At the moment, our school is full of buzz and excitement preparing for our Senior Spring Concert. The busiest room in our school is our halla! Our pupils are really enjoying rehearsing for their performances. We are really looking forward to preforming for all our parents in Glór next Tuesday night, February 18th. We look [...]
Our Junior Spring Concert proved to be a most exciting and entertaining morning when our junior classes performed to a packed audience of parents and grandparents in our halla. All our pupils excelled in singing, dancing, acting and recitations. Our ‘Over the Rainbow’ Playschool performed Songs, Poems and Rhymes. Our Junior Infants dramatised ‘There's a [...]
Our school Choir journeyed to Bord Gáis Energy Theatre to view the musical, The Sound of Music. This musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether or not to become a nun. She falls in love with the children and their widowed father, [...]
At Barefield N.S we are so fortunate to have wonderful parents who are very generous with their talents and time. Yesterday Jennifer came to visit our two First Classes and treated them to a fabulous puppet show. The puppet show was great fun but also very informative. The children learned all about the importance of [...]
THE CHILDREN LEARNED THAT DINOSAURS HAVE BEEN EXTINCT FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS BUT PAELONTOLOGISTS DIG UP THEIR BONES AND FOSSILS AND THEY CAN BE SEEN IN A MUSEUM. THEY LEARNED THAT THE DINOSAURS WHO ATE MEAT WERE CALLED CARNIVORES AND THOSE WHO ATE PLANTS WERE HERBIVORES. THEY DID COLOURING PICTURES AND WORKSHEETS AND LEARNED A [...]
Today we had our end of term Christmas Mass. Our Senior Infants performed The Nativity Play under the excellent direction of Ms. Power, Mr. Murray, Ms. Daly and Ms. Quinn. Well done to Ms. Moore for co-ordinating the occasion, to Ms. Corrigan for the superb Christmas performance by our choir and to Fr. Ger Fitzgerald for [...]
What a wonderful and colourful Christmas Assembly morning we had in school today. Our pupils were dressed in green, red, white and blue as they learned about the Christmas Story. Afterwards, we were treated to a Christmas Concert of festive carols and songs. During our Assembly, special prayers were said for the poor and homeless [...]
Our Hallwe'en Party truly lived up to all expectations this year. We had fairies, princes and pupils dressed in the most creative and fun costumes roaming our classrooms and corridors. Bhain gach duine sár taitneamh as an lá. A huge 'bualadh bos' to all who made such a spooktacular effort!
This has been a very successful year for Barefield National School and our Marine Environment Initiatives. All the students and staff have put in lots of effort and we are all now much more aware of the Marine Environment and the damage that is being caused. Summer Holidays and the good weather are here so [...]
Our pupils happily watched M&M Productions perform 'The Hobbit'. The story was about an old wizard who was looking for a hobbit to go on a dangerous adventure to find golden, sparkling treasure. He found the perfect hobbit to go on this magical adventure: Bilbo Baggins. They set off the next bright sunny morning. We [...]
