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.
March has come and is almost finished and it certainly has been a busy month in 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class! To celebrate the wonderful work that our Mums do for us every day, we made beautiful bouquets and cards to give to them on Mothering Sunday! To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, the children created…
4th, 5th and 6th class worked very hard and completed lots of work in different areas this month. We celebrated St Patrick’s Day by designing our own shamrocks and mixing lots of shades of green to paint them. It was Mother’s Day on March 15th and to say thanks to our mums for all they…
The shortest month of the year has flown by and once again the senior pupils have been busy completing work in lots of different areas. In History we learned all about different explorers including Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan & Vasco De Gama. We also mapped their various journeys around the world! We studied 3D shapes…
Another month has come and gone and the Junior Classroom have been busy once again! At the start of the month, the children paid a visit to the Firestation in Castlecomer in support of work they have covered in Geography on “People who Help Us” The children enjoyed learning all about the equipment on the fire…
Wandesforde National School’s Annual Book Fair opens on Friday, 20th March until Wednesday, 25th March 2015. On these days, the Book Fair will be open from 9.05-9:45 a.m. & from 2-3 p.m. Once again, the school will receive 60% book commission of all money raised to help further resource our classroom libraries! We look forward to seeing…
