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Olympian – Marcus Lawler’s Visit
We were delighted to have a truly inspiring role model, the Olympian sprinter Marcus Lawler, visit the school on Wednesday, 13th March last. This was as a result of Ms Kinsella’s and Ms Rochford’s 2nd classes winning a national competition organised by Dare to Believe to host an Olympian.
Only 50 schools nationwide (from primary and secondary schools combined) won this award. We had a wonderful day thanks to Marcus’ generosity and to Dare to Believe.
On arrival, Marcus was welcomed by 2nd classes at Reception.
How to train like an Olympian and more …
Then Marcus was welcomed by the whole school in the hall. He spoke about his life as a professional sprinter and about the Tokyo Olympics.
After our time in the hall, Marcus met with 2nd classes. As it was his birthday recently, we sang happy birthday to him in French. Pupils who speak a language other than English and Irish also wished him happy birthday in those languages. Of course, we also gave him cards.
Then Marcus gave an inspiring, age-appropriate presentation on Olympic values.
After that, 2nd classes went back to the hall for some sporting activities with Marcus.
Marcus then took 5th and 6th classes for the same series of sessions as he did with 2nd classes.
Now for a look at our Olympic art in preparation for the visit:
World Book Day!!
Communion Retreat
January Skipping Challenge
Riley has skipped into 2024 by completing an incredible 4,335 skips over the course of the month of January. Mag set Riley a target of reaching 1,000 skips for the month but Riley was determined to smash this goal. Spending ten minutes every day skipping to cool beats, his skipping skills improved incredibly. Riley has been impressing everyone with his skipping skills and inspiring lots of classes to grab the skipping ropes and start practicing. Well done Riley!