We are a very busy school! Each year as a treat, we all go to the cinema at Christmas. This is kindly paid for by the Board of Management and we have a fantastic day. Sometimes we hold a Carol Service or Christmas Play in St. Mary’s Church just before the Christmas holidays and then come back to the school for a party. All the parents are invited back for tea/coffee and to see our Christmas art and craft.
It has been a very busy few weeks preparing for Christmas in Wandesforde School. 4th, 5th and 6th class have been busy doing lots of Christmas activities in different subjects. In art we made wreaths from tissue paper, then made bells and stuck on bows. In English we read the story The Little Match Girl and…
2nd and 3rd Class boys and girls have been very busy for the past few weeks decorating the classroom, writing stories and having fun as Christmas approaches! We really enjoyed doing lots of Art & Craft from the various strands of the Primary School Curriculum. We painted some love pictures of Rudolph, Santa, Christmas Trees and…
The 2nd and 3rd Class pupils wrote their letters to Santa last week. On Monday, when the weather was better, we set off to the local post office to send them on their long journey to the North Pole! We waited patiently all week for a letter and on Wednesday it came! Santa and Mrs. Claus…
The Junior Room have been busy preparing for Christmas. We started our Classroom Advent Calendar. Each day a child is chosen to take the treats out for that day.Our Letters to Santa have been posted in The Post Office! The school’s Christmas Tree has been decorated from top to bottom!! We’re also busy preparing for our School…
The children of Wandesforde National School, Castlecomer, have been busy over the past few weeks filling lots and lots of shoeboxes for children in poverty-stricken countries worldwide as part of Team Hope’s Christmas Shoebox Appeal. A total of 42 shoeboxes were collected and filled with various treats, toys, gloves, hats, scarves, colouring books, pencils and…
