Active Week 2024

Active Flag Week

We had a jam-packed week of movement, exercise, and fun this week in Knockskeagh NS.

Tennis, dancing, a Tennis-a-thon, cycling, GAA and Active Walkway challenges were some of the activities enjoyed by pupils.

Well done to our Active Schools Team for all their organisation of the week

Tennis-a-thon

As part of Active Flag week – All our classes took part in a Tennis-a-thon on Wednesday. Coach Alan planned a great array of tennis skills and games for our classes and fantastic fun was had by all.

Morning Shake Up

Our Active Team ably led our Morning Shake Up on Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning during Active Week.

Well done to all involved for bringing the moves and more importantly the smiles!!

Active Walkway 2024

As part of Active Week, our senior pupils took on the Active Walkway Quiz while our more junior pupils took on the Walkway Codebreaker Challenge. Great fun was had by all in the sunshine!

Active Stations

Our Active Flag Team arranged fun exercise stations activities for Junior Infants to 2nd Class.

They are great role models for our younger pupils. “When children see, children do”

Staff Race 2024

As part of the week, our Active Flag Team organised and officiated a Staff Sack Race.

While there were some fallers and certainly some hoppers in the race, our staff can be very proud of their efforts.

Well done to our winners for this year

Dance Takeover

Our Active Flag Team chose “Waka Waka” by Shakira for our whole school Dance Takeover for Active Week.

It was a super way to start the day and we really enjoyed the feel good factor created by this initiative on the day.

Trip to Darrara Agricultural College

Trip to Darrara Agricultural College 2023 On Wednesday 8th March, 2023, 3rd Class, 1st Class and Senior Infants headed off to Darrara Agricultural College to be shown around, and what a treat it was! The rain and snow certainly couldnt dampen our spirits! We got to...

STEM Showcase 2022/23

Our annual "Science Showcase" involving the 6th class students was another highlight of this year's Science Week! They explained and demonstrated different experiments, recorded themselves and sent on a recording link to each class for all the children in the school...

Science Week 2022

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Maths Week 2022

We marked 'Maths Week' this week, from Monday 17th October to Friday 21st October. We have had a very busy week in Knockskeagh doing lots of different Maths activities! Each day there was a different Maths related task which kept everyone entertained. We had Maths...

Save the Bees Apple Trees

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Space Week 2022

Space week took off with a 3....2....1....BLAST OFF! 🚀🚀 We celebrated 'Space Week' from Monday 3rd of October to Friday 7th of October. Everyone was incredibly busy learning all about Space and making their own creations, ranging from aliens to rockets to spaceships...

Step One: Science

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Tech Week 2022

We marked 'Tech Week' from Monday 21st of March to Friday 25th of March this year. There were many technology-related activities throughout each class during the week. IPADS Our school is very lucky to be in a position to have a set of 30 IPads. Each class had their...

Engineers Week 2022

We marked 'Engineers Week' from Monday 7th of March to Friday 11th March this year. Engineering Week activities this year included the following activities: Lego challenges, STEM challenges through the use of our STEM Box, a school-wide engineering quiz, and...