Music is taught by the class teacher. The children have the opportunity to learn the piano and guitar from 1st class onwards if they wish. Every second year, we have a group called the “Funky Kids Workshop” in our school to help us put on a wonderful show. Denis and Olivia from the Funky Kids group teach us songs, dances and we then perform them at a Christmas Show for parents and the school community. We also record the show on DVD for parents to purchase! Each week in Assembly, we sing a song and once a year, we attend a Children’s Choral Festival with the other schools in the Diocese.
We have done lots of work in Junior & Senior Infants since we came back from mid term break. Our play themes have been The Post Office and The Airport. We learned and created lots about these topics. Making aeroplanes in junk art. Building our own airport with a runway and control tower. Designing and…
September has been a fun filled and busy month in the Junior room. Check out what we’ve been up to below! To begin with we drew colourful pictures of our summer holidays. In Art we made squirrel mobiles and we had looked at these interesting animals in Science. We’ve been revising letters in Senior Infants…
February has flown by once again in the senior room, take a look and see what we’ve been up to this month. We took part in the Operation Transformation 10 @ 10 on the 10th of Feb. We’ve also tried to keep up doing some exercise between classes since then. In art we painted in…
Christmas has started early at Wandesforde School! As you can see, we all have been very busy preparing our Christmas Shoeboxes for Team Hope. The school has sent 46 beautifully packaged shoeboxes to children in poorer parts of the world for Christmas. Thank you to all the families who took part in this very worthwhile cause…
The Junior Classroom have been busy exploring many topics over the past couple of weeks in preparation for their Summer Holidays! In Art, the children did a simple weaving activity using lollipop sticks and magic wool to create some colourful butterflies! We have been learning about garden birds in SESE and the children made their…
