Physical Activity is extremely important for children’s health and well-being. It is recommended that children get 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise every day.
Children have a chance to avail of physical activity during their break times in school.
Primrose Hill participates in The Daily Mile initiative whereby the children run for at least 10 minutes outside every day (separate to play break times). This is a great opportunity to practice their movement skills - running, walking, skipping.
We participate in ASF Run Around Ireland (and Europe!) initiatives. ASF provides a lovely map and a list of destinations and landmarks. We work out the distances in kilometres and then the classes choose whether to equate their laps or the number of minutes spent moving to kilometres, and aim for different destinations each day. A lovely way to learn about our geographic and historic landmarks. We recently took part in Run Around Ireland 3!
Pupils also enjoyed the Active Breaks Jam Jar Challenge earlier this year.
Children are allowed to run in our school yard and we promote a wide range of activities for them to engage in.
We have a sport’s equipment timetable which includes: basketball, football, climbing equipment, swings and climbing tower, hoops and skipping ropes.
We also encourage less active children to keep moving during break times and to “Do your talking as you’re walking”.
We have Playground Leaders who from the Senior Classes who join the Junior end of the school on yard once a week to teach them new games or to help them practice ball skills, skipping skills etc
On wet days, children partake in physical activities within the classroom such as Bizzy Breaks, 10@10, and Go Noodle, Cosmic Yoga.
Primrose Hill chooses a song every month as a "Dance of the Month" and each class dances every day as a movement break in the classroom. The whole school dances together during the last assembly of each month.
