Belgrove Senior Girls' School

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Category Archives: School Initiatives

Ms. McCarthy
June 6, 2018
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Active Week

Wednesday 6th – Friday 8th of June 2018

Achievements

Active Week is off to a great start with the camogie team winning their final in Croke Park and both tennis teams winning their games. Also well done to all the girls that represented Belgrove in Santry. Maith sibh girls! 🙂

Sports Day

We are all looking forward to Sports Day on Thursday. We have lots of fun stations planned. Be sure your daughter has sun cream on and plenty of water to stay hydrated!

Student/Teacher Races

On Friday we will be having student/teacher races. The 6th class students will take on the teachers in the potato and spoon, sack and three legged races.

Macarena Madness

At the end of yard we will be turning up the music and dancing the Macarena together as a school 🙂

Active Travel

The Active Committee would like to encourage everyone to make the most of this beautiful weather. Walk, cycle or scoot to school!

Homework

Today in yard Mrs. McCarthy made an exciting announcement. She told us that due to all the fantastic sports achievements in the school we would have no homework this week!!! Instead she has asked us to do something active- go for a family walk, play a ball game, go for a cycle etc.

Ms. Furness
May 29, 2018
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Belgrove’s Fittest Family

Belgrove’s Fittest Family:

Round 3

  • 4km walk with all members of your family
  • Walk to school/ work every day for the rest of the week
  • 2 or more members of your family to complete Park Run Ireland (2km or 5km) and beat last week’s recorded time if you were the member who participated!
  • Walk on the Seafront and use 3 of the working exercise machines
  • 1 active activity this week per family member and specify what activity each member completed (GAA, dancing, swimming, etc.)
  • Log on to https://www.gonoodle.com/ and follow 3 active videos as a family per week
  • 15 minutes of dancing 4 days this week
Ms. McCarthy
May 28, 2018
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Park Run

Well done to everyone that took part in St. Anne’s parkrun over the weekend. We looked at the results page and saw a lot of familiar names 🙂 

Some of the teachers decided to take part in Belgrove’s Fittest Family too. 

Ms. McCarthy
May 21, 2018
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Round Two – Belgrove’s Fittest Family

Well done to those that successfully completed round one of Belgrove’s Fittest Family. If you forgot your checklist today, don’t worry. The Active Committee will be collecting remaining checklists on Tuesday 22nd of May.

Round Two – Checklist

  1. Go on a family cycle
  2. Go on a family walk (2km this week)
  3. Three days of active travel to school or work
  4. Take part in two out of school activities (e.g. football, tennis, yoga, parents might go to the gym)
  5. Have a race to tidy your bedroom
  6. Play a ball game as a family (e.g. football, wall ball, donkey)
  7. Have family dance time
  8. At least one member of your family must register and attend the parkrun or junior parkrun (it is important to register and bring your barcode as we will be using the time on the parkrun website to put families through to round three)

This is your second step towards VICTORY –well done you! However, this round is more intense. Good Luck and try your best. Tick off this checklist and don’t forget to REGISTER and bring your barcode to the parkrun. The adult 5km parkrun takes place on Saturday at 9:30am. The junior 2km parkrun takes place on Sunday at 9:30am.

See their website for more information. http://www.parkrun.ie/stannes-juniors/

Ms. McCarthy
May 14, 2018
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Round One – Belgrove’s Fittest Family

Welcome to Round One of Belgrove’s Fittest Family!!

We are encouraging all families to get involved in this week’s challenges. You have a week to complete the checklist below. On Monday 21st of May the Active Committee will be collecting completed checklists. Best of luck!

Copy, paste and print off this checklist and tick the challenges as you go. The checklist must be completed and signed by an honest adult in order to get through to the next round. There are 8 challenges in Round One.

  • Walk 1km as a family

  • Active travel to school/work on two days (incl. park and stride if you live far away)

  • One hour of no screen time a day (this includes tv, computer, phones, kindle- this should be done as a family in the evening – why don’t you play a game instead or sit together and chat)

  • Register an account with GoNoodle. Log on here https://support.gonoodle.com/article/113-how-do-i-sign-up-for-gonoodle-at-home

  • Follow one GoNoodle activity of your choice

  • 2 family members must participate in an active activity (e.g. GAA, yoga, gym, basketball etc.)

