Welcome to the Blog Section of the website. This is the part of the site that will be updated most often with photos and stories of recent activities and classwork. We hope you like what you see and please do leave a comment, we like to know what you think of what we are getting up to!
4th, 5th and 6th Class have been looking at heat and light in science. We discovered that white light can be split into seven colours, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. We shone a torch through a glass prism and saw this happening. We also looked at heat and discovered that heat travels…
In art the senior classes have been working hard. In the past few weeks we have painted beautiful trees covered in snow. We also made pictures of a lightening storm. We painted the background, clouds and lightening. Then we cut out a city skyline before sticking everything down. These pictures are on display…
It has been a busy few weeks for 4th, 5th and 6th Class in Wandesforde School. We have been learning all about World War 1 in history and found out lots of information. We read about it in our books and wrote about what we learned. Some pupils brought in poppies which they had from…
The children of Wandesforde National School, Castlecomer, have been busy over the past few weeks filling lots and lots of shoeboxes for children in poverty-stricken countries worldwide as part of Team Hope’s Christmas Shoebox Appeal. A total of 42 shoeboxes were collected and filled with various treats, toys, gloves, hats, scarves, colouring books, pencils and…
Last Friday, 11th November 2011, the children of Wandesforde National School presented a cheque to the sum of €120 to St. Vincent de Paul. The children raised this money through their annual participation in National Board Games Day. Mrs. Patty Owens from St. Vincent de Paul visited our school and spoke to the children about the work…
