of Kindness’ calendar, from which tasks were assigned each day; we encouraged family discussions around this too. Our Wellness month proved to be great success and fantastic fun too!!

Wellness Week Activities

Our Amber Flag Committee recently planned a series of daily activities to mark our annual Wellness Week in Knockskeagh which took place between Monday 10th to Friday 14th of May this year. Some activities incorporated into Wellness Week encouraged us to look after...

The Worry Tree

Last Thursday 13th of May, we introduced our new Wellness initiative for this year "The Worry Tree". The main goal of this initiative was to make pupils aware of the importance of talking about and sharing their worries with other people. On the day, each class...

Amber Flag Committee

Our Amber Flag Committee for the school year 2020 - 2021 have recently met and have agreed on a date for our annual "Wellness Week". Wellness Week will take place in Knockskeagh National School between Monday 10th and Friday 14th of May. Our Committee members will be...

Looking After Your Mental Health

Today, our 6th Class had a visit from Martina Ryan, Education Officer from the Cork Mental Health Foundation. Martina spoke about the importance of minding your mental health. The focus of the presentation was to provide strategies and ways for the pupils to take care...

Things that make me happy

To introduce our Amber Flag Initiative to all pupils for this school year, each class spoke about "Things that make me happy" recently. The objective of this lesson was that all pupils would be able to identify and adopt strategies to support their own wellbeing in...

Advent of Kindness 2020

Inspired by the sad news of the passing of Béibhinn from Carrigaline aged 9 years old recently. #theheartangel See the following link for more information https://www.theheartangel.com/random-act-of-kindness As part of our Amber Flag application, all pupils are...

Amber Flag Award 2020

We were delighted recently to hear that we have retained our Amber Flag this year. Well done to the Amber Flag Committee, pupils, staff, and parents for their commitment and dedication to promoting Positive Mental Health in our school. A few of the initiatives that...

4th Class perform for Care Choice residents

On the 19th of December 2019, our 4th class boys and girls paid Care Choice nursing home a visit and performed Christmas Carols for all residents. Prior to the visit, the class had designed Christmas cards for each resident which they were able to hand-deliver on the...

4th Class Frida Kahlo artwork

We loved this recent display in 4th class titled "Never apologize for who you are". There certainly are some fantastic artists in this room. Please see the below gallery for more examples of 4th classes' amazing artwork during this scheme of work.GalleryLatest News