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Chess 4 fun:

Make & do project .. Isabella’s oragami chess set, featuring her Dragonfly Rooks and ladybird pawns!

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MFL Mission:

Moves for Life :

Using chess to educate Irish school children by  supporting teachers and schools.  Moves For Life encourages everyone to play and have fun, and enables teachers to use chess to teach further thinking and social skills. 

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Trustees :

Chairman John McMorrow,   Secretary Colm O’Muireagan,  Treasurer Ronan Sweeney,  Andy Keenan, Gordon Freeman

Working Committee :

Desmond Beatty, April Cronin, Colm OhAonghusa, John Conlon & Brendan Buckley.

 

Ficheall le Una

Free download (chess rules) in Irish ..  leabhair-ficheall . And for more ‘As Gealige’ click link ficheall-website

Teacher CPD Webinars

Nationwide School Chess Programs:

Education Workshops running from October 2020 to help teachers new to chess use this activity as an educational tool.

Education Centre Workshops :

Supported by Education Centres around the country.  Starting in October 2020. There are two courses available this year.

The first course, Chess 4 Fun, is for teachers who are new to chess. The focus is on playing mini-games for fun. The games are easy enough for senior infants to play.

The second course, How to play chess online, is for teachers with some chess knowledge who want to organise chess club activities and have a school chess team.

Thanks to our sponsors everyone participating in these programs will be given free access to Chessossity.com free.

If you’re interested in attending a workshop please register at your local Education Cenre OR contact us @ ..  mfl@movesforlife.ie

Thanks to our sponsors :

Moves for Life :

Using chess to educate Irish school children by  supporting teachers and schools.  Through playing mini-games  students develop ..  social-emotional and intellectual skills. We organise events to enable chess playing schools to connect and facilitate in chess at a higher level.  Moves For Life encourages everyone to play and have fun, and enables teachers to use chess to teach further thinking and social skills. 

School Chess Calendar 2020-21:

(1) Teachers Online Chess Club:

  • There are two groups:
  • One for beginners  and another for teachers who can play chess.
  • Monday’s at 8pm.
  • Join anytime from now until May 2021.

 

Email .. mfl @ moves for life . ie

 

 

(2) The ficheall.ie School Chess challenge matches.

Being played in  March / April 2021. Teachers you can register their students here:

ficheall.ie/online-tournaments-for-students/

 

(3) The Comhar Linn Online School Chess Championships:

  • Starting at 6.30pm on Thursday the 22nd of April. .
  • The Grand Final is on Thursday, 13th of May 2021.

Step 1 – just register your students on  lichess.org More dtails to follow on the 14th of April.  

(4) The ficheall.ie summer CPD chess course:

This a 5 day course (4 hours each day), which will be held online this year.

For more details go to: www.ficheall.ie

 

(5) Chess 4 Fun, Teacher evening course:

From October 2020 to March 2021.  These free evening CPD courses will return in October 2021.

These training evenings are given in partnership with the Education Centre network.

 

Email Us:

  mfl@movesforlife.ie

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