Extracurricular Program

 

One of the basic pillars of Education is the meaningful sense of community. This program is built up to make all the community take part in the activities. It is based on the community necessities.

The activities have been developed in this program are design as afterschool   

activities  since  they will  take place out of the ordinary school hours.

The school offer a wide range of extracurricular projects and activities in order to foster all 

community to take part in the school ethos. 

Activities are managed by the A.M.P.A. who is in charge to offer activities, to elaborate the budget and to hire afterschool leaders, ask for community helpers’ collaboration who come once every fortnight to engage children in different community activities. A.M.P.A. is in charge of the activity’s fees.

ACTIVITIES PROGRAM SUMMARY

EARLY BIRD

EARLY BIRD      This activity takes place during the morning. Due to the parent’s necessity of going to work early in the morning, our school children needed a place where they can stay before starting school, that’s why our school door open from 7 am. to facilitate the teaching task to parents that have different working hours. Children are offered a healthy breakfast and a relax activity “Mindfulness” which children learn different techniques and games to calm down during stressful moments and use time to relax and breath. Healthy breakfast is included in the project “Watch what I eat” to encourage children, since they are born, to have healthy nutrition habits. This project will be developed at break school time where children have snack, at early bird time where children have breakfast and at lunch time where they will have their main meal. It is during the infant years when nutrition habits are learnt. There is plenty of data that shows the evidence that the sooner the early years children have good nutrition habits the better health will have during their lifetime. Schools must encourage and teach children what is a good nutrition and why is so important BUNTÚS WORKSHOP This activity develops children’s physical skills and psyche-motor brain functions while they play and have fun. It will take place from 16:00 to 17:00 pm four days per week. Buntús is a physical activity programme for children aged between 2-5 years old. It is based on multi-sports and non-competitive model is used to introduce our children to sport and physical activity. The programmes are rolled out through Sport Ireland's network of Local Sports Partnerships. Sport Ireland recognises the major role that sport can play in the lives of young people It is focus on the use of games to develop fitness whilst enhancing agility, balance and co-ordination. Children will learn how to warm up, exercise and cool down rightly while they enjoy and have fun. This extracurricular activity is well structure in order to build up a brain well structure as well. Through this activity, children will have to follow patterns and routines of what is happening so they anticipate, make predictions, and prepare for what is coming next without any stressful feeling.   KAMISHIBAI WORKSHOP This workshop is based on Kamishibai technique which develop children imagination and pretending/role play while they lean new vocabulary develop language functions, body language and social skills. Kamishibai means “Paper theater”. It often is built up in wooden and has two flips on both sides to use them as a door to open and close each story.  It has a set of pages with images in one size and written text on the back. The stories of the Kamishibai can be infinitive so children will choose whatever stories they want to be represented through the Kamishibai. There is a person who tells the story and turn the pages. Children will learn new techniques to tell stories while they develop their communication, pre writing, body language, socializing, fine and gross motor skills. Kamishibai is a novelty for children. Its structure and pages size makes the perfect tool to encourage children to talk to others. Like tales, the stories in the Kamishibai follows an order which helps children to organize ideas and thoughts, and find out there is routines, organization, and order in their daily life.         TALES THROUGH MUSIC WORKSHOP This workshop is about music which is so important in early year children, because helps them to develop speech, imagination, focus and concentration. It combines the artistic and expressive with the intellectual. It makes children relax and calm down.  This workshop consists of using the music in creative ways. Children will interpret different tales using music and body language. Pitch, pulse and rhythm will be learnt by children while they have fun. EUREKA WORKSHOP This workshop is based on STEM program which is based on science, technology, engineering and maths. It is developed scientist competence in children. This workshop is about science and experiments. The scientist method will make children to predict and check what happens with the elements, how accurate was their prediction and how things change when it is created the right conditions. We know the importance of play for children, that’s why children will learn science through playing.   COMMUNITY HELPERS VOLUNTEERING  Every fortnight, a community worker or workers will come to show children which their work consist of. According to the job presented, children will have to develop and activity which final task will be help onsite to the community helpers. The children’s excursions are: visit a nursing home, a charity, a police station, a fireman station, a farm, a garden, a pet shop, a vet shop, a bakery, a supermarket, a hairdresser, a beauty salon, library and museum.     CHARITY TOYS COLLECTION  Christmas is a huge celebration in so many countries. It brings children joy and illusion. It is known that; some children live in poverty and they don’t have food to eat, even less a toy to play with. We will have a Christmas toy collection where children will collect, count and sort toys which people have donated.   The aim of this collection is children learn solidarity values such as sharing with the ones who need the most, collaboration, support and so on.   HELP OTHERS PROGRAMME  Each term, children will go to visit special needs children’s schools where children are encouraging and engaging into activities with children who have disabilities. It develops in children the sense of contribution to the community throughout community service projects.   SCHOOL WALKING BUS A walking school bus is a group of children walking to school with one or more adults. Families and volunteers will take turns to walk or cycle children to school. There will be a route with meeting points and specific timetables.   HEALTHY MEALS The school offer a service where children can have their healthy meals while they learn healthy nutrition habits, hygiene habits and socialize skills.  Children will be along a person in charge who go with them to the toilet in order to promote children hygiene habits such as hands washed and teeth brushed. At each table, there will be a child who has to set the table and pour the water. This will rotate every week. OPEN SCHOOL PLAYGRPOUND AREAS This initiative started when the school community found the necessity of have a safe place where children can play. Parents will have to do a rota to take turns to check the children while the school playground is open on Saturdays.