St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

As you know, we have had a VIP visitor in St. Peter’s since before St. Patrick’s Day. Brigid came to visit us, and we were curious about what kind of a bee she was ever since our Polly got an invitation to visit her! It was lovely when she came to stay and play with Polly. This morning when we came in, she was gone! She has flown back to Greystones. Thanks to our friends in St. Bridget’s for allowing her to visit us. They are the best bloggers and tweeters! We loved having Bridget to stay. Here a send off podcast for Bridget.  

I have been working with Mr. Kinsella to make a stop motion animation. First we planned our story and then we wrote it. After I corrected and edited it we made a list of everything we needed to make it. Filming started last week and we hope to have it finished before Easter and up on the blog. In the meantime I hope you enjoy the trailer! By Jordan Farrell IMG 0159[1] from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.  

Today we want to direct your attention to the Scoilnet site – and in particular, the section for parents on the Scoilnet site! The Scoilnet site hosts a variety of articles and activities for students, parents and teachers. For parents, there are articles on topical issues, information on special needs and links to information from the Department of Education. You can access the parents homepage here. To introduce you to the parents section on Scoilnet, we’ve chosen three links that might be of interest! This is the ‘Focus on’ section – an archive of all the topics... 

Hi bloggers around the world, today we found out that one of the boys in our class won the Write a Book Project for our class. We have been waiting a long time to hear who the winner was. It was Luke C and he gets to go to a hotel in Killiney next Monday at 5pm to collect his prize. Luke was VERY HAPPY when he found out that he was the winner. Everybody in the class gave him a big round of applause. He is allowed to bring two guests with him to the presentation. Mr. Foley and another guest are going  to the presentation with him. The name of his book was “The Dwarven City of Dishea”.... 

Bhí ceolchoirm againn an seachtain seo caite mar bhí Seachtain na Gaeilge ar siúl? An bhfaca tú an scannán ó rang a trí? Tá sé anseo! Bhí rang a cúig ag canadh ‘An Prionsa Úr’. Éist leis an podchraoladh agus bain taitneamh as!  

2nd Class have gotten to the end of Chapter 5 in Zac Power, Frozen Fear. It’s a brilliant, exciting book. The podcasts help us with our: 1. Predicting, 2. Making connections, 3. Creating images, 4. Inferring, 5. Putting it all together. Now we are working on re-reading! Remember, you can catch our previous book/reading podcasts on the blog by clicking on the title! 1. The Magic Finger 2. The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me 3. Esio Trot 4. Care of Henry 5. Alfie Green and the Magical Gift  

2nd Class have now explored four different Roots of Empathy themes.  So far we have looked at: 1. Meeting the Baby 2. Crying 3. Caring for Baby and Teething. We recorded podcasts about Roots of Empathy before. You can find them here and here!   Our Roots of Empathy journey board that we are adding to all year! Last week we looked at Emotions. We recorded a podcast about it. Something amazing happened when Baby T was in last week. If you follow us on Twitter you might have heard about it! If you don’t, then you HAVE to hear our podcast to find out! It is so exciting! We hope you like... 

On Wednesday we had some very kind and helpful visitors in our room. Some of the wonderful parents at St. Peter’s came in to see us and show us some wonderful fun ways to use maths! Adam loved Uno and Jordan tried very hard to beat him! Nathan O’B and Nathan K especially loved the shark picture on the tessellating shapes. Johnny and Lorcan tried to make their shapes quicker than everyone else! We loved our Maths For Fun and can’t wait for the next one!  

Last week’s student of the week in Ms. Mitchell’s class was Arturas. Arturas worked very hard all week and got 90% in both his spellings and tables test on Friday! You can see them outside our classroom because they are also this week’s “work of the week”. Well done Arturas, keep it up!  

Seo é an Stop Motion – ‘Éalú Emmett’ ó rang a trí. Tá súil againn go mbainfidh tú taitneamh as. IMG 0156 from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.