How to prepare for our Virtual Sports Day!

The first thing you need to do is plan your sports day by printing out and filling in the Sports Day Planner. You can find the Blank Family Planner in the downloads section at:

https://sites.google.com/holyangelsns.ie/virtualsportsday/downloads?authuser=0

Print your blank timetable out (or design your own!) and decide with your family what order you want to do the events in, what time you want to start them at and which activities you want to do (see more about the activities below).

The second thing you need to do is get your equipment ready for the day. Don’t worry if you don’t have some of the equipment necessary for the activities, we have made out a list of household alternatives below that can be used instead.

The third thing you need to do is get some music playing to add to the atmosphere and fun for your day! If you would like a ready-made Spotify playlist for your home sports day, click here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7t02bxdFRuJHD8xSGyF8tD?si=FHOcL62uRS6JQw8I_By1lg

Once you have prepared these three things- you are ready to go! Make sure you are wearing comfortable clothes, runners and have plenty of water ready!

How to take part in the Virtual Sports Day:

There are six events for our Virtual Sports Day.

Running

Kicking

Throwing

Balancing

Landing

Traditional Sports Day

You will find the events at this link:

https://sites.google.com/holyangelsns.ie/virtualsportsday/the-activities?authuser=0

For each event there is a skill explanation followed by three activities. Activity 1 is generally aimed at the lower school (Junior Infants to 1^st class), Activity 2 is aimed at the Middle school (2^nd class to 4^th class) and Activity 3 is aimed at the upper school (5^th and 6^th class). These are guidelines only; the children can choose what they would like to do. Feel free to try all the activities if you like.

To explain how to do each activity there is a quick description of the activity on the left hand side, a sketch and a video clip demonstrating the task.

At the bottom of the page you will see the STEP model (Space, Task, Equipment, People), which will provide ideas for how to adapt the task in order to increase or decrease the difficulty to suit your child’s preferences and ability.

In the Traditional Sports Day section there are four activities:

Egg and spoon race

Sack race

Open-air Twister

Playground Game- Queenie-O

There are no difficulty levels with these tasks. It follows the same structure as the previous events; there is a description of the task, a sketch and a video clip.

Let us know how you got on:

We hope you enjoy the Virtual Sports Day and have loads of fun trying all the different activities! Don’t forget to send your photos and video clips to svdpinfs@gmail.com and share them with your teacher on Seesaw. Let us know what you liked about the different events and if there are any changes you would make using the 2 Stars and a Wish form at:

https://sites.google.com/holyangelsns.ie/virtualsportsday/downloads?authuser=0

 You can print this at home to fill in and you could send us a photo with your thoughts to the email above.

Have loads of fun everyone!

We hope you enjoy all the fun activities we have lined up for ‘Training Thursday’!  

‘The Edge’ Fitness Class with the Mulqueen family – Join the Mulqueen family for another family-friendly 30-minute fitness class on Thursday 11^th at 9am on Instagram live. In order to tune in to the classes, follow @theedgegym.ie on Instagram and click on their story at 9am. Don’t worry if you can’t make 9am, the class will be available afterwards on their Instagram page. Keep your eye out for another guest appearance from one of the teachers!

Athletics drills with two of our super fit past pupils! - Two of our fabulously-fit former pupils are part of the Marino Athletics Club and they have sent us in a brilliant video with different running drills to try out to help improve your running skills. Thank you to the girls for sharing their super skills with us!

Mystery Teacher - Check out the video below to find who our mystery teacher is today!!! See can you challenge the teacher and beat their top score! Let your teacher know your score on Seesaw.

Drop Everything and Dance - Our song for today will be ‘Best Day of My Life’. You can find the link to the song and the dance moves in the timetable below.

Active 100 – Choose any activity you like from the Irish Heart Foundation list. You will find the ‘Active 100’ pdf underneath the timetable below, keep scrolling as it is quite far down!

Animal Moves – Have a go moving as the different animals! You can play this active game on your own or with your family in lots of different ways. Find the instructions in the pdf underneath the timetable further down this page.

Welcome to the third day of our Active HOME Week 2020! Well done, you are halfway through the week and we hope that you are feeling great, have lots of energy and are having lots of fun!

We are going to try some fun activities today for ‘Wellbeing Wednesday’! Have a go at some of the ideas below with your family. We hope you enjoy them!

