St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Make sure you follow Polly’s example and get to bed nice and early – if you want to track Santa, check out our Christmas websites edition of ‘Wednesday for Parents’ from last week here. Wishing all of our students, staff, family and friends a very merry Christmas!   

This week, alongside the excitement of the play, 5th class were busy making Christmas logs! The boys were very grateful to Ms Sexton’s mam and dad, who provided the logs (nicely chopped with the spaces for the candles neatly drilled in, much to the relief of Miss) and the candles and the bows and the holly! Here’s an Animoto to show off our work: Merry Christmas!  

Thanks to the great support of the family and friends of St. Peter’s, we managed to win our EduBlogs award! This is a huge achievement and recognition of the work done by the children of our school. The Edublogs Awards are recognised internationally and we are privileged to have our name beside so many other outstanding achievements online. We thank you sincerely for our nominations and votes. It will encourage us to use sound and technology to enhance our lessons further. The award is the best Christmas present we could get. To acknowledge our thanks, the boys and girls made this message... 

I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for making yesterday’s concert such a great success. We were so proud of all of our students and thank our audience for creating such a fantastic atmosphere. I’d like to say a special thanks to all of the staff for their commitment and dedication to your children. Last night topped off an amazing term in what is a historic year for our school. Yesterday also brought great news for our blog! Thanks to your support and votes we won our first EduBlogs Award, recognising our podcasting work. This is a great achievement and we really hope to... 

Today marks the last ‘Wednesday for Parents’ post of 2013! We hope to gradually build up a bank of resources for parents so if you find something that we should be telling others about, please let Ms Sexton know! This week’s post is all about fun websites for the days leading up to Christmas! (It’s also quite a short one – mainly due to this – very excited to see you all tomorrow!) As always, all sites were checked when this post was published but St Peter’s is not responsible for the content of external websites. First one is the official NORAD Santa... 

Christmas is our favourite time of year. We love decorating our school, putting up all of our art and Christmas lights. It is a magical time. Have a look to see what it is like! If you can’t see our video, please click here!  

Yesterday 2nd Class read the story of The Little Match Girl. It is a sad story that reminds us to be grateful for all of the lovely things that we have in our lives at Christmas time. We decided to record the nice things that we want to do this Christmas to show true Christmas spirit. You can see our wishes in our video above and hear our promises in our podcast below! Thanks to our great friend Seomra Ranga for helping us to say our Christmas Spirit ideas and for making the lovely signs! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/125096045″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true”... 

Mini-Scientist – Sam, AaronG, Davy and LukeOB from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. Today Sam Smith, Luke O’Brien, Aaron Gray and Davy Berry-Connell went to represent St. Peter’s in Intel.-Aaron We all had a great day in Intel even though we didn’t go through to the grand finals-Davy There were loads of great projects out there and there was over 5000 workers. There is a huge lunch room-Sam We are very proud that we got that far in the Mini-Scientist competition. -Luke I had a great day out in Intel-Nugget It was a great day in Intel. There was a girl called Sue that was... 

While it is lovely to think of the delicious food, exciting toys, fancy decorations and fun days out at Christmas time, it is important not to forget the real reason behind Christmas. Here, boys from all of our classes will read the story of the First Christmas and remind us of the real reason behind this special time. Our crib in 2nd Class, it is helping us to learn about The First Christmas! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/125098648″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true”... 

On the 16th of December 2013, 6th Class were offered to go to Festina Lente horse riding club. To start off, 4 people went to a stable to ride on horses and trot. Eduard, Archie, Adam and Lester were first to go on the horses. We all had an amazing time and look forward to our next visit! Sky, Dylan and Kevin were at the workshop first. They made soaps with the shapes of snowmen, Christmas trees, love hearts and stars. They had to pick their scent and colour to make it and then some of the people there put hot liquid in the shape of the person’s choice. They also made wishes to Santa, which they...