During the first few weeks of October the pupils have been working very hard on their history projects. The theme was THE STONE AGE. The pupils worked very hard on their projects and were able to present them to the class via the interactive white board. All the pupils participated and did their best.
Art inspired from our history lesson. The children enjoyed painting in orange, red, brown and black paint.
We are very grateful once more to all the parents that have supported this initiative this year. It allows the school to gain rewards from Scholastic. These rewards are then used to purchase accelerated reader books for the school library. I would also like to thank the parents' association who help with the three days [...]
As it was Maths Week this week we had a game of Battle Ship on Friday. It was very engaging and there was lots of excitement and fun had. The pupils had to input their three ships on a grid. There were 16 places available on the grid. The horizontal axis was ABCD while the [...]
Junior Infants have been learning a lot about autumn this month. Last Wednesday we went on an ‘Autumn Walk’ looking for signs of autumn. We found lots of red, yellow, orange and brown leaves. We found berries growing and took note of the autumn weather. The children really enjoyed the walk, it was great to [...]
Junior Infants have been very busy over the last number of weeks. They have all been really good at school and are working hard, having fun and making friends. The children have been learning lots of songs and rhymes, listening to stories, doing lots of colouring and pencil work and are doing really well with [...]
The children in our Blossom and Bloom class have been very busy getting ready for Halloween this week. We had a pumpkin hunt in our school garden on Wednesday. Lots of fun was had carving our pumpkins in class.
3rd class pupils have been enjoying some extra Maths activities for Maths Week 2020! This morning they played a mystery number game. They listened to clues and eliminated the numbers from a grid one by one until the mystery number was left. This afternoon they played a place value game with a partner. Each player [...]
We are really looking forward to Halloween in First Class. Today we listened to spooky music and created creepy Halloween pictures. Each child presented their artwork to their classmates. They discussed the eerie additions that made their artwork super scary. Well done everybody!
Today marked a very special day in Barefield National Schools’ history, as our Principal Mr. John Burns celebrated 40 years in Barefield National School. We marked the special occasion, by celebrating our schools opening year prayer service. The pupils from the student council recited prayers of the faithful and we thanks Mr. Burns and the [...]
