“We are fit, we are cool, we are Gortskehy National School” 

We are very excited to be renewing our Active Flag this year here in Gortskehy. We launched our initiative on Friday, October 25th as we celebrated Halloween. We had a whole school active line assembly outdoors which was led by our active committee. We finished with a spooky Halloween parade!

Congratulations to Ruth, Laoise and Mia from 3rd and 4th class, for coming up with our catchy slogan!

We are focusing on movement breaks for November. Each class are committing to at least two movement breaks to re-energise, and re-focus throughout the day. We are excited for this.

We are endeavouring to keep our playground as active as possible this year and we are introducing Playground Marshalls to ensure everyone is moving!!

Watch this space as our active year unfolds!

We had a very @ActiveFlag day for our Halloween holidays. The Halloween circuits were great fun and followed by a disco in our costumes. Happy Halloween!

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Halloween Circuits - Middle Room

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Halloween Circuits - Senior Room

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We have had a great 6 weeks of handball here in Gortskehy, led by Tim Foley of Tourmakeady Handball Club.

Handball is an all inclusive sport, where anyone of any ability can play. It incorporates lots of our fundamental movement skills, such as catching, throwing, side stepping, running, balance and striking with the hand. It also enables children to develop other skills such as hand-eye coordination and concentration.

We were very lucky as we got to go to Ballinrobe Handball Alley to see a handball match. We also got to play in a 40×20 alley. It was a wonderful experience for the children to see a real alley and have the opportunity to play there.

We would like to thank Tim Foley for being so generous with his time over the past few weeks and giving the children the opportunity to try a new sport.

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@activeflag @MayoSport1 @Garrymoregaa

We are off to very active start this year!

Handball has just started for 1st-6th class and we are really excited about developing our handball skills!  We would like to thank Tim Foley of Tourmakeady Handball Club for his time over the coming weeks.

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We are delighted to announce that we have just been awarded our very first Active School Flag here in Gortskehy. Well done to all the children for taking part in all the activities throughout the year. We are looking forward to staying active next year and doing lots more activities! Well done to our Active School Committee for all your hard work!

We are going to celebrate our achievements on Friday with an outdoor disco & party!