The FUNdamentals
Duration: Half/Full school day
This is for you if you want:
- An activity filled day to work on your groups team skills.
- To promote positive behaviour in your class, both individually and as a class.
- Enjoyable sport and active experiences for your class.
What’s involved?
- A half day visit to the class.
- We begin with a PowerPoint presentation and each child is given a Learning Log for mini-activities.
- Outdoor activities to work on personal and team values including a Scavenger Hunt, fun games and sporting activities.
- Return to the classroom to finish our PowerPoint and create a class contract, detailing our class values to be signed by all children.
Curriculum Links:
SPHE:
- foster children’s well-being, self-confidence and sense of belonging
- develop children’s sense of personal responsibility for their own behaviour and actions
- promote children’s self-awareness and understanding by helping them to manage their own feelings, to recognise and appreciate individual abilities, and to cope with change of various kinds
- support children to become active and responsible citizens.
Physical Education:
- Games
- Outdoor and Adventure
Le Chéile
Duration: 6 x 60 minute lessons
Why choose this programme?
- A more comprehensive coverage of personal development and responsibility.
- Weekly themed lessons, with an outdoor physical activity incorporated into each.
- A three-week class project to show leadership in class and across school.
- Workbook for children provided to school.
What’s involved?
- Week One: Developing a class culture.
- Week Two: Being the team player/ What is a leader?
- Week Three: Creating good habits of self-control.
- Week Four: Who am I and who do I admire?
- Week Five: Being responsible online
- Week Six: Showcase class project and present certificates.
Curriculum Links:
SPHE:
- foster children’s well-being, self-confidence and sense of belonging
- develop children’s sense of personal responsibility for their own behaviour and actions
- promote children’s self-awareness and understanding by helping them to manage their own feelings, to recognise and appreciate individual abilities, and to cope with change of various kinds
- support children to become active and responsible citizens.
Physical Education:
- Games
- Outdoor and Adventure
English:
- Personal writing; A Person I Admire