This week we fitted safety padding for a Montessori School in Dublin.
We were contacted around a week ago by Strand Montessori School, Sandymount, Dublin regarding the supply and installation of safety padding to a particular feature in their outdoor play area.
The feature in question was a large concrete pillar and the school thought it best to pad the pillar to prevent any possible accidents.
Fitness Functions designed, manufactured and fitted the customised safety padding within 7 days of the order.
The Safety Padding chosen.
The padding was manufactured using weatherproof impact padding wrapped in our heavy duty vinyl with a really strong velcro closure. The safety padding used was specifically designed to protect against impacts thus ensuring that no serious injuries will occur in the schools or play areas.
Our Safety Padding Features & Benefits.
The properties of the vinyl mean that it won’t rip or tear, it is completely water proof, it’s wipe clean and completely anti-bacterial meaning it’s the perfect material for this particular environment.
Fitness Functions manufacture different types of bespoke safety padding for many environments & clients. Environments.
Crèche
Montessori Schools,
National and Second Level schools
Sports venues
Commercial premise
Types of Safety Padding.
We produce padding for columns, pillars, poles, railings, doorframes, sills and ledges can be padded in a way to offer maximum protection and great peace of mind.
We are giving away a pair of tickets to see European Champs Leinster play Gloucester @ Tallaght Stadium, Saturday August 11th.
What you got to do?
Just‘Like’ and ‘Share’ the photo above on Facebook, click here to visit our Facebook page for a chance to win these tickets.
When & how we announcing the winner?
Fitness Functions will pick 1 random winner on Wednesday 25th July @ 2.30pm, announced on Facebook. T&C apply. Good Luck to all you Rugby fans, especially those true Blues!
Our Gold Medal Safety Padding website is currently under construction, we hope to have the new site up and running by the end of next week (July 2012)
We have given the layout, design and usability a great deal of thought; it should now be easier to navigate, understand the unique Gold Medal Safety Padding offerings, download or request information on the product and the service we provide.
The Gold Medal Safety Padding Product.
Since our last related Blog posted we’ve noticed an increased number of enquiries. A significant volume of our work does involve sports safety padding for schools & clubs, however Gold Medal Safety Padding is very different and in certain circumstances is the only padding we recommend.
Gold Medal Safety Padding is specifically designed for seclusion rooms in hospitals, psychiatric facilities and prisons where violent behaviour may result in injury to the patient, inmate or damage to the room.
Contact Us.
Please feel free to contact us on +353 (59) 91 52889 or email info@goldmedalsafetypadding.co.uk
‘It’s has been the wettest June on record’ according to Met Eireann. Despite all this rain we have completed a number of Playground Marking projects for schools all around the country. We’re keeping optimistic here and believe that with the schools now off and an improvement in the country’s weather we will be able complete many more Playground Marking jobs before September.
Download instantly, a Playground Markings Brochure by clicking the Image.
As usual, we like to keep you up to date with our progress so you can view our latest Playground Markings below, completed in Thermoplastic & Paint. To learn more about the differences click here.
More Playground Markings information.
For more information on our Playground Markings just email Niall Clancy, Digital Marketing Manager, niall@fitnessfunctions.ie or lo-call 1890-252-856.
We’re often asked what type of sports safety padding we produce and the main differences. Well, we manufacture both standard and bespoke safety padding, they differ in terms of availability, technical specifications and pricing.
Standard Safety Padding.
The best examples of our standard safety padding would be our outdoor basketball padding designed to suit Department of Education outdoor basketball units for Irish schools & sports clubs. Others types of standard padding would Rugby, GAA goal post and wall padding. Generally we keep a constant stock of this type of padding.
Bespoke Safety Padding.
We have completed a number of bespoke projects, our most well known being the Ski Club of Ireland and Aviva Stadium. We produced almost 300 metres of padding for these venues, the padding produced was custom made and technically differed, as each client’s requirements were unique. Most of our bespoke work isn’t done on such a large scale, we work mostly with schools & sports clubs who require custom padding on items such as:
Columns, pillars & window sills
Corners of buildings
Railing & fences
Door jambs & arches
Contact Fitness Functions.
For more information on our safety padding just email Niall Clancy, Marketing Manager, niall@fitnessfunctions.ie or lo-call 1890-252-856.
An historic weekend for Irish Rugby; the 1st All Ireland European Cup final. It didn’t disappoint but Leinster proved beyond any doubt that they are the best team in Europe, possibly the best club team Europe has seen. Ulster put in a spirited performance, particularly at the begining of the second half but Leinster were simply irresistible.
Congratulations!! To claim your rugby prize email niall@fitnessfunctions.ie with your postal address details.
The 'Tullow Tank'. Our local boy turned very good indeed.
More Competitons.
