Rith agus spraoi, go maith do do chroí.
- Active schools slogan
Partnerships
2021/2022
Scoil Naomh Eoin have long standing partnerships with the local GAA clubs- O’Dempsey’s and St. Conleth’s. In 2021 St. Conleth’s won the Laois County title for the first time with many past pupils on the winning panel. Their management are also past pupils. Girls in our school have been inspired by this wonderful success.
O’Dempseys reached a Laois Senior Final in 2018 with a squad made up entirely of past pupils. We have regular visits from club players and mentors promoting the club. These links will continue long into the future.
In Spring 2022 O’Dempsey’s recruited a new GPO (Games Promotion Officer) Martin O’Connell who comes to our school to work on Fundamental Movements with all classes. The benefit of having Martin employed by O’Dempsey’s is hugely advantageous to Scoil Naomh Eoin also.
O’Dempseys reached a Laois Senior Final in 2018 with a squad made up entirely of past pupils. We have regular visits from club players and mentors promoting the club. These links will continue long into the future.
In Spring 2022 O’Dempsey’s recruited a new GPO (Games Promotion Officer) Martin O’Connell who comes to our school to work on Fundamental Movements with all classes. The benefit of having Martin employed by O’Dempsey’s is hugely advantageous to Scoil Naomh Eoin also.
2019/2020
Laois Primary Schools Cross Country Championships 2019
Here are some more pictures from the Laois Athletics Primary School Cross Country Championships we competed in on Wednesday 25th September. Well done again to all of our athletes!
2018/2019
Active Schools Committee
Our Active Schools Committee contains 2 representatives from each class level from 3rd to 6th class.
The roles and responsibilities of the committee are as follows:
- Help in organizing equipment for whole school events
- Come up with ideas for Active School events throughout the year and to collect ideas from each of the classes
- To organize and take part in the opening ceremony of our Active School Walkway
- Keep the P.E store room tidy and to check on it regularly
- Plan, organize and help run Active Schools Week
- Work as playground leaders organizing equipment and showing some playground games to the younger classes at lunchtime.
The roles and responsibilities of the committee are as follows:
- Help in organizing equipment for whole school events
- Come up with ideas for Active School events throughout the year and to collect ideas from each of the classes
- To organize and take part in the opening ceremony of our Active School Walkway
- Keep the P.E store room tidy and to check on it regularly
- Plan, organize and help run Active Schools Week
- Work as playground leaders organizing equipment and showing some playground games to the younger classes at lunchtime.
Laois Sports partnership Athletics talk
Tag-Rugby Presentation
Our Active Schools committee were presented with new tag-rugby equipment from Paudie Maher for taking part in the Aldi local rugby initiative in conjunction with Portarlington RFC.
Tag-rugby
Paudie Maher from Portarlington RFC visited us once a week for 6 weeks to coach the children and introduce them to rugby. They engaged in a variety of games using the skills of rugby and the children really enjoyed the lessons.
Laois Sports Partnership - Athletics
Laois sports partnership kindly came out to us for 4 weeks during November to do Athletics with 1st and 2nd class. They engaged in a variety of team activities practicing many skills from the athletics strand of the P.E curriculum, such as running, jumping, hopping, throwing, skipping and more.
FAI Primary School Futsal Competition
Students from our 4th classes competed in the FAI futsal competition in Portarlingtion Community Centre in November. 33 students traveled in total, making up 2 boys teams and 1 girls team. The children really enjoyed their day out and received a futsal ball and certificate for their participation.