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

Obstacle Course!

Senior Infants had great fun during their PE class this week. All classes in Scoil Iosaf are focusing on the strand Athletics and our fundamental movement skill is running. We had great fun with our two active agents Ava and Amy who led the warm up! Well done girls!...

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Athletics\ Running

This month in Scoil Iósaf all classes are focusing on the PE strand, athletics and our Fundamental Movement Skill is running. All the classes are very busy developing our running and athletics skills in the past few weeks. The girls learned basic running techniques...

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Outdoor fun with maths!

The girls in 4th had great fun learning "length" in maths. They did a range of activities outside measuring various objects using different equipment. Well done!  

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Ceilí Mór sa halla!

Tá seachtain na gaeilge ar siúl anois ! Bhí ceilí mór againn sa halla idir rang a sé agus rang a ceathair. Bhí na rinceoirí ag damhsa le chéile agus bhí an spóirt acu! Bhí siad go hiontach ar fad!

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Swimming!

3rd and 4th class girls have started their six week Aquatics program in Killeline  Leisure Centre. The course is for both beginners and more experienced swimmers and covers all bases of the aquatics curriculum. Great success and fun on our first week back!

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Volleyball

6th Class have been practicing their serve, bump and set volleyball movements over the past few weeks. They are now ready to put these skills into practice and will be partaking in a class run volleyball blitz over the coming weeks.

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