Partnerships
ASF schools work in partnership with others to promote a physically active school community.
Partnerships within and outside the school are an important aspect of the Active School Flag. When a school participates in the Active School Flag Programme it is vital to interact and engage with other organisations and clubs.
We are very lucky in St George's NS to have fantastic links with local sporting clubs.
Our Active Flag Noticeboards
We use our Active School noticeboards to display the great work done in our school.
The whole school, pupils and teachers, signed a commitment to be an Active School, which we proudly display on our noticeboards.
At the start of our renewal process, we held a competition throughout the school to find out new Active Flag slogan.
We had so many wonderful entries, it was hard to pick a winner.
All the entries were shared with classes and a vote was conducted to decide the winning entry.
Ms Kearn's 6th Class pupils came up with our winning slogan, which we think you'll agree is quite catchy!
Active Body, Healthy Mind
Our Active School Slogan
Active School Committee
Our Active School Committee is made up of pupils from 5th and 6th Class.
The Active Committee proved to be popular and so pupils wrote applications to be considered.
The Active School Committee works hard to promote physical activity in our school.
We hold meetings often to discuss upcoming Active School events.
Our Active School Committee is involved in:
- Helping to plan Active School events
- Sharing Active School announcements on the intercom
- Speaking to classes about our ASF events and bringing ideas to committee meetings
- Organising and judging ASF competitions, such as our ASF Dance-Off and our ASF slogan competition
- Helping to organise and monitor our PE equipment storage
- Encouraging everyone to become more active! :)
Active Committee Meetings
What Club Are You In?
Students completed 'What Club Are You In?' surveys around the school as part of the topic Data in maths.
They did a fantastic displaying their findings using bar charts.
The class made a lovely display of their work in our corridors to showcase all the wonderful clubs that are available in our area.
Some of the most popular clubs included:
- O'Dywers GAA Club
- Balbriggan Rugby Club
- Athletics
- Basketball
- Dance
- Gymnastics
- Boxing
- Taekwondo
More information about all of the wonderful clubs that Balbriggan has to offer can be found at balbriggan.info
There seems to be something for everyone!
Balbriggan Rugby Club
We love rugby at St George's NS!
Every year, the wonderful coaches at Balbriggan Rugby Club work with pupils in our school.
We love learning new skills have lots of fun playing tag rugby.
Graham is our fantastic coach and we have lots of fun while learning all the skills we need to play a great game of rugby.
We love taking part in Rugby Blitzes with other schools in Balbriggan. It is always a great day out!
O'Dwyer's GAA Club Balbriggan
St George's NS has a long running partnership with O'Dwyers GAA club in Balbriggan. We have had fantastic coaches work with our school over the years.
Anthony and Leah hasve been working with us this year and our pupils look forward to their training sessions because they makes them so much fun!
O'Dwyer's GAA Club even brought Sam Maguire to visit us in 2023! We love GAA in St George's and have some great talent - maybe we have some future All-Ireland winners in our midst!
Recognising Physical Activity Outside School
Active Flag Surveys
We surveyed pupils and parents at the beginning of our Active School Flag renewal process.
We received very positive feedback and comments about our Active School initiative, from both pupils and parents.
- 80% of pupils say they enjoy PE. 86% of parents say their child enjoys PE.
- 81% of pupils say they enjoy break times in the yard. 93% of parents say their child enjoys break times
in the yard. - 80% of pupils say they enjoy active breaks during the school day.
- 93% of pupils say they enjoy Active School Week. 98% of parents say their child enjoys Active School
Week.
Some areas we are working to improve on:
- Teachers ensure that they give feedback about their pupils’ progress and participation in PE during parent-teacher meetings.
- PE homework is given once a week.
- We launched a new school website in January 2020 where parents and pupils will be better able to keep informed of our Active School activities.
St. George's National School, Naul Road, Balbriggan Co. Dublin Phone: 01-8410107