Schools encouraged to participate in 'Active Break Every Day' challenge for Seachtain na Gaeilge
Schools are being encouraged to participate in the Active School Flag programme for Seachtain na Gaeilge 2026.
The initiative is a collaboration between the Active School Flag programme, Healthy Ireland, and the GAA, and supports teachers to build short movement breaks into their daily routine.
The challenge provides schools with a suite of short, classroom-based movement break videos that were filmed around Croke Park in both English and Irish.
More than 1,600 schools and 400,000 students participated in the first four weeks of the challenge and more schools are now being encouraged to participate in the coming weeks.
Schools that wish to find out more or register to take part in the challenge can do so at the links below.
In attendance at launch of the new Croke Park Active Breaks initiative are, backrow from left, ASF National Coordinator Karen Cotter, Minister of State at the Department of Health Jennifer Murnane O'Connor TD, Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael Jarlath Burns, and Minister for Education and Youth, Hildegarde Naughton TD with front row from left, Andrea Gallagher, Teddy Kelly, Aaron O'Connor and Muireann Reen, at Croke Park in Dublin. The initiative provides school children with mental and physical health exercises in class. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile