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Sports Day

Despite showery conditions, our sports day was most exciting between sunshine and showers. Sports Day commenced with our pre-school children running a race on our astro-turf. Pupils participated in sprints, long races, relays, sack races, three-legged races, obstacle courses, egg and spoon race, high jump and long jump entertaining the large number of parents in [...]

By |2019-06-19T21:37:10+01:00June 19th, 2019|Celebrations, News, PE|Comments Off on Sports Day

Information Morning for Parents of New Pupils

Today was a very busy morning in Barefield N.S. when we welcomed parents of new infants, new pupils enrolling in higher classes and pupils enrolling in our ASD class. School Principal John Burns outlined school routines, practices and policies. They were entertained by our current Junior infants singing a song, schoolchoir and céilí band. Rang [...]

By |2019-06-18T18:51:06+01:00June 18th, 2019|Celebrations, News, Parents' Association|Comments Off on Information Morning for Parents of New Pupils

Searching for Harry!

Our Playschool children had a very exciting morning when their pet Harry went missing. They searched the whole school, the computer room, the Library, our Secretary's Office, classrooms, and eventually they  found him chatting with Mr.Burns. They were so delighted. Mr. Burns gave them a little treat for all their hard work.

By |2019-06-18T18:33:24+01:00June 18th, 2019|Celebrations, News|Comments Off on Searching for Harry!

Board of Management Annual Review of Anti-Bullying Policy

The Board of Management of Barefield N.S. wishes to inform parents that the annual review of the school's Anti-Bullying Policy and its implementation was completed at the Board meeting, dated 21-05-2019. This review was conduct in accordance with the checklist set out in Appendix 4 of the Department's Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools.

By |2019-05-24T10:51:03+01:00May 24th, 2019|Board of Management, News, Parents' Association|Comments Off on Board of Management Annual Review of Anti-Bullying Policy

Visit of St. Flannan’s College Students and Scientists

We welcomed  Jack, Emer, Elise, Gavin and Eoin, students from St. Flannan's College, who visited our pupils to explain about their project, called Terra Star. With this project, they won third prize in the International NASA Ames space settlement design contest (most senior category).  TerraStar features a plan to 3D print a settlement in-situ in [...]

By |2019-05-24T08:39:40+01:00May 23rd, 2019|Celebrations, Discover Primary Science and Maths, News, Science, Visual Arts|Comments Off on Visit of St. Flannan’s College Students and Scientists

First Holy Communion 2019

Today, our Rang II pupils received their First Holy Communion  by Fr. Jerry Carey in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Barefield. It was a most meaningful and beautiful ceremony. Congratulations to their teachers Ms. Baker  and Mr. Chambers  who had the pupils excellently prepared. Our pupils read their prayers and  enhanced the ceremony with [...]

By |2019-05-18T16:32:21+01:00May 18th, 2019|News, Religion|Comments Off on First Holy Communion 2019

First Holy Communion, Saturday May 18th 2019

Our best wishes to all our First Holy Communion  pupils and their families for Saturday, May 18th. The Sacrament of First Holy Communion will be celebrated in Barefield Church at 11.00a.m. Refreshments served afterwards in our school halla. All families welcome.

By |2019-05-16T20:15:53+01:00May 16th, 2019|News, Religion|Comments Off on First Holy Communion, Saturday May 18th 2019

Global Citizenship – Marine Environment

As part of our efforts to obtain our 7th Green Flag, our Rang VI pupils, fully equipped,  ventured to Quilty Beach, where we cleaned the beach, collecting all types of rubbish and plastics. The renowned environmentalist, Carmel Madigan, taught our pupils about our  marine eco-systems and the work being done to save them. It was [...]

By |2019-05-16T20:11:51+01:00May 16th, 2019|News, Science, SPHE|Comments Off on Global Citizenship – Marine Environment
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