As well as covering all the strands of the Primary School Curriculum, we love to play other sports too!We enjoy basketball, hockey, rounders, hurling, swimming, spikeball, football, soccer and gymnastics.We have a sponsored 5 mile cycle for the whole school in May/June of each year.This year, there will be a combined adult/children’s cycle around Castlecomer.The adults have the option of cycling 30km or 100km!
On Tuesday, 18th June, all the children participated in Sports’ Day. From the word ‘go!’, the emphasis was on having fun and enjoying the whole day. The first race was the sprints. The Infants ran 20 metres, 1st and 2nd ran 30 metres and the senior pupils in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class ran…
Swimming lessons commence after Easter for all children on Wednesday, 10th April 2013 at Graiguecullen Swimming Pool in Carlow from 1p.m.-1.45p.m. The children will travel by bus to the pool and will receive 8 lessons in total, finishing on Wednesday, 29th May 2013.
On Thursday, 4th October, Wandesforde School was very privileged to have members of the Kilkenny Hurling Team visit our school. It was an eventful day as all the children cheered on Kilkenny and waved their flags whilst wearing Vintage Clothing for our Bishop’s Charity Tour! The photographs below are proof of how delighted the children were to meet the players and…
During the first week of September, the Junior Classroom have been busy preparing “Cat Masks” to support Kilkenny in the All Ireland Hurling Final this Sunday, 9th September. We had great fun modelling our cat masks …. ….parading down the street with our cat masks on and best of all waving our cat masks at traffic passing outside the school gates!! Good Luck…
On Wednesday 20th June , the children in Wandesforde NS had their annual sports’ day! Each year, we focus on the fun aspect of playing sports. Thankfully, the sun was shining and we had a great day! We had 5 events throughout the morning. They included races, hurdles, a three-legged race, the egg and spoon…
