School Curriculum
Physical Education (PE) is for children from junior infants to sixth class. The curriculum contributes to children’s overall development by helping them to lead full, active and healthy lives. Our school concentrates on a particular PE curriculum strand each month as well as a fundamental movement skill also.
The PE curriculum provides a balanced range of activities for children through the six strands:
- Athletics
- Dance
- Gymnastics
- Games
- Outdoor and adventure activities
- Aquatics.
The fundamental movement skills are:
- Throwing
- Catching
- Running
- Balancing
- Coordination
- Agility
Facilities
Here at school Iósaf we are very lucky to have a wide range of facilities for our children in order for them to stay active, enjoy their break times, P.E.time and Extracurricular activities. These include:
- Large Playground area for students from 3rd to 6th class
- Smaller yard for lower classes
- Soft ground playground with slide, sea saw, playhouse, balancing bridge, rocking ladybug
- Small soccer field with goals
- Large green area to the side of the school
- Large indoor hall with stage and basketball hoop
- Scoil Iósaf also avail of the nearby GAA grounds in the local secondary school on request
- Sensory room
- Outdoor Nature walk
Equipment
We have a Sports Equipment room which our committee regularly organise, count and update.
Some equipment includes:
- Cones
- Hula Hoops
- Bean Bags
- Muffin Tray x2
- Long Skipping Rope
- Balls
- Chalk
- Volleyball Net
- Mats
- Laminated Cards
- Parachute x2
- Soft, Big, Basketball, Soccer Balls
- Skittles
- Tennis rackets
- Egg x6
- Spoon x6
- Hurleys
- Helmets
- Soccer balls
- Footballs
- Badminton net and rackets
Equipment being added to each year.
School Curriculum News
letter relays! Outdoor and adventure !
Outdoors for the month of May !!!4th class had great fun in their letter relays. Both teams had to collect as many letters as possible and make smaller words out of the letters in a team. There was a time limit on it also to up the pressure! Great fun ! ...
Outdoor Challenge : Funny Faces!
The girls had great fun in this collaborative and creative outdoor challenge. A wide range of equipment was put into piles and the children worked together to design funny faces!
Outdoor Puzzle Relay!
Continuing with our outdoor and adventure theme for May, the girls in 4th brought out their competitive side as they competed in teams to complete the jig saw puzzles. We also wanted to combine our FMS of running into this lesson. The pieces had to be collected and...
Outdoor and Adventure : Scavenger Hunt!
For the month of May Scoil Iósaf is focusing on "Outdoor and Adventure" for our P.E. whole school plan. All the classes have been very busy planning their various outdoor lessons. 3rd and 4th class decided to go further than the school grounds and complete a scavenger...
April’s Athletics
During the month of April, the school engaged in the development of our FMS (fundamental movement skill): running. We completed many types of running activities during the month and everyone really enjoyed our new monthly focus.
Athletics
Really enjoying the April athletics month! The girls are developing their running, throwing and catching skills here. Great fun also!
Athletics / Running in Junior Infants
Did you know that children learn more physical skills in their first 6 years than at any other point in their lives? These are called basic or fundamental...
Outdoor and adventure 5th class
In order to gear up for " Outdoor and adventure " month in May for our PE ,Some classes have been taking their lessons ,trails and hunts outside! 5th class completed an Easter quiz collecting clues and answers around the school in teams. A great success and a great...
Athletics in 5th class
5th class girls really focused on their athletics and running in the month of April . They practiced techniques, learned new skills and improved and practiced existing running skills. They also had great fun doing it! Well done 5th class!