Our Active Committee 2025/26

Committee members range from 3rd - 6th class pupils

Active School Slogan 2025/2026

Whole School Plan for P.E

Active Breaktimes

We love to dance and play games together at breaktimes

We love our dance on the yard, it keeps us active & busy

Strand: Athletics

Rugby with Noel Devlin

5th and 6th class do a block of tag-rugby lessons in partnership with Leinster Rugby. This comes under our games strand in P.E.

Irish Dancing with Evelyn White

Athletics

Swimming in 3rd and 4th

Strand: Gymnastics

Local History Walking tours in Gowran and Kilkenny

Strand: Games

As part of the games strand 6th Class take part in the FAI soccer blitz in Thomastown each year.

We enjoy learning about and participating in lots of different games in our P.E. lessons throughout the year. We learn about cooperation, tactical thinking, and experience both target and invasion games.

Basketball, Benchball, Rounders, Hurling, Camogie, Football, Rugby, Cricket and Tennis are just some of the games we get to try out!

Strand: Dance

Throughout our school year every class in the school partake in a block of Irish Dancing classes as part of their P.E programme. Evelyn White teaches the classes a varied amount of dances depending on their age. All pupils really look forward to their dance class. At the end of their lessons their parents sometimes come in to see the skills they have acquired.

Strand: Aquatics

Every year during term 1 third and fourth class travel in to The Watershed for their school's swimming programme.
In June the annual school's swimming gala also takes place in The Watershed. Children from 2nd class up compete in each of the different swim strokes and also in relay races within their age group.
In class the teachers complete the PAWS programme with their pupils. A number of teachers have done courses in this and every teacher has a resource pack which they use to complete it efficiently. We had a Water Safety talk for children from 3rd-6th class in May 2026