St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

This week, our ‘Wednesday for Parents’ post deals with an issue that worries many parents out there – Internet safety. Sometimes talking about technology with children can be like trying to speak a language that the adult is only learning and that the kids are already fluent in! It can be difficult to talk about keeping themselves safe online, when they seem to be the experts. The resources we’ve picked out this week will help you to open the discussion about what your child knows about keeping him/herself safe online! First, a website! Webwise is a fantastic resource.... 

2nd Class have been learning about maps, planet earth, the Arctic, Italy and Australia so far this year. We love exploring on the globe, on our computers, in our atlases and in our books. Today we loved back on all we know about Australia and Italy. Maybe you might learn something from us. Have a listen to see! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118664289″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118665173″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true”... 

Hello bloggers, we hope you are enjoying the blog. We are doing Science Projects at the moment, and so are Fifth and Sixth Class. For this, we got into groups of three and four. We were given time to decide both our groups and our projects. Mr. Foley was impressed how quickly and quietly we did this. We have five groups in the class. After we were in our groups we were discussing what sort of Science Project we should do. All of us have different kinds of projects. Each group agreed on what we are doing. We have five different experiments, including dinosaurs, spiders, space, birds and the ocean. Over... 

On December 3rd, the Intel Mini-Scientist exhibition will take place in the school. 4th, 5th and 6th classes will take part in the exhibition, presenting group projects. One of our Wednesday for Parents posts a couple of weeks ago dealt with choosing a good project for science fairs. This week, we’re going to concentrate on researching your topic. Over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to model how to do a science fair project, using a sample question. If you follow along with the timeline, you should get your project finished in plenty of time! Take, for example, the questions... 

Myspace Message GeneratorsWe are just 9 weeks into term and already we’ve been so busy with the many activities and projects that is typical of the St. Peter’s school year. Hold onto your hats as we recap on the term so far, in numbers! 1: The amazing Open Day we held on the 28th September! 2: The number of brand new after-school clubs, to go with the existing four! 3: The number of weeks we have been dancing with our Irish Dancing teacher Sue! 4: The number of songs we performed at our school Open Day! 5: The number of times our different classes have baked or cooked up a storm in... 

We are going to enter our blog in the Eircom Junior Spider Awards. We are going to enter the Mega Spider category for primary schools. Have you heard of the awards? The entry date is in December. Find out more about the awards here! Do you have any suggestions to improve our blog in the meanwhile? Let us know and leave a comment below!  

We have been dancing for four weeks now. We do Irish dancing. It is great fun. Our dancing teacher is called Sue. She is a brilliant dancer and was in the All Ireland dancing competition last week. She came first in the first round. We now know the Walls of Limerick, the 3 hand reel and the easy reel. Check out our latest updated video! By – Caoilynn, Kayden, Dylan M and Kelsey If you can’t see the video then click here!