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Happy Halloween from 4th, 5th & 6th Class!
Date posted: 30th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Hallowe'en, Our Work on Display, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
As always, the children engaged in lots of Halloween activities in the lead up to our Halloween Holidays!
We made some spooky spider web patterns in Art
In Gaeilge, the children learned some new vocabulary relating to Oíche Shamhna.
The children made their own Positivity Potions in SPHE by drawing and writing in activities and aspects of their lives that help make them feel good!
We all dressed up “spooktacularly” in costume on the day of the Halloween Holidays!
In English, the children played Spelling Battleship with a partner using some Halloween words. They had great fun taking turns and trying to find & sink each other’s spelling battleships!
We ate some Halloween Barmbrack and the ring was found too!
Finally, the children made their own Haunted House Silhouette using crayons and paint. Didn’t they do amazing work?!
Happy Halloween Everybody! Enjoy your well deserved Mid-Term Break 🙂
Date posted: 30th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Hallowe'en, Our Work on Display, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
Senior Classroom Autumn Activities!
Date posted: 30th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, History, Hockey, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
During the past two months, the Senior Classroom have been busy working hard in all subject areas.
In Art, we designed our own names into various shapes and designs. Some of us even made some unusual creatures out of them. Can you spot any of our names?
We learned about the Irish legend “Clann Lir” in History and made our own comic strip storyboard showing the main aspects of the story.
In SPHE, we have been working on the topic of Well Being. The children worked in small groups to design their own motivational posters using words and phrases of encouragement for various aspects of our lives.
We have been reading the novel, Headbomz, by Irish author Oisín McGann in class. While reading this novel, the children have engaged in lots of activities like making predictions as to how they think the story may go.
They also did some paired written work on how to help with various problems or “Headbomz” they were given on activity cards.
In English, we met a new type of word called a Portmanteau, which carries two or more words in it to create a new word. We had fun discovering many portmanteau words like chillax, popsicle, brunch and hangry, to name but a few!
We also enjoyed learning hockey skills and drills with Emmett Hughes from Hockey Ireland each Monday!
The children engaged in some baking too! Everybody had a role to play in making Butterscotch and Chocolate Chip Cookies!
We supported GOAL’S Jersey Day too and enjoyed wearing our jerseys into school to raise money for a great cause!
Our classroom conducted a traffic survey outside our school grounds in support of all the work we have been doing on Data in Maths. In pairs, the children completed tally sheets on the various types of vehicles passing our school as well as their colours. Cars were the most frequent mode of transport recorded and silver was the most popular colour too!
Heritage Expert, Michael Moylan visited our school in October and engaged the children in a very interactive workshop on the Vikings and the Normans. The children learned about the clothing both men and women wore back then as well as the types of weaponry that were used and developed during these times. Michael taught us a lot about Norman Castles and shared some history of Kilkenny Castle with us in this fun and engaging workshop!
The children wrote a report about the workshop and drew pictures of their favourite memories.
Well done 4th, 5th & 6th Class for all your hard work and participation in all class activities during September and October 🙂
Date posted: 30th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, History, Hockey, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
Exciting October in the Junior Room!
Date posted: 27th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
We have been really busy throughout October in the Junior Room. We started learning through Play using the Aistear Framework. Our topic was ‘The Vet.’
In English Junior Infants are busy learning their sounds and Seniors are learning reading words.
We learned all about length in Maths.
In Visual Art we created colourful Autumn trees, after learning about squirrels in SESE we made Red Squirrels and painted pumpkins for Hallowe’en.
During the month we learned lots about the season of Autumn in SESE. We learned about leaves changing colour and falling from the trees, all about squirrels, hedgehogs and our journey to school each day. We also learned about some traditions of Hallowe’en like dressing up, bobbing for apples and going Trick or Treating!
We went on a Nature Walk to the Discovery Park where we spotted lots of signs of Autumn! Afterwards we had lots of fun playing with our friends in the playground.
We were busy in SPHE discussing different feelings and how to recognise them.
We were excited to welcome Michael Moylan from Heritage in Schools, he told us all about Setanta and Cú Chulaínn. We had great fun dressing up as different characters with him! We also visited Castlecomer Library for Bookville, to hear story telling and make creatures using things from nature like clay, twigs and feathers.
Finally we had fun on the last day before our HallowE’en holidays dressing up in costumes coming to school!
Date posted: 27th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
A New School Year Begins!
Date posted: 9th October 2023
Category Blog, History, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
We are delighted to be back in the Junior Room after the Summer Break. We welcomed 6 new Junior Infants to our class this year. 🙂
We have been busy learning about different topics, in Maths Junior Infants learned colours, collecting items of colour from around the room.
In SESE we learned about ourselves as well as our school. We drew self portraits, discussed how we are growing and changing decorating Birthday Cakes for our ages.
We read the story “Our Class is a Family.” We drew pictures of ourselves in school. We also did a treasure hunt around our classroom, finding different areas we use and drew items we find in school. We also came up with suggestions of the things teachers do and drew pictures of our teachers. We made a bright bunch of flowers to show that ”we are a lovely bunch” in our class!
In Art we decorated the letters of our names.
In RE we discussed our school & we thanked God for our lovely school.
We also learned the rules of our classroom, listen, try hard, be safe, be nice, share & care.
Date posted: 9th October 2023
Category Blog, History, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
Summer Fun in the Middle Room!
Date posted: 21st June 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Middle Classroom, Our Work on Display, School Outings, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
The final term in Wandesforde National School has been a very busy one! The boys and girls in the middle room have been learning so much over the past few months! Have a look at what we have been up to!
In Science, we have been learning all about the lifecycle of the butterfly. We were very lucky to get caterpillars and watch them grow through the various stages to become butterflies!
We then released the butterflies into our school garden, for the lifecycle to begin all over again!
We wrote about the lifecycle of the butterfly, read stories about butterflies and designed our own butterflies also!
On Thursday, 25th May, we went on our school tour to “Activate” in Waterford. We had so much fun!
We then wrote about our fun day in English…
In English, we read the story of “The Willow Pattern” and painted our own version of the pattern on paper plates…
In Science, we also explored magnetism, looking at various items to predict and record if they were magnetic or if magnets worked through them…
In SPHE, we designed flowers with our strengths and also discussed sun safety, especially with all this lovely, warm weather that we are having at the moment…
We learned about warm and cool colours in Visual Arts and created lizards in the grass using either warm or cool colours…
Next year’s first class visited us on 1st June and we all made “Jellyfish” …
We made cards for our Dads for Father’s Day. We love our Dads to the moon and back!
We really enjoyed the ice-creams on sports’ day to cool us down!
Ms. Cahill did lovely guided drawing with the children. Look at these delicious ice-creams…
Well done to you all 1st, 2nd and 3rd class on all your hard work over the past few months! I hope you all have a well earned rest over the Summer!
Date posted: 21st June 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Middle Classroom, Our Work on Display, School Outings, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts