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​A Health Promoting School
constantly strengthens its
capacity as a healthy setting for
living, learning and working.

Friendship and Wellbeing Month
October 2018

This month we asked the question:
Have you filled your bucket today?

We continued to build on this theme from our Friendship and Wellbeing Month in 2017. 
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We were encouraged to revisit the idea of having invisible buckets and filling each other's buckets with compliments and random acts of kindness.
Our song for the month was "A Friend Like You" by Andy Grammer. 




​Friendship and Wellbeing Month
October 2017

This month we are asking the question
 "Have you filled a bucket today?".
We are working on the idea that we all have invisible buckets which hold all the good feelings about ourselves. When we fill someone else's bucket, we fill ours too. We can be bucket fillers or bucket dippers so we are encouraging everyone to become more aware of the invisible buckets and how we can fill them up through random acts of kindness.  
Our song of for the month is "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers.


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Our Friendship and Wellbeing Assembly took place on the 26th of October. Look at all of the fun things we have been doing during Friendship month.

Friendship Month 2016

All classes in Farnham N.S. have been doing lots of fantastic work on wellbeing and being mindful of others during the month of October as part of our Health Promoting School work. Here are some of the things that we have been up to:

  • Meditation
  • Mindful Colouring
  • Secret Friendships
  • Putting wishes into our Wishing Well and making lots of Wishes.
  • Writing Well-Being Poems
  • Learning Songs about Well-Being
  • Writing Slogans / Mottos about Well-Being.
  • ​Learning the'Count on Me' by Bruno Mars and performing it at our Whole School Assembly

Well-being Month
November 2015

All classes in Farnham N.S. have been doing lots of fantastic work on 'Well-Being' over the month of November as part of our Health Promoting School work. Here are some of the things that we have been up to:

  • Making Well-being Jars
  • Meditation
  • Mindful Colouring
  • Secret Friendships
  • Painting our Wishing Well and making lots of Wishes.
  • Writing Well-Being Poems
  • Learning Songs about Well-Being
  • Writing Slogans / Mottos about Well-Being.
  • ​Learning the 'Fight Song'


Well - Being Slogan Competition

Well done to all of the children in Farnham N.S. who entered this competition. It was really difficult to pick a winner with so many fantastic entries.

Congratulations to:
Tomás  in 6th class - 1st prize
Shane in 5th class - 2nd prize
​Mischa  in 3rd class - 3rd prize
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For our Well Being Assembly, each class performed in front of the whole school. We heard some fantastic poems and listened to some super songs too. Each class also displayed some amazing art work around the hall for everyone to see. We watched a wonderful slideshow of everything that has been going on in each classroom over the month of November. The children finished off the assembly by performing their version of the 'Fight Song'. 

Look at the lovely art that each class produced for
​Well-being month.


​Meet our HPS Committee

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Above, we have a photograph of the children involved in our HPS Committee. 
Staff Members: A. Mc Cooey, G. Dolan, N. Connolly. N. Sweeney and N. Markey
Parents: Jacinta O' Callaghan and Peter Sexton

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​Our first HPS meeting.
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In September 2015 Farnham N.S. set up our Health Promoting School Committee. Each class selected two people to represent them on the committee, and are joined by five members of staff and two parents. We first began working on our Health Promoting School in March 2015 when we sent out questionnaires to parents, staff and pupils to gather up some important information which highlighted some areas to focus on in the upcoming school year. The area we are focusing on in 2015/16 is Well-being.  
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