Soccer skills with our very talented first class pupil! – Learn how to warm up your body, do passing drills, do a dribble pass, do keepie-uppies, and lots more!

Mystery Teacher – Did you guess who our Mystery Teacher is for today?!!! See can you challenge the teacher and beat their top score! Let your teacher know your score on Seesaw.

Drop Everything and Dance - Our song for today will be ‘Happy- Pharrell Williams’. You can find the link to the song and the dance moves in the timetable below.

Well Being Wednesday – As it is Well Being Wednesday, take some time out by yourself to relax. Find a quiet place and listen to your favourite music. Don’t be afraid to close your eyes to help you to fully relax. We hope you enjoy these few moments of calm.

Sensory Trail – Set up a sensory trail in your garden, indoors or in a local green space. Use flat objects with different textures for your trail, some good examples are bubble wrap, towels, fur, felt, sponge, buttons etc. Walk along in bare feet and notice the different textures.

Today is the second day of our Active HOME Week 2020! We are going to try some new activities today for ‘Try it Tuesday’! Have a go at some of the ideas below with your family. We hope you enjoy them!

‘The Edge’ Fitness Class with the Mulqueen family - The Mulqueen family will be holding a family-friendly 30-minute fitness class on Tuesday 9^th and Thursday 11^th at 9am on Instagram live. In order to tune in to the classes, follow @theedgegym.ie on Instagram and click on their story at 9am on the two mornings. Don’t worry if you can’t make 9am, the classes will be available for 24 hours afterwards on Instagram. Keep your eye out for a guest appearance from one of the teachers on both mornings!

Mystery Teacher - Check out the video below to find who our mystery teacher is today!!! See can you challenge the teacher and beat their top score! Let your teacher know your score on Seesaw.

Drop Everything and Dance - Our song for today will be ‘Trolls- Can’t Stop the Feeling’. You can find the link to the song and the dance moves in the timetable below.

Active Alphabet - Use the ‘Active Alphabet’ to spell out as many different words as you can while moving your body in different ways! Check out the ‘Active Alphabet’ pdf underneath the Timetable below.

Indoor/ Outdoor Bowling – Use empty plastic bottles or milk cartons as bowling pins and set them up indoors or outdoors. Use a ball to try to knock over as many pins as you can.

Welcome to the first day of our Active HOME Week 2020! We are going to start off our Active Week with lots of fun activities for ‘Move-it Monday’! Try out some of the ideas below with your family. We hope you have lots of fun while getting active.

Virtual Kilometre Challenge- We challenge you to complete a kilometre in your area by walking, running, skipping, scooting, skating, rollerblading, swimming or moving in any way imaginable! Take pictures or videos of your kilometre challenge and send them to us at svdpinfs@gmail.com.

Mystery Teacher- Check out the video below to find who our first mystery teacher is!!! See can you challenge the teacher and beat their top score! Let your teacher know your score on Seesaw.

Drop Everything and Dance- At any time during the day, get your family to drop everything they are doing and dance! Our song for today will be our Active School song ‘Home Grown Couch Potato’. You can find the lyrics (in case you forget them!) and the link to the song in the timetable below. Our Active Song is sung to the tune of George Ezra- Shotgun.

Dancing with our Superstar Past Pupil- An incredibly talented past pupil of our school has very kindly sent in some videos to show us how to warm up our bodies, how to stretch and how to do a really cool dance trick!

Skipping- Try some new ways of skipping with the fun challenges from the Irish Heart Foundation. Find them below under the timetable.

Active Home Week

‘Keeping active while staying at home’

June 8^th – 12^th 2020

National ‘Active SCHOOL Week’ takes place every year and is a really enjoyable part of the school year for many children. This year, because of COVID-19, it is not possible for this to go ahead so we are inviting the families of our school to participate in the ‘Active HOME Week‘ challenge instead. Our Active Home Week will take place next week from Monday 8^th to Friday 12^th June.

The aim of the Active Home initiative is to motivate young people to keep active at home by trying out NEW activities, taking on CHALLENGES and having FUN with family activities. To complete the challenge, the children need to find four different ways of being active every day, making sure that this adds up to 60 minutes, or more, of physical activity. All members of the family are encouraged, #Together, to take on the challenge.

