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 [...]
It was Science Week last week. Junior Infants are learning all about light this month. The children shared what their favourite colour is. They became scientists and discovered how to make colours lighter!! They also learned about day and night and completed some sorting activities based on this. The children really enjoyed the lessons and [...]
6th class investigated materials for Science Week 2020. We made a non-newtonian fluid using cornflour & water - apply pressure & it's a solid, let it relax and it's a liquid. We also investigated what happens when you combine an acid and a base and used it to make Carbon Dioxide.
Today the wonderful boys and girls in Blossom & Bloom made some brown bread. The children loved mixing the ingredients, preparing the baking tin and putting the dough into the oven. Watch out GBBO 🍞🍞
6th class were exploring Materials and Change for Science Week 2020. We explored different powders, and even made our own butter and ice-cream!
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.
Rang 1 had great fun today learning all about sound. We made paper cup string telephones […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
