Keeping Active – school sports, zoom classes & sea swims

The Solas@School team were delighted to get back into schools this term for Solas Sports. The weather has been good to us and it's been great to have some fun in person (sweating underneath our masks!). A few of our volunteers and students have had the opportunity to join us too.

We’ve also continued doing regular Sports activities with the After Schools clubs. These activities shifted from indoors to outdoors permanently the last year. The children look forward to Thursdays for Sports with Ste in Phoenix park.

We are committed to fulfilling one of our five objectives for The Club which is provision of regular physical activities to support the children’s physical and mental wellbeing helping them stay Active and Healthy.

This year The Clubs have had fewer demands on the homework front and with an incentive to get outdoors as much as possible to keep everyone safe from Covid19 we’ve been more active than ever.

The young people involved in our Justice programmes have also been keeping fit at online fitness classes with coach Eanna, one on one runs with key workers and some have even been brave enough to tag on the pandemic craze of jumping in the Irish sea!

From July we’re hoping to run fitness sessions as part of a set of workshops planned for Oberstown Children Detention Campus.

And it’s not just the young people, our staff team dusted off those winter cobwebs by taking on a walking / running challenge for the month of March.

Family, friends and dogs tagged along as we ran, walked and cycled through hail, rain and sunshine. Our top walker covered an impressive 395km. As a team we walked the distance from Dublin to Moscow!