St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Senior Infants have been busy exploring and investigating different materials. We have looked at metal, wood, plastic, fabric, cardboard and rubber and have learned that they all look and feel very different. We decided that it would be fun to explore which of these materials are waterproof. Ned, Seán and Damiano investigated wood and metal that they found on an abacus in our classroom. They said that the metal felt cold and hard and that the wood felt smooth and strong. David and Ellie investigated fabric and said that it felt soft and fluffy! First we decided to talk about what the word ‘waterproof’... 

During Engineer’s Week 2015, third class had a visit from Joe, a Civil Engineer from Dublin City Council. Joe showed us pictures of a water treatment plant. We thought this was really interesting, so, for Discovering Science 2015, we decided to filter some dirty, grassy water of our own! We filtered water in two ways! Have a look at Kelsey, Dominick, Caoilynn and Dylan watering how well Caoilynn can filter the water using her hand – her face tells a story of its own! Kelsey and Dylan then watched how the water would filter as it passed through a thick J-cloth! Brooke, Kia and Ryan... 

As part of their study into materials, 2nd class have been designing and making ponchos! We’ve been examining the properties of materials recently and last week we discussed the meaning of the word ‘best’ when talking about products.   What does ‘best’ mean? 2nd class are brainstorming as part of their #ponchopopup project #designandmake — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 8, 2015 We decided that ‘best’ has different meanings depending on the context. Check out some of the meanings ‘best’ can have in our Vine. One of the... 

arms up! shake them down! back up! Isn’t this fun? Strike a pose! We love practicing with our pom poms during pom pom dancing club! The 6th class girls are the best teachers ever! 🙂 We are improving every week!  

Our overall review of the week! Some of our interactive digital art! We made presentations on our inventions and apps! Dragon’s Den eat your heart out! Some cool digital app work! We learned all about pixels! We worked really hard together! We hope you liked our video work for #artweek15 and #techweekirl!  

Congratulations to this great boy who knows all of the first 30 jolly phonics tricky words! He has been working hard at school and at home and it has paid off! Great work!  

Phew! 6th Class are still recovering from a hectic #artweek15 and #TechWeekIrl! Check out just some of our tweets from last week’s events! What an amazing week #6thClass had celebrating #techweekirl! Watch our highlights video! #edchatie http://t.co/pTJwfblh0a #animoto — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 1, 2015 We’ve made a #techweekirl @GetKahoot Quiz in #6thClass! Do it with us! The pin is 1279. Go to kahoot.it pic.twitter.com/sWkXG5PMTz — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 1, 2015 Well done to our students of the week (Jade and Leon) for putting... 

It has been very busy in Senior Infants over the past couple of weeks! We really enjoyed celebrating Grandparent’s Day, planting with Junior Infants and Second Class and learning how to follow directions during P.E. We have been presenting our work to the class in pairs and co – operating to finish some new jigsaws! We are having lots of fun working in pairs and groups during our lessons and hope you like our photos! Oisín, Ned and Marie worked really well together as a team. Haylie, David, Liam and Gary filled in their card in record time during our P.E. lesson on orienteering! Competition... 

Junior infants, Ms. Ní Chionnaith and Mr. Fitzsimons had lots of fun with music today. We sang “Hey Diddle Diddle, ” and “Humpty Dumpty,” and clapped the rhythm to the songs. We love music!!  

One of our favourite hobbies in third class is going to the cinema. For Tech Week 2015, we thought it would be cool to see some of the cool technology behind the scenes in the cinema. We got some help from the owner at the cinema who sent us these cool photos – have a look! This is projection suite in the cinema! We thought this was a great Tech Week 2015 photo – a film hard drive – we didn’t expect the film to look like this! WOW! Look at how big the sound box is at the cinema! We hope you’ve enjoyed looking at these behind the scenes pics as much as week have!