The school is situated ideally to take full advantage of the Castlecomer Demesne and Discovery Park. This is a fantastic woodland park with a wonderful variety of nature species, including tadpoles, fish, birds and many different species of trees. Sometimes after a nature walk we play for a while in the “Timber Tumbles” playground situated beside the Discovery Park.
The past 2 months have been very busy in the Senior Classroom! To celebrate the New Year, the children made their own 2020 Resolution Mobiles. In English, they also wrote an Acrostic Poem on words to do with the New Year! The children studied many areas in the SESE subjects. They explored the topic of…
October has been a busy month for Junior & Senior Infants. Check out what we have been up to below….. Autumn is well and truly here now and we learned all about what happens at this colourful time of year. We painted Autumn trees using cotton buds to create leaves in Art and made bark…
It has been a busy few weeks in the run up to Easter with Junior and Senior Infants. We learned all about the hairdressers in play. Here we are role playing in the Wandesforde Hair Salon, making items from play doh and junk art and building our own mini salons in small world. Ms Power…
Junior & Senior Infants learned lots about the season of Spring this month. In play we discovered all about Spring weather, baby animals which are born and plants and flowers that grow. We also created our own Spring Garden in our classroom with daffodils, snowdrops, primroses and hyacinths. In Art we made St Patrick’s Day…
February has flown in the Middle Room! We have been very busy learning lots of new things and now you can have a look at all our work! To mark the start of February, we read about St. Brigid and her life as a Christian. We coloured in pictures of her cloak….. Chinese new Year…
