Wandesforde National SchoolWandesforde National School is a three teacher school. Rebuilt in 2007, it offers wonderful facilities and resources in a traditional stone building with plenty of grounds for parking and playing. Located in Castlecomer in North Kilkenny, it is within a short walk of Castlecomer Discovery Park which provides fabulous opportunities for lots of nature walks and science lessons. Class sizes are small generally being 6-10 children per class.
As a school community, we endeavour to help each child reach his or her potential, all are equally valued and respected and a positive, friendly atmosphere is maintained.
It has once again been such a busy few weeks in the build up to Christmas! The boys and girls have been working so hard in all subject areas! We were delighted to have Úna Halpin in to talk about … Continue reading
As always we were busy in the Junior Room in December. We learned about lots of new topics, in Aistear we explored the theme of Santa’s Workshop. We built workshops and sleighs in Construction, the Sand area had snow! We …
We’ve been as busy as ever in the Junior Room over the last few weeks. Our Play topic was houses and homes. We had fun building houses, apartment blocks, terraced houses and bungalows in Construction, Small World, Junk Art, Play …
We have had a really busy start to the new school year and have been learning lots in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class! Have a look at what we have been up to! In English, we wrote all out ourselves …
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 …
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. …