Huge congratulations and well done to all who participated in Monday’s events. We got loads of images and videos of participation from the Walk a mile with a Smile, to hooping and hurling with the toilet roll and some children even added their own creativity to the day!
Check out the gallery of images at the bottom of this post for a flavour of what activities were taking place at home yesterday! We will leave the videos until next week to be compiled into our grand finale record of PNS Virtual Active Week 2020! Well done everyone! We can’t wait to see what lies ahead today!
And the winners from Monday are………….
Hula Hooping Lunchtime Activity
Mia in 1st class for hooping for a grand total of 12 minutes ansd 18 seconds with video/photographic evidence to prove it!!!! Congratulations Mia!!! Take a bow! You defeated Ms. Walsh with style!
And for the hurling with a toilet roll challenge:
Eve in 4th class for successfully completing Ms. Rea’s challenge and adding her own further creativity to it.
Huge well done to all of our superhoopers including some pre-schoolers! Congratulations to all the hurling participants, there was great innovation, adapation and creativity of the challenge! Piercestown has toilet roll hurling talent!!!!!!
Tuesday’s Main Activity
This morning our main activity is getting active with Joe Wicks
Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Pop into Joe’s PE Class for Tuesday and get some of your 60 minutes completed early in the day. If you have missed his live class you can catch up on this youtube channel at anytime!
And don’t forget, National Active Week wants ALL household members active for 60 minutes a day so why not get all the family to join in. Don’t forget to send us in some photos and videos!
Remember to send your dance moves from ‘Movement Monday’ to Miss Sinnott on jsinnott@piercestownns.com for the amazing whole school video to be launched on Friday!
Tuesday’s Lunchtime Challenge is brought to you by Miss Farrell
Can you beat Miss Farrell? How many skips can you do in 30seconds??!!!!!
Don’t forget to send in your videos to principal@piercestownns.com to be in with a chance to win!
Ready, steady, skip!!!!!!!!!!
And now for the BIG one – the Daily Challenge against a staff member. Today’s challenge is called the ‘Paper Pick up Challenge’. So who set the challenge today? Click into the next video and ALL will be revealed!!!!
So the question remains?! Can you beat our staff member? Have you got the flexibility and balance to give it a go? (Mind your teeth!!!!!!!!!) Video or photographic evidence is needed. We have a parent prize up for grabs today too for this challenge!!!!!Email all entries to principal@piercestownns.com
Don’t forget boys and girls to fill in your daily record of your 60 minutes activity onto your active week record sheet. It is on the blog from yesterday, if anybody missed it. Or you can simply draw up your own diary and keep a record. We would love to have them emailed in at the end of Active Week 2020.
Gallery fom Monday 27th April
Well done everyone. Keep up the great work. See you all tomorrow! And remember ‘Walk, run, jump or skip, COVID-19 won’t make us quit!!!’
Piercestown National School 
Really loving the blog this week!! What fun everyone is having! Thank you
Thanks Siobhan. Active Week has definitely put a pep in our step! Lovely to see all of our children smiling and having fun.