What a fantastic day we had today for our Sports’ Day! After the heavy downpours over the last few days, the sun was shining all day for us today.
We started with a few warm-ups this morning.
Then it was time for our races – we had a running race, a potato and spoon race, a sack race and a 3-legged race in our classes.
After break, we headed down to the GAA grounds. Some of us chose to go to the park where we had great fun (and a little bit of shade!), while others played a game of soccer on the pitch – we have never played soccer on such a huge pitch before!
After lunch, it was time for tug of war! There were a lot of very close contests between lots of different groups, but the teachers were undefeated against both the 6th Class girls and boys!
We had a quick break thanks to the Senior Room who spent some of their JEP money on an ice-lolly for everyone – thank you very much 5th and 6th Class, it was really appreciated today!
We just had time for throw-the-welly before the Infants went home. It is not as easy as it looks, but there were some great throws!
Next it was time for an obstacle course – the trickiest bit was remembering to put everything back in the correct place for the next person in our team!
Finally, we had a huge orienteering challenge – we had to collect different pieces of equipment from around the yard, then make something from everything we had collected.
At the end of a super day, we were all presented with a medal – a huge well done to everyone for all their hard work and positive attitudes. It was wonderful to see teams working together and everyone encouraging and cheering each other on. Well done everyone!
