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Active School Flag
Active School Flag is a Department of Education and Skills initiative supported by Healthy Ireland. The Active School Flag is awarded to schools that strive to achieve a physically educated and physically active school community. The process aims to get more schools, more active, more often. Over the next few months, the staff and students of Tallanstown N.S, aim to work towards achieving our First Active School Flag.
Our mission is: To get all our children engaged in 60 minutes of physical activity every day.
Meet our Active School Flag Committee!
Our ASF Committee is made up of pupils from 1st to 6th class. We are working very hard to obtain an Active Flag for Tallanstown N.S. With the help of the committee, the whole school staff and pupils are kept informed of our quest.
What does the ASF Committee do?
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Attend ASF meetings.
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Encourage everyone to be active during the day and at lunchtime assemblies.
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Set up equipment for the Active Walkway and help with Active lines.
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Come up with ideas throughout the year by speaking to their classes and bringing ideas to the ASF committee meetings.
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Informing the pupils of what we will be focusing on in the next month during school assembly.
There are four key areas to the ‘Active Schools’ Programme. There is at times crossover between the four areas and many activities fall into more than one category.
Physical education lessons-
In Tallanstown N.S. we follow a full PE curriculum and cover all strands which are
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Athletics
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Games
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Gymnastics
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Aquatics
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Orienteering
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Dance
We have decided to focus on the Games Strand for this term. All classes in the school will focus on this strand from Christmas to the end of February. We have very close partnerships with the GAA, Basketball Ireland and Ardee Rugby Club who support our school in promoting games in all classes.
