Congratulations to our past pupil Ciarán Burns along with Patrick McInerney, Frank Melody and Dean Ryan fundraised €27,199.91 for Temple Street Hospital. We were very proud to hold a raffle here in the school for a delicious hamper and a signed jersey from the Kilkenny hurling team. Many thanks to Ciaran for coming in and [...]
Congratulations to the pupils from Barefield National School who were part of the Clare team that participated in the All Ireland Surf Life Saving Competition in Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo. Both the Junior and Nipper teams from Co. Clare were the overall 2019 National Beach champions.
Well done to 45 pupils from Rang VI for hiking to the highest point in Clare on Friday. We left school for Killaloe at 9am and began our hike at 10.15am. We reached the peak of Moylussa (532 metres) after about 2 hours of walking. We took in the spectacular views of Lough Derg [...]
Congratulations to our Rang VI girls who showed unbelievable determination and skill during a hard fought battle against our neighbours, Knockanean NS, in the Division 1 Clare Ladies Football Final. The match took place in a sun drenched Cusack Park and was a nail-biting encounter from beginning to end. Knockanean led at half time on [...]
Last week we celebrated Active School week. A huge range of activities were organised for the children. The aim behind holding Active School Week is to promote and encourage children to become more active. We had soccer, tennis, rugby, aerobics, hockey, athletics, cycling, basketball and yoga on offer. Many thanks to the parents, older siblings [...]
The girls played two very exciting matches against Knockanean NS and Gaelscoil Mhichíl Cíosóg today. After a slight (accidental) detour to Gurteen we eventually arrived at the Gaelscoil's pitch, just in time for our games! The games were very competitive but our sheer determination and perseverance prevailed and we were victorious against both schools. We [...]
The sixth class girls were crowned champions of Clare in the FAI 5 a side schools soccer competition and will now go on to represent the school in the Munster finals in Limerick next Wednesday, May 15th . We are all very proud of their success to date. We wish the team and their coach, [...]
The girls School Basketball team were unlucky in their final of the Marion Keane Tournament. They were beaten by an excellent team from Cree N.S. and Clohanbeg N.S.. Well done to all the teams who took part and thank you to Mol and Óige for hosting such a great tournament this year.
Best of luck to our Sixth Class girls team tomorrow as they will be taking part in the final stage of the Marion Keane Basketball Tournament. The competition will take place in Ennistymon at 11am.
Sixth class took part in a beach clean-up of Bishop's Quarter in Ballyvaughan last week. Many bags of rubbish were collected. We found plastic bottles, netting and even a few shoes! When our hard work was complete we got a few minutes to play in the sand dunes! Afterwards we enjoyed a delicious lunch in [...]
