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Cake Sale
Coding Week in W.N.S.
Our Strengths Tree
Today we put up the last of our Bravery leaves on our strength tree. These wonderful children got a well-deserved leaf to recognise their bravery. We are very proud of them. Next week we will be starting our new Strength which is Love. Children who show love will get...
Junior Infants trip to the theatre
The children in Junior and Senior Infants had a very exciting day last Friday. They travelled on the bus to An Grianan Theatre to watch a show called 'Polar Bear and Penguin' which told the lovely story of an unlikely encounter between a polar bear and a penguin. They...
Active Brain Breaks
The Student Active Committee thought it would be a great idea if Active Brain Breaks were used in every classroom. The committee compiled a list of ideas that teachers could use. Every week each class records their active brain breaks and the most active class receive...
Staff Steps Challenge
The Student Active Committee set a challenge for the staff at Woodland National School. All staff have to record their daily steps and hand them up at the end of the week. The student committee pick a destination for the staff to walk to. The first stop was Paris! The...
Our Strengths Tree
The character strength we are focusing on in November is: BRAVERY. Ms Slevin thought these 6th Class pupils were very brave to present and act in front of a whole school assembly. These 4th Class girls were very brave this week when doing new work in class.
Creepy Orchestra!
We had a very strange orchestra practice today when witches, vampires, a dinosaur and even a banana picked up their instruments to play. We are very proud of their progress as they go from strength to strength. Thanks to the DMEP Donegal Music Education Partnership...
Pink Day in aid of Breast Cancer Ireland and Cancer Care West (Donegal Branch)
Staff and parents in Woodland NS dressed in pink today to raise money for two worth causes - Breast Cancer Ireland and Cancer Care West (Donegal Branch).
Our Strengths Tree
All these amazing children got leaves for showing the strength of kindness over the last few weeks. Well done, everyone!
Student Council Elections
The elections for our new Student Council 2023/2024 were held on Wednesday, 25th October and were ran byMs Slevin and the existing Student Council who did a great job!
Pumpkin Carving
Some of the class got into the Halloween Spirit by rolling up their sleeves and scooping some pumpkin guts. We had some lovely carvings brought in today and the winner was chosen by our SET teacher Ms Mooney. Well done to our winner for her fantastic carving that took...
EU Coding Week: Mr. Muldoon’s 3rd Class
Last Week was EU Coding Week. As a school we endeavored to get our coding hats on and get stuck into some really complex work. Our school is wonderfully resourced when it comes to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). From iPads to programmable robots, we...
3rd Class Student Council Election
This week was a huge milestone for 3rd Class Children as they voted for their first student council member. Last week the class put their names forward as nominees. Each class from 3rd up has a student council representative who is tasked with bringing ideas from...
STEM Week in WNS!
Last week we celebrated EU Code Week in WNS with lots of interesting STEM games and activities. Junior classes used BeeBots, Botley Robots and Scracth on our iPads to practice some programming. Some classes used Lego WeDo to design, contruct and programme various...
World Mental Health Day 2023
Woodland NS Soccer Teams
The boys and girls from 5th and 6th classes who are competing in this years Letterkenny Cup!
Cross Country
On 14th September the local GAA set up cross country for the local schools in Letterkenny. All students ran really well. Some children ran really well but best of all Woodlands won the overall prize for the best school. The next school cross country competition was...
A Trip to the Museum
The students enjoyed a trip to Donegal County Museum. The class engaged in a workshop based on 'The Workhouse'. They learned all about what life was like during The Famine. The matron checked the students into the workhouse and put them all to work.
2nd Class School Tour 2023
The children in 2nd Class had a great day recently on their school tour. They started out their tour by getting on the bus and making their way to Rathmullan. There was great excitement when they landed as there were horses on the beach- however some disappointment...
Sports Day 2023 Part 2
Some more photos from our recent Sports Day...
Sports Day 2023 Part 1
The boys and girls had a great time during the annual Sports Day this month.
