Ms Baker and Ms. Clune's 5th classes and Ms. Corrigan and Mr Chambers' 6th classes held a virtual author visit through Zoom yesterday. The author was Ronan Moore who has written an adventure story called 'Young Fionn' for 8-12 year olds based on the stories of Fionn McCumhaill and Na Fianna. Ronan read excerpts from [...]
After reading about Manga drawings in our English book, we tried them out in class. We following an online tutorial and created very unique portraits. We found it a little difficult but still very enjoyable! Manga is a typically Japanese way of drawing comics and graphic novels. We hope you enjoy looking at our drawings.
This week pupils in Fifth and Sixth classes have been working hard on their entries for the Cleaner Air Poetry Competition. This year's theme is 'My Journey to School'. We are looking forward to hearing all of their fabulous poems!
As part of Clean Air Week, First Class pupils learned about the negative effects of 'idling'. 'Idling' is when the car's engine is running but the car is not moving e.g. waiting outside the school. Idling is bad for the environment and bad for our health. It also wastes fuel and therefore wastes money. All [...]
This week is Clean Air Week. The aim of this campaign is to raise awareness of air pollution and to take action to reduce it. This can be done by increasing active travel such as walking or cycling to school. To celebrate Clean Air Week, we will be encouraging fifth and sixth class pupils to [...]
Tomorrow, the pupils and staff of Barefield NS will be celebrating. We will be raising our eight Green Flag for our work on Global Citizenship:Marine Environment. Please watch the video below to hear from our Chairperson and Secretary. We were also delighted to receive special messages from Carmel Madigan (Loop Head Summer School and the [...]
Ms. Whelan and our Senior Infants have been very busy learning how to look after their minds over the past three weeks. They have created their own colour monsters and a mindfulness jar to represent their busy minds. Our busy Senior Infants have worked on meditation, and learned how to use bunny breathing and rainbow [...]
This week Mr. Gleeson and pupils of Rang V were busy learning all there is to know about poetry. They explored a variety of poetic techniques, practised their rhyming skills and studied the work of William Shakespeare. Each pupil got the opportunity to create a poem based on a close encounter. Their poems were influenced [...]
Barefield NS is fortunate to be hosting a Zoom call with the author Ronan Moore this week. The senior classes will be getting the opportunity to hear Ronan Moore over Zoom in their classes. We'd like to thank the Ennis Bookshop in helping to coordinate this wonderful opportunity for the pupils in the school. Barefield [...]
Today the wonderful boys and girls in Blossom & Bloom made some brown bread. The children loved mixing the ingredients, preparing the baking tin and putting the dough into the oven. Watch out GBBO 🍞🍞
