Category Archives: School Activities
School Activities
Road Safety Awareness Week
While it may not be Road Safety Awareness week Nationally until October 5th, we were delighted to get a delivery of High Visibility Vests in school this week. So we all did our Road Safety lessons and practised the Safe Cross Code. It is so important to be seen on the road, especially when walking in country areas now that the evenings are getting shorter. We were also visited by Garda Declan Lynch, our Community Garda, who was invited to the school to put the pupils through their paces!! All passed with flying colours.
Some more pictures from the Green Flag sports day celebrations …….. Lots of smiling faces!
The Green Flag is Flying …
Well done to everyone who was involved in getting the Green Flag Award for the school, especially Valerie Collins and Sinead Cuffe and their committee. The children all participated in a recycling project as part of this process and came up with some fantastic masterpieces! Instead of giving prizes it was agreed that because so much work had gone into them, all the children were winners and were rewarded with a sports day with no uniforms or homework. They really enjoyed this which happened last week. There was a surprise visit from an icecream van too:)
Here we see Valerie, Sinead, Cillian and Anna receiving the flag which is now flying in the school along with the health promoting one! We will need more flag poles at the rate we are going:)
School Sports a great success
Despite a forecast of rain, the annual school sports held on the 24th April, turned out to be a lovely sunny evening. MC, Ger Healy, kicked off the evening at 6 p.m. sharp and efficiently went through all the races from Tiny Tots to Over 12’s. There were 100 metre sprints, 220 metres, 440 metres, relays, long jump, sack race, 3-legged race and tug-of-war so something for everyone! Gurrane did really well overall and came away with a good few individual medals but also came 1st in the Parish Relay and 1st in the Open Relay so well done to all the athletes who took part. The final event of the evening was the tug-of-war. Gurrane made it to the final against Glasheen Boys National School and amazingly the boys from Glasheen have won this for 30 years in a row so congratulations to them and we look forward to having them back again next year. We might beat them yet!
1, 2, 3 and 1,2,3 – it’s not maths, it’s a ceili!
Traditional Irish dancing is alive and well at Gurrane School! On Monday 20th April the children, parents and grandparents of the school took part in a Ceili with live traditional music. It was held on a fabulous sunny morning, in the yard outside school. The children demonstrated their dancing skills which they have been learning from Fionan Cogan on a weekly basis. And the parents joined in the fun too, doing the Siege of Ennis, Shoe the Donkey and a few more. They earned their cup of tea at the end! Well done to Fionan and the musicians for a great mornings entertainment and exercise:). And also thanks to the piper who was followed by marching children around the pitch!
Get your walking shoes ready!
The annual school walk takes place on Sunday 8th March. Keep the date free and you will get a reminder closer to the date. Looking forward to seeing all the children, parents and teachers taking part. We would appreciate your support.
One, two, three and one two, three – No, it’s not counting, it’s Irish Dancing
Fionan Cogan has recently started teaching the children Irish Dancing. The whole school gets to learn from Junior Infants to 6th Class, which is fantastic as many of them would not get to experience this outside of school hours. They’ve been learning “Shoe the Donkey” and many more. The will be ready for the Feis’s soon:) Here they are in action!