We have been waiting for this for the last 5 years. As the school grew organically, we were effectively a junior school and, while we have been practicing skills and were very lucky to have Coach Peter come in each year to give GAA skills training to classes from 1st class up, we have not before had children old enough to create a team.
Shane will be talking with children in 3rd, 4th and 5th classes this week about setting up team training sessions, which will start at break times and may develop to taking place before school as we get closer to playing against other schools.
The league is for children in 5th and 6th classes so this year we will be organising our own blitzes with local schools so that we are ready for next year when we will have a 5th and a 6th class and can hopefully enter a team. As we will have so few children in those classes next year, we hope that we may be allowed to pull in some 4th class children and so we are welcoming our current 3rd class to train with the team, just in case!
This is very exciting for our school. Thanks to Shane for giving up his lunch break to work with the children on this. Watch this space for more about how its going!
Shane will be talking with children in 3rd, 4th and 5th classes this week about setting up team training sessions, which will start at break times and may develop to taking place before school as we get closer to playing against other schools.
The league is for children in 5th and 6th classes so this year we will be organising our own blitzes with local schools so that we are ready for next year when we will have a 5th and a 6th class and can hopefully enter a team. As we will have so few children in those classes next year, we hope that we may be allowed to pull in some 4th class children and so we are welcoming our current 3rd class to train with the team, just in case!
This is very exciting for our school. Thanks to Shane for giving up his lunch break to work with the children on this. Watch this space for more about how its going!
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