Amber Flag Committee

Amber Flag Committee

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 busy planning the activities over the coming weeks and more details of these activities will follow very soon.

Our Amber Flag Committee is made up of two pupil representatives from 1st Class to 6th Class.

Our Amber Flag pupil representatives are as follows;

1st Class: Laoise Hurley and Tom McCarthy

2nd Class: Lillia Noonan and James O’Sullivan

3rd Class: Ruby McCarthy and Senan O’Hara

4th Class: Jack O’Mahony and Sonny Ryan

5th Class: Ellen Harte and Donnchadh Keohane

6th Class: Annie McCarthy and Ciara Hayes

 

 

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Looking After Your Mental Health

Looking After Your Mental Health

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 of their mental health.

Martina mentioned the 5 a day for mental health;

1. Eat Well

2. Keep Active

3. Sleep Well

4. Communicate

5. Be Kind to each other

It was a very insightful talk and the class really enjoyed it.

Thank you Martina for your visit to our school.

 

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Things that make me happy

Things that make me happy

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 their daily lives.

Well done to all pupils who created such magnificent “Things that make me happy” posters  😊

Our Amber Flag notice board contains only a snapshot of the fantastic artwork that each class engaged in during this topic.

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Advent of Kindness 2020

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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 completing our annual Advent of Kindness in Béibhinns honour. They are busy completing random acts of kindness each day. Then, they are drawing or writing about these acts of kindness into a blank calendar of their own.

The calendar pictured below is a list of suggested acts of kindness that the pupils are adopting.

Well done everyone!

Please feel free to share our calendar and keep on spreading the kindness 😊

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Amber Flag Award 2020

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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 were our focus in the application this year were our;
(1) “Go Green” fundraiser for Pieta House last September
(2) Wellness Month in December
(3) New whole school kindness program

Also, we created a new tab for all Amber Flag related activities this year. Please check out the Awards tab on the website for more information.

Well done to all involved smile

School Garden

School Garden 4th Class recently took on our garden project and did an amazing job. They put in trojan work, cleaning all our flower and vegetable beds. Then they got to work planting. They planted peas, beans, edible flowers, onions, carrots, salad leaves, beetroot,...

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Wellness Month

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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!!

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