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.
Although we are only in school for two weeks of April we have been busy in the Senior classes! In science we looked at different water birds found in Ireland. We had fun looking at videos of gannets diving into the ocean. We also learned about Mute, Whooper and Bewick’s Swans, cormorants, oystercatchers, dunlins and herring…
As always we have been working very hard in the Senior Room during the month of March. We’ve completed lots of work in different areas. In English we finished reading our novel ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ by Marita Conlon-McKenna. We really enjoyed it as it was based during The Great Famine, a topic we also…
We have certainly had a very busy month in 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class! To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we dressed up in green and also made snakes and lucky leprechauns! In English, we read the poem “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth. We decorated the poem with these beautiful Spring flowers! In Geography, 1st & 2nd…
Wandesforde National School’s Annual Book Fair opens on Thursday, 27th March until Tuesday, 1st April 2014. On these days, the Book Fair will be open from 9.05-10 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 you all there 🙂 In…
February has certainly been a very busy month for all the pupils in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class! We started this month off by doing lots of research into the “Winter Olympics”, which happen every 4 years. This year the games were held in Russia. We all did a bit of research and learned about…
