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.
Over the past few days, because the weather has been nice, we decided to plant our potatoes for the Summer! The children in 2nd and 3rd Class took to the garden, tools at the ready, to plant the seed potatoes! The onions were planted a few weeks ago and are getting bigger! Let’s hope we…
On Tuesday, 13th September, the whole school went out to the garden to pick the vegetables that have been growing over the Summer for our soup. We picked parsnip, turnip, potatoes and even had some lettuce, though not in the soup! As you can see from the photos, we had a nice amount of vegetables. Thank…
In 1st, 2nd and 3rd class, we planted cress seeds… We placed the cress near sunlight and watered the seeds each day. One pot was not watered and remained covered to show that plants needs sunlight and water to grow! We also checked our vegetables in the garden of our school in Castlecomer. Here is a very…
