St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

On Tuesday boys from 3rd– 6th class travelled down to beautiful Avondale to take part in a Cross Country Athletics competition. The boys ran in relay teams of four and did our school proud. It was a tough course but each of the boys tried their best and gave it their all until they reached the finish line. We were blessed that the sun was shining and we all had a wonderful day. ‘Everyone in 3rd class really enjoyed the cross country running.’ – Szymon ‘It was a hard course but we tried our best and had fun.’ –Finn ‘Each of us showed great school spirit cheering on the boys from... 

As you all know, Polly came back from her holidays last week. She had visited our friends in St. Brigid’s in Greystones! When she arrived back, she brought her friend Bridget the Bee! Bridget has come on her holidays to us now! She is having a great time. We wanted to let people know what they are getting up to, so Codie and his helpers followed Polly and Bridget around the school to catch up on their goings-on! Polly showed Brigid around the library and the computer room. They even climbed onto our model dinosaur! They helped to serve coco during lunch and played the bongos for 2nd class! Brigid... 

Our ‘Wednesday for Parents’ mini-series on helping with homework continues this week with advice on helping your child with their reading homework. During World Book Day, we found this statistic that really helps to emphasise how important your child’s reading homework is:   source So how can you help with homework? In the senior end of the school, your child will generally not need you to ‘hear’ their reading every single day. However, it is important that you check that they understand what they’ve read. Ask them to tell you five things that they read... 

Today we were reviewing electricity. We started with Think-Pair-Share where we discussed what we already know about electricity – a good way of warming up our brains! Next we examined a concept cartoon that Ms Sexton got at her STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) course. We discussed what we thought about the cartoons and we generated questions and theories about it: The switch turns the lamp on and off It doesn’t matter where the switch is on the circuit because as long as there’s a power source and a bulb, they’ll light. I don’t think that the small wire... 

2nd Class just LOVE learning poems. Today we had great fun looking back on all of the poems we have learned this year. We like funny poems that we can entertain people with. Poetry helps with our reading and our speaking. It is also a challenge to remember all of the lines. This year we have had fun with Limericks, learned scary Halloween poems and got into the festive spirit with Christmas poems too.  Our latest poem is called ‘Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth!’ and it was written by Pam Ayres. You can hear her read the poem here! Even better still, listen to our recording... 

Another blog post from the Fourth Class Vault, this time from last week. Enjoy! Hello bloggers around the world, today we got our 101st green in our attendance chart! We were very excited when we got our hundredth green yesterday. We are now only 31 greens away from drawing with last year’s total of 132 greens. We have got 8 prizes so far for our attendance. Mr. Foley put up eight gold stars on our one hundredth green representing all of our prizes so far. There is also a golden ring around it too. To get a prize we have to get 10 greens in a row. If we get an orange or a red, we have to... 

From our vault, a previously unpublished post from the boys in  Fourth Class, with pictures to follow. Enjoy! Welcome bloggers.  Today in our class Calvin brought in two special visitors, his two pet turtles called Zig and Zag. Zig was the bigger one and Zag was the smaller one. We put them into a bowl of water. Zag floated at the top of the water and Zig sank to the bottom. Zig swam fast under the water. Calvin told us that “Zig prefers water and Zag hates water. He prefers land.” Zig even tried to swim in a tiny puddle of water in his container. We learned that turtles have tails.... 

Recently, 5th class took part in the Bord Gais Energy Student Theatre Awards. We already recorded plays from Luke and Andy here. Today, we have scenes from AaronJ and Ameesh. Aaron’s play is about two boys in a park – both wanting to make friends, but too awkward to start the conversation. His actors were Alan and Johnny. Ameesh’s play is about making friends with a new neighbour. His actors are Ben and Sam. Well done to the writers and to the actors!  

Excitement is building for the launch of our brand new website at www.stpetersbray.ie! Rumour has it that the St. Peter’s internet elves are working flat-out to deliver a brand new website before the week is out. Stay tuned for more information to be posted later this week!      

Last month, 5th class learned all about Picasso. They drew portraits using unusual shapes and proportion. They then coloured in their drawings using all the colours of the rainbow! Check out their beautiful work below: