St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Today in Make-it club, our first and second class budding artists stepped back in time to create some Medieval bunting flags for the Wicklow Arts Festival! All we needed was a chopped up bedsheet for our material, lots of markers, a couple of homemade stencils and some historical inspiration. We are very proud of our end results and they will be tied together and put on display in Wicklow Town on the 23rd and 24th of May as a part of the Wicklow Arts Festival! For more information see www.wicklowartsfestival.ie/medieval-bunting-community-art-installation    

We are delighted to be a part of the GAA Around Ireland video which will be featuring in Croke Park! St. Peter’s will be on the big screen. Pause at 1.32 to see Brigid getting ready to display her football skills on video! Well done Brigid – third class and Ms. Farren are very proud. Thank you Tommy for improving our skills all year!  

6th class have exciting news! They have created a brand new website to match their Primary Science Fair project! Check it out here!  

Congratulations to our wonderful Sacramental Choir who sang so beautifully at the recent Confirmation. 24 boys and girls from 2nd to 5th came to St Peter’s Parish Church on Saturday morning after weeks of practice at lunchtimes! We got great feedback about their beautiful singing and their school spirit was really appreciated! We’re looking forward to hearing them again at the Communion ceremony on the 24th April!  

Dominick’s Cartoon from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. I worked really hard on my ‘Toontastic’ video and I really hope you enjoy it. It’s about three dinosaurs, Rex, Bronto and the very silly Terry. It took me a long time to make it on the ipad because I had to do it day by day. I followed a ‘story arc’ to write 5 scenes. I wrote my first scene, the ‘setup’, then the ‘conflict’ where there’s a problem in the cartoon. The ‘challenge’ scene was where the problem got even harder for the main characters. The ‘climax’ scene was where everything got solved... 

Thanks to everyone who made our 6th Class Confirmation day so memorable. We had a beautiful day. Everyone had jobs to do and we prepared very well. Here we are going over the final preparations in the church! Our 6th Class students all ready to make their Confirmation tomorrow. A great gang who have prepared brilliantly. pic.twitter.com/SO1H0Fkdpx — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) March 13, 2015 We got lovely good luck tweets! @StPetersBray Have a wonderful day from all in CBS Kilkenny! — 5th Class CBS (@RangMsB) March 13, 2015 We decorated the church too! We are lucky... 

We are taking part in Irish dancing lessons in Senior Infants at the moment and we’re having so much fun! It’s perfect timing as we can use what we have learned to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! Sue is our teacher and has taught us some excellent moves! We really enjoy learning new dances like the Walls of Limerick and love playing musical statues to practice what we have been learning. Thanks Sue for making our lessons so much fun! Check out some of our photos here!  

Third class are doing a project on teddy bears. Junior infants were all so excited when they were asked to participate! Third class prepared some questions to ask junior infants about their teddy bears. This boy loves his minion teddy! This third class boy has some great interview questions prepared. Concentrating very hard! Third class asked junior infants where they got their teddy bears, what their teddy bear’s name was and who played with them and their teddy bears. Third class prepared some great questions and junior infants answered them so well! Junior Infants also told third class... 

Last week third class came into the junior infant classroom to do their reading with them. Every junior infant read their book to a boy or girl from third class. Third class asked junior infants some questions that they had prepared with their teacher. The third class boys and girls were careful not to tell the junior infants what the word was in the book but to help them sound it out. All the boys and girls had great fun and learned a lot! Well done junior infants and third class!  

Today, first and second class had great fun getting creative with sand art in Make-it club. We used large coloured chalk to change the colour of sand (well, salt actually!). It was fun to see the colour changing but we had to try really hard to keep it on our pages. Then Ms. Byrne, Ms. Sexton and Ms. Fry all helped us to pour the colours into our bottles using funnels. We worked as a team to decide which order to put the colours in and helped to tilt the funnel to make different patterns! Our bottles were looking pretty well and when we finished them we decided to stick a nice message on them...