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 [...]
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 [...]
The boys and girls in 5th class had great fun dressing up for Halloween. We also enjoyed participating in some Halloween games, dressing up as mummies, Maltesers Mouths and playing Ghostly Goals. The children really enjoyed their day and a huge effort was made by all.
There was great excitement on Friday when the children arrived to school dressed in their Halloween costumes. They are looked fantastic and a little bit scary!! The children had a great day and really enjoyed all the Halloween fun. Thanks to the parents for all their efforts!! It was definitely worth it. The children looked so [...]
During the first few weeks of October the pupils have been working very hard on their history projects. The theme was THE STONE AGE. The pupils worked very hard on their projects and were able to present them to the class via the interactive white board. All the pupils participated and did their best.
Art inspired from our history lesson. The children enjoyed painting in orange, red, brown and black paint.
Bishop Fintan recently visited our local Templemaley, a site near our school, that is rich in History, Cultural and Religious traditions. Please click on title heading 'Local History Templemaley' to view his visit on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFTPXulBF2A&feature=youtu.be
Happy World Ocean Day! Today is usually a special day at our school. Last year, pupils and staff dressed in blue. Carmel Madigan (Explorers Education Marine Institute), Róisín Garvey (An Taisce), Hugh O' Malley (Achill Oysters) and Joe Queally (RNLI) visited the school and worked with the children. There was a fabulous exhibition, all pupils [...]
I am delighted to inform you all that our application for the Global Citizenship Marine Environment Green Flag has been successful. Barefield School has been awarded its eight Green Flag! Ms. Power, Mr Chambers and the Green Schools Committees, past and present, deserve a huge amount of thanks for their hard work and dedication. We [...]