We would love you to share all your photos and videos with us from Active home week next week. Please email us any photos and videos to svdpinfs@gmail.com. Please label your photos/ videos ‘Active Home Week’ with your child’s room number.

Our ‘Active HOME Week’ challenge will finish with our Virtual Sports Day on Friday 12^th June. We have picked this day to finish off our Active Home Week but we completely understand that lots of parents are working and have other commitments so may not be able to participate on this day. The activities for sports day (and all the activities for Active Home Week) can be completed on any day that suits or can be divided up over a number of days. There is no set schedule for our Active Home Week, we are simply giving a suggested weekly schedule and providing a variety of activities to choose from to get your children active. We will be using the resources from the Sligo Education Centre website for our sports day. If you would like to check it out in advance visit: https://sites.google.com/holyangelsns.ie/virtualsportsday/home

The Irish Heart Foundation have created a resource for Active Home Week. We have used it to plan some activities for you this week. You might like to check out the document if you are looking for more activities. https://irishheart.ie/publications/lets-get-active-week-5/

Check out our Active Home schedule below for lots of ideas, videos and websites to try to get the whole family active for at least 60 minutes each day. Please feel free to pick and choose which activities you would like to try. You do not need to complete every activity, they are suggestions and ideas only. Remember you do not have to stick to the days suggested below, you can try the activities whenever suits your family. Enjoy!

General facilitator rules apply.

Facilitators are suitably qualified and experienced in their field.

All activities are for educational purposes. The school is not affiliated with any organisation and is merely offering suggestions.

Please choose and alter activities at your discretion accounting for your child or children’s abilities, ages and needs.

Parental supervision is required.

Monday 8th:

Virtual Kilometre Challenge: We are going to kick the week off by asking all families to come together while staying apart and complete a kilometre challenge in your locality. You can complete the kilometre by walking, running, skipping, scooting, skateboarding, rollerblading, cycling, swimming or by any other way you can imagine! Just remember to have lots of fun and please take photos/ videos and email them to svdpinfs@gmail.com

Beat the Mystery Teacher Challenge!

Drop Everything and Dance: Our Active School song ‘Home Grown Couch Potato’ (credit to the Brennan family). Pick a time in the day that suits you to ‘drop everything and dance’ to our Active school song, sung to the tune of George Ezra- ‘Shotgun’.

Dance Warm up with Maya: Try a new dance routine and learn a cool trick with Maya!

Tuesday 9th:

Fitness Class with Charlie, Molly and Gracie: Tune in to The EDGE Gym Instagram Live at 9am for a 30 minute fitness class with Charlie, Molly and Gracie and maybe even a guest appearance from one of the teachers! ;-) If you can’t make 9am, the story stays live for 24 hours so feel free to complete the workout at any time that suits your family over the day.

Beat the Mystery Teacher Challenge!

Drop Everything and Dance: Can’t Stop The Feeling- Trolls, Guided Dance on GoNoodle

Indoor/ Outdoor Bowling: Use empty plastic bottles or milk cartons as bowling

pins and roll a ball to knock them over.

Active Alphabet

Wednesday 10th:

Soccer class with Ben: Learn some new soccer tricks as Ben and his Dad show off their skills.

Beat the Mystery Teacher Challenge!

Drop Everything and Dance: HAPPY- Pharrell Williams, Just Dance Guided Dance

Well-being Wednesday: Take time out and listen to your favourite music in a quiet place. Don't be afraid to close your eyes and relax.

Sensory trail: Make a sensory trial using flat objects with different textures (bubble wrap,

towel, fur, felt, sponge, buttons etc.) Try walking along in bare feet.

Thursday 11th:

Fitness Class with Charlie, Molly and Gracie: Tune in to The EDGE Gym Instagram Live at 9am for a 30 minute fitness class with Charlie, Molly and Gracie and maybe even a guest appearance from one of the teachers! ;-) If you can’t make 9am, the story stays live for 24 hours so feel free to complete the workout at any time that suits your family over the day.

Beat the Mystery Teacher Challenge!

Drop Everything and Dance: Best Day Of My Life- KIDZ BOP Kids Guided Dance

Animal Moves

Friday 12th:

Beat the Mystery Teacher Challenge!

Our SVDP Infant School Virtual Sports Day!