Gymnastics is one of the most comprehensive lifestyle exercise programs available to children, incorporating strength, flexibility, speed, balance, coordination, power, and discipline. Whether they are involved in recreational gymnastics or with a competition squad, skills learned in gymnastics can benefit a child’s overall development.
General Health
Participation in gymnastics helps children become physically active, and stay fit and healthy. Taking part in any exercise significantly reduces the risk of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes in adulthood. Regular participation in gymnastics can teach children how to live a healthy lifestyle, and remain involved in the sport as they grow up.
Social Benefits
Partaking in gymnastics can help children sleep better, and equip them with skills to better handle physical and emotional challenges in life. Attending a regular gymnastics class provides young children with the opportunity to communicate with people their own age, work within a team, and engage with adults.
Commitment and Discipline
The challenging nature of gymnastics requires commitment and concentration. The structure of gymnastics lessons teaches children how hard work and dedication pays off. Positive experiences in gymnastics can build confidence through achievement, and illustrates to children that commitment to sport benefits them. Rules and codes of conduct in gymnastics help children learn the importance of rules for safety, and teach respect toward others.
Motor Skills, Coordination and Balance
Gymnastics helps children build a range of motor and coordination skills, and assists in developing a good sense of body awareness. A young gymnast will learn how to use different parts of her body in difference ways. English Gymnastics claims that participation in gymnastics develops body awareness, control, and coordination, which can be beneficial to other physical activities, sports, and in everyday life.
Strength
Gymnasts are renowned for their excellent strength-to-weight ratio. Taking part in gymnastics at a young age can help build the foundations of good all-around muscle strength, endurance, and power. According to the International Gymnastics School, gymnasts get stronger through regular training, which aids in the development of lean, toned muscles, improved balance, and better posture.
Ref: http://www.livestrong.com/article/142195-what-are-benefits-gymnastics-kids/
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Reading buddies is a program in which two or more individuals read together. For example, older students can read with younger students, and volunteers from the community can read with students of all ages. A Reading Buddies program can help model good reading. As with any skill, reading needs to be practiced on a regular basis, and with this practice as well as modeling, students can improve their skills.
A reading buddies program allows older students the opportunity to develop fluency as well as a sense of pride in their accomplishments. In addition, they often come to see the value of reading. Students can not only promote good practices but gain self-esteem. Repeatedly reading easier books has been shown to improve reading abilities in poor readers, and this program provides students with a reason to read easier books.
Reading to younger students can help them develop a love of reading and a greater motivation to read. Because the program provides success in literacy, students often become more positive about their ability to read and may also improve their reading skills. Ideally, buddy visits will be ongoing, and older and younger students will become familiar with one another and nurture a mutual interest in reading.
The staff of the Boys School would like to pass on our very best wishes to the 14 Boys receiving the sacrament of First Holy Communion this Saturday, the 13th of May 2017.
May they continue to grow in the presence and love of God and may they always know the peace of Jesus, the light of His Love and the joy of His life within them.
u12 Mixed & u15 Mixed Sets
The Cork Fleadh Junior & Senior Set and Ceili Dancing competitions were hosted by Dunmanway Comhaltas in the Parkway Hotel on Bank Holiday Monday, May 1st, 2017. We would to like to express our heartiest Congratulations to the boys of Newmarket BNS who took part and who all qualified for the Munster Fleadh Cheoil in Cork city in July. We wish them every success in their future endeavours.
Please click on the link below to see What’s On during the Munster Fleadh Cheoil in Cork city.
http://www.munsterfleadh.ie/
Benefits of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
Fruit and vegetables :
http://www.fooddudes.ie/html/schools_healthy.html
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