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 [...]
Over the past three weeks, Ms. O'Sullivan and our Senior Infants have been exploring and engaging with different Mindfulness activities. Each day, the pupils have taken part in a range of activities such as meditation sessions, breathing exercises and mindfulness art. As part of this Programme, each pupil created his/her own individual flower. These flowers [...]
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 [...]
Ceremonies were held in different classrooms in Barefield N.S. today to honour, and to remember those who have died this year and those who have been bereaved through the death of loved ones. We also remembered those who have died due to the global pandemic. Ar dheis Dé go raibh siad go léir! It was [...]
The boys and girls in second class came up with some fantastic inventions and creations for our Science Week project where they had to create and make a musical instrument. The pupils really excelled and used their creative and ingenious skills to make fantastic and interesting instruments. Well done to all!!!
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 [...]
It was Science Week last week. Junior Infants are learning all about light this month. The children shared what their favourite colour is. They became scientists and discovered how to make colours lighter!! They also learned about day and night and completed some sorting activities based on this. The children really enjoyed the lessons and [...]
6th class investigated materials for Science Week 2020. We made a non-newtonian fluid using cornflour & water - apply pressure & it's a solid, let it relax and it's a liquid. We also investigated what happens when you combine an acid and a base and used it to make Carbon Dioxide.
