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.
As always there has been lots happening in our room since we came back in January. Below are some of the activities and work we have completed. We looked back at our favourite moments from 2015 and wrote some New Years Resolutions for 2016. 4th class were working on the topic of ‘chance’ in maths…
Happy New Year to you all from 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class! We have been learning about lots of new and exciting things since we came back after the Christmas break! To develop the children’s literacy skills, they all wrote reports about their holidays! We also enjoyed reading the book “The Magic Faraway Tree” by…
Welcome back and Happy New Year to Everyone! The Junior Classroom have started off 2016 on the right foot by making New Year’s Resolutions and colouring in lots of feet!! In support of the Strand Unit of Time in Maths, the Junior Classroom made their very own Classroom Calendar for 2016! Here is the front…
The Christmas Preparations have begun at Wandesforde National School. To begin with, Junior & Senior Infants enjoyed a short trip to the Post Office at the start of December to post their letters to Santa! The children then enjoyed putting some decorations on the Christmas Tree in the school hallway! At the start of December,…
December has been a very busy month in the run up to the Christmas Holidays! In English, the children wrote their letters to Santa Claus! They then went to the local post office to post them! In Visual Arts, we had so much fun making Christmas decorations and cards for friends and family! In Religious…
