St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

As you know, we’re big fans of Khan Academy in St Peter’s! You can read all about Mathletes, which uses Khan Academy as a platform, here. We’ve recently established our first Digital Youth Council in St Peter’s (more on that to follow!) and their first job was to demonstrate how to use Khan Academy as a student at the Khan Academy Symposium in Eircom HQ on Saturday. Our students were superb on the day and we were extremely proud of how enthusiastic and engaging they were. We received so many compliments about our students’ behaviour, manners and knowledge! Thanks especially... 

In 2nd class, we’ve been learning poems as part of our Dinosaur theme. We each chose a poem to learn off from a book of Dinosaur poetry. We practised putting expression into our poetry and speaking clearly! When we were ready, we recorded our poetry using Voki. We loved recording our poems using Voki – we thought it was a really cool way to present our work. Tristan Arpit Jodie Nathan Ava Maddy Emanuele (who has been practising his alphabet! He’s working really hard!) Lana  

Recently, in 2nd class, we have been exploring sound as part of our music lessons. We’re developing our performance skills, our listening and responding skills and our composing skills, using body percussion and our voices. One of our favourite songs at the moment is Boom-Chicka-Boom and we’ve been using it to explore the elements of music and different sounds that we can make with our voices. We recorded a version of Boom Chicka Boom using Sound Cloud! We also made a list of sounds that we can make with our bodies and our voices. We worked together as a whole-class activity to list... 

Recently in St Peter’s, we’ve been celebrating healthy eating. Last week, we had Sandwich Day, where some of our classes got to make a sandwich with lots of healthy fillings! 2nd class made a podcast about their choice of fillings and we have lots of lovely photos in our Animoto. In our classrooms, we practised procedural writing and the senior classrooms learned about nutrition and fitness as part of our work towards our Active Flag! Thanks to Mr Foley and Paddy for all their hard work organising such a fantastic day! A small selection of the bread needed for Sandwich Day! pic.twitter.com/HB7QSxqc1J —... 

Yesterday, 2nd class had their 4th Roots of Empathy session with Paddy. So far, we’ve met Baby M and covered the theme ‘Meet the Baby’. Yesterday, we started a new theme – ‘Crying’. We talked about why babies cry. We love our Roots of Empathy sessions. Story time is always special during Roots of Empathy. We read ‘How are you peeling?’ this week. Our doll is called Nicole. Listen to our podcast about what we learned during this week’s session. Well done to Adam, who led his very first podcast. We can’t wait to welcome Baby M into our... 

The Grand High ‘Vitch’, who says the lines that we learned off! 6th Class have learned off lines from The Witches by Roald Dahl and have been performing them in class! Would you like to have a listen? We’ve been working on our accents!  

In Ms. Keating’s Class we are learning about procedural writing. We have been focusing on recipes for the last few weeks. Last week we made frozen strawberry yoghurt and the week before we made jelly. This week we learned how to make butter and today we got the opportunity to make it in class. All you need to make butter is cream, a pinch of salt and a jar. The method is simple: Pour the cream into the jar. Add a pinch of salt and close the jar tightly. Shake the jar for a few minutes until the cream separates. Open the jar. Remove the butter milk from the jar and place the butter on a... 

Welcome to Ms. Keating’s Class. There are 10 boys in the class ranging from 2nd to 6th Class. 5 things we love about our class: Helping one another Our teacher Cooking Class games WOW cards   3 things we are looking forward to this year: Our School Trip Our Class Trip Teachers vs. Students   Our Favourite TV shows: The Simpsons Pawn Stars Total Wipe-out   Our favourite movies: Matilda Goal Fantastic Mr. Fox Mission Impossible Jurassic Park   Our favourite musicians: The Furies Eminem The Dubliners Bob Marley.   Our favourite time of the year: Halloween   Our... 

We’re learning about volcanoes in 2nd class at the moment. As part of our artwork this month, we learned about paint and colour. We watched videos of volcanoes erupting and picked out the colours that we noticed in the video. We picked red, orange, yellow and a bit of brown to use. We tried a new technique to portray a volcanic eruption called straw painting. We watered down the paint, poured some on the page and blew through a straw to make the paint move all over the page. It was REALLY messy but the effect was really cool. We learned that the page gets very wet from the paint so you... 

The Student Council met today after school! Here is the latest podcast. Don’t miss it!