South Dublin – Marathon Kids Ireland

Welcome to Marathonkids 2020

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:54:58 +0000

Welcome to Marathonkids Ireland 2020 programme! It’s great to have you on board. As you know, Marathonkids Ireland 2020 will start on the week starting 5th October 2020. The recommended timeline to complete the program is 8 weeks.

Each Student will record daily updates in their physical or digital workbooks. The Topics tie in to the SPHE module of the student’s curriculum.

Each Week the interactive workbook will allow students to cover different topics relating to the benefits of Sport:

Week 1: Healthy Heart
Week 2: Physical Benefits of Exercise
Week 3: Mental Benefits of Exercise
Week 4: Social Benefits of Exercise
Week 5: Community Benefits of Exercise
Week 6: The Role of Hydration
Week 7: The Role of Nutrition
Week 8: The Education Benefits of Exercise

Each topic is broken up into 4 lessons and designed to be cover over 4 days in conjunction with daily run. Students will run/jog/walk an assigned distance each week. This is designed to be completed daily over 4 days, but each school will have the option to design this to suit their facilities.

Recommended Distance each week:

Week 1: 2400m
Week 2: 3200m
Week 3: 4000m
Week 4: 4800m
Week 5: 5600m
Week 6: 6400m
Week 7: 6800m
Week 8: 8000m

Participating schools can design the Final Mile celebration in house, based on current government health and safety guidelines Teachers will receive weekly emails and updates on the marathonkidsireland.ie website. The content will include hints and tips, Video content including exercise warm ups, nutrition and recipes from Irish international track and field athlete David Gillick. All this content is available to share with the participating students.

Programme changes

All interaction with participating schools will be digital. Loads more digital content available
No Physical visits to the schools
No mass participation Final mile event. Schools can organize and design independent events based on your school’s current environment and facilities

But there are no better words to introduce the program than those from our ambassador and former Olympian and 400m European Champion David Gillick:

During the course of our 8-week programme you will receive one newsletter per week every Friday starting on October 2nd. In the newsletter you will find:

Weekly video by David introducing the theme of the week
Weekly warm-up exercise by David
News with photos and videos directly from schools participating

But without further ado let’s start with Week 1 where you will learn How to Keep Your Heart Healthy

In the Teachers Section you will also find some suggested warm-up exercises (one per week). This is the one for Week 1

Last but not least, we will be posting some amazing and content on our website (make sure to bookmark it on your browser) and on our social media so don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube.

OK, now it’s time to go and start exercising! Have an amazing week!

The Marathonkids Ireland team

Register for Marathonkids Ireland 2020

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:39:58 +0000

The new and improved Marathonkids program for 2020 is here!

Marathonkids has been a huge success over the last 5 years. We have had over 20,000 students, 150 schools and 350 classes complete the program since we launched in 2015.

The last 6 months have been particularly hard and confusing for children and with that in mind and as we know how important physical and mental health and wellbeing is at the moment, we feel it is important to give students something to focus on and look forward to over the coming months.

We really wish to continue the Marathonkids success and give students, schools, and teachers the option to participate in the Marathonkids program in 2020.

Based on the current environment we have made some program changes to help schools facilitate a safe and fun program.

Program changes

All interaction with participating schools will be digital. Loads more digital content available
No Physical visits to the schools
The option to have a Digital program Booklets to replace physical booklet
The option to for a Digital certificate of completion or finisher medal
Participation T-shirt is optional
No mass participation Final mile event. Schools can organize and design independent events based on your school’s current environment and facilities

Marathonkids 2020 Program Information

Marathonkids 2020 will start on the week starting 5th October 2020. The recommended timeline to complete the program is 8 weeks.

Each Student will record daily updates in their physical or digital workbooks.

Each Week the interactive workbook will allow students to cover different topics relating to the benefits of Sport:

Week 1: Healthy Heart
Week 2: Physical Benefits of Exercise
Week 3: Mental Benefits of Exercise
Week 4: Social Benefits of Exercise
Week 5: Community Benefits of Exercise
Week 6: The Role of Hydration
Week 7: The Role of Nutrition
Week 8: The Education Benefits of Exercise

Each topic is broken up into 4 lessons and designed to be cover over 4 days in conjunction with daily run.

The Topics tie in to the SPHE module of the student’s curriculum.

Students will run/jog/walk an assigned distance each week. This is designed to be completed daily over 4 days, but each school will have the option to design this to suit their facilities:

Week 1: 2400m
Week 2: 3200m
Week 3: 4000m
Week 4: 4800m
Week 5: 5600m
Week 6: 6400m
Week 7: 6800m
Week 8: 8000m

Participating schools can design the Final Mile celebration in house, based on current government health and safety guidelines

Teachers will receive weekly emails and updates on the marathonkidsireland.ie website. The content will include hints and tips, Video content including exercise warm ups, nutrition and recipes from Irish international track and field athlete David Gillick. All this content is available to share with the participating students.

For more information and to register your school for the 2020 program please complete the form on marathonkidsireland.ie homepage.

We are really looking forward to working with you again this year. We wish you good health and happiness into the future and thank you for all your support to date.

