Meet our new Green School Committee for the School Year 2019-2020. We are working extremely hard behind the scenes planning our school year ahead. The new Green Team presented a presentation at whole school Assembly, November 25th on the theme of the Marine Environment. The committee spoke about their hopes of obtaining their final Green [...]
RTE Legend and Presenter, Marty Morrissey, received a rapturous applause and huge cheer when he visited Barefield N.S. He presented our boys and girls with their football medals and spoke to all our pupils emphasising the importance of participating in sports and of enjoying themselves. It was a most enjoyable and memorable morning for all. [...]
A fantastic Table Quiz was held last night to raise funds for our school Choir. Our halla was packed with friends and families. Congratulations to Team Cahill who eventually won a most enjoyable Quiz. Well done to Ms. Corrigan for organising the questions and to Fr. Jerry for being an excellent Quiz Master. It was [...]
Just a few photographs to show the children busy with their spider webs in Visual Art before the Halloween. The children were set the task of ensuring no two web windows could be the same colour i.e. none of the 'web boxes' could match in colour to the one next to it.
In autumn the children enjoyed engaging in Visual Arts. Drawing trees, using the colours of brown, orange, yellow and green the children had to paint an autumn themed drawing. Another challenging art lesson was the use of the interactive white board to display an animal or animals associated with autumn i.e. hedgehog & red squirrel. [...]
For many years, our Clare Education Centre has been promoting the teaching of ‘Science’ in Barefield N.S. and in other schools around Co. Clare. The promotion of active learning as well as co-operative learning were the foundation on which this promotion was built. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. Pupils in our Ranganna [...]
Members of the Green Schools Committee met this week to start planning our work for the coming year. This year we will be applying for our eighth Green Flag- Global Citizenship: Marine Environment. The Committee will be speaking at the November Assembly and we are also organising a talk for the infant classes.
Barefield National School participated in the Concern Worldwide Debating competition last week. The pupils from Ms Clune's 5th class took on the pupils from Inch National School. The motion was “Primary School children should be banned from owning a mobile phone”. The pupils were proposing the motion and it was a very close affair. In [...]
Currently, our pupils are mini-scientists. Einstein would be very proud of us! Experiments are underway in classrooms involving: Forces, Magnetism, Properties of Materials, Characteristics of Materials, and Electricity. Teachers are amazed with the ingenuity and initiatives shown by their pupils. A major Science Exhibition Day is planned in our Halla for Friday, November 15th. On [...]
We wish to pay tribute to the the late Gay Byrne R.I.P., pioneering Broadcaster, host of the Late, Late Show on RTÉ television and The Gay Byrne Show on RTÉ Radio. During one of our visits to the RDS Science Exhibitions, he kindly came over to view our pupils' science projects and he also found [...]
