{"id":404663,"date":"2026-04-18T06:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404663\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:12:10","slug":"wicklow-school-reaches-leinster-final-of-irelands-fittest-school-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404663\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicklow school reaches Leinster final of Ireland\u2019s Fittest School competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Students from Sacred Heart NS in Aughrim who have qualified for the Leinster final of the Ireland's Fittest School competition.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/75a8cc36-1009-4411-985c-6e923397e270.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Students from Sacred Heart NS in Aughrim who have qualified for the Leinster final of the Ireland&#8217;s Fittest School competition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A fitness session with students from Sacred Heart NS in Aughrim who have qualified for the Leinster final of the Ireland's Fittest School competition.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wa - fit002.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A fitness session with students from Sacred Heart NS in Aughrim who have qualified for the Leinster final of the Ireland&#8217;s Fittest School competition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: Students from Sacred Heart NS in Aughrim who have qualified for the Leinster final of the Ireland's Fittest School competition.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776492730_30_75a8cc36-1009-4411-985c-6e923397e270.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: A fitness session with students from Sacred Heart NS in Aughrim who have qualified for the Leinster final of the Ireland's Fittest School competition.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776492730_900_wa - fit002.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sacred Heart National School in Aughrim will represent Wicklow in the Leinster final of Ireland\u2019s Fittest School after qualifying for the last four in the province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The south Wicklow primary school is the only one in the county to have reached this stage of the Fyffes-backed competition, which aims to promote exercise, fitness and healthy eating among young people. Schools take part in a range of fitness activities, with progress tracked online before the top schools advance to the live provincial finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Throughout the programme, Sacred Heart pupils took part in various fitness activities, including a whole-school outdoor fitness session to bring all classes together in a shared event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">That session was led by sixth class pupils, while third class pupils played a key role in encouraging participation and supporting the initiative within the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Leinster final will take place on May 13 at the SDC Leisure Tallaght, where Sacred Heart will compete against Scoil Mhuire gan Sm\u00e1l in Carlow, Harold\u2019s Cross NS in Dublin and St Helen\u2019s JNS in Portmarnock. The winning school will progress to the All-Ireland final, hosted by Olympian David Gillick, in Athlone on May 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThe Fyffes Fittest School programme has been a very positive experience for our pupils. It encouraged fitness, teamwork and school spirit,\u201d third class Sacred Heart teacher Arlene Kinch said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cOur third class pupils played an important role in supporting and leading aspects of the initiative, and it was great to see the whole school come together for the fitness session organised by sixth class. We are very proud of everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students from Sacred Heart NS in Aughrim who have qualified for the Leinster final of the Ireland&#8217;s Fittest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5718,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-404663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-eoin-mac-raghnaill","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}