We had a great day today drawing snowflakes on the yard with chalk. We also made some elves this week and I have to say they were full of mischief in our classroom as our class elf ‘Cookie’ sprinkled them with some magic dust which gave them the power to move around our room - [...]
We gathered together on Friday to mark the end of school term and to award our Pupils and Classes of the month. The focus of our assembly today was to wish everyone a happy and healthy Christmas and as a reminder to always be thankful for everything we have. Our Junior and Senior Infants sang [...]
Spotted over Barefield National School on Tuesday morning was one of Santas reindeers. Also we were lucky enough to see one of Santa’s signs, X marks the spot. These signs tells us Santa is definitely on his way…..
Our choir are finalists in the Audiology Medical Services Online Christmas Carol Competition!! We are one of 11 finalists and our entry is now open to a public vote! The school with the most votes wins, so get voting! Here is the link needed to cast your vote: https://bit.ly/31Ba7Fe Please share on all of your [...]
Congratulations to the pupils of our school, Leah, Ingrid and James who took part in the Community Games All-Ireland finals today in the University of Limerick.
After some experimentation with simple circuits, series circuits and parallel circuits the children had fun assembling their very own Scribble Bots. By making a circuit involving a motor which spun a weight, vibrations were transferred to the body (and coloured markers) of the Scribble Bot. Many different patterns and designs were created by the Scribble [...]
We are very lucky to have so many beautiful trees right on our doorstep in Barefield N.S. During the week, 5th class set about the task of identifying all of these trees. On the path just outside our school we identified birch, maple, elder and ash trees. Further down the path near the crossroad we [...]
What a great science Week. We had so much fun. We had a magnetic science trail around the school, we tested and investigated magnets and even got to see the magnetic field of a magnet using iron filings. We made a maths game called ‘Go Fish’ using magnets - one for all the family. Thanks [...]
Senior Infants have been very busy planting seeds and growing cress. They have been learning all about what seeds need to grow. They even made some clay pots to grow more plants from seeds at home! Well done Senior Infants!
Today marks the start of Science Week. The children will be doing lots of fun experiments and learning all about how science works. They will have fun with magnets & electricity. They will learn all about forces and the properties & characteristics of materials, along with lots more. There are a lot of great scientists [...]
