Running Around Ireland 2020

Since returning to school in September 2020, we have been participating in the ‘Running Around Ireland’ initiative as part of the Active Schools process.  

Similarly to the ‘Running Around Europe’ initiative that we completed back in 2018, the ‘Running around Ireland’ initiative involved the teachers choosing various landmarks around Ireland for their class to run to. 

Every teacher was supplied with a list of different destinations and each would choose one for their class to run to, before recording each child’s number of laps. It was really encouraging for both the teachers and the children to see the number of laps completed, improving from day to day! 

The children would run laps around the basketball court or football pitch, weather depending, all the while bearing in mind that 1 lap = 1 km!! Some of the students decided to run in pairs, as they did for previous running initiatives, in order to help them maintain their pace and to encourage one another to go that bit further every day.Some of the many destinations that we reached were:

• Mizen Head, Co. Cork
• Inis Mór Island, Galway  Bay
• The Spire, Dublin City Centre
• Benbulben, Co. Sligo
• Powerscourt Waterfall,  Co. Wicklow
• Newgrange, Co. Meath 

Without a doubt, the ‘Running Around Ireland’ initiative has certainly been a great success among our students and is one which we will definitely be returning to at some stage again throughout the school year!