Today, in Irish, we read a story in our ‘Léigh sa Bhaile’ reader called ‘Cuimilt Duilleoige’. We read and translated the story about leaf rubbings & produced lovely pictures using Autumn colours. It so easy to do. Nil uait ach duilleog tirim, páipéar bán agus crián. (All you need is a dry leaf, white paper [...]
Pupils from Rang I had a very exciting morning this morning. Mr. Ruane invited us to visit his office to learn all about what it is like to be principal of Barefield N.S. First, Mr. Ruane showed us all of the files and folders he uses. Next, Mr. Ruane drew our attention to the portraits [...]
Ms. Buckley is currently on placement in our school. She visited our classroom today and taught two lovely lessons. The children listened to a beautiful story called "Cloudette" by Tom Lichtenheld. They read some of the story, discussed it and answered questions based on the story. Afterwards, pupils were treated to a fabulous autumn collage [...]
Here are just some of the pupils, parents and staff members who cycled, scooted or walked to school this morning on National COW Day (Cycle on Wednesday). Well done everybody!
This week in science we are learning all about our 5 senses. We decided to go on a sensory walk around the school to put them to the test. We were so delighted that Mr Ruane’s sense of hearing was working well as when he heard us passing his office he invited us inside to take [...]
Tomorrow is National COW Day (Cycle on Wednesday). Our Green Schools Committee is asking our pupil, parents and staff to cycle, scoot or walk to school, where possible. Class teachers and Green Schools representatives will record the number of children who cycle, scoot or walk to school in each class. These numbers will be submitted [...]
Best of luck to Mayo and Tyrone this weekend. We have some Mayo supporters big and small in the school.
The pupils of Barefield N.S. are currently working on the Green Schools Theme- Global Citizenship: Travel. The ultimate aim of this theme is to continue to encourage pupils to walk, cycle or scoot to school thus reducing harmful emissions. The theme of Global Citizenship: Travel helps pupils to understand how our work is having a [...]
We are delighted to announce that Yoga, Modern Dance and Gymnastics are back up and running at Barefield NS. Yoga started back last Tuesday in the PE Hall with Eimear McCarthy and each class will receive a 4-week block. Gymnastics will begin on Nov 3rd with Magda and each class also have 4 sessions, while [...]
We were delighted to welcome back Eimer our Yoga teacher.
