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.
The Green Schools Committee have been busy over the last few weeks. Our theme for our 5th flag is Biodiversity. As part of our work on this theme we counted the birds on our school grounds to see which are most common. We also created a Habitat Map of our school grounds which shows all…
We enjoyed a visit from heritage expert Órla Bates on Wednesday. Órla spoke to the classes about different areas of biodiversity (our next Green Flag theme) and did printing workshops based on birds, mammals and fish with the pupils. Everyone enjoyed learning about different species while creating some beautiful artwork at the same time!
Hallowe’en is just around the corner and the pupils in 5th and 6th class have been doing lots of fun and creative work around this topic. In English we wrote Spooky Stories with a Hallowe’en theme. Art has been all about spiders and fireworks, here are our finished pictures. In Geography, Science and English…
We were delighted to be awarded our 4th Green Flag for our work on the theme of Transport. Members of our Green Schools Committee travelled to Kilkenny on Tuesday to collect the flag and we will have a flag raising ceremony in June. Well done to all the pupils for the hard work they put…
As part of our efforts to get our 4th Green Flag we are working on the theme of transport. With this in mind the Green Schools Committee organised an art competition for the whole school. The Junior Room drew and coloured their favourite forms of transport while the Middle and Senior Rooms designed transport for…
