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.
November has been another busy month for the Junior Classroom. Take a look at all their hard work below! In Religion, the children have been learning about the Story of Jonah and so they made their own whales out of polystyrene cups! We have had great fun singing all the well known Nursery Rhymes in Music and the…
November has been a busy month for the boys and girls in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class! In Art we looked at the works of Henri Matisse, a French Artist born in 1869. His art is very abstract and when we were “looking and responding” to various works of his, the children saw different things…
We have completed another busy month in the Senior Room. We have been painting Autumn and Hallowe’en themed pictures. Here are our Autumn Leaf Fireworks and Hallowe’en Witches! In English we studied a poem called The Door by Miroslav Holub. We then wrote our own poems called The Door, and displayed…
October has been a busy month in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class in Wandesforde National School! We have been focusing on the theme of Autumn and as part of this activity, we made Autumn books. In these books are lots of activities such as Wordsearches, Art, Stories and an Autumn Trail! In Art, we made…
On Friday, 19th October, the Junior Classroom and the Middle Classroom visited Castlecomer Library together. The children really enjoyed browsing through the lovely books and choosing their own books to bring back to their classroom libraries. Take a look at their time together at the library! Junior & Senior Infants! 1st, 2nd & 3rd Classes! We look…
