We love Art and Craft in our school!The six strands in the Primary School Visual Arts Curriculum are Drawing, Paint & Colour, Print, Clay, Construction and Fabric & Fibre.As you walk through the corridors and classrooms, you will see lovely art displays.We enjoy entering art competitions such as the Texaco Art Competition and also Doodle 4 Google.We also encourage local craftspeople to come in and share their expertise with the children at various times of the year.
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…
October has been busy with “Autumn” and “Halloween” activities for the Junior Classroom. We made our own paper plate owls and clay hedgehogs to support work covered in SESE. In preparation for Halloween, the children made their own “Personalised Pumpkins” and “Spooky Spiders” in Art using paints and pastels. The children also enjoyed eating “Bairín Breac” and making…
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…
Over the past couple of weeks, we have been having some Hallowe’en Fun! We had an Art lesson with a difference. No brushes were used to paint our Hallowe’en Ghosts, but our feet were! It was a messy lesson, but a memorable one! We also got to make chocolate apples. The apples were dipped into…
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…
