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Beautiful Butterflies arrive in the Junior Room!

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…

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Local History comes to life in the Senior Room

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…

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2nd, 3rd and 4th Class Work:)

The children have been very busy in 2nd, 3rd and 4th Class over the past few weeks since we returned to school after the Easter holidays! Ms. Delaney taught the children for 2 weeks and did so many fun things with the class! In Geography, the children learned all about the Weather. They learned about…

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Amazing April work in the Junior Room!

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…