St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Before Christmas, 5th class had a Little Book Club where we read the four nominees for the BGE Book Awards Children’s Book (Junior) award to our little cousins or brothers. Well done to Ameesh, Oisín, AaronG, Alan, Johnny and especially to AaronJ for leading it. Check out our podcast discussing how we got on: Laureate na nÓg contacted us on Twitter today to let us know about the nomination process for children. We think that 5th class have already chosen their nomination – Chris Judge is highly praised by our Little Book Club. You can read more about the nomination process here. Can... 

Wondering what our Student Council have been up to so far in Term 2? Have a listen here! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/129977534″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]  

This year, 5th class took on the Elf Factor as their class play for the Christmas concert. You can see photos from the Christmas play here and listen to 2nd class and their ‘Little Rascals’ play here. We hope you enjoy our video – we really enjoyed making it!   The Elf Factor from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

Today, 5th class are leaving comments for http://kidblog.org/MrsBoycesClass-4/ Their work is very good. You should check it out too and leave them some comments.  

One of the very first ‘Wednesday for Parents’ posts was also one of our most popular – it listed a number of websites and online activities to help your child with place value. You can find that post here. When we planned a follow up post, fractions jumped out as an important one to cover. The activities below have been laid out so that you can choose a particular area of fractions to work on or revise, or you can choose from the games further down in the post to work on a more general area. As always, although we’ve checked out the websites, we can’t guarantee that they’re... 

Aaron here, Robert’s out today but he made a podcast yesterday asking us how our ‘Write a Book’ project is going. Yesterday, I ran out of ideas so I started going back over my work. I found parts to add more detail into. When I was reading over my work, I was asking myself questions as if I was the reader. For example, I had written that I was nervous and when I read back over it, I added 4 sentences saying why I was nervous. I like editing because it makes your book much better and you’ll get more readers. Here’s a picture of my editing work: Thanks for reading... 

Our project asked the question ‘which slime is the strongest?’ We made two types of slime – one was with borax, PVA glue and water. The second was made from cornflour and water. The cornflour slime didn’t work because it just stayed as a liquid but the borax stretched well. We found the instructions online but if we were making the cornflour slime again, we’d use less water and more cornflour. We made slime in 2nd class and it was really strong. We think if we made more of the borax slime, it would work better. We also could have added food colouring to make it look... 

The question was ‘can we make a lightbulb light up without using any wires?’ We were able to make it work using tinfoil as a conductor. When we were researching our project, we found out that it’s not just wires that can conduct electricity. We found that tinfoil was the handiest one to use instead of a wire because you can twist it and it’s flexible. We didn’t think it would really work, so we were surprised when it did. Our favourite part of the project was when it actually worked. We liked talking to the judges and we enjoyed making our display. You can try it... 

Today we tried to use Storybird to help us with our Write-A-Book project. We challenged ourselves to use pictures to make up a story. We use Storybird to write stories. It is cool because the pictures are there for you. We try to put them together to make sense! We wrote this story in just 5 minutes! Have a look!  

2nd Class have had great fun in Music class recently. We have learned new songs, used actions to help us to tell the ‘music story’ of songs, listened to different pieces of music without words to ‘get-us-thinking’ and also we have picked up new ‘music words’. We decided to record two of our favourite songs from the past few weeks. We hope you like them. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/129303885″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true”...