Our Discoveries in the Discovery Park!

The Junior Classroom visited the Discovery Park earlier this month to observe and record aspects of nature around them in early Summer! We saw “white candles” on the Horse Chestnut Trees! There were beautiful bluebells to greet us along our way! We saw wild mushrooms, cow parsley, some minibeasts, a gaggle of geese and we…

May Madness in the Middle Room!

The school year is certainly flying by and May has been so busy, after returning from the Easter Break.  When we came back, the children put their wonderful painting skills to work and painted their happy memories from the Easter Holidays… In Literacy, we wrote a report about the events that filled our break! In…

Welcome Johanna and Kristina!

Last week, on Tuesday 6th and Thursday 8th May, we welcomed our friends Johanna Raisanen and Kristina Pesola to Wandesforde National School!  Johanna and Kristina are teachers in Lohtajan Kirkonkylan Koulu (try pronouncing that!) in Finland.  This translates as “Lohtaja’s Church Village School”.  The children in Wandesforde are currently writing to the children in this school and…

Our School Tour this May!!

Once again we have come to that time of year again for our Annual School Tour! This year the whole school will travel together to the Irish Heritage Park in Ferrycarraig, Co. Wexford on Thursday, 29th May 2014. On this day, the children will have a guided tour of the Heritage Park as well as participate…