Active Schools Week
‘Active HOME Week Challenge ’
As you know national ‘Active SCHOOL Week’ takes place every April and is a really enjoyable part of the school year for many children. This year, because of COVID-19, it is not possible for this to go ahead so we are asking schools to encourage families to participate in the ‘Active HOME Week’ challenge instead.
The 'Active HOME Week Challenge ’ will take place on April 27th to May 3rd .
The idea of the #ActiveHomeWeek challenge is to:
Reach out to parents/guardians/carers to support the work that is taking place in their school
Raise awareness about the fact that young people and children need, at least, 60 MINUTES of physical activity every day
Support parents by providing them with ideas and a challenge format to encourage children and young people to build physical activity into their day
Encourage children and young people to find NEW ways of being physically active that they ENJOY
To complete the challenge children and young people, have to find 4 different ways of being active each day making sure that this adds up to 60 minutes, or more. They are encouraged to try something NEW, have FUN with a family activity and ENJOY the week!
They have collated many of the online suggestions into an IDEAS work cloud graphic which will be of a benefit to parents and schools.
The Active flag Twitter page : @activeflag
The Active Flag has gathered together ‘in one place’ a wide range of physical activity ideas to make it easy for parents to find ideas, and for children and young people to ways, to complete the challenge. The Twitter feed includes many of the excellent ideas, challenges and resources being shared by Local Sports Partnerships and NGBs, as well as those of local/national sports clubs, role models and agencies.
The ‘Active HOME Week’ challenge and the resource materials are also available to view on www.activeschoolflag.ie
Longford LSP want to support schools in this initiative and have will post of 4 recommended activities everyday next week. Make sure to email us at and tag us on our social media platforms to let us know your schools / families / teachers etc are involved. We will then enter your school into a draw to win a big bag of sports equipment worth up to €300 . We are posting each daily activity on our social media each morning at 9am.
You can check out our recommendations on:
Email: sports@longfordcoco.ie
Facebook: longfordsportspartnership
Twitter: @LSPLongford
Instagram :@longfordsportspartnership
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Longford LSP recommended activities for Active Home Week
