Down Step into Spring

On Wednesday 27th February St Patrick’s Hilltown cluster ran a ‘Step into Spring’ event involving two other schools – St Paul’s Cabra and St Colman’s Annaclone (all 3 schools are in the Clonduff Extended schools cluster programme).

A lot of time and planning was put into the organisation of the activities which included agility, balance, co-ordination, running, jumping, throwing, catching, kicking, striking, dribbling and many more. There was a total of 176 children at this event and never was a group of 4/5 children standing without an activity.

The atmosphere was active with music blocks timed for each station. The children knew it was time to move to the next station when the new piece of music came on. As the children ranged from 4 – 7 years there was a range of ability level stations and stations that could be challenged or left basic. Within the group of children we had a few special needs – medical, academic and physical. All of these children were actively involved and stimulated throughout the event. The coaches were continuously encouraging, reinforcing, adopting and challenging the children at their levels of ability.

All schools were extremely grateful and delighted to get this wonderful opportunity for their children.