St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

In March we did a LOT of work on data during our maths lessons. We found out that data is showing information in lots of different ways. We used pictograms, tally charts and bar charts. Bar charts were our favourites ( “Yum” said Adam!) We worked in teams of 2 to ask the whole school what was their favourite break time fruit? They could choose between an apple, orange or banana. We made tally charts in our copies when we asked each class. Next we went back to our class and made bar charts from the information. Then we made giant posters to show every class’s choice of fruit. We... 

Hi all bloggers! Last Friday we planted sunflower seeds and learnt about the lifecycle of a seed. We learned that seeds need water,sunlight, soil and air to grow. First we needed a plastic cup, a big bag of soil, 2 seeds each and a 1/4 of a cup of water. We filled the cup 3/4 full with soil. We made a hole in the middle with our fingers. We our 2 seeds inside seperately. We covered them over with soil and pat them down. We added a 1/4 cup of water and put our cups in the window sill so that they would catch the sunlight and air. We are so excited to watch them grow over the next few weeks and months. Arturas... 

We got a very exciting Tweet on Saturday evening from Sean O’Sullivan, who launched Mathletes with Ciaran Cannon, a Minister for State in the Department of Education. You might know Sean O’Sullivan from the programme ‘Dragons Den’ and he’s famous around the world as an inventor, an entrepreneur and an investor. We’re big fans of Khan Academy and Mathletes and we’ve posted two updates since we’ve started here and here. So, what did it say in the Tweet? Overall best @MATHletes_ie primary school in Leinster (from Bray, Wicklow) St Peter’s Primary #GoMathletes —... 

  Welcome to our weekly online newsletter – the St Peter’s Post! We’re very proud of all the great work from our students this week – from Write-A-Book, to stop-motion, to Gaelic tournaments  – and plenty more in between! The headlines from the week are: Jordan from 4th class has posted his trailer for his stop-motion movie. He has TWENTY-THREE comments on his trailer so far and was so excited to announce it at assembly on Friday! You can be number 24 here. The Write A Book winners were announced this week. Congratulations to Casey, Luke, Ben and Kyle. The... 

Today, the senior Gaelic football team took part in a blitz in Ballinakill, the new Centre of Excellence near Rathdrum. We were delighted to be runners-up in the blitz today! Our first match was against Kilbride. We won by one point. Jordan Whyte scored the first goal of the day for St Peter’s. We lost our second match to Donard. Ben Gorman showcased his skill in that game by dummying the ball. We played Kilmacanogue in our third match and we won. Dylan Kane scored a cracker of a goal. He took his bounce, his steps, then a solo then hammered it past the keeper. Ballinakill is deadly –... 

This week Johnny, Arturas, Nathan K  and Ryan  made huge improvements in their spellings and tables tests. They are working hard to be the best and we know that they are doing their learning homework every night. Ms. Whyte popped in to our room to  congratulate the boys and give them  all prize stickers. Well Done boys, keep it up!  

Nathan has won “work of the week”  which is displayed outside our classroom door on the corridor for everyone to see as they pass by. This week Nathan’s spellings and times tables’ test won…he got 100% in both tests!!! Nathan knows all of the times tables from x1 up to x10, even when we muddle them up! This is amazing as Nathan is only in 2nd class!  

Arturas has yet again student of the week! He has worked very hard to know his spellings, tables and reading words every day! He has had full attendance this week and completed his homework every night! Well done Arturas!!  

We celebrated Daffodil Day today by making our own daffodils! They are very easy to make, you could  even try it at home! Here’s Ryan to tell you “How to”! “We got a yellow piece of card and we traced our hands with pencil. Next we cut out our hand prints. Then we folded them in the middle and put the straws in  the middle too. We sellotaped the straw inside. After that we added green leaves to the stem. We are going to give them to our Mam’s for Mother’s day on Sunday because they are so beautiful!”  

Yesterday, we got a very exciting package in the post – it was the planting pack from AgriAware. We love taking part in the AgriAware Incredible Edibles project every year. You can see our planting post from last year here. This year, Oisín was our photographer and he captured all the fun of the afternoon. We took the opportunity to plant immediately because we’ve been dodging raindrops all week so we were delighted to get some dry weather yesterday afternoon! We’ll keep you updated on the progress of our plants. We grew spring flowers earlier in the year, which turned out really...