Mary Immaculates' students and staff believe that emotional wellbeing is positively associated with participation in sport and recreational activity among its school community. To this end students and staff had a very active day taking part in a variety of activities including: Penalty Shootout, Tug of War, Tag Rugby, Wheelbarrow Race, Basketball shots and Hurling & Camogie shots. There were Senior and Junior teams each exhibiting a healthy competitive edge as points were being awarded depending on the position of the team in each event. Emerging as Senior Sports and Wellbeing victors was team E: Killian Blood, Lucy O’Growney, Cian Howley, Saoirse O’Brien, Katie Thomas, Harry Wainwright, Róisín McNamara and Eve McMahon. Emerging as Junior Sports and Wellbeing victors was also team I: Darren Flaherty, Aisling O’Brien, Oscar Zhou, Maebh Meehan, Sadhbh Blood, Dawid Partyka, Poppy Slevin, Aidan Kelly and Seán Stack.
A big thank you to Mr Malone, Mr Slattery, Mr Conway, Mr Burke, Mr Gomes, Ms Griffin, Ms Slattery for organising the event.
Also, a big thank you to all the staff who coordinated and supervised the event throughout the day with further thanks going to Sally McNamara and Caroline Browne for monitoring the sponsorship cards and calculating the relevant points to the teams based on the amounts raised.
Thank you to Mr. Mulqueeney for sound and the DJ legend John Egan from second year.
Thanks to Brendan Shannon and Gerard O’Loughlin for their assistance with the set up.
To Seamus and Sara from the Pavilion Theatre thank you.
Thank you to the Parents Association and Deputy Principal Ms. Hynes for organising the healthy food and refreshments provided by Pat Haugh from Supervalu Ennistymon for the fruit and Eleanor Kennedy from Centra Lahinch for the bottled water thank you.
To all the students who took part, for your co-operation, participation, enjoyment, and for your care of the environment by your recycling of waste.
The mental and physical health of all involved was given a boost and to crown a wonderful day the Lord blessed us with some very fine weather.