Marine Week 2021
We are celebrating Marine Week this week. Today we learned all about sharks and we even learned how to draw one!
Marine Week 19th-23rd April 2021
This week, Green-Schools Ireland is launching the first ever Marine Week. It will be the Green- Schools first ever week long celebration of the sea. Each day, new activities will be uploaded to the Green-Schools Marine Week web page. There will be interactive talks, art, well being activities, educational videos and science experiments on a [...]
‘Sneachta Watch’
Last Thursday the children in Junior Infants were on 'Sneachta Watch'. We have been learning lots about the weather in Irish and this week the children were practicing 'Tá sé ag cur sneachta', 'Sin fear sneachta' and 'calóga sneachta'. So there was great excitement on Thursday when the children went outside agus bhí calóga sneachta [...]
Poetry in the Making
This week pupils in Fifth and Sixth classes have been working hard on their entries for the Cleaner Air Poetry Competition. This year's theme is 'My Journey to School'. We are looking forward to hearing all of their fabulous poems!
No Idling Please!
As part of Clean Air Week, First Class pupils learned about the negative effects of 'idling'. 'Idling' is when the car's engine is running but the car is not moving e.g. waiting outside the school. Idling is bad for the environment and bad for our health. It also wastes fuel and therefore wastes money. All [...]
Clean Air Week 2020
This week is Clean Air Week. The aim of this campaign is to raise awareness of air pollution and to take action to reduce it. This can be done by increasing active travel such as walking or cycling to school. To celebrate Clean Air Week, we will be encouraging fifth and sixth class pupils to [...]
Green Flag Celebrations
Tomorrow, the pupils and staff of Barefield NS will be celebrating. We will be raising our eight Green Flag for our work on Global Citizenship:Marine Environment. Please watch the video below to hear from our Chairperson and Secretary. We were also delighted to receive special messages from Carmel Madigan (Loop Head Summer School and the [...]
Happy Science Week!
This week is Science Week and we have been learning all about sound, vibrations and sound waves. We completed the paper cup/phone experiment and the rice/drum experiment. Each pod also picked a scene and created their own sound effects to suit the scene using cubes, paper, plastic, pasta, rice and various other materials.
Green Schools Update
Members of the Green-Schools Committee are starting work on the school’s ninth theme- Global Citizenship: Travel. The ultimate aim of this theme is to continue our collaborative work with the Active School Committee on encouraging pupils to walk or cycle to school where possible. This theme will also allow us to discover how our work [...]