St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

      Today in school, we had our first fire drill of the year. Although it was unexpected, all the students reacted immediately, leaving everything behind them. They left the building quickly and calmly and then lined up at the agreed meeting spot for the class teachers to do a headcount. Well done everyone! There are some really good websites with fantastic activities to help kids to learn about fire safety – even more important than usual coming up to Hallowe’en! In no particular order, here’s our top 5: http://www.firesafekid.org/kidszone – this one... 

Yesterday in St Peter’s, we had a visit from the dental nurse, Mary Byrne. She spoke to 3rd and 5th classes in the library about the importance of good dental hygiene..  

In September, we had the best attendance in the school for the month and we hope we keep it up. We managed to get 98.41% in for the month. In our classroom, we have a daily attendance chart. We get a “green” if we are all in or if only one boy is out. If two boys are out we get an “orange”. If three or more boys are out we get a “red”. So far this year we have got a green every day since we started. We are smashing last year’s score. They got 12 greens before their first orange. Today we got our 30th green with no oranges or reds at all. We’ve had... 

“In 3rd Class we have a new reading area in our classroom which includes a tent and soft mats to sit on. We love the tent and look forward to our reading time each day when we have an opportunity to read our library books” – Chris and John.  

3rd class boys recently really enjoyed studying the poem – The Marrog by R.C. Scriven.  The poem is about an alien called The Marrog, who has come to visit planet Earth. Who is the Marrog? “The Marrog is from the planet Mars and is seven foot tall! He has purple hair and a deep blue nose. His teeth are half yellow, half red and he has three eyes at the back of his head. The Marrog has five arms and can breathe green flames from his ears! He sits at the back of the class and nobody, nobody knows.” – Cathál What might happen if there was an alien at the back of our 3rd class? “Our... 

  Myspace Banner GeneratorIn the next post about our after-school clubs, we’d like to introduce our Monday and Tuesday clubs which are based on the creative arts. On Monday, Michelle will be taking a group of 2nd and 3rd Class students and they will enjoy a range of drama, games, cookery and other fun activities. On Tuesday, Greg will take the same age group for a range of different art activities. Both groups will work from Ms. Sugrue’s room. It costs nothing, you just need to come with your best effort and creativity hat on. All are welcome! Make sure to ask your teacher if... 

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We’re very proud to announce that Ciara Brennan, our second class teacher, has been asked to give a presentation at tonight’s CESImeet in Dublin. CESI is the Computers in Education Society of Ireland, a topic very important to us all in Peter’s – you can find out more about CESI here.  Ms Brennan is well-known in the school as the first with all the latest developments in ICT and she was the one who set up our blog! She’s going to speak about podcasting in the classroom – you can find some examples of podcasting on our blog  here , here and here. Congratulations,...