St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

A week full of Roots of Empathy, Write a Book and podcasts for you this week! Let’s get started: Sixth class recorded an excerpt of the ‘I have a dream’ speech for Martin Luther King day. You can listen to it here. 4th class posted some astounding facts on Twitter this week about dangerous creatures. The Mermaid Theatre were very impressed:   @StPetersBray we are a bit scared of all your spidery facts! Eeek! 🙂 — Mermaid Arts Centre (@mermaidarts) January 21, 2014   2nd class had Roots of Empathy with Baby T this week. You can watch the Animoto of his visit here. Fifth... 

Earlier this year, we studied Van Gogh and we collaborated to recreate some of his most famous works. Van Gogh was born in 1853 in The Netherlands. He was famous for using bold colours. First, we used pastels to each make a sunflower. Van Gogh painted the two paintings in his Sunflower series in the 1880s. We looked at the colours he used and then made our own sunflower. Two of the boys made a vase for our sunflowers.  Next, we looked at The Starry Night. The Starry Night was painted by Van Gogh in 1889. It is made up of lots of different blues and greys. Ms Sexton found a picture of The Starry... 

We had a lovely time on Wednesday when Baby Tristan came to visit our class for the second time. This visit’s theme for Roots of Empathy was all about Crying. We didn’t learn about Tristan’s crying because he is such a good baby and just never cries. When the baby comes we do special things. 1. We sing our welcome song and a goodbye song 2. We weigh him and measure him 3. We play with the baby and have tummy time with him 4. We ask questions to his Mammy Gwen 5. We always come close to the baby to see if the baby notices us and work on our communication. We love Roots of Empathy.... 

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St Peter’s is delighted to announce that our first annual Spelling Bee will take place on Friday, January 31st! We received our pack of rules, word lists and a dictionary from Easons this week. The Spelling Bee is a national contest, organised by Easons and Tubridy on 2fm. You can read more about it here. 5th and 6th classes will take part in the school competition and then one winner will go forward to represent the school at the county final. Wondering how to prepare for the Spelling Bee? We suggest that you read as much as possible because the more words you come across,... 

5th class have been focusing on maps and transport this month. Some of our activities so far have been: researching different types of transport studying maps of the London Underground reading and responding to transport themed poetry writing about our dream journeys working on our transport project We’ve also discussed where our dream travel destinations would be and we’ve been working with Google Maps to explore the world. We found this really cool website that lets you make up a worldwide treasure hunt and we made up clues about where we’d like to visit. Here’s a class... 

The cover of our book 2nd Class have just finished their latest book. It is called ‘Care of Henry’ and it is written by Anne Fine. We really liked it and managed to read it in just two weeks! We made a podcast to tell you all about it. We had great fun and managed to put some opera singing in again! Well done to Kia for stepping up to be our latest presenter! Remember to keep reading, and have fun with books!  

Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr Picture from here. Many people in our world have made real difference to our lives. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is just one of them, and one of the greatest. Today we celebrate Martin Luther King day and stand with people from all over the world who respect great people who stand up for equality and freedom. In this post, 6th Class will read his great ‘I Have A Dream’ speech to inspire us all to be better people, to be fair and equal and to work together for a better world. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/130435882″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true”... 

Welcome to the 10th edition of the ‘St Peter’s Post’ and it’s absolutely packed! This week saw ‘Write A Book’ in full swing, the Virtual Science Fair continued and there were a number of fantastic podcasts. It was also a very busy week for comments on the blog – students and teachers loved reading every single one! Our Virtual Science Fair continued this week with the following projects from 6th class: This project from Billy, Keane and Kevin asks ‘Can one hand react quicker than the other?’ ‘Can we make a lightbulb light up without... 

We had a great time today. We made lovely little clay birds and we added feathers. We love using clay. We hope you like our birds. TWEET TWEET! Our birds in one big pic