We have lovely bright classrooms and we regularly display the children’s work for parents and visitors to look at. As you can see from the blog posts, we are a busy school, learning lots of new and exciting things every day.
On Tuesday, 10th May 2011, Hilary Jenkinson, a local potter, visited Wandesforde National School to teach the children how to work with clay and make pottery. In the Infant Classroom, the children made their own name plates out of clay. They had great fun working with the clay and designing their own name plate. Here are…
Third Class completed research projects on topics of their choice. They thoroughly enjoyed finding the information, putting the project together with lots of interesting facts and pictures. The boys completed their projects on “Cattle” and “Sheep”. As a teacher, I learned so much about these animals as I do not live on a farm! Well done boys…….
4th, 5th and 6th Class have been learning all about various water birds which live in Ireland. They read about gannets, cormorants, herring gulls, oystercatchers, dunlins, mute swans, whooper swans and bewick’s swans. They wrote information about each bird and drew illustrations to go with their work Some of these birds live in Ireland all…
During April, the Infant Classroom learned about the artist, Vincent Van Gogh and his painting, “Sunflowers”. As an art appreciation lesson, the children all made their own picture of “Sunflowers” using oil pastels. They did fantastic artwork and really showed off their artistic talents!! Designing their own Easter Bags for the Easter Fairy Cakes was another art activity for the children The children…
On Friday, 15th April, all the children in Wandesforde National School had a Non-Uniform Day in aid of Japan. The children really enjoyed wearing their own clothes to school for the day. Take a look at the style in the Junior Classroom!!
