School Outings

The school endeavours to take all pupils on an educational tour annually. These tours cover a wide and varied choice of venues of an educational, environmental and historical nature. We have visited Dublin, Wexford, Wicklow, Carlow & Waterford for tours over the years.

Seasons Greetings from the Seniors!

Date posted: 21st December 2022 | Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Local Visits, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Senior Classroom, Sports, Visual Arts |

The Senior Room were busy during December, we learned about the season of Advent and made Advent Promises. We also made a Jesse Tree telling the story of the Bible up until Jesus was born.

In Art we created Winter Trees covered in snow as well as a Nativity Scene. We also painted 3D style Christmas Stars!

In English we read the poem “Winter” by William Shakespeare and answered questions on it after a lively class discussion about the language and rhyming pattern. Pupils also wrote about Elves at Christmas!

We learned about the different communities we are part of and wrote some information about these different communities that we all belong to.

We continue to learn GAA each week and are working on various skills for football at the moment.

Finally we performed our play Hosanna Rock for families and our school community on the 19th and went to the cinema as a Christmas treat.

Happy Christmas to all and see you in the New Year.

Summer Fun in the Junior Room

Date posted: 27th June 2022 | Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Music, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Sport, Visual Arts |

The last few weeks in school have been full of learning and activities in the Junior room. We learned all about the Garden Centre in Play.

Building Patio Furniture to sell in the Garden Centre

In SESE we learned all about the country of Italy, we discussed landmarks, food and where Italy is located. We also learned about fish, things we do at the seaside, the season of Summer and starfish.

We also made butter from cream. We shook the bottle for a few minutes and slowly but surely it turned into butter!

In Art we made sunflowers using tea leaves to create the centre of them and ice cream cones for Summer from puffy paint.

To tie in with the Garden Centre we also sowed some sunflowers for our own gardens.

To celebrate the season of Summer we had a Teddy Bears Picnic with ice-cream and strawberries and played some outdoor water activities and games.

In SPHE we learned all about road safety and practiced crossing the road safely at the Pelican Crossing in town and outside our school.

In English we continued to learn our Tricky Words and in Music listened to the song “Under the Sea” and drew pictures in response to it.

Wishing everyone a fun and happy Summer and see you at the end of August!

Date posted: 27th June 2022 | Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Music, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Sport, Visual Arts |

School Tour Fun for 1st & 2nd Class!

Date posted: 31st May 2022 | Category Blog, Middle Classroom, School Outings |

On Thursday, 26th May, Junior Infants to Second Class headed off on tour to The Chocolate Garden and Rathwood. They had so much fun! Here are some lovely photos of the day…

We first listened to Laura talk about how chocolate was made. We watched a video and learned about where cocoa beans are grown. We got to sample lots of chocolate which was really fun!

We then got to make our own frogs and chicks. We had to paint the inside of the moulds with white chocolate and then milk chocolate was poured into the moulds which were then placed in the freezer to set!

Afterwards, we had lunch and hopped on the train for a ride round the forest!

Dennis, our train driver gave us some bread to feed some friends we met along the way!!

We then hit the playground for a few minutes before we had to leave…

The boys and girls were so good on the day! We hope everyone had lots of fun!

Date posted: 31st May 2022 | Category Blog, Middle Classroom, School Outings |

May Merriment & off on Tour with Junior & Senior Infants!

Date posted: 28th May 2022 | Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, History, Hockey, Junior Classroom, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, School Outings, SPHE, Visual Arts |

May has been another month full of activity in the Junior Room. Our main theme was transport. We learned all about The Airport in Play. We role played going on holidays going through the airport, made items in Junk Art and Play Doh, created items and built airports in Construction, Sand and Small World.

Making a runway and airport in Small World

We learned about transport in the past and Amelia Earhart in SESE and made planes in Art with handprints.

Also in Art we made beautiful blossom trees for Summer from tissue paper.

In SPHE we discussed healthy food and drew Healthy Lunchboxes, containing yoghurt, fruit and sandwiches.

In PE we were delighted to welcome a coach from Hockey Ireland to Wandesforde and learned lots of new skills.

Finally we were off on tour to The Chocolate Garden and Rathwood. We learned all about making chocolate and sampled 4 types of it, milk, dark, white and gold! We then made our own chocolate chicks and frogs. After lunch we went on a trip on a train and spotted lots of wildlife and before leaving for home had fun in the playground!