November News from the Senior Room!
Date posted: 11th December 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Rugby, Senior Classroom, Sport, Visual Arts
Winter is here and the Senior Classroom have been busy in all subject areas!
Throughout the month of November, all children had to present an oral book review to their class. They did a fantastic job in their presentations! Well done Seniors 🙂
We are reading the Class Novel, Holes by Louis Sachar which the children are really enjoying. They completed a Character Analysis Pyramid as well as a Predictive Exercise on the story.
In SESE, the children have been learning about the Celts and Early Christian Ireland. They designed their own Celtic Crosses in response to what they had learned and they also wrote a diary entry for a Day in a Life of an Irish Monk!
The children continue to enjoy Rugby with Noel Devlin each Friday. They engaged in Tug Of War too to further enhance their strength and skills!!
Our School’s Debate Team were successful in the First Knock Out Round of the Concern Primary School’s Debating Competition. They travelled to Kilkenny Education Centre in November to oppose the motion that “Mobile Phones should be banned for all Primary School Pupils”. Well done and congratulations to you all on a great achievement! In January they will meet Scoil BhrÃde, Paulstown for the Second Knock Out Round of the competition and they are opposing the motion that “World Hunger will be Eliminated by 2030” Best of Luck to you all in your preparation for this debate 🙂
The children engaged in a small group activity in Art whereby they had to create their own Thanksgiving Turkey using a multitude of materials from our art cupboard!!
They also did Still Life Drawings of a Harvest Basket full of fruit and vegetables. Didn’t they do a fantastic job!
Finally, in preparation for 2D Shape in Maths in December, the children created their own colourful shape picture by overlapping various 2D shapes!
Well done to all the children on a great month’s work. 🙂
Date posted: 11th December 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Rugby, Senior Classroom, Sport, Visual Arts
Happy Halloween from the Senior Room!!
Date posted: 28th October 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, Irish, Music, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Rugby, Science, Senior Classroom, Sports, Visual Arts
Another busy month has come and gone! The Senior Room have completed a great month’s work again in all subject areas!
At the start of the month, we printed Autumnal Trees in Art using cotton buds!! Didn’t they do a great job!
We have had a great few weeks of playing Tag Rugby with our coach, Noel!
In Gaeilge, we have been learning lots of phrases about ourselves in Obair Bhéal. The children also wrote a little factual piece about themselves too!
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Castlecomer Library to see a very interactive presentation from weather forecaster, Joanna Donnelly on her new book “The Great Irish Weather Book” which she published with her illustrator, Fuschia MacAree! Thank you to the library for organising this great event!
We did an art appreciation lesson on Surrealism and looked at the work of the Spanish Painter, Joan Miro, who produced many famous paintings using simple shapes, bright colours and unique symbols. Below are the children’s own pictures in response to his many creative and innovative paintings!
In SESE, the children explored the topic of Autumn as well as Living Things and created their own owls in response to all they had learned 🙂
Music Generation is well underway at Wandesforde. The children are engaging well in their weekly performance workshops with Clare Kilkenny and are participating in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental activities in Music.
In preparation for Halloween, the children engaged in a literacy workshop on Halloween Haiku Poetry. They explored the technique of writing this Japanese form of poetry using 3 lines of syllables and adjectives!
We also designed our own pumpkins for the Castlecomer Library Halloween Competition!
In Gaeilge, we learned the poem “OÃche Shamhna” and drew pictures to illustrate the poem!
Finally, the children dressed up in their Halloween costumes on Friday, 25th October. They all looked amazing and as always it was a great way to start off the Halloween Holidays!
Happy Halloween Everybody! Enjoy your well deserved Mid-Term Break 🙂
Date posted: 28th October 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, Irish, Music, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Rugby, Science, Senior Classroom, Sports, Visual Arts
The Heineken Cup Visits Wandesforde!
Date posted: 9th February 2019
Category Blog, Rugby, Special Occasions, Sports
On Monday, 4th February, we got a surprise visit from our rugby coach, Noel Devlin who very kindly brought the Heineken Cup to our school. The children all got the opportunity to look at the cup which is 22
Thank you Noel for bringing the Heineken Cup to our school!
Date posted: 9th February 2019
Category Blog, Rugby, Special Occasions, Sports