The 4th, 5th and 6th class are taught by Ms. Wilson. They have a large, airy, bright classroom with lots of space. With 5 computers and a laser printer in the classroom, they are often busy completing projects and looking up information on the internet. Like all the other classrooms, the senior classroom has an interactive whiteboard which the children thoroughly enjoy using!
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…
Although we are only in school for two weeks of April we have been busy in the Senior classes! In science we looked at different water birds found in Ireland. We had fun looking at videos of gannets diving into the ocean. We also learned about Mute, Whooper and Bewick’s Swans, cormorants, oystercatchers, dunlins and herring…
Recently we held our Green Schools Action Day. We had lots of fun with a quiz, games, art work and experiments all based on water. First we had a whole school quiz all about interesting water facts. Pupils were divided into teams with all classes mixed up together. In our teams we also solved word…
As always we have been working very hard in the Senior Room during the month of March. We’ve completed lots of work in different areas. In English we finished reading our novel ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ by Marita Conlon-McKenna. We really enjoyed it as it was based during The Great Famine, a topic we also…
In Wandesforde National School today, we had a “Dress up in Green Day!” All the children put in huge effort to come in dressed in bright green clothes. Have a look at some photos from each classroom! The Junior and Senior Infants 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class 4th, 5th and 6th Class Well done boys and…