‘Fantastic DNA in a Box’
Run to Croke Park Challenge
The 3 2nd classes learned about Croke Park and the importance of exercise to stay fit and healthy recently. Following these lessons, they did a ‘Run to Croke Park’ challenge to fit in with these two topics. Just last week, they finished collectively running 238 laps...
Woodland Has Talent
All the boys and girls, teachers and SNAs and parents were treated to an amazing Woodland Has Talent show last week. The first show took place on Thursday morning when the junior classes came to see it. The second show took place on Thursday afternoon when the senior...
Music Show
There was great excitement in Woodland NS this week when the children in the Junior and Special classes attended a Music Show in our own yard. There was singing, dancing and story telling as the students enjoyed the interactive music show, courtesy of the Song Tales...
Woodland Has Talent
Woodland Has Talent is back!! On Thursday and Friday this week, children from our senior classes will take to the stage to showcase talents of singing, playing instruments, dance, art, card tricks, poetry, drama and much more. Since the auditions, these children have...
Fun In Lurgybrack Farm
Today we got glorious weather to head on our trip to Lurgybrack farm. The children were all very excited and had done lots of preparation for this trip away. Learning about animals on a farm, their homes, what we get from farms and much more. There was much amazement...
Outdoor Classroom
Have a look at phase 1 of our new outdoor classroom which has just recently been completed after lots of hard work and planning by Ms Duffy and our Outdoor Environment team. It is located at the back of the school down at the bottom of the football pitch. A huge thank...
Chicks and Ducks
Our school has been full of excitement recently with the arrivals of 5 chicks and 6 ducklings. Each class suggested two names for the chicks and the ducklings. Our chicks are called Fluffy, Chicki Minaj, Tiger, Ginga Ninja and Jeremy Cluckson. Our ducklings are called...
Digital Technology Showcase
Here's some footage of boys and girls from 4th and 6th class demonstrating some of the coding skills they've learned over the course of the past year. In the videos they show examples of how to use Scratch to create a story based on myths and legends, how Scratch can...
Woodland School Orchestra
Our Woodland School Orchestra had its first full rehearsal today. They have only been learning their instruments for a few weeks now but they have all been practising hard at home. Aren't they amazing.
Digital Showcase
Our Digital Showcase is off to a great start this morning. The pupils from Mr O'Malley's 4th class and Ms Walker's 6th class are demonstrating the various technologies we have in school with Ms Haughey's class as happy participants!! All the teachers in school will...
Thank You from Jack & Jill
We had a lovely visit from Jack and Jill Liaison nurse Anne Reilly who met with our 6th Class children and The Student Council. She expressed her sincere thanks to the Woodland Community on such a successful fundraiser . The proceeds will be used to fund 121 hours of...
Woodland NS Incubator Live
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6th Class Donate
6th Class made a wonderful donation to the Irish Cancer Society from their Confirmation money. The children collected an impressive €600. We welcomed Ena Barrett to the school and she spoke to the 6th classes about the brilliant supports the Irish Cancer Society...
Sportshall Athletics
Our athletes had a great day at the Aura Leisure Centre representing our school at the Sportshall Athletics County Finals on Thursday 20th April. There were 23 students in attendance and everyone did an excellent job representing Woodland N.S. and supporting each...
Ards Forest Park
What a truly great day out and one to remember!! With the weather on our side we boarded the bus and with great anticipation and excitement made the trip to Ards Forest Park. Although there was a bit of a chill in the air it did not wiorry us. We did our nature walk...
March Assembly
We had a wonderful celebration at our Assembly today. We started by asking Our Lady to bless all of us and all our families during the Easter break. We have been so busy for the last month. Here are some of the activities we have been up to. Kieran's class presented...
VEX Robotics Competition in the ATU
4th Class Houses & Homes Projects
Seachtain na Gaeilge 2023
Féach ar na gníomhaíochtaí a rinne muid i rith Seachtain na Gaeilge- Comórtas Seanfhocail, Tráth na gCeist, Ceolchoirm agus Céilí Mór. Bhain gach duine taitneamh as.
