On Tuesday members of the Green Schools Committee travelled to Galway to the 2018 Green Flag Awards Ceremony. We collected our seventh Green Flag for the school- Global Citizenship:Energy. In September we will be starting work on the eighth and final theme- Global Citizenship: Marine Environment. Well done to the Committee on all of their [...]
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 [...]
Children from 5th class took part in Bizworld on Thursday and Friday. This is a programme aimed at promoting entrepreneurship skills in children. Aoife McDonagh from Bank of Ireland facilitated the workshops. The children came up with many creative business ideas. They discussed their ideas, applied for positions in their companies and marketed their businesses. [...]
As you are aware, Grandparents are very important people in the lives of your children. We will honour these special people, with a Celebration, “Grandparents’ Day” on Friday, March 16th in our school. Accordingly, we warmly invite all Grandparents / Step-Grandparents or special Grand-friends of our pupils to our special Celebration on Friday, March 16th Programme [...]
This week is Friendship Week here in Barefield N.S. We aim to celebrate friendship in a special way. The pupils themselves will undertake many activities which focus on showing respect and kindness to each other both at home and in school. We would encourage all parents to talk to the children about the events happening [...]
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