English is taught to all children from Junior Infants to Sixth Class. Oral language, reading and writing are all encouraged and promoted throughout the school. The child’s reading and writing experience in school can contribute greatly to their cognitive, emotional and imaginative development. The children love to write stories, complete projects and post their blogs on the school website.
Easter has come round very fast and the children in 2nd, 3rd and 4th Class have been very busy over the past number of weeks! In Gaeilge, we have been learning all about “An tEarrach” or Spring and wrote a story and learned a poem with lots of Spring flowers mentioned in it. We also…
We have had a very busy and productive few weeks in the Senior Room. In Science we read all about various types of rocks and went around the school grounds naming and sketching different rocks. We also learned all about our eyes and ears and labelled diagrams of them. In art we made colourful shamrocks…
During the months of January and February, the children in 2nd, 3rd and 4th Class were very busy completing projects on various topics. They put a huge amount of work and research into these and included the following things as specified in the brief: contents page, introduction, bibliography and conclusion. When they were completed, they…
On Thursday, 2nd March 2017, we celebrated World Book Day in Style at Wandesforde National School! All the children were encouraged to dress up as a character from a children’s book, fairy tale or nursery rhyme! Well done to all the children on all their hard work and creativity in designing their costumes. Didn’t they…
A warm welcome back to everyone from 2nd, 3rd and 4th Class! We have had a busy January and February so far! To start off the new year, we wrote about what we did over the Christmas holidays and discussed our new year’s resolutions… In English, the 4th class boys were reading a recipe about…