Thanks to all that entered the competition. That maybe the end of the European Rugby for this year but we’re sure to be giving away some more sports equipment prizes and running more competitions so find us on Facebook and “Like” our page to be in with a chance of winning these sporting freebies & prizes.
A simply breathtaking weekend for Irish Rugby. Leinster now go head to head with Ulster, May 19th @ Twickenham. We had a gut feeling that it would be an “All-Ireland” Heineken European Final. Leinster did run it too close for comfort!
For those rugby fans out there we decided to give away some Maori Match Rugby Balls. All entrants had to do was ‘Like’ the accompanying photo on the Fitness Functions Facebook Page. So the randomly picked out winners were:
1. Lorna Finnegan
2. Ciara Blennerhassett
Congratulations!! To claim your rugby prize email niall@fitnessfunctions.ie with your address details.
More Competitons.
Thanks to all that entered the competition. We’re sure to be giving away some more sports equipment prizes and running more competitions coming up to the Twickenham on the 19th so find us on Facebook and “Like” our page to be in with a chance of winning these sporting freebies & prizes.
In a heading, that’s exactly what Fitness Functions do; ‘Irish School Sports Equipment.’ Every so often we’re asked what we do and who we are. Well we’re based in Tullow, Co. Carlow.
We manufacture, supply and even install sports equipment in Ireland, principally for the school sports market but also sports halls & clubs, GAA clubs and community centres. We have been doing this for just about 10 years now. We’re sports equipment specialists.
Our “What We Do” brochure outlines in more detail and clearly what we offer our customers which they choose to receive by either post or email.
Our ‘What We Do’ brochure. (Click to enlarge pages)
If you should require any pricing or information on our products please do not hesitate to contact our offices on Lo-Call 1890 252 856 or email niall@fitnessfunctions.ie. Thanks for your time!
Your playground markings, start to finish – our process.
I first visited Castledockrell National School three weeks prior to applying the thermoplastic playground markings. The purpose of my visit to the school was to finalise the schools order and ensure that the markings wanted would fit the intended area.
Once at the school it became evident that some of the existing thermoplastic markings were in a very poor state. These original markings were not properly prepared before application and allowed water & frost to get underneath. Eventually the playground markings cracked and started to chip away. As part of the contract we agreed to remove these original playground markings.
With the schools order ready, I took advantage of a fine dry day and called out to the schools to start transforming their school yard.
The Process.
9am. Before 9am the existing, tatty markings were removed and the yard was measured out.
I started by installing a solid Hopscotch, measuring just short of 3m long and with the four primary colours which really brought life into that corner of the yard. This was followed by one of our newer marking of an A-Z alphabet spiral and our ever popular number snakes and a 3m diameter Target Board.
Giant Ladybird Hopscotch
1pm. By early afternoon it was to me move on to the centre piece of the schools yard – a Giant Ladybird Hopscotch consisting of 16 sections, measuring 3.6m x 3.6m and covering a total of nearly 13 square metres. Despite its size and complexity this markings offers great value for money.
With a vibrant red body, jet black spots and contrasting yellow markings this ladybird makes a great centre piece to any school yard and gives the children hours of fun.
3pm. Finished playground markings project, all cleaned up and ready to get back to the office. The markings put onto the school yard will last the school for many years, remaining vibrant in colour and fully non-slip for safe use in all weathers.
More Playground Markings information.
For more information on our Playground Markings just email Niall Clancy, Digital Marketing Manager, niall@fitnessfunctions.ie or lo-call 1890-252-856.
Irish Primary PE Association 9th Annual Conference.
The 9th Annual Irish Primary Physical Education Association (IPPEA) conference was staged in Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, on the 3rd March. The IPPEA was founded in 2002 has a number of aims, principally it is “dedicated to heightening awareness of PE issues in primary schools and it aims to promote physical activity in an educational context.”
This year’s event was a tremendous success and has noticeably grown year on year. This weekend an even greater number of primary school teachers arrived in Dublin for more work shops, both indoor and outdoor. In the morning the workshops covered areas such as Creative Dance, Outdoor & Adventure and Gymnastics. In the afternoon the focus turned to workshops such as Disc Golf (no golf clubs !!) and Yoga for children.
As the IPPEA members made their way between the various workshops there was an obvious sense of excitement, participation and enthusiasm. Without doubt many valuable skills and practical PE activities will be incorporated into the various primary schools PE timetables around the country over the coming weeks.
A Big Thank you!
Fitness Functions would like to thank the IPPEA executive committee & members for the opportunity to attend its annual conference. We were made feel very welcome from the moment we arrived. We would like to thank all those primary school teachers that came to visit our stand with queries on PE equipment, playground markings and services, hopefully our sales and marketing manager Niall Clancy was able to assist you.
We now look forward to the 10th annual conference and hope to see you all again.
