St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Hi everyone, hope you’re having a fantastic holiday! It’s absolutely flying by and we hope you’re making the most of the fine weather! We got really brilliant news today – we found out we’ve been nominated for the Blog Awards Ireland! This is a really cool award to be nominated for, because it recognises community groups, schools, government agencies, local authorities, journalists, bloggers and vloggers, and the contribution they make to the blogosphere. We’re absolutely thrilled to find out that we’ve been nominated in the ‘Best Education Blog’... 

And so, we welcome you to the final edition of our weekly online newsletter this year – the St Peter’s Post. Now that all the catch up posts are complete, we can get you all up-to-date on the events of the last week of the term. We hope you’re all really enjoying your holidays so far! The headlines are: The #32in24 challenge went off brilliantly. You can read our post at the halfway point of the journey here and the big roundup will be posted very soon! We featured on TheJournal.ie twice – here and here and in the Irish Independent. Local media, such as the Bray People... 

Hi everyone, Paddy here! If you were driving past our school last week you would have been forgiven for thinking that some pupils of or school can’t get enough of the place!  Last Wednesday , Thursday and Friday every class was represented at the activity camp in the school run by the Sports Promotion Unit. The SPU run an annual, very successful camp for the children of the school. The participants got to take part in Tag Rugby, Soccer, Hurling, Hockey, Volleyball, Tennis and Rounders. They finished on Friday with a competition involving all the sports they learned and a party. Unfortunately... 

Last Friday, we had our final assembly of the year. After Mr Foley recapped some of the very exciting things that have happened this year, he praised all the students for their hard work and school spirit. He spoke about the great support that students, staff and parents have given St Peter’s this year and how we can achieve great things when we work together as a team. There were a number of awards to be handed out. We started with the tennis awards from the recent tournament in Shankill. Then, we handed out Bike Week prizes for the overall and class winners of the speed test and the slow... 

Last Wednesday, after the student-teacher soccer match, we said goodbye for now to our 6th class. Their teachers, Ms Whyte and Mr Staunton, spoke really highly of the boys and staff and parents were on hand to wish them all the best for the future. We were delighted to have Ms Hyland and Ms Whyte back from their maternity leave for the ceremony! Mr Staunton prepared a rap about the phases of the moon with the boys and they performed it brilliantly. Members of the staff were still humming it at breakfast the next morning so we’re really impressed that 6th managed to keep it as a surprise!...