Lá Glas
We have had a wonderful Lá Glas to finish our Seachtain na Gaeilge. Today we had four Ceilís sa halla. We have also enjoyed our Tráth na gCeist, two concerts and lots of other Gaeilge treats over the last fortnight. Special thanks to our Gaeilge Team in the school for...
Céilí dancing
Lots of our classes have been busy learning The Walls of Limerick/ Na Ballai Luimnigh over the last few weeks during their P.E. lessons as part of the dance strand. Ar an Déardaoin beidh Céilí Mór ann sa scoil 🙂
Chess Team
Crisp Spring Walks
We went on a walk armed with clipboards, pencils and spring checklists trying to find some signs of Spring out there. We went to the forest and had a great time. It is truly wonderful experiencing new vocabulary and language out and about and using it with our friends...
Pyjama Day
What a day we had during our First Pyjama Day at school. We were so cosy in our jammies! Some classes celebrated by doing lovely artwork, others had their breakfast at school. Hot chocolates were polished off, bedtime stories read and teddies cuddled as the children...
Sportshall Event
Our athletes had a wonderful day today at the Sportshall event in the Aura in Letterkenny. We had a team of 46 athletes who competed in a variety of events including the vertical jump, triple jump, long jump, speed bounce, chest throw, the javelin and relay races. As...
Sacrament of Confirmation
Congratulations to all our Sixth Class pupils who celebrated the sacrament of Confirmation on Saturday 25th February. Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ confirmed the children in a beautiful ceremony. We were all so proud of you.
A visit from an Ambulance
Today we had an Ambulance in the school grounds. The Paramedics were Gavin and David. Gavin is Katie Marie's dad and he kindly facilitated this wonderful experience. They came to show us around the inside of the ambulance and some of the equipment they use inside. We...
Ms Slevin was very lucky today. She had a private recital! Isla came to play the violin for her in her office. Both Isla and Ms Slevin are very excited that the school orchestra is starting very soon.
Spelling Bee
Well done to all the finalists of the Spelling Bee from the 5th and 6th classes. Congratulations to Sama from 5th class who was the overall winner.
Our Strengths Tree
The strength we are focusing on for February is FORGIVENESS. These great children told us all about times they had been spotted showing the strength of forgiveness.
Ms Slevin is such a lucky principal. Ódhran, Sara May and Ben visited her today in her office because they are doing such amazing work! They chose a prize and got a sticker. Ms Slevin is very proud of them.
6th Class Enjoy DreamSpace in Errigal College
4th Class Building da Vinci Bridges
The boys and girls in 4th class had great fun attempting to recreate da Vincis floating bridges!
First School Assembly
On Friday we had the first of our Monthly Assemblies. The whole school got together to share lots of wonderful news. Ms Slevin told us about the Vision for the school and we all said it together: We are a happy caring school family who inspire, nurture and learn from...
Our Strengths Tree
These wonderful pupils were were spotted by their teachers and SNAs showing the strength of Kindness. Their leaves are so beautifully decorated!
Christmas Colours for St Vincent de Paul
Our incredible school community raised €2251.60 for St Vincent de Paul. Our Student Council treasurer, Oisín, presented the funds to Cormac and Kathleen. We are very thankful to everyone who donated so generously. Thank you.
Christmas Carol Service
We had a wonderful morning at our Junior and Senior Carol Services. Our beautiful choir was directed by Mrs O'Donnell and accompanied by our musicians Mr Boyle, Mr Heneghan and Luke! Special thanks to Megan and Luke for their wonderful singing and playing during the...
4th Class Carol Singing in St. Eunan’s Nursing Home
Kindness Leave Winners!
Mark English gets a big Welcome Home from Woodland NS
Mark English visited his former school Woodland NS this week to raise the school’s Active Flag. The school was awarded the Active Flag just before the Covid pandemic and was raising it today for the first time. Mark was met at the school with a Guard of Honour of...
