St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

The work of week award went to Arturas for his excellent phonics sentences! Arturas has been working extremely hard for the past few weeks to try to write his sentences by himself using his spellings and sounds. This week he even wrote extra sentences without being asked to! Well done Arturas, we are all very proud of you!  

This week’s student of the week award went to Ryan Kennedy! Ryan worked hard for the past few weeks to make his written homework better, he had longer sentences with much more detail this week. He also improved on his maths scores and got 100% in both is spellings and tables test. Well done Ryan!  

Welcome to our submission for the Discover Primary Science and Maths award for 2014. As you know, Maths and Science are really important to us here in St Peter’s. There are a number of criteria that needs to be fulfilled when applying for the award. We’re using our blog to submit our award and to link back to our activities during the year. Our AoSME number is WW007. Step 1: Greenwave -read all about our work about weather and about recording the signs of Spring here. Step 2: Prescribed activities – Ms Mitchell’s class learned about 2nd class worked on the Materials strand... 

3rd Class looked at the Energy and Forces strand of the Science curriculum for Discovery Primary Science, focusing on the topic of gravity. We also integrated this into other subjects such as Maths and History. Our title was: ‘Investigating How Helicopters Fly’. Our objectives were: To investigate gravity as a force To explore how some things fall To investigate if the size and shape of the rotor blades affect the way a helicopter spins To investigate if the weight of the paper helicopter affects the way a helicopter spins Kian drew this picture to show how we made our paper helicopters: Here... 

The sixth annual Darkness Into Light fundraising event got underway at 4.15am on Saturday morning, 10th May as an estimated 80,000 people turned out for dawn walks at 37 locations across the country and two venues overseas. Crowds of families, friends, school children, work colleagues and even dogs walked and ran a 5km route in locations from Cork City to Letterkenny, Galway City to our very own Bray Town, in solidarity with those who had lost loved ones to suicide. Darkness Into Light has grown phenomenally over the years, from 200 people walking in the Phoenix Park in 2009 to 80,000 people taking... 

Hello, we are Ms. Brennan’s 2nd Class. This is our first time to do the Discover Primary Science and Maths Project. We are really excited. We completed part two of the project where we designed and made experiments from the Materials strand. We did the  ‘Which Ball Is The Bounciest’ test.  We hope you enjoy reading our project! Which ball is the bounciest? What you need A variety of balls Metre stick Hard surface on which the balls can bounce Grass surface on which the balls can bounce Here we are, showing you the balls we used! Skills we used for this experiment 1. Predicting 2.... 

It’s no secret that we’re big fans of using online resources to improve maths among our students – previous Wednesday for Parents topics have covered place value and fractions and we’ve been really involved in the Mathletes Challenge using Khan Academy. We also use online resources to revise and learn more about other subjects – and today we’re focusing on SESE (Social, Environmental and Scientific Education) which is the name in the curriculum for History, Geography and Science. Although there are many good websites for world history and geography out there... 

On Tuesday in 4th class we talked about the two best footballers in the world, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. We discussed what they were best known for. Abhishek said that Messi is known as “The King of Dribbling”. We talked about why he is so good at dribbling. Abhishek said that it was because of his balance. When we talked about why his balance was so good, Mason noted that he was tiny and that this helped him. We decided to investigate what it is that helps us keep our balance, as part of this year’s Discover Primary Science and Maths award. Mr. Foley explained... 

We are learning about Summer this month and can’t wait to see all of the beautiful bugs and animals and minibeasts again! We hope to see ladybirds, snails, caterpillars, butterflies, ants, bees, bloodsuckers and spiders! We decided to make our own minibeasts today because it doesn’t look like the Summer has come yet! You will need: a knife, an apple, peanut butter, chocolate chips and sesame sticks. First ask an adult to chop the apple in half. Take out the stem and seeds. Then you spread 6 blobs of peanut butter on the back of the apple. Next you place chocolate chips on the peanut... 

4th class started a new novel earlier this month called ‘Holes’. It’s by an author called Louis Sachar. So far, we’re really enjoying it and we spent this afternoon working on an activity online based on the novel. We also took the opportunity to share our thoughts on the book so far with the wonderful world of Twitter! We Storified our tweets so that we could share them with you too – and we also included tweets from Maria O’Sullivan, who is a fantastic librarian and always encourages our reading. We’re looking forward to updating you on what we think...