St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

                We are hoping to learn a little more about Scratch in computer club this week. Ms. Sexton has already tried it out with her class and recently Ms. Brennan went to a course to learn some more about the programme. One of our favourite sites ‘Seomra Ranga‘ describes it as – ‘… a visual programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art and share these creations on the web. It is a fun and interesting way to introduce software development to pupils’. Scratch... 

        We are all really excited about Engineer’s Week which is on from 25th February to the 3rd of March next week! You should visit the site here for more information – it has some great experiments and k’nex challenges to get you thinking about what life as an engineer is like. We’re all so excited to try out some of the challenges. Come back to our site soon to see some of the things we are going to get up and explore for Engineer’s Week 2013!    

6th Class recently re-created some very famous American landmarks in Art class. Have a look at what the boys have to say about their work – and click here to listen to them speaking about it! Dillon is holding the Statue of Liberty. It is in New York Harbour on Liberty Island and first opened in 1886. It was a gift from the French people to the United States. It is a model of the Roman goddess of Freedom who was called Libertas. She holds a torch and a tablet that has the American Declaration of Independence date on it (July 1776). The statue welcomed people as they came into America. We... 

In St. Peters we do lots of sports like GAA, Football and Hurling. Our trainers are Tommy, Mary, Paddy and Carl. All of us love sports and we train in the back yard. Every year we enter tournaments. The most recent tournament we entered was the Coughlin Cup in football. Paddy is the one that enters us into the tournaments. Our school also enters local athletics competitions. Some of the boys have even won medals at cross country. We love to run and do relay running in the yard every week. During PE we play hockey, basketball, Olympic handball, bench ball, rounders, baseball, tennis and rugby. Our... 

St. Peter’s BNS is a school with eighty-four students and eight teachers. Our school is on Hawthorn Rd. in Little Bray. Most of our students are from the area. Our teachers are Ms. Brennan, Ms. Sexton, Ms. Sugrue, Ms. Byrne, Mr. Curran, Mr. Kinsella and Mr. Foley. Our principal is Ms. Whyte. We have many staff in our school including Ms. Flanagan, Paddy, Karen, Les, Lily and Mrs. Murphy. Everyone works really hard to make our school a very nice place to be. We love it here. It is very colourful and we get to do all of our favourite things, such as sport and art. Our school work is extremely...