St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Last week, 2nd class welcomed Baby M back to the school after the Christmas break and we couldn’t believe how much she has grown. Jerry noticed that she got taller and Leon noticed that she has even more hair. Our theme at the moment is sleep. We’re learning about active sleep, deep sleep, transitions and REM. We were talking about dreams and nightmares. We all shared something with the group. Ms Whyte told us that Baby M sleeps very well. We all got a chance to talk to Baby M and to play with her. Arpit noticed that she was really interested in us and she was looking at us more than... 

Hello people of the internet! In Fourth Class we have been doing our Write a Book project recently. First we had to plan out the plot. Then we had to write it out chapter by chapter. We did six chapters each. After each chapter was written we passed out the copies and everybody got to read a random story. We wrote a comment on each story. When we had it finished we typed it out. We also illustrated two pictures for inside the story and the front cover. We have also been doing long multiplication and division. We’re just finishing division now. We have been playing Maths games to see if we... 

We were delighted with the interest in yesterday’s ‘Are You Smarter Than a 12 Year Old’ Maths post! Now it’s time for another one! We’ve posted our English Grammar one above, do you want to give it a go?  Step up, step up – are you smarter than a 12 year old?! Ps. Don’t miss out two History podcasts, one from December and one from January! They are all about Daniel O’Connell and the War of Independence.  

The junior and senior infants are very excited as we are getting a pom pom dancing club at lunchtime once a week! Shake the pom poms down!   The four amazing sixth class girls are going to be our teachers! We listened really well! Bring the pom poms back up! The sixth class girls have been doing pom pom dancing outside of school and can’t wait to show us what they know! They are so kind and patient with us and we are lucky to have them! So much fun! Check out some of our Vines from our class! We will have one more go of our pom pom dancing class and then we will be getting our pom... 

Thanks to Intel Ireland for sending on these photos from Friday – you can read the full post on the Mini-Scientist here.  

6th Class are constantly thinking of new and innovative ways to improve their Mental Maths. We want to be able to think on our feet and not forget key Maths language, steps and processes.We’ve been working so hard on our Maths language, and we made sheets to help us with key terms and steps. This is all to help us ahead of our Secondary School entrance exams! Last Friday, we had a little bit of fun. As you know, we love podcasting, and so we decided to challenge each other to the ‘Top 50 Maths questions you must be able to answer before you leave 6th Class’. We recorded it as... 

Junior and Senior Infants have been learning about the Gardai during Aistear. The Gardai were so kind and let us try on their hats! We have been learning a lot about the Gardai and the important job that they do. looking good! We learned that if we get lost when we are out we can go to a Garda and ask him or her to help us find our Mum or Dad. During the week Garda Tom and Garda Adam came in to visit us. We were able to ask them lots of questions. We were very good and put our hands up! Garda Tom and Garda Adam were really nice and told us all about the important job that they do. We knew something... 

We’re very excited to share the highlights of this year’s Mini-Scientist showcase in St Peter’s! Last year was our first year to take part in the Intel Mini-Scientist programme and we really enjoyed it. You can find all of our blog posts related to the Mini-Scientist competition here. This year, we approached it slightly differently. In September, we formed a Mini Digital Youth Council (you can learn more about the senior version here) and we decided that as part of their work, they could take part in the Mini-Scientist programme and they were encouraged to include a focus on... 

A couple of weeks ago, our good friend Summer Buzz sent us a link to a Youtube video of ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ recorded by Michael Rosen, one of the authors. It’s become very popular in second class and our teacher noticed that ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ has been the most in-demand book in 2nd class this week! A different type of storytime in 2nd today! @SummerBuzz sent us a link to 'We're going on a bear hunt'. Thanks Buzz! pic.twitter.com/osptmvSCet — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 13, 2015 We decided to use... 

Hello bloggers, St. Peter’s 5th Class were extremely lucky to be one of only 12 schools in all of Ireland to be chosen for the Explorer’s Project this year. The Explorer’s Project is aimed at helping us understand marine and sea life better. As part of the project, 5th class have been given a fish tank containing lots of sea creatures to take care of for 4 weeks and will be given a tour of Sea Life in Bray, with their resident Marine Biologist, Joanna. To get everyone involved 5th class are running a competition for all classes to come up with the best names for our sea creatures....