St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

This week started with St Patrick’s Day and finished on Friday afternoon with our Seachtain na Gaeilge concert. We really enjoyed our three days this week! Here’s what we got up to this week: Did you see our year in numbers post? And you can read all about our progress in Khan Academy and Mathletes here. New leaderboards on Friday showed that we’re in 2nd place on both leaderboards! Well done 5th and 6th! 3rd class began the week with a video of a song they’ve been learning – watch it here. 2nd class have a song to help us to learn the counties. Listen to it here. Our... 

This week, 6th class have been learning all about Space. They’ve been learning about space travel and about the planets. They’ve also started writing their science fiction stories. Next week, they’re going to have a debate on whether the Moon Landing was a hoax by examining the different videos out there! Today, they made beautiful chalk drawings of the planets. Well done to Patryk, who photographed all of the pictures for the blog post:  

2nd Class have been learning about where Wicklow is on the map. We’re learning about counties that are near to us, and comparing our county to other counties and places in Ireland! We knew of some of the names of other places but we wanted to get even better at knowing places from all over Ireland. Today, during Golden Time we recorded a poem that we found online. It’s a fun rhyme to help us to learn the names of all of the counties in Ireland. Have a listen up above to hear what we have to say! ps. We helped out a famous VIP with Irish roots who was struggling to learn all of the... 

Congratulations to the St. Peter’s Senior football team who were runners-up in the Division 3 final of the North Wicklow League. Mr. Foley presented them with their medals during school assembly on Friday. The boys were narrowly defeated by St. Laurence’s after a great display. By coming second in their division, they qualified for a Wicklow tournament in the Centre of Excellence in Ballinakill, Rathdrum. Special mention must go to Eduard Grefaldeo who played in goal and only conceded one goal in four games, and to Jordan Whyte who won Player of the Tournament. Well done for showing such great... 

It’s been a while since we put together one of our ‘In Numbers’ pieces, so we thought it was about time that we reflected on what we have been getting up to since our last one that we posted on November 5th! In short, our blog has the following: 1. 369 blogposts, with 27,088 pageviews! Wow! 2. A whopping 1,413 comments at the time of writing! 3. 78 podcasts that have been played 1,838 times! To add to that, our twitter has… 1. 1,758 tweets. 2. 365 followers. In the 19 weeks since that last post, we have added to the many activities and projects that are typical of the... 

You may have noticed our jaw-dropping ‘in numbers‘ piece on the blog – well, unsurprisingly, there were too many numbers associated with Mathletes and Khan Academy to choose from so we gave them a post of their own! As we explained in a previous post, 5th and 6th classes are taking part in Mathletes at the moment. At this stage, the competition is in full swing and the students are really enjoying it, but even more importantly, they’re putting in huge effort into improving their Maths! So how have we been getting on? See for yourself! 3 – We’re currently in... 

Well done to all of the children who took part in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Monday. Two of the staff from St. Peter’s were spotted in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade too. They were raising awareness for The Pieta House – ‘Darkness into Light’ walk taking place in Bray on the 10th May. Darkness into Light is a fundraising 5km walk/run in aid of Pieta House, the suicide and self-harm crisis centre. The event will take place in over 40 venues in Ireland. The walk starts at 4.15am the 10th of May from Bray Seafront and the route will go up through the Town, and will finish back on the... 

Welcome to our second-last post in Helping with Homework mini-series. All of the posts in the mini-series can be found on the website here. In previous posts, we discussed the difference between helping younger students with homework and helping older students. Today, we’re going to focus on study skills and revision for students in the older classes, particularly as they move towards secondary school. It can be difficult to juggle homework in different subjects and also to revise for exams and class tests. We have 5 simple tips so that you can help your child to cope with study skills. 1.... 

‘Maths for Fun’ is back in St. Peter’s! ‘Maths for Fun’ is a Home/School initiative where parents come into the classroom to work with the children playing different maths games. Every ten minutes the children move to a different station and play a new game. There are a variety of maths games such as maths bingo, interactive games on the laptops, tangrams, fraction games, What Time is it Mr Wolf?, etc. The games mean the children are practising their maths skills while also having fun. Many thanks to Claire, Noeleen and Elaine who organised and implemented ‘Maths for Fun’ this... 

5th class recently took part in the Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards. The challenge was to write a short play on the theme of Friendship. It was a great opportunity to write in a new format. Today’s scene comes from Johnny, who wrote a play about two teachers in the staffroom. It’s a play about friendship between the principal and the teacher – but who’s the most important friend to have? Johnny’s actors were Oisín and AaronG. We intended on recording Leon’s comedy today about Red, Ed and Fred, but as you can guess from the names, things got too confusing....