Our Scholastic Book fair is currently on-going in our school. Our Book Fair is a celebration of reading that puts the very best books directly into our pupils’ hands. Over 200 of the newest and best books from over sixty publishers are available to our pupils to help them develop a life-long love of reading. Our Book [...]
Our Junior Spring Concert proved to be a most exciting and entertaining morning when our junior classes performed to a packed audience of parents and grandparents in our halla. All our pupils excelled in singing, dancing, acting and recitations. Our 'Over the Rainbow' Playschool performed Songs and Rhymes. Our Junior Infants dramatised ‘Hats Off’ and [...]
Friendship Week took place 28 January - 1 February 2019. This event was organised by the Student Council. All classes were involved in the creation of a beautiful display in the reception area of the school, entitled 'Hanging with my Friends'. The Student Council spoke to the school in assembly about the importance of friendship, [...]
On January 29th 2019, Peter Duggan, Clare hurler, paid a visit to Barefield National School. He was invited to mark the occasion of our school achieving an Active School flag. Peter is a 25 year old hurler and he plays his club hurling with Clooney Quin. His position on the field is wing or full [...]
It was a pleasure to open our school on Thursday 24th of January 2019 to all perspective parents. It was lovely to meet such enthusiastic parents and a great opportunity for staff and pupils to meet families coming to our school in the near future.
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 [...]
Board of Management and staff of Barefield N.S. are delighted to announce that children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can now look forward to receiving their primary education in Barefield N.S., where a specialised class for teaching children with autism has now been approved by the Department of Education and Skills. The ASD classroom will [...]
Today we had our end of term Christmas Mass. Our Senior Infants performed The Nativity Play under the excellent direction of Ms. Daly, Ms. Power and Ms. Quinn. Well done to Ms. Moore for co-ordinating the occasion, to Ms. Corrigan for the superb Christmas performance by our choir, to Fr. Jerry for a most meaningful [...]
We completed group and individual Christmas art projects in Ms O'Connor's room.
“Don’t trash where we splash” The Green School Committee are hoping to obtain their 8th and final Green School Flag this coming school year. They organised an A4 Poster competition on our new theme ‘Marine Environment’ which focuses on raising awareness of marine eco-systems and the work being done to save them. All classes took [...]