  • Turn on some music for 10 minutes and dance or move around (twice this week)

  • Do three one-minute exercises daily (e.g. jumping jacks, planks, running on the spot etc.)

Ms. Furness
May 13, 2018
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Athletics in Santry Stadium!

Comhghairdeas to all of our super athletes who have been chosen to compete in Santry at the 4x100m relays and 100m sprints on Wednesday 30th May.

Go n’éirí an t-ádh libh!

Under 10 Sprint and Relay

Under 11 Sprint and Relay
1 Hannah Mc Carrick 1 Hazel Power
2 Eve O’Grady 2 Suzie Haskin
3 Amelia Mc Kay 3 Ríona Kirwan
4 Eva Magner 4 Eve Kirwan
5 Natalie Kilcullen 5 Maria Doody
 
Under 12 Sprint and Relay Under 14 Sprint and Relay
1 Robyn Confrey 1 Róisín O’Brien
2 Aoibhe Smyth 2 Charlotte Duggan
3 Aoife Cosgrave 3 Caoimhe Mc Daid
4 Grace Meikle 4 Danielle Dinan
5 Aimee Dundon 5 Aoife Quigley
Substitutes: Pippa Clancy, Elena Forkan, Caragh Mc Cann, Lara Forde
Ms. McCarthy
May 9, 2018
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Belgrove’s Fittest Family

The Active Committee has been working very hard to promote an active school environment. Every Thursday we meet in the computer room to discuss ideas and update the Active blog on the school website.

Recently we have been working on a very exciting project. We are pleased to announce a new competition to the school. A fifth class member of the committee came up with the idea based on the TV programme ‘Ireland’s Fittest Family’. Belgrove’s Fittest Family is a fun way to try keep the whole family active.

The competition will be run over three weeks. Each week will bring new challenges, getting harder every week. In week one, we are trying to encourage the whole family to be active. We appreciate honesty when completing the checklist to get through to the next round.

In week two we will expecting more of families. Our active challenges will require more time and effort. We will also be asking members to sign up and complete the parkrun.

Week three will be the toughest. Not only do we expect ALL family members to go on a 3km walk, but we also expect family members to beat previous personal best (P.B.) records at the parkrun.

We know that not everyone will be able to achieve all three rounds, but we are hoping EVERYONE will sign their families up for round one. The aim of this project isn’t to have one winner at the end, but to promote an active way of life and have a bit of fun!

 

Best of luck!

The Active Committee J

Ms. McCarthy
May 8, 2018
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4th Class Basketball Blitz

On May 2nd, some 4th class girls participated in a basketball blitz at the Irish Wheelchair Association.

They had great fun! They were active all day and played matches against other schools.

One 4th class girl made a delicious cake to congratulate the participants. How amazing is this?! The cake even looks like a basketball court 🙂

Ms. McCarthy
April 24, 2018
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4th Class Active Weekend

4th class were very busy this weekend!

A few girls took part in a gymnastics competition with Starz Gymnastic Club. They brought their medals and certificates to show the class.

Other students took part in a class feis with S.R. Nic Conuladh. They were at the feis from 3:30 until 10 o’clock. Even though they were really tired they still brought in their trophies and medals to show the class.

Clontarf camogie team were playing against Erin’s Isle. They were a tough team. There were three teams and they played three matches. Clontarf enjoyed the experience.

Tennis stars and stripes final was held in Castleknock tennis club. Oulton got second place in the doubles. Some of the girls from Belgrove were playing.

 

Congratulations everyone!!! 🙂

Ms. McCarthy
April 12, 2018
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6th Class Laps

This year the 6th classes and 5th classes are trying very hard to achieve the goal of running a marathon. We are running laps 2-3 days a week and we are hoping to achieve the goal of 234 laps which is equivalent to a marathon by the end of the school year.

 

We are more than half way there to running a marathon, and we hope we hope we will achieve our goal by the end of the year. We are almost finished because everyone has been doing a great job and we will be running a marathon very soon.

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