Category - Sports
Physical Education – The Curriculum
There are 6 strands in the P.E. curriculum:
Here in Ballyconnell NS, we cover 5-6 of these strands, each year in all classrooms.
Each class teacher’s timetable allocates at least 1 hour of P.E. every week for their class, while all children are aware that they require at least 60 mins every day!
We consider P.E. to be a vital subject and we follow a school P.E. policy for teaching the various strands. Our teachers are always sharing different P.E. ideas and activities with each other, with some of us completing different courses on P.E. to make our lessons more fun and interesting!
Some of the teachers use the PSSI lesson plans to guide their delivery of the Primary PE Curriculum. If you wish to take a look at the PSSI lessons, click here: pssi.pdst.ie/clickme.html
PAWS Lessons (Primary Aquatic Water SAFETY)
In March 2020, 4th & 5th class participated in the PAWS Programme. They learnt all about water safety and participated in interactive quizzes after.
Physical Education – The Curriculum
There are 6 strands in the P.E. curriculum:
Here in Ballyconnell NS, we cover 5-6 of these strands, each year in all classrooms.
Each class teacher’s timetable allocates at least 1 hour of P.E. every week for their class, while all children are aware that they require at least 60 mins every day!
We consider P.E. to be a vital subject and we follow a school P.E. policy for teaching the various strands. Our teachers are always sharing different P.E. ideas and activities with each other, with some of us completing different courses on P.E. to make our lessons more fun and interesting!
Some of the teachers use the PSSI lesson plans to guide their delivery of the Primary PE Curriculum. If you wish to take a look at the PSSI lessons, click here: pssi.pdst.ie/clickme.html
PAWS Lessons (Primary Aquatic Water SAFETY)
In March 2020, 4th & 5th class participated in the PAWS Programme. They learnt all about water safety and participated in interactive quizzes after.
4 th class have spent the year in St Mary’s Hall. They thought it a good idea to find out a little bit more about this important building in our parish and to share what they learned with their school mates.
Our Spelling Bee Champion, Sara O’Grady, recently took part in the Carlow County Final of the Eason Spelling Bee. Read her account below.
We were delighted to welcome our former student, Rosealice Byrne, back to Ballyconnell NS last week to regale our 4 th , 5 th and 6 th class students with details of her recent trip to The Gambia in West Africa.
Cathal and Peter tell us all about their day at the Credit Union All-Ireland Final, Ballyconnell NS’s first appearance at the finals since 2001.
Rang a 4 recently did some planting with Ms Ryan. Sarah tells us more!
Rang a 5 student and team member Florrie Cosgrove regales us with the nerves and excitement of Ballyconnell NS’s recent Credit Union Quiz triumph