Halloween Hunt
Yesterday our two first classes went on a 'Halloween Hunt' in their pods around the school. The children worked together to solve the spooky riddles. Great fun was had by all!
Halloween Raffle
Barefield Parents Association would like to thank our sponsors Lidl for the delicious hamper of goodies ( kindly organised by parent Liene Paegle ) and also Sue Currid for donating her beautifully handcrafted pumpkin hamper. Your support is so appreciated and many thanks to all parents who supported our fundraiser. [...]
Principal’s Hallowe’en Message 2020
Our school re-opened on Thursday, August 27th and our whole school community has worked so hard in adhering to NPHET and HSE Guidelines and in enriching the learning experiences of all our pupils. Unfortunately, the virus is currently widespread in our community so we must be extra vigilant. Our country [...]
Maths Week 2020
Last week was National Maths Week. 6th Class engaged with lots of activities hosted on mathsweek.ie which highlighted just how important maths are for everyday life and the ubiquity of maths in our world. Here we are tuning into a live stream by Andrew Jeffrey showing the maths behind many [...]
Scholastic Books for the Library
We are very grateful once more to all the parents that have supported this initiative this year. It allows the school to gain rewards from Scholastic. These rewards are then used to purchase accelerated reader books for the school library. I would also like to thank the parents' association who [...]
Board of Management Meeting via Zoom 07/10/20
The board met last Wednesday evening, the 7th October via Zoom and had a very productive meeting. Please see the PRO report underneath.
Pumpkin Picking
The children in our Blossom and Bloom class have been very busy getting ready for Halloween this week. We had a pumpkin hunt in our school garden on Wednesday. Lots of fun was had carving our pumpkins in class.
Maths Week Junior Infants
We have been busy working on our sorting skills in Junior Infants. We have sorted a variety of different items into sets according to their size, type, colour... etc. We had lots of fun doing this. Today, we also completed a matching activity where we had to find a friend [...]
Maths Week 2020 in 3rd Class
3rd class pupils have been enjoying some extra Maths activities for Maths Week 2020! This morning they played a mystery number game. They listened to clues and eliminated the numbers from a grid one by one until the mystery number was left. This afternoon they played a place value game [...]
Junior Infants 2020
Our Junior Infants have been very busy since they started school. We have been learning lots of rhymes & songs, practising our new words in Irish, completing matching & sorting activities in Maths, doing lots of Art activities, listening to stories and [...]
Looking Forward to Halloween
We are really looking forward to Halloween in First Class. Today we listened to spooky music and created creepy Halloween pictures. Each child presented their artwork to their classmates. They discussed the eerie additions that made their artwork super scary. Well done everybody!