St. Mary's College Fitness Challenge
Fourteen P.E. classes are entered in the Irish Life Schools Fitness Challenge. Student’s cardiovascular fitness is tested through a bleep test. The initial results have now been recorded and entered. Over the next six weeks, through exercise in P.E. lessons, extra-curricular sport, club sport and guided independent work, students strive to increase their cardiovascular fitness. Students are learning about the health benefits of physical activity, both mental and physical. They also have a personal goal to work towards and have the responsibility to plan their physical activity themselves also. After six weeks work, students will do their bleep test again and results are recorded, so students can see the progress from the work they have done.