Primary

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
St. John the Baptist Boys NS, Cashel, Co. Tipperary

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