Hurling

We have been busy practicing our hurling skills in Senior Infants with Kevin, our hurling coach!

Operation Transformation Walk 2017

We had a very exciting start to our week this week! On Monday, all of the boys and girls from our school and from Merlin College joined together to take on a walking challenge! Some of our mums, dads, grandparents, sisters and brothers joined us too and shortly after 9.00, over 800 of us took off walking around the park in our local area! We had great fun warming up in our basketball court first and got a great kick out of exercising in our local area!

Hurling

We love doing hurling each week with Kevin, our hurling coach. We learn new skills each week and play a game before we finish up, go practise our new skills!

Skipping Workshop

We had great fun learning about all of the skills needed to skip well! We learned that we should use our wrists and hands to move the rope around ourselves and to keep our elbow tucked in and our eyes looking straight ahead. Each time we turned the rope around our bodies, we waited for it to pass our eyes before we jumped to get over the rope. We even practised skipping backwards and to the side. We will use our new skipping skills on the yard at lunchtime and at home in our neighbourhood!

Hurling

The boys and girls are having great fun learning new skills in hurling with Gerry! They have been practising really hard and am improving each week!

Gaelic Football training!

Today we had our first Gaelic Football session with our new coach, Dennis!

We started by doing a quick warm up game. When Dennis shouted 1, we had to put our hands in the air. When he shouted 2, we had to touch the ground and for 3, we had to touch our noses! It was a fun game to start with and helped us to prepare to listen well!

We then practised in groups, firstly rolling the ball to the person opposite us.

After this, we practised hopping the ball across to the other person, using one hand at first....

and then using 2 hands...

We finished the skills part of the session with practising our kicking skills. We had to kick the ball drop our hands against the wall, collect it and pass it to the next person. 

We are very excited about having Gaelic football practice again next week with Dennis and we hope to continue to improve our skills!