About

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Enrolment

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Calendar

View our annual Calendar of school openings and holiday closures throughout the year. This calendar may be subject to change.

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Welcome to Barefield NS

Barefield National School has a distinguished history in the field of Education. Since 1895, it has been a progressive centre of innovation and excellence in teaching and learning.

Our children have access to fantastic facilities. We have sixteen mainstream classrooms, a special class and two multi-sensory rooms for children with autism, six support teaching rooms, a large school hall, library, astro-turf pitch, basketball yard, two playing pitches and spacious yards. All classrooms have the latest flat-panel interactive boards.

Barefield National School

Barefield National School

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2 hours ago

Senior Infants read The Dot and learned that everyone can be an artist. 🎨 They had so much fun creating their own unique dots! 🌈🖍️ ...

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3 days ago

Junior Infants enjoyed listening to "Owl Babies" today 🦉 🦉 🦉 ...

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4 days ago

Many thanks to Mark O Donnell from Clare Games Development for showing us how to move properly and enjoy playing sports! ...

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4 days ago

Third class really enjoyed their first session with Mark O' Donnell. ...

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4 days ago

3rd class enjoyed improving their running and throwing technique with Mark O’Donnell this week 🏃‍♂️ 🏑 ...

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1 week ago

Junior Infants were busy learning about matching in Maths last week🙂 ...

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1 week ago

Junior Infants loved listening to "Marmaduke". They enjoyed some Art activities afterwards 🙂 ...

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1 week ago

If you are interested in attending please RSVP to ger.ruane@barefieldns.com. Please note the new date of Thursday 24th of September. ...

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1 week ago

Children who play musical instruments in 5th and 6th will be playing for the opening of our extension. Thank you to Ms. McMahon, Ms. Cahill and Mr. Liddy for organising practice! ...

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