St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Some nifty footwork skills there! This junior infant boy loves football!! Good save! Once a week the Junior and Senior Infants have a lunch time soccer club with teacher and the sixth class boys. The sixth class boys are unbelievable coaches, leaving teacher with lots of time to take photos! Yesterday Paddy organised a mini world cup day for us. The boys and girls from soccer club had great fun showing off their skills on the field and everybody had lots of fun. Thanks Paddy for mini world cup day and thanks a million to the sixth class boys for their hard work, patience and superb coaching... 

6th Class made their visit to the Bray ‘Seomra’ Youth Centre this afternoon! They tweeted about their fantastic day! #6thClass are in Seomra, the Bray Youth Centre. Thanks to Clay, Martina and Peter for welcoming us! #Bray pic.twitter.com/EFsEb1MnwY — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 28, 2015 Peter is welcoming us. #6thClass #BraySeomra pic.twitter.com/t2fr0HSrvG — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 28, 2015 We're making smoothies! #6thClass #BraySeomra pic.twitter.com/y35deMNIw0 — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 28, 2015 We're... 

6th Class had an exciting day yesterday! HUGE excitement in #6thClass as we got our photos taken this afternoon for a class mural that will be unveiled at graduation! #schoolspirit— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 26, 2015 Here are previous murals that can be seen on the #6thClass landing. We can't wait to see our one! #creativeschools pic.twitter.com/QYti7XdURw— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 26, 2015 Each year our 6th Class mural idea comes from a major project 6th had been involved in. Last year it was all about the Junior Spiders and our Grand Prix... 

So #6thClass had a brilliant time with Bike Day! We were so busy filming and cycling that we forgot to tweet. We’ll share on Monday! — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 21, 2015 #6thClass are showing real school leadership as they help Paddy with the Junior…. http://t.co/S3tQRipmgS pic.twitter.com/4lLqvXEuft — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 20, 2015 #6thClass had an amazing Bike Day 2015 last Thursday. Thanks to Paddy for another brilliant day. #activeschools https://t.co/cvdPFIsjk9 — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 25, 2015 We... 

Hi, it’s Rowan from third class here. I had loads of fun doing my Toontastic project. It took a long time but I enjoyed it. The characters are Jody, Alisa, Wolf Mann , Gue Monster, the ghost and mum. It’s a cartoon about when Alisa gets a goal when playing football and she goes really crazy. Then her brother Jody gets mad. He gets even madder when Alisa accidentally pushes him down a magic hole into a scary place. I hope you enjoy it because I enjoyed making it! Rowan’s Toontastic video from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

Over the last two weeks in Make-It Club, first and second class explored lots of different reusable materials to make junk-art robots out of. They worked in groups of five to design and make robots out of recycling from home. They used Easter egg boxes, egg cartons, milk cartons, bottle caps, scraps of string, pipe cleaners, paint strips, tinfoil and pretty much anything else that they could find in their recycling boxes. They worked so well in teams, with everybody having a part to play and even had better imaginations than their teachers when it came to using different items for different parts.... 

  Welcome to our submission for the Discover Primary Science and Maths award for 2015. This is our 10th year taking part in the Awards! This year we are applying for the Plaque of STEM Excellence, a new award which is given to schools that carry out extensive work in science, technology, engineering and maths, all of which are very important in St. Peter’s. The other big change this year is that it is the first time we will have had Junior and Senior Infants taking part in the award! It is great to see the young scientists have so much fun learning about Science and Maths. As this is a... 

On Friday 9/1/15, 6th Class took their RDS Primary Science Fair project to the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. We had an amazing day, and tweeted throughout! We were delighted to be accepted to exhibit. Care to catch up on the day that was? Have a read here! We made a wesbite to present our data and project. That website can be found here. We also got nominated for an Eircom Junior Spider Award for the website we created to present our project. We got to visit Facebook for the day and attend an amazing awards ceremony! Read about that day here.    

For the Discover Primary Science and Maths Award, Fourth Class chose to investigate “themselves”! We did three experiments, with all three based on our own body. The first was to examine our own fingerprints, the second was to determine which of our eyes was the dominant one, and the final experiment was to see if we could find our blind spot. To begin, we started talking about how everybody is different in the world, and how every single fingerprint in the world is different. This means it is a great piece of evidence for the gardaí when a crime is committed because it can help them... 

Here in 5th class we were lucky enough to have a fish tank in our room for a 6 weeks, with lots of different types of sea creatures. We spent the month learning all about the oceans and how we can look after them. This was an opportunity for us to learn lots about water. One of the most exciting things we looked at was water pressure. Pressure is the force that pushes water through pipes. Water pressure determines the flow of water from the tap. Using the strand Energy and Forces we tested how water pressure would be affected as it flowed through various size openings. What we needed: • 6 Large...