In advance of Active Schools Week, the children of St Paul's JNS visited Croke Park on Friday the 19th of April. We had such a great time. We got broken up into smaller groups and we all had our own tour guide. They had lots of interesting information to share with us. We watched a short film on the preparation that has to be done by the workers of Croke Park in advance of hosting a big match. We went on a trip through the museum and looked at different jerseys through the years, all of the different trophies and lots of other interesting things. We all had a turn of kicking the ball and hitting the sliotar. Afterwards we got to sit in the changing rooms and follow the walk that the players take through the tunnel on to the pitch. Take a look at some of our photos below. There is nothing that the children enjoy more than getting one up on their teachers, so they were only thrilled to go up against their teachers in different sporting events during the week. From egg and spoon races, javelin throwing and penalty shoot outs, there were lots of events to make their teachers look silly!!
We are very lucky with our parents here in St Paul's JNS. We have had a few volunteers in over the last while to show us new skills and different ways to keep fit.
Both Chris Hamilton and Christopher Mulligan from O'Tooles have shown us new GAA skills and great fun games. Jenny Dowling and Caroline McNamara are both mums of children in first class and are sports instructors. They visited our first and seconds and did really fun exercise sessions with us. |
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