St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

3rd Class have been learning the song ‘My Hat Has Three Corners’. The song was written about a particular style of hat that had three corners. The melody was composed by a German composer called Franz Schubert. It is an action song that gets progressively harder as we had to leave our certain words in each verse and replace it with actions. Here is a short video of Szymon, Finn and Chris trying the action song for themselves. Well done boys! IMG 0022[1] from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

We absolutely love leaving comments on other school blogs. It allows us improve our comments, keep up to date with other schools and also get to know people who love to blog, just like us. Last week, via Twitter, we asked if any of our followers would like us to leave comments on their school blogs. We were delighted to be asked by a number of schools if we could leave comments for them. Here are the tweets we received! @StPetersBray The Boys in 6th Class would love you to visit our Blog at http://t.co/dqdgd4KoKL or Class Website at http://t.co/wXfQxNl8fL — St Colman’s BNS (@colmansbns)... 

Welcome to our weekly blog newsletter – the St Peter’s Post! And if it’s ever been needed – this has been the week! With so much happening, we don’t want you to miss out on any of our big news and little moments. Of course, as you all know by now, the major event this week was the launch of the website – www.stpetersbray.ie All the staff and students worked really hard to put it together, but special thanks has to go to Ms Brennan, who put in so much work to turn all the content into the fantastic website we now have! Read all about our launch here. Please make... 

3rd Class with the help of Mr. Kinsella and Ms. Byrne have been working really hard to create their very own Stop Motion videos. Stop motion is an animation technique to makes objects appear to move on their own. We decided to use Lego as our main prop as it one of our favorite things. We worked in groups of three to come up with characters, props and storylines for our animations. We moved the Lego and props in small increments between each frame creating the illusion of movement. We then played the series of frames as a continuous sequence to create our movies.  Here is our first stop motion... 

Well Done to Lorcan who is this week’s student of the week in Miss Mitchell’s class! Lorcan earned himself a prize from the lucky dip box for full attendance this week and displaying much neater handwriting . He also got 100% in his maths test and 90% in his spellings test today!. Well done Lorcan on making such a huge effort this week!  

  We’ve always enjoyed taking part in Engineer’s Week activities – back in 2005, we were the Senior Engineering Class of Ireland and the trophy was one of the coolest we’ve ever seen! This year, we really enjoyed Engineer’s Week. You can see an overview of all of our activities here. We were so excited to get an email from the STEPS co-ordinator, Sylvia Leatham, to tell us that we had won a prize for our efforts! Here’s the press release from STEPS. Sylvia had very kind comments about our work: Your blog gave us a great sense of what you did – it looks... 

Seo cluiche ó Scoil an Clochain i Maigh Eo, ár gcairde. Sheol siad Tweet dúinn cúpla uair ó shin agus bhíomar ag obair go dian ag lorg na freagraí!   @ScoilAnClochain Is maith liom na ceisteanna. Táimid chóir a bheith críochnaithe. -Sam — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 14, 2014   Léigh an cluiche ar suíomh Scoil an Clochain anseo agus déan iarracht na ceisteanna a fhreagairt!  

We are so proud to live in Bray. We love tweeting local groups and keeping up to date with fun things going on in our area. Today we asked the St. Patrick’s Festival group if we could tell you all about their plans for this weekend! Make sure you follow them on twitter here! @StPetersBray Hi there! Yes that would be GREAT! Hope to see you all there later 🙂 More details on our website http://t.co/SaWly0UHxb — bray (@stpatrickfest) March 14, 2014   Amazing things are happening this St. Patrick’s Weekend in Bray This year is Bray’s 10th annual St. Patrick’s Festival. This... 

If things have been a little quiet on the blogging and tweeting front this week… I think you’ll forgive us! Every class, teacher and staff member has been working hard on putting together our brand new website! And here it is… www.stpetersbray.ie! We’re delighted with how child-friendly it is, how much work was done by the children in making it and also how it shows off life in our school in such a fun and personal way. It has information on enrolment, staff details, information for parents, videos, photos, policies, after-school club details, lists of awards and achievements…... 

We are big fans of Roald Dahl in our class; we decided to read one of his books after all the interesting things that we read about him during World Book Day! We chose The Twits. We talk about each chapter with our talk buddies after reading it, and then we write a summary in our copies. We make sure to talk about the beginning, middle and end every time. Sometimes we chat about how the characters are feeling while we are reading the book, we even try to imagine how we would feel if we were them! We are always laughing at the mean tricks that the Twits play on eachother! Here are some of our favourite...