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Summer Fun in The Middle Room!
Date posted: 22nd June 2019
Category Blog, English, Middle Classroom, Physical Education, Science, Sports, Visual Arts
The month of June has flown by and over the past 3 weeks, we have been focusing on the theme of Summer! We made crazy flavoured ice pops…
In English, we wrote “Summer Bucket Lists”. The boys and girls are going to be very busy over the next few months!
To celebrate the wonderful Dads in our lives, we created “Rock and Roll Vests” for Fathers’ Day and gave our Dads special certificates too…
We created Frog Paper weights using stones from our gardens…
In SESE we have been learning about the lifecycle of the butterfly over the past month…
We purchased our own caterpillars to see them transform into butterflies…
Unfortunately, they hadn’t changed into butterflies before school finished for the holidays, so a lucky boy in 2nd class has kindly taken the chrysalides home and will set them free in due course!
On 17th June, we had our sports’ day and all the children received a medal for their efforts in all the races on the day! Well done boys and girls on all your hard work throughout the year. Have a great Summer!
Date posted: 22nd June 2019
Category Blog, English, Middle Classroom, Physical Education, Science, Sports, Visual Arts
Sports’ Day 2019!
Date posted: 21st June 2019
Category Blog, Physical Education, Sport, Sports
On Monday, 17th June, the children had a fun and active sports’ day in Wandesforde National School! We focus on fun and participation in the 5 races which include a sprint, hurdles, egg and spoon race, sack race and the three-legged race. Have a look at some of the highlights of the day!
Each child received a medal for their efforts on the day. Well done boys and girls! Have a lovely Summer!
Date posted: 21st June 2019
Category Blog, Physical Education, Sport, Sports
Spring Madness in the Senior Classes!
Date posted: 28th April 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, Easter, English, Geography, History, Hockey, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Science, Senior Classroom, Visual Arts
Spring has come and gone and the Senior Classroom were in full swing during the very busy months of March & April!
In Art, the children engaged in a still life drawing of daffodils and produced artwork Vincent Van Gogh would be very proud of!
In History, the children participated in a local library project entitled “Hobbies Long Ago”. They interviewed a family member, friend or neighbour on this topic and complimented their work with a photograph. These mini projects will be on display in Castlecomer Library during May.
In Maths, the children played “Beetle Drive” as a small group activity!
They also explored the area of 2D shapes and symmetry and engaged in practical work identifying lines of symmetry in various shapes.
In SESE, the children explored aspects of the water cycle as well as types of fish in our rivers and lakes. They made their own 3D fish to support this area in their books!
In Religion, the children explored Prayer Writing and composed their own prayers on the topic of World Issues
Letter writing both formal and informal was taught in English during Spring. The children wrote formal letters to their favourite authors and informal/penpal letters to their Finnish Penpals!
In Geography, the children completed mini projects on a chosen county in Ireland. They had to research the names of rivers, towns, landmarks as well as other areas of interest in their county.
During Spring, we celebrated Mother’s Day. The children made their own pop-up cards and bookmarks for their loved ones.
We also celebrated St. Patrick’s Day and the children made their own colourful shamrock pictures using chalk pastels.
They also composed their own Limerick poems in English on the theme of being Irish!
In P.E. the children actively engaged in field hockey and enjoyed playing it outdoors too!
During the month, we were delighted to be part of the Ireland AM documentary which was broadcast from the Discovery Park. The children really enjoyed their moment of fame on television with their school 🙂
In preparation for Easter, the children designed our Easter Coffee Morning Posters
They designed a poster on the theme “Caring for God’s World” for the Bishop’s Art Competition.
The children worked with clay in Art and made their own colourful egg cups!
Finally, in Religion the children made their own paper plate craft depicting the events of Holy Week
Well done Senior Classes for all your hard work during the lead up to our Easter holidays!!
Date posted: 28th April 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, Easter, English, Geography, History, Hockey, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Science, Senior Classroom, Visual Arts
February Fun with the Juniors
Date posted: 4th March 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Music, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
Our play topic in February was ‘The Jungle.’ We had great fun making jungles in the sand, creating jungle animals and explorers equipment in junk art and play doh. We also went on a jungle trek around our class spotting various jungle creatures. Finally we played in our water station with jungle animals which live in rivers.
In art we created lots of jungle themed work including parrots made from our handprints and colourful chameleons. For Valentine’s Day we made frames of our hands for our families.
In SESE we looked at the animals we find here in Ireland and the different animals which live in jungles, we sorted the animals accordingly and later drew a selection of jungle animals we’d learned about.
We also learned about forces and focused on what is moved by pushing and what is moved by pulling. We sorted some things which are pushed and others which are pulled. We experimented with some things in our classroom to see how they move and pushed paper fish along by blowing them. We had to see which surface they travelled on best.
In SPHE we continue to do our mindfulness each week, we take some time out to relax, close our eyes and just breathe deeply and calmly.
We also discussed all the things which make us happy in school and drew pictures to show these things.
We have had great fun in January and February learning to dance with Michelle 🙂
In music this month we learned the names of various percussion instruments and learned how to play them.
Finally we had a lovely time in the library where Mary read some stories all about eating healthy food and then we had to guess which healthy fruit and vegetables she had in her bag!
Date posted: 4th March 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Music, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
2019 is off to a Great Start in the Senior Classroom!
Date posted: 9th February 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Irish, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Sports, Visual Arts
2019 is well
The children participated in a local art competition whereby they drew a
In Art, the children used pastels and chalk to create their own nightscape depicting the New Years’ celebrations!
They also completed their own New Year’s Resolutions in Religion & SESE
In response to all the work the children did on the Aztecs in History before Christmas, the children completed their own “Did You Know Fact Sheet” to recall material they had met.
The Renaissance was covered in SESE during January and the children enjoyed writing their own messages in Mirror Writing, a technique which was used by the famous artist, Leonardo da Vinci!
Members of 4th,5th & 6th Class competed in the local Credit Union Quiz on Friday, 1st February and did very well representing the school. Well done to you all 🙂
In Gaeilge, the topic of “ÉadaÔ was explored with all classes. The children completed their own personal clothing style profile “as Gaeilge!”
Similes and metaphors were explored in literacy. The children created their own poems using similes and metaphors on topics of interest to them!
In Art, the children created their own artistic scene from a small magazine cut out. Didn’t they do a fantastic job!
“Decision Making” was a topic that we explored in SPHE in January. The children were given many scenarios in which they had to make decisions and in so doing, they developed a better understanding of various
Well done to all members of the Senior Room for your continued hard work in all aspects of their learning 🙂
Date posted: 9th February 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Irish, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Sports, Visual Arts