St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Here in Ms. Mitchell’s class we are learning about Summer this month! We are looking forward to spotting lots of changes in the world around us now. We will be looking closely to see a change in the weather, people’s clothes, the food we eat, new flowers growing and all of the new bugs and animals that come out for Summer. But before all of this starts to happen we all closed our eyes and used our senses to think of what happens in the world around us in Summer. We tried to remember all of the things that we see, hear, smell, feel and taste during the Summer. Next we shared our memories... 

We’ve been working hard to record our signs of Spring using Greenwave. We really missed Mr Curran who retired last year as he’s always brilliant for noticing the signs of Spring! Here’s our dashboard: Some of the classes have been following the weather forecast during News2day on the RTE player and discussing what the meteorological terms mean.  

Bright and early on Saturday morning, primary and secondary students gathered in DCU to compete in the Mathletes Leinster finals. Among all the students were nine St Peter’s boys from 5th and 6th class, who had qualified due to their hard work and dedication. Only 500 students in the country from 5th class to 3rd year qualified so the St Peter’s team had a lot to proud of. Special mention to the parents, grandparents, brothers and sister who came along to cheer them on! The day began with a team event designed by The Think Academy. The challenge was based on CSI techniques and required... 

Welcome to another edition of our online weekly newsletter – the St Peter’s Post! This week, we’ve been looking forward to the next few weeks – 2nd and 6th class are preparing for Communion and Confirmation and we’ve started recruiting for the choir for the Communion ceremony. We were also very busy on Twitter this week! The main headlines from this week are: We were sent the video marking our win at the Junior Spiders from the organisers during the week. If you haven’t seen it yet, we’d love you to watch it here. Our new student council had their first... 

This week’s work of the week is from Adam Hackman! Adam scored 100% in both his spellings and tables test! He worked extra hard to learn his 7 times tables at home every night! Well Done Adam!!  

This week’s student of the week is Nathan O’ Brien AGAIN!! Nathan has worked extremely hard in every subject all week, his homework has improved greatly and he has had a wonderful, polite and positive attitude towards his classmates and teachers. Well Done Nathan, keep it up!!  

Yesterday we posted half of the prayers for students preparing for Confession and Communion. This is the second set, to match the second page sent home to practice ahead of Confession on May 20th and Communion on May 25th.  

Hello bloggers around the world! Today we did a podcast of our Irish story called Mamó. Everyone in the class called out the first and the last box from the story. We used our random name picker to give out the boxes from the story. Each boy in the class got to call out a box on their own. Before we started recording Mr. Foley let us practice a little bit. Everyone did really well. Jack B got the tongue twister! Try it for yourself; shuigh siad síos sa seomra suí! Mr. Foley deleted the first part of the story by mistake (again!) but we were able to do it again, and our second time was even better.... 

Some of the art the boys prepared for the church last year. 2nd Class are very busy preparing for celebration of their First Confession and First Holy Communion. There are many prayers for us to learn. We have made two full sheets with lots of prayers and we have sent them home to practice every night. If you are practicing the prayers, it might help to play these podcasts where we are reminded what to say. We can practice the prayers beside the sound. These are the prayers from page one as sent home!  

Congratulations to our news Student Council for Term 3. They are: 1. Kayden Clucas Doonan (2nd) 2. Casey Crinion (2nd) 3. Adam Doyle (3rd) 4. TJ Nolan (3rd) 5. Johnny Moorehouse (4th) 6. Calvin O’Callaghan (4th) 7. Luke O’Brien (5th) 8. Luke McKeever (5th) 9. Lester Grefaldeo (6th) 10. Dylan Kane (6th)   Here is their introductory podcast!