St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

2nd Class are reading Zac Power, Frozen Fear. It is a really adventurous book with lots of twists and turns! We are trying to get better at remembering every detail in the books we read. We decided to do lots of mini podcasts about this book as we work through it. This should help us with our homework. Remember, so far this year we have been working on 1. Predicting, 2. Making connections, 3. Creating images, 4. Inferring, 5. Putting it all together. Now we are working on re-reading! Have a listen to our podcast to keep up with Zac Power, Frozen Fear! Remember, you can catch our previous podcasts... 

Welcome to another edition of the St Peter’s Post – our online weekly newsletter, where you can catch up on all of the week’s events! This week was filled with the #antearrach Twitter project, pancakes and lots of Polly adventures. Let’s get started! The headlines from this week: First, we want to congratulate Ian from 6th class who came fourth in the county final of the Easons Spelling Bee. Read all about his great achievement here. The #antearrach Twitter project was in full swing this week. Check out the round up post, including a great podcast from 2nd class, here. Also... 

There were lots of puzzled faces during our lesson about working as a scientist today, following on from our lesson on observation and inference earlier in the week.  Scientists have to think creatively and also have to work with the evidence, even when they don’t have all the information that they’d like to have. Today, we adapted this lesson to encourage creative thinking, working together and changing theories when new evidence emerges! Again, we have the STEM course that Ms Sexton is attending to thank for the idea! We used Vine as it’s a great way to record short video... 

Tommy has started a new trend for film-making. Cathal from 3rd class and Robert from 5th class are showcasing their excellent stop-motion films made at home today! They used Lego and a stop-motion app to create two videos. They plan to make another one using Cathal’s crane over the weekend. We’re really impressed by our students’ creativity! Stop motion R&C – 1 from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. Stop Motion – R&C – chapter 2 from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

Some of our 5th and 6th class boys went to play a soccer blitz at Wolfe Tone Football pitch today. We competed against some great teams from St. Kieran’s, St. Fergal’s and Bray School Project; every school entered two teams into the Blitz. Every team played three matches each. From St. Peter’s, Team 1 won one of their matches by 3 goals to nil and Team 2 won all three of their matches! Davy Berry set up a fantastic goal against St. Kierans which Alan Duda executed perfectly! Our trainer Paddy’s “superkeeper” Eduard had a clean sheet in every match, he never... 

Thanks to Ms. Sugrue for running a really successful book fair. Well done to all of the boys who helped her out in running the event. It was an excellent way to celebrate the week of World Book Day. Everyone got a chance to browse and buy, and it was a super way of checking out the work of some new authors. We can’t wait for the 2015 Book Fair already!  

Today at 1.30pm Oreo the Spring lamb came to visit our school. Ben, Johnny,Jordan and Nathan O’B from Ms Mitchell’s Class got to hold the lamb and pet him too. Oreo was very happy to see us all. Jordan noticed that he had no teeth. Johnny noticed that he had a black nose and was very soft to touch. Ben thought he was very woolly and soft too. Nathan got a very cuddly hug off Oreo, they became good friends! Nathan missed Oreo a lot! After seeing Oreo our class had a big chat about the kinds of farms sheep live on, where wool comes from, and where we get our yummy lamb dinners from too! ... 

It’s no secret that we love Roald Dahl in St Peter’s. Roald Dahl Day was celebrated in great style by 2nd class at the start of the year, we choose a Roald Dahl fairytale for the school play every year and we even have Roald Dahl month every year. This year, Roald Dahl month fell in February and 5th class chose to read Matilda. Our chapter of Matilda every morning has become one of our favourite parts of the day and we’ve only one chapter left. Roald Dahl loves language and word-play and we enjoyed reading his words aloud! To celebrate World Book Day, we all chose an extract from... 

You might remember that in last term, we took part in the #anfomhar twitter project for autumn.  It is a collaborative project, organised by one of our favourite websites Seomra Ranga. We blogged about it here, here and here! This week we took part in the #antearrach project. We shared all of the ‘signs of spring’ that we could find in school and our area. We got to learn from other schools and saw/heard/read about their #antearrach projects. On Tuesday morning, 2nd Class made a podcast all about spring! Afterwards, they went out for a nature walk! Here they are, exploring the area. Meanwhile... 

This week, we continue our series on helping with homework by focusing on learning homework. Learning homework can be the hardest part of homework to do well because it’s not as measurable as written homework. A child can achieve the same amount of work in 3 minutes of focused learning homework one day, as he would on another day of an hour’s distracted learning! Learning homework will usually take the form of four different types of learning: Spellings Tables Gaeilge General learning – maths vocab, dates in history etc. Our tips include: Test your child by mixing up the vocab...