{"id":477489,"date":"2026-06-01T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477489\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:14:13","slug":"galway-primary-school-is-irelands-fittest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477489\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway primary school is Ireland&#8217;s fittest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galwaydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Fittest-School-26-35-scaled.webp\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"421\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Fittest-School-26-35-696x421.webp\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"Fittest School 26 - 35\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/421;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>County Galway\u2019s Caltra National School has been crowned \u2018Ireland\u2019s Fittest School 2026\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Following its participation in a two-month competition, in which hundreds of schools from all over Ireland, north and south, took part, Caltra National School went on to win the live \u2018grand final\u2019 in which the top school from each of the provincial finals featured.<\/p>\n<p>The grand final, which took place at the Athlone International Arena, was hosted by one of Ireland\u2019s best-known Olympians \u2013 sprinter David Gillick \u2013 and saw the four schools contest for a prize package which included \u20ac8,000 worth of sports equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by Irish fruit importer Fyffes and tracked online, the purpose of the competition, launched last December and now in its fifth year, was to promote the importance of exercise, fitness and healthy eating amongst young people.<\/p>\n<p>A central feature of the programme was a series of exercise routines which competing schools could adopt as part of their PE curriculum and against which performance could be measured.<\/p>\n<p>Previous competition winners were Donegal\u2019s Scoil Na Croise Naofa, Dunfanaghy (2022); Meath\u2019s Gilson National School, Oldcastle (2023); County Waterford\u2019s St. Mary\u2019s Touraneena National School (2024) and Cork\u2019s Ballyhass National School (2025).<\/p>\n<p>Congratulating the pupils, teachers, and staff of all the schools throughout the island who took part in this year\u2019s competition, Fyffes head of marketing UK and Ireland, Emma Hunt-Duffy thanked all involved for their \u2018commitment, enthusiasm and support\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cit was wonderful to see so many teachers and young pupils incorporate the exercises into their PE classes as a means to keep fit, but more so, we really enjoyed seeing them having so much fun doing it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"County Galway\u2019s Caltra National School has been crowned \u2018Ireland\u2019s Fittest School 2026\u2019. Following its participation in a two-month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-477489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477489","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=477489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}