We've had a very sunny start to our Active School Week. We had many organised today. We had aerobics, soccer, handball, hurling, fitness and movement skills, nutrition talk and skipping. Many thanks to today's visitors- Famous, Rumy, Ray, Gráinne, Andrew, Natasha, Rory, Mark , Conor and Declan. What a wonderfully active day! [...]
Some beaches across Ireland are left in dire conditions with discarded plastic items strewn in every direction. As part of raising civic responsibility and awareness in our pupils about the dangers and quantity of plastic waste on our beautiful beaches, our Rang VI pupils visited some Clare beaches, namely Ross Beach and Rhinevilla Beach, to [...]
Congratulations to our victorious set dancing stars who won the coveted John Fennell Trophy in Doonbeg on Sunday, May 20th. They were presented with beautiful tropheys. Their rhythm, beat, style, precision, presentation and beaming smiles impressed not only the Adjudicators but also the audience. They received a huge round of applause at the end. Congratulations [...]
This week is National Walk to School Week. Our Active and Green School's Committees are encouraging everybody to walk to school if possible. Please support us and walk from Hassett’s carpark every morning this week with your parents or a responsible adult. An Taisce Green-Schools’ National Walk to School Week is a country-wide initiative which [...]
The SPAR FAI Primary School 5s is the biggest competition in Primary Schools’ soccer. Nationally, this competition involves 28,576 pupils with over 1,495 schools participating. Last month, our boys became Co. Clare Soccer Champions in this competition. On Tuesday May 8th., they travelled to Tralee to participate in the Munster Finals. They played excellently beating Limerick and [...]
The All-Ireland Surf Lifesaving Nipper Championships were held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin, Sunday 23-04-2018. Barefield N.S. was very well represented on the Clare Team that participated at this event. The Clare Little Nipper Team were delighted to win the National Nipper Trophy. Barefield pupils on the team are: Darragh & Graham ball, [...]
The Cumann na mBunscol Mini Sevens County Football Finals, sponsored by The Clare Champion, took place in Gurteen last Thursday, with great excitement on show. Six teams qualified for the Final, divided into two groups of three. Barefield won their Group defeating CBS Primary and Lahinch N.S. and qualified for the Final. Lissycasey N.S. won [...]
On Friday 23rd March, the pupils of Barefield National School will have their first Feet First Friday! Parents are asked to park in Hassett's car park and pupils are to walk to school using the footpath. Pupils must be accompanied by a parent. Looking forwards to seeing loads of active youngsters on their way to [...]
A very enjoyable Easter Hunt, organised by the Active School's Committee, was held at school on Wednesday. Team members had to work together to locate points on a map, run to each location and solve questions. All team members were very active during the event as all members had to return to the Base station [...]
Fifth class were practicing and improving their gymnastics skills in the halla today!