Staff celebrating Pink Day
As part of our staff wellbeing promotion, we recently had an after school talk about breast cancer awareness. Everyone attending agreed they learned a lot. Following on from this in October we had a Pink Day fundraiser. Staff wore pink and some of our wonderful bakers...
Kindness Leaves
Look how many wonderful children we had displaying the strength of kindness over the past couple of weeks. All their beautifully coloured leaves are now on Our Strengths Tree.
Kindness Leaves 7th October
These wonderful children with Ms Kay were awarded Kindness Leaves. We are so lucky to have such kind children in our school.
Time for a dip
Before our ducklings left our school we all got to see them go for a swim.
Rang 6 Desk 25K
We had the most wonderful morning at our Sixth Class 5K last Friday. We are so proud of the children for their commitment and enthusiasm towards the 5k. They trained and worked so very hard over the past weeks and really put their hearts and souls into the event. They...
Optimism Leaves for week ending 2nd June 2022
These children received leaves for the strength "Optimism"
Optimism
All these children received leaves for the Strength "Optimism".
Teacher-Artist Partnership – Artist in Residence
Teacher-Artist Partnership (TAP) is a unique Department of Education and Skills initiative for supporting and enhancing arts in education in primary schools. Following a CPD summer course, Ms Harkin applied for an in-school artist in residency and the school was very...
More new arrivals- Ducky Us
Last week brought more excitement to our school as we welcomed 6 little ducklings. Welcome to Woodland N.S. Donald Duck, Daisy, Dotty, Daffy, Quackson and Jemima Puddleduck!!! See the video below as one of our ducklings enters the world, assisted by their sibling!
Desk25K – Rang 6
Sixth Class are busy training for their Desk25k presently. We train on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2pm. We are using the couch25k app. We started training when we came back after Easter. We use the track at our school to complete our laps. Hopefully, We will be...
Chirpy New Arrivals
Last week brought great excitement to our school as 6 chicks hatched from eggs here in Woodland N.S. The classes all got to suggest two names for the chicks and 6 names were chosen. The two yellow chicks are named Rocky (Mrs Sweeney) and Ricky (Ms Gormley). The four...
Donegal Primary Schools Athletic Challenge 2022 hosted by Finn Valley AC
Congratulations to all the boys and girls from Woodland NS who participated in this years competition. Sixty five children from our school attended the event. We had a very successful day and here are some of the results and photos from the day. More photos are on...
Sensory Garden Art
Congratulations to the boys and girls who designed these beautiful posters for display in our sensory garden .They examined the theme of the 5 senses . We have some very talented artists in Woodland NS . They should be very proud as their work will brighten up our...
First Holy Communion 2022
Well done to the girls and boys from Ms Kilkenny and Ms People's classes who made their First Holy Communion on Saturday. It was a very special day receiving this sacrament for the first time. Thank you to the Parent's Association for the lovely treat on Monday.
‘Future Leaders’ Gaelic Blitz at St Eunan’s College
Our boys from fifth class were invited to participate in a Go-Games blitz at St. Eunan’s college in Letterkenny. The transition year students organised it as part of their ‘Future Leaders’ module in TY. It was extremely well run and the boys had a fantastic day out...
UNICEF Ukraine Appeal
Our 6th class children donated some of their confirmation money to the UNICEF Ukraine appeal. A total of €1000.00 was raised to help children and their families in Ukraine. This money will go a long way in helping UNICEF work day and night to scale up its response and...
Lá Glas
On Wednesday, 16th March, we held our St Patrick's Day Colours and we raised an amazing €1070 for the Laura Lynn Foundation. Thank you to all our families for their generosity for this wonderful charity. Our Student Council is pictured below presenting the cheque to...
First Confession Preparation
The boys and girls in 2nd Class will make their First Confession on Tuesday 22nd of March. They have worked so hard in preparing for this very special sacrament.
Céilí Dancing i Rang a Dó
The boys and girls in 2nd Class were learning Céilí dancing this week. The learned An Dreolín and Ballaí Luimnigh. Look at them go-they were fantastic!!
