Our Beautiful Rainbow
Ms. Whelan and our Senior Infants have been very busy learning how to look after their minds over the past three weeks. They have created their own colour monsters and a mindfulness jar to represent their busy minds. Our busy Senior Infants have worked on meditation, and learned how to [...]
Garden of Gratitude
Over the past three weeks, Ms. O'Sullivan and our Senior Infants have been exploring and engaging with different Mindfulness activities. Each day, the pupils have taken part in a range of activities such as meditation sessions, breathing exercises and mindfulness art. As part of this Programme, each pupil created his/her [...]
Poets of the Future.
This week Mr. Gleeson and pupils of Rang V were busy learning all there is to know about poetry. They explored a variety of poetic techniques, practised their rhyming skills and studied the work of William Shakespeare. Each pupil got the opportunity to create a poem based on a close [...]
Diocesan Day of Remembrance
Ceremonies were held in different classrooms in Barefield N.S. today to honour, and to remember those who have died this year and those who have been bereaved through the death of loved ones. We also remembered those who have died due to the global pandemic. Ar dheis Dé go raibh [...]
Clare Crusaders Christmas Cards Sale
We are delighted to support Clare Crusaders in their Christmas Cards Sale. Clare Crusaders provide invaluable assistance to our pupils through Speech, Language and Occupational Therapy advice and support. Please see poster hereunder for the beautiful Christmas Card samples that they have on sale. Orders can be placed by emailing [...]
Musical Instrument Inventions
The boys and girls in second class came up with some fantastic inventions and creations for our Science Week project where they had to create and make a musical instrument. The pupils really excelled and used their creative and ingenious skills to make fantastic and interesting instruments. Well done to [...]
Science Week in Rang 6
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 [...]
Science week in Junior Infants
Junior Infants really enjoyed their first Science week . We were looking at Light this month. In class we did lots of fun activities identifying colours and sorting colours. During the week each child got to be a scientist and discover what new colours they made when they mixed the [...]
Watch Us Grow!
Our Junior Infants planted Spring flowers last week. We planted daffodils, snowdrops, bluebells and a hyacinth bulb. We are very excited to see how they will change and grow from a bulb into a beautiful flower. We learned the names of the different parts of a flower and what they [...]
Science Week in 6th Class!
6th class were exploring Materials and Change for Science Week 2020. We explored different powders, and even made our own butter and ice-cream!
Happy Science Week!
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 [...]
Parent’s Guide: if your child is a close contact of COVID-19 in school
Dear Parents, The HSE has published a very informative video about what to do if your child is a close contact of a person with COVID-19. Listen to expert advice from Dr Abigail Collins on what to do if your child has been in close contact with [...]