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.
It has been a very busy few weeks preparing for Christmas in Wandesforde School. 4th, 5th and 6th class have been busy doing lots of Christmas activities in different subjects. In art we made wreaths from tissue paper, then made bells and stuck on bows. In English we read the story The Little Match Girl and…
2nd and 3rd Class boys and girls have been very busy for the past few weeks decorating the classroom, writing stories and having fun as Christmas approaches! We really enjoyed doing lots of Art & Craft from the various strands of the Primary School Curriculum. We painted some love pictures of Rudolph, Santa, Christmas Trees and…
The children in 2nd and 3rd class read a book called “Brush – A Tale of 2 Foxes” over the past few weeks. It was written by Pierce Feiritear and illustrated by a 14 year-old boy called Conor O’ Brien. It’s a story about 2 young foxes, Misty and Ash, who try to help feed…
The Junior Room experimented with papier mache this November and made our own homemade maracas out of yoghurt cartons. Have a look at all the hard work we did with paper and wallpaper paste!! Here are our painted maracas in action! In Maths, we made a Class Calendar for the Junior Classroom. Each child was…
In art the senior classes have been working hard. In the past few weeks we have painted beautiful trees covered in snow. We also made pictures of a lightening storm. We painted the background, clouds and lightening. Then we cut out a city skyline before sticking everything down. These pictures are on display…
