St. Colmcille’s Primary School Templemore successfully renewed their Active Flag recentlyg. It is St. Colmcille’s second time being awarded the Active Flag. The Active Flag is awarded to schools that provide a broad and balanced PE curriculum as well as promoting participation in sport throughout the school and community. In short an Active School is a school that is physically educated as well as and physically active.
Over a three year period, St. Colmcille’s worked on self evaluating how active the school was while putting in place a number of projects to improve activity throughout the school. This culminated in the school hosting an Active Week in June where the pupils, parents and staff had a brilliant and active time cycling, playing rounders, orienteering and much, much more.
The project was led by the Active Flag Committee. Ms. Maura Bergin along with twelve pupils met regularly to set out the improvements required to be awarded the Active Flag. Each class also did projects to educate themselves on the importance of being active. Classes learned about sugar content in food, the heart, our levels of activity at home and in school as well as learning about new games we could play. These projects impressed the inspector greatly when she arrived to meet the committee and decide whether St. Colmcille’s was an Active School or not. Her answer was a resounding YES!
St. Colmcille’s was delighted to welcome back newly appointed Tipperary hurling captain , Séamus Callanan to raise the Active Flag. The flag now flies proudly outside the school, reminding everyone of the importance of being active each day. 
