Category Archives: Active School Flag
Over the past number of years, we have undertaken very significant work in relation to raising activity levels for the children throughout their school day. This came in a very wide variety of formats from emphasis on movement breaks, in […]
Dance has become very important in our school, both for exercise as well as entertainment. Here we see the children perform at the Ceili Mor on the 11th March where they did whole class Sean Nos, waltzing and even the […]
While the children are very active at school in Nicker NS, they also excel outside of school in their different areas of sport. See our superstars below!
Playground leaders is a weekly event in Spring of 2023 and the whole school looks forward to the fun and challenge of the activities. The 5th and 6th class are fantastic at putting the rest of the pupils through their […]
Ms. Blackwell kindly organised an orienteering activity ‘as Gaeilge.’ Bhí seacláid te againn ina dhiaidh. Bhí an-spraoi againn Lá seaca roimh Nollag!
Physical Activity through daily Active Movement Breaks Since we first started out on the long road to applying for our first Active Flag at Nicker NS, we have been building (almost unknown to ourselves), a very well established and by […]
Physical Education Physical Education has always been a very important part of the curriculum at Nicker NS and we have a long history of participation in games, athletics, gymnastics and aquatics in school and in competition. With the onset of […]
Off to the GAA field for training! Partnerships with local clubs and friends from further afield have been instrumental in helping us to enhance and develop our physical education and physical activity provision. We liaise each year with […]