We in Wandesforde NS are a “Green School”. We were recently awarded our 5th flag, which focuses on “Biodiversity”. Our Green School’s Committee meet regularly to discuss green issues with Ms. Power, the Green School’s co-ordinator. We are working towards being awarded our 6th Green Flag at the moment.
2018 has been busy. In SPHE the children have been exploring the theme of Friendship and made a list of some Acts of Kindness they hope to do this year with their family & friends. The children explored the concept of Foreshortening which is a technique used in Perspective in Art. It creates the illusion of…
This month the Junior Room have had great fun in The Restaurant. We built our own restaurants in the Small World area and acted out in Role Play. We also created art related to the topic such as chef hats and pizzas in Junk Art and Playdough. In Art we looked at warm…
We continue to work hard on the topic of Biodiversity and the Green Schools Committee ran an art competition during February to promote awareness of the topic. There were fantastic and creative entries from all rooms, thanks to all for your participation. 🙂 Senior Room Middle Room Junior Room Well done to those pupils who…
We were thrilled at Wandesforde School to be awarded a Diocesan Eco Award. The award recognises the efforts we have made to be more eco friendly and encourage biodiversity in our school grounds. Some of the activities we have undertaken in the last few years include planting trees, putting out hedgehog hibernation houses, planting a…
As part of work on our Green Schools theme of biodiversity the senior pupils placed a hedgehog house in our grounds. We hope some hedgehogs use it as a cosy home for the winter. We also planted an Oak tree in our grounds for National Tree Day on October 5th.