Well-Being Week: “Let’s Connect”
Our Well-being team at Woodland NS organised a very successful Well-being week in February. Our theme this year was "Let's Connect". The idea was that even with all the restrictions, we still value the importance of connecting as a staff and a school body. We paired...
Our Strengths Tree
This month we were able to start adding leaves to our Strengths Tree again after nearly 2 years. This initiative is to help us develop our well-being. Different people have different character strengths. When we use our best strengths it helps us feel happy....
Congratulations Rang 6
A massive congratulations to our Rang 6 boys and girls who made their confirmation at the weekend. They did fabulous work in their preparation for receiving the Holy Spirit. Maith Sibh!!
Confirmation Retreat
Our Confirmation Retreat In the morning we started with a morning prayer. We played a clapping game. We then got put into our small groups. In our small groups we played a game and talked about ourselves. The small group teachers were called Sandra, Jamie, Henry and...
Stories of our Grandparents
Catholic Schools Week was celebrated in our school from Monday, January 24th – Friday, January 28th. The theme for Catholic Schools Week 2022...
Stay Safe Online
Safer Internet Day took place on Tuesday, February 8th. We discussed and learned how to stay safe online. Some important tips we learned and would like to pass onto you are…. Don’t share your personal information with ANYONE! Never meet anyone you only know online....
Valentine’s Day in 4th Class
4th Class enjoyed a Valentine's Day quiz on Monday. The winners were delighted with themselves. They also chose someone important in their lives and designed a poster and wrote 10 reasons why they love them.
Love is in the air
The boys and girls did lovely Valentine's art last week and they made Valentine's boxes for their families full of kind and loving messages.
Movement breaks help our wellbeing at school
The boys and girls in Room 8 work very hard in class every day, but they sometimes need a short movement break between lessons so that they are ready to work hard again for the next lesson. They have particularly been loving Coach Corey Martin on Youtube for these...
iPads in 2nd Class
There was great excitement when the iPads landed in 2nd Class recently. The boys and girls have been using them to practise their maths using the websites https://mathsframe.co.uk and https://www.mathplayground.com. They have also been doing quizzes on Kahoot based on...
Unihoc Fun
The boys and girls in Ms Kilkenny's Class loved learning the skills involved in unihoc recently. There was great fun when they used these when playing some games too.
4th Class Houses & Homes Projects
Homes & Houses - A fourth class project by Mrs Sweeney and Mr O’Malley’s classes. Everybody had great fun building their projects. We saw every type of building from cottages to caves to windmills. A special mention to Beth McNern Stella O’Donnell and Zac...
Learning about Pablo Picasso
Rang 6 learned about Pablo Picasso. He is probably the most important figure of the 20th century, in terms of art, and art movements that occurred over this period. As an artist and an innovator, he is responsible for co-founding the entire Cubist movement alongside...
Exploring our feelings and emotions through Expressionism
Expressionism Mr. Meehan’s Rang 6 explored their feelings and emotions through Expressionism. Expressionism is a type of art using shapes, colours and lines that all mean something. Artists use expressionism to show their feelings, for example – Blue: Sad, calm,...
Making St. Brigid’s Crosses
4th class had great fun making crosses on St. Brigid’s Day. Special thanks to Amy who brought in lots of rushes and helped everyone start their cross!
Making St. Brigid Crosses
We made our St. Brigid crosses on February 1st. First we got some people to bring in rushes for our crosses. When we came in we cleared our desks and got ready. Master Meehan put on a tutorial to show us how to do it. Over the course of the day people made more and...
Exploring Electricity
Mr. Meehan's 6th class were exploring electricity in science. What have we Learned? Electricity needs a circuit. You can make light with 2 batteries, 2 wires and a bulb. You need two wires connecting to a bulb. If you put the wire on the rim of the bulb it is brighter...
Christmas at Woodland NS
Mr Meehan's Sixth Class are learning about how to make movies using the ipads. They decided that as the parents couldn't come in to see Christmas Plays this year, they would make a film to show you all just how festive our school looks. We have lots of trees, lots and...