June has been another busy month in the Junior Room. We continued to learn about water and the seaside. We learned about sharks which live in the sea and what we find in the seashore around our coasts. We carried out experiments to find out what floats and sinks and recorded our results. We discovered…
Another month has flown by in the Junior Room and there has been lots of exciting and interesting things happening in our classroom! First of all our caterpillars grew and grew, turned into chrysalis’ and eventually 3 butterflies hatched out. We set them free (after feeding them for a few days) in our school flower…
The 100th Anniversary of the Coolbawn Ambush happens on June 18th 2021. This event occurred near the end of the War of Independence and resulted in the deaths of Sean Hartley (Glenmore) and Nicholas Mullins (Thomastown) who were IRA volunteers. The ambush location is marked at the side of the N78, north of Castlecomer.The senior…
We were busier than ever during the month of April in Wandesforde. In English we continue to learn our sounds and tricky words. In Art we created paintings using the Pointillism method, we used cotton buds to make nice, bright balloons! In SESE we were learning about day time and night time. We sorted pictures…
We were delighted to get back into the classroom for the month of March and we’ve been busy completing lots of work for the month. For Mother’s Day we made fingerprint poems for our mums. We celebrated St Patrick’s Day by making Leprechauns and we also practiced our cutting skills by snipping out some St…
