There are 27 mainstream classrooms and 10 Special Education rooms. All of these rooms are bright, airy and well ventilated. All classrooms are equipped with a wide variety of teaching and learning resources, including a Promethean Interactive Whiteboard and Visualizer in each mainstream classroom. There is also a bank of Chromebooks (at least 3 in every room) available for student use in each classroom in the new building. In the summer of 2016, new carpets were laid throughout the school and the electrics and heating systems were upgraded. 

SONAS - Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Classes

Our ASD unit was renamed Sonas (Well Being in Irish) in 2015 following the construction of our new state of the art facilities. Sonas includes three classes, for students from Junior Infants to Sixth class in surroundings especially designed for their needs. The large classrooms are physically structured in accordance with the TEACCH Model, with specific areas for individual learning, group work, play and lunch. Our facilities include an outdoor sensory garden with rubber tarmac, playground equipment, a ball pool, cooking facilities and a multi-sensory room with fibre-optic lights, bubble tube, projector, mirrors, a variety of textiles and mood music. There is also a large Sensory Integration Room that contains a variety of equipment to develop fine and gross motor skills. 

One extra large hall that can be divided using a partition in the new building as well as two smaller halls in the original building. (Note: The large hall in the ASD unit is also available during school events such as Active Schools Week, Sports Day etc)

We are very lucky to have three halls that undoubtedly enhance our teaching and learning in Scoil Bhríde. They provide us with large indoor spaces for P.E, games, concerts, rehearsals, and fairs. Our largest hall is equipped with sound proofing and also contains two large storage rooms enabling us to store a wide variety of equipment for the many sports that we play in this school. We also have a projector installed in the Senior hall in the old building for class and presentation use. Many classes use the small halls for movement breaks instead of moving furniture within the classrooms.

Our outdoor play areas include three large tarmacadam areas; large playing field, Running Track.

There are three very large play areas on tarmacadam so the children have lots of space to play on throughout the year. The classes are divided according to class groupings and there are many yard markings that help to make play time more enjoyable. During finer weather, there is ample space on our playing field for children to spend their yard time on the grass.In 2019, we also installed a running track with a rubberized surface. This circulates the playing field and children regularly use this track to run the daily mile. Children are also timetabled to use the track during lunch.

Our mobile technology includes Chromebook and iPad trolleys for studennt use along with dedicated computer room.

There are 30 computers in our computer room, one for every child. The teacher is able to monitor the activity of each child on the teacher's computer and as we are on the schools broadband service, you can rest assured that all students are only permitted to view age appropriate content. Internet sites and programmes that are unsuitable for primary school children are blocked using the NCTE filters. We also have a Chromebook trolley that goes from room to room containing 28 devices. Additionally, we have an iPad trolley with 16 devices. These are mainly used by the Junior classes as the teacher device enables the teacher to launch apps and control student use from this device. They can also be screen shared to the Promethean Interactive Panels. Finally, our most recent investment was in STEM learning. We have 10 iPad version 9 devices. These are used for group projects such as digital storytelling and coding. Projects that we are working on include the Green Screen, Adobe Spark, Stop Motion and Lego Spike!

All areas wheelchair accessible; elevator; ramps and toilet/shower facilities

Since our renovation, we can say with confidence that our entire school is wheelchair accessible. There are designated parking spaces in the car park, accessible toilet/shower facilities and an elevator to classrooms upstairs.

Our Outdoor Classroom includes benches for learning outdoors in the finer weather.

Our outdoor classroom was moved in 2019 to a much sunnier location near the link corridor. Here classes have the opportunity to read a book and complete fun activities such as drama, music, SPHE etc on our new benches.