Active Schools Committee 2025/2026

The Active Schools Committee members for 2025/2026 are: Ríadh Byrnes O’Donoghue, Aidan Cullinan (2^nd), Max Callinan, Gearóid McMahon, Isabel Cleary, April Duggan (3^rd), Ruadhán O’Loughlin, Eoin Erskine (4^th), Katelyn Cullinan, Nathan O’Connor (5^th), Maya Dowling, Chloe Smyth, Alison Casey, Mia Hedigan and Eabha Farrelly (6^th).

Active Schools Week 2024

Active Schools Week took place in our school during the week of the 10^th of June. The Active Schools committee came together with Shona to decide what activities we would do for Active Schools Week and on Sports Day. Some of the activities we decided to organise were rugby, hurling, dance, yoga, and many more. Several coaches and parents also got involved in the activities during the week. We also did Wake Up Shake Up every morning with the whole school. During Wake Up Shake Up we did activities like movement skills and exercises. We also organised two Sports Days for the school. The first Sports Day for the senior classes was on Monday the 17^th of June, and the second Sports Day for junior classes was on Wednesday the 19^th of June. On each Sports Day the sixth class pupils organised many stations for the rest of the school to participate in. The stations included three-legged races, wheelbarrow races, dodgeball, basketball, beanbag throwing, obstacle courses and more. There were also sprints and long races at the start of the day. Overall, we had a great time during Active Schools week, and our favourite parts included the races and the rounders station.

By Mia Connellan and Kacper Pawlowski.

Active Schools Committee 2023-2024

The following are the members of our Active Schools Committee for the coming year: 6th (Joe): Oscar Deegan,6th (Colm): Isabelle Mangan,5th: Zoe Speak, 4th (Conor): Luke Callinan,4th (Cillian): Kayla Hanrahan, 3rd: Jessica O Driscoll, 2nd (Amy): Louis Ryan,2nd (Shona): Mia Connellan

Active School Slogan

As part of our Active Schools initiative, we needed to find a new slogan for Knockanean. With almost 100 entries from the 2nd- 6th class, we saw a huge variety of fantastic images and slogans to represent Knockanean. It was amazing to see the huge interest and the time and effort put into every entry was unbelievable. In the end, there were five prize winners however, the winning slogan by Connla O’Halloran (6th) was:

‘’Don’t be boring, don’t be lazy, get outside and run like crazy’’

The winning imagery to match the slogan was created by Ailbhe Curran (6th) and Andrea Barry (6th). Connla, Ailbhe and Andrea combined their entries to make the finished slogan which we think represents Knockanean beautifully. Our other prize winners, Abi O’ Donnell (3rd) and Róisín McInerney (3rd) both had lovely messages to share in their slogans – Abi ‘’Put down your phone, put down your devices, pick up a ball and start your exercises’’. Róisín ‘’Believe in sport, believe in you and join the active crew’’

Active Schools 2021

Every Friday we set up and teach Juniors, Seniors and 1st class, builders and bulldozers, lifesaver tag, ring toss, relay races and lots more. It’s a lot of fun to play with them and to teach them new games. The younger classes are really enjoying this and we can see them getting better from week to week. We hope the weather continues to be good so we can do this every Friday.

By Cathal Ryan, Tara Whelan and Ava Harte