Due to a clash with City Sports, Scoil Barra Naofa will be open on Fri May 29th and close instead on Tuesday June 2nd.…
Early Closure Friday 13th March
Scoil Barra Naofa will close early on Friday Mar 13th. The early closure is to facilitate inservice training in the New Language Curriculum for Primary Schools. Infants finish at 11.45 and 1st to 6th will finish at 12.…
News: Ms Readathon Awards
The MS Readathon participants received their certs and awards today. Well done to Elly, Tony, Sabrina, Isabella, Laoise, Oonagh, Elsie and Daisy from Rang a Sé and to Matilda, Muireann, Neasa, Chloe and Ella Mae from Rang a hAon for taking part and raising money for a very worthy cause.…
Wonderful Writers- 2nd Class
Second Class has lots of amazing writers. Here are the three Wonderful Writers who won the trophies . It was exceptionally hard for Miss O’Brien to have to pick only three.
Second Class Cherry Blossom Trees
Some beautiful art work from Second Class.
For all those budding artists in Scoil Barra Naofa……Don’t forget to get your Texaco Children’s Art Competition entries to Ms. Marshall or Ms. Treharne by Fri Feb 17th!
All details on this week’s newsletter.
Grandparent’s Day 2020
Today 4th class hosted Grandparent’s Day 2020. All the Grandparents of 4th Class were invited to Scoil Barra Naofa to celebrate the special relationship between Grandparents and their grandchildren. Fr. Seán led a short prayer service for all in attendance. This was followed by a performance by 4th Class which …
CREDIT UNION QUIZ TEAMS
Well done to our 3 quiz teams who represented the school so well on Fri 31st Jan at the Douglas Credit Union Quiz. The teams were made up of Elsie, Hugo, Lauren, Barra, Cian and Scarlett from 6th as well as Rían, Beth, Lynn, Darragh, Cameron and Thomas from 5th. …
Green Schools Show
The Green Schools Committee hosted a guest performance today from Aaron and Ali of Mind the Gap Productions. The show, which featured acrobatics and African music, touched on the link
between Kenya and access to education. The children really enjoyed the show and many got the opportunity to take part …
John Spillane Concert
John Spillane played to a packed church in Monkstown on Tues 28th January . It was the culmination of more than a month’s work, that John Spillane undertook with the children of 4th class, on their “Folklore Project”. This project involved weekly visits by John to 4th class where he …
JEP 6th Class
6th Class are currently in the middle of the Junior Entrepreneur Programme. Today our five project groups met the “dragons”, Brian and Amy from Deloitte, as well as our own Principal Ms. O’Brien. The winning project group was ‘Inspiration Nation’ with their inspirational quote box idea. The dragons had the …