You Are Almost There!

admin — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:34:02 +0000

Welcome back from your well-deserved break! Did you know you are at Week 8 of the programme? You are almost there! But first, let’s take a peek at this week’s visits by our ambassador David Gillick. We have some nice little videos and some cool pictures, which you can find below and that we will also post on our social media and website.

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO FROM GEALSCOIL EISCIR RIADA

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO FROM LUCAN EDUCATE TOGETHER

And now let’s talk about the educational benefits of exercise with our ambassador David Gillick.

CLICK TO GO TO THE TEACHERS SECTION

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO

In the Teachers Section you will also find the a nice and easy warm up exercise (one per week). This is the one for Week 8:

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO

We will be posting some amazing and content on our website (make sure to bookmark it on your browser) and on our social media so don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube.

You can contribute to the weekly content too by sharing your photos and videos on social media and tagging @marathonkidsireland (Facebook and Instagram) or @marathonkidsire (Twitter).

Keep up with the great work and roll on Week 8!

The Marathonkids Ireland team

Fuel Your Body for Sports

admin — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:12:20 +0000

Do we make the right choices when it comes to food? Our body is like a car, it needs fuel. If we fail to fuel our body with the right energy it won’t perform as well as it can. Our ambassador David Gillick answers this and a lot more questions directly from you during his visits to Fingal, Dublin City and South Dublin schools. We have some nice little videos and some cool pictures, which we will post on our social media and website.

So far we’ve learned that running and exercising is good for both body (Week 2), mind (Week 3) and socially (Week 4) and that there are also a lot of Community Benefits in Exercising (Week 5). Week 6 saw David talk about the Importance of Hydration. This week will be about Nutrition.

CLICK TO GO TO THE TEACHERS SECTION

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO

In the Teachers Section you will also find the a nice and easy warm up exercise (one per week). This is the one for Week 7:

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO

You can contribute to the weekly content too by sharing your photos and videos on social media and tagging @marathonkidsireland (Facebook and Instagram) or @marathonkidsire (Twitter). This is just a selection of the great content you have already started generating.

Keep up with the great work and roll on Week 7!

The Marathonkids Ireland team

Why is Water so Special?

admin — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 08:47:41 +0000

How much water should we drink?

Our ambassador David Gillick answered to this and a lot more questions directly from you when he visited Scoil Santain and St Kevin’s Boys NS in South Dublin this week. We have some nice little videos and some cool pictures, which we will post on our social media and website.

So far we’ve learned that running and exercising is good for both body (Week 2), mind (Week 3) and socially (Week 4) and that there are also a lot of Community Benefits in Exercising (Week 5). This week David will talk about the Importance of Hydration.

CLICK TO GO TO THE TEACHERS SECTION (password: marathonkids2019)

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO

In the Teachers Section you will also find the a nice and easy warm up exercise (one per week). This is the one for Week 6

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO

You can contribute to the weekly content too by sharing your photos and videos on social media and tagging @marathonkidsireland (Facebook and Instagram) or @marathonkidsire (Twitter).

Keep up with the great work and roll on Week 6!

The Marathonkids Ireland team

It’s More Than Winning!

admin — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:46:53 +0000

Sport is more than just winning!

This is the message for Week 5 and our ambassador David Gillick has been sharing it with schools from Fingal, Dublin City and South Dublin. We have already shared some nice little videos and some cool pictures, which you can also find on our social media and website.

We’ve learned that running and exercising is good for both body (Week 2), mind (Week 3) and socially (Week 4) but there are also a lot of Community Benefits in Exercising!

CLICK TO GO TO THE TEACHERS SECTION

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO

In the Teachers Section you will also find the a nice and easy warm up exercise (one per week). This is the one for Week 5

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO

You can contribute to the weekly content too by sharing your photos and videos on social media and tagging @marathonkidsireland (Facebook and Instagram) or @marathonkidsire (Twitter).

Keep up with the great work and roll on Week 5!

The Marathonkids Ireland team

Marathonkids Ireland South Dublin Launch

admin — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:40:53 +0000

Another terrific day of sport and most importantly fun for kids, teachers and supporters of Marathonkids Ireland with the official launch of the 2017 programme for South Dublin County Council. The day started around 10 am with the kids from St. Dominic’s National School in Tallaght getting ready for an hour of fun and exercising.

The first part of the event took place in the school hall, where the kids were gathered for the official photo shoot. Attending the event among others were Marathonkids Ireland Ambassador and 2-times 400m European Champion David Gillick, Mayor of South Dublin Paul Gogarty and Sports and Recreation Officer for South Dublin County Council Alison Casserly.

The kids had a lot of fun posing for the photos and listening to David talking about the importance of exercising and of a good diet.

It was then time to put in practice what they had just heard from David. So we all went outside despite of the rainy and windy day and enjoyed some great workout and a really good run around the school.

The Marathonkids Ireland 2017 programme has now been launched in both Fingal and South Dublin. So stay tuned for more photos and videos and most importantly, stay healthy!

If you missed the event, here’s a recap video with all the highlights