World War I

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…

Happy Hallowe’en!

It has been a busy few weeks in the senior classroom. We have been doing lots of work on the topic of Hallowe’en. In English we wrote essays on Magical Spells and Scary Nights. In art we made sparkling fireworks from kitchen rolls and splatter painted a colourful background. In Gaeilge we read a story…

Autumn Art

Autumn is here again and the boys and girls in the senior room have taken inspiration from the beautiful autumn trees around our school in Castlecomer for their art. First we painted a blue and green background, then our tree. Next we used wooden blocks and cotton wool to print on leaves in autumn colours yellow,…

Senior School Tour

Last Thursday May 26th the senior classes, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th went to Baltinglass Outdoor Education Centre for their school tour. We had an amazing day there, despite the weather! We left the school at 8:15 am and arrived at 9:20am. First of all we went and got changed for orienteering. We got a…

Water Birds of Ireland

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…