St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We, in 5th class, have been updating our bulletin boards this week and one of our boards in the corridor celebrates the year so far! We chose our favourite photos and memories from the year so far. Can you guess what featured in our favourites? Check out our Animoto to see what made the cut!  

2nd Class have gotten to the end of Chapter 8 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! You can hear our previous Zac Power podcasts here: 1. Chapter 1-3  2. Chapters 4-5 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 just LOVE Art. We enjoy taking time to create beautiful art that is individual and carefully planned out. We love being creative! Our favourite art activities at the moment are weaving and making things with clay! Just like all of the rest of the school, we have decorated our corridor and take great pride in our displays. When our school is colourful and interesting it makes us proud of our work. We love when people tell us our art is nice. At the moment, our Art is all about spring and Easter. Would you like to see what a lot of our recent Art work looks like? Enjoy our video!  

He’s done it again! Tommy Lang in 4th Class has made yet another outstanding stop-motion video! This one is all about a day at the beach, and the work of the coastguard. He has excellent sound in this one and his use of his voice is truly excellent. Well done Tommy! Another exceptional piece of work! See Tommy’s previous videos here and here. lego a day at the beach from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

Welcome to our weekly online newsletter – the St. Peter’s Post! We’ve quite a short edition this week – but we’ve an excellent excuse! It was papier-mâché central in St Peter’s this week and we’re very egg-cited to unveil it next week. Students and staff struggled to blog with paste-covered hands – hence the lack of documentation! We’ve a big week ahead however, and we can’t wait to show off our newly decorated corridor. We have lots of big news though this week – it was a great week for us! Here are the week’s headlines: We... 

This week’s work of the week in Ms. Mitchell’s Class is from Ben Cunnane. Ben got 100% in his mental maths on Wednesday and 95 % on Thursday! He had hardly any help too! Well Done Ben!  

This week’s Student of the Week in Ms. Mitchell’s Class is… JORDAN KEDDY! Jordan had full attendance this week and completed his homework every night (including his learning homework!). He worked hard to make his sentences longer and got 100% in both his spelling and tables test this week!   Well Done Jordan!!!  

You may have seen in an earlier post today that we’re currently taking part in a handwriting competition. Today’s ‘Wednesday for Parents’ suggests a number of links that may be useful to you if your child needs extra help to improve their handwriting. As always, your experience is invaluable and we’d love to hear your tips for helping with handwriting. Let us know in the comments! Our first link this evening comes from NALA and is absolutely excellent. We’ve featured content from NALA before and their work is always of high quality. This publication is called... 

We’re delighted to be taking part in the INTO District 8 Handwriting Awards this term. We have decided to combine our entries with Mr. Curran’s Handwriting Awards! Mr. Curran retired from our school last year and to remember him and his love of handwriting, we set up a handwriting competition. Many of you will be taking part in the competition in the next two weeks, so we decided that it would make sense to share the rules of the competition on the blog, in case some of you are working on your entries at home! Remember, entries are judged on ‘style, flair, neatness and layout’... 

5th class have been reading ‘War Horse’ as their class novel and have been really enjoying it! Michael Morpurgo is an amazing author and the book is fantastic, but we’ve struggled with some of the vocabulary – particularly related to horses. One thing we love about Twitter and blogging is that it opens up the classroom to the world around us. A couple of years ago, we went on a school tour to the Irish National Stud in Kildare. The tour guides were excellent and we really enjoyed the day. We highly recommend it as a family day out! You can visit their website at here. We...