Importance of Excercise - Knockskeagh NS

We recently held our annual Active week where all the children in our school took part in a number of different sports including the following named below.

1. Soccer
2. Dodgeball
3. Gymnastics
4. Skipping
5. Ball Handling Games
6. Throwing.
7. Badminton
8. Hockey

The children in each class also did daily exercises and we talked about the importance of exercise in all our lives.

Every class in the school has at least 1 hour PE per week including diverse activities like Dancing/Swimming/Spikeball/Gaelic Games to name but a few.

The children are also active in school as there are lunchtime leagues for them to play in every day.

The school participates in the following team sports throughout the school year.

1. Soccer
2. Spikeball(Volleyball)
3. Hurling
4. Gaelic Football
5. Orienteering
6. Athletics
7. Rugby
8. Hockey

All the children in our school participate with outside clubs and spend on average at least 2 hours involved with sports clubs per week outside school.

Please watch a short video of all the activities we did for our Active Week 2012!!!!