St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

A couple of weeks ago, Wednesday for Parents covered the Bucket and Spade list and it got us thinking in 5th class about what we hope to achieve over the Summer holidays! We chose three things to aim to get done over July and August – it’ll be interesting to see how we got on when we come back to start 6th class. Here are our Bucket and Spade Lists in Animoto: What’s on yours?  

This week for ‘Wednesday for Parents’, we’re delighted to publish a guest post from the fantastic Summer Buzz – we’ve spoken about Buzz on many occasions on the blog and you’re bound to have noticed the name popping up in the comments! We have been so lucky to have a Twitter (and real-life friend) like Buzz and when we wanted to talk about ways to get stuck into Summer reading, Maria O’Sullivan was the one to contact! Thanks a million to Maria (and Buzz) for putting together such a brilliant blog post. You can find all previous ‘Wednesday for Parents’... 

A couple of weeks ago, Seomra Ranga offered a copy of a book for review on Twitter. We jumped at the chance and ‘Fintan’s Fifteen’ has been steadily making its way around 5th class since. Last week, Alan Nolan, the author, contacted us to offer us a workshop and we snapped it up as quickly as Ollie would a bag of salt and vinegar crisps. We tweeted our way through Alan’s visit and collected all the Tweets afterwards in a Storify.   [View the story “Alan Nolan visits Peter’s” on Storify] Alan signed our pictures that we drew and our mini-comic books.... 

Welcome to the St Peter’s Post, our weekly online newsletter! This week, all classes were busy finishing off their self-assessment folders, their scrapbooks and preparing for the last couple of weeks of the term. With that in mind, the blog was a bit quiet this week, but consider it the calm before the storm – we’ve an exciting two weeks ahead! The main headlines from this week are: This week, we launched our 32 County in 24 hours Challenge. Read all about it here! 5th and 6th class visited the Garda station this week and learned lots from our Community Garda Stephen. They also... 

This morning, three of 5th class travelled to Shankill Tennis Club to represent St Peter’s in a local tennis tournament. The boys who took part have been attending tennis sessions with Paddy and Conor from the Sports Promotion Unit every week for the last five weeks. Alan represented the school in the singles competition and came second in the tournament. Sam and Johnny took part in the doubles section and came third. They played three matches against other local schools and really enjoyed the morning. Thanks to Paddy for travelling with them as their coach and to Mr Kinsella for the lifts.... 

Yesterday, 5th and 6th class visited Bray Garda station as part of our Community Garda, Stephen’s, work with the school. He visited 5th class a couple of weeks ago so we were really interested to see everything that we’d learned about. You can read our previous post here. We had a really interesting morning in Bray Garda station and we got to see the squad cars, the cells, the medical room, the interview room and the control room where all the emergency calls for County Wicklow come into. We also got to see the CCTV footage from the cameras around Bray. Stephen was really generous... 

  (As there’s so much interest in and excitement about the 32 County Challenge, we’ve made this post a sticky – don’t forget to scroll down to catch up on all the rest of our news!) Last Thursday Mr. Foley, Paddy and Mr. Kinsella came around to all the classes and made a big announcement. A couple of the boys had figured it out from the article in this week’s Bray People Newspaper (Wednesday 4th June). So what was the announcement? We here at St. Peter’s are currently planning our biggest ever fundraiser to be held at the end of June. On Sunday June 22nd, the three... 

Hello bloggers from around the world! We have been very busy over the past couple of weeks in class. We have been doing our lego videos and they are almost finished. We will be finishing them this week. We will put them up on our next blog post when they are done. We are doing it in three different groups. Have a look out for them next week! We found out we are going on our School Trip to Fort Lucan in two weeks time. We just finished our seventh class novel of the year – “Holes” by Louis Sachar. A lot of us thought it was the best one. We did a vote on all the books we have read.... 

As you all know, the 2014 World Cup finals kick off in Brazil on Thursday! Football is the most popular sport in the world, and the World Cup is the biggest sports competition in the world involving only one single sport. In every country, football is run by a group called a ‘Football Association’ (for example, in Ireland we have the ‘Football Association of Ireland’). Every football association is part of FIFA, which organises the World Cup. Every country’s team takes part. First every team plays against other teams from the same continent. The best 32 teams then... 

Welcome to our weekly online newsletter, the St Peter’s Post! This week was a short one as we were off for Monday and Tuesday, but we packed plenty into our three days. We had a visitor from Tasmania, Wicklow Sports and Bike Week, along with posts about our own Sports Day and our participation in the Excited Festival. The main headlines from last week were: We took part in the EXCITED Digital Learning Festival last Saturday and had a fantastic time. Read all about it here. We blogged about our Sports Day – check out our podcast, Vines and Animotos here! We’d a very special visitor...