Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
School Placement (School Information (School Name: St Mary’s Secondary…
School Placement
School Information
-
P.E/Sports Facilities in the school and in the immediate vicinity: There is a sports hall located 5 minutes away from the main school building. This is where the P.E lessons are conducted.
Below the sports hall, there is a small field, half a GAA pitch in size where the students train for field sports.
In the town where the school is based, there is a GAA in the centre, 5-10-minute walk depending on the weather. This is accompanied by the local basketball hall, small public gym, tennis courts and the Macroom golf club.
The town park is 15 minutes from the school which is equipped with soccer goals, exercise machines for public use and GAA goals (mainly used for underage training due to their size).
Use of technology in teaching, is there an acceptable usage policy: Phones are not prohibited in the school. The teachers use the interactive whiteboards and computer labs for teaching.
-
Junior Cycle P.E
The existence of junior cycle wellbeing programme: While the programme for well-being has not been introduced yet, the school has shown to incorporate a whole school endeavor approach for now.
The relationships between peers, teachers and teachers and students is a positive and comfortable working environment for the students.
The school culture has taken new missions and ethos’ on board for the new well-being programme and the curriculum is continuously discussed about, i.e, CSPE, SPHE, PE, guidance, extra-curricular and co-curricular activities in the school.
Leaving Certificate P.E
-
Leaving Certificate P.E being offered, some insights into the programme: Due to the size of the school, unfortunately, St Mary’s could not accept a spot as a pilot school for the Leaving Cert P.E Programme. The physical education teachers in the school have stated that they are interested in the subject and hope it can be facilitated by smaller schools in the future.
Senior Cycle PE being delivered, if so, what is the programme: The Senior Cycle P.E programme is being delivered by the teachers for fourth and fifth years.
The programme entails six-week modules of a sport that is suited to each category in the P.E criteria. Tag Rugby was chosen to teach TGFU and asking students to warm-up and cool down their class was used to highlight sport education.
For sixth years, due to the stress and pressure of the Leaving Cert Exams, the teachers decided to use P.E as a fun class where the students would be part of teams, engaging in team challenges each week and spending the second class trying a new sport. The sport would change every 2-weeks to allow for variety in the class. The students were asked at the beginning of the year to write down what sports, games and activities they wanted to play or try, and the teachers then planned their programme around these answers