St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Hello and happy new school year to one and all!

What a fantastic fortnight we have already had. We’re adjusting to life in 6th Class, taking on new responsibilities and jobs and getting to grips with lots of new work. We spent the first week and a half getting to know each other, making sure our new pupils know where everything is and who everyone is, setting up our class shop (more on that later!), organising our room, labelling and numbering our books and copies, and doing our autumn tests! We also made out the rotas for cocoa duty, fruit delivery, roll book delivery, PE equipment supervision and Infant helpers for lunchtime. It has been non-stop. We are trying to be very responsible and look after everyone in school. We’ll take a class photo soon and share that with you too!

So what have we been learning? We’ve started all of our new books, and we started reading Reaching the Heights. We’ll podcast about that next week! We’ve spent a lot of time on English grammar and Mental Maths and we feel like we’re ready to knuckle down to work hard after a great summer.

Check out all of our tweets so far this year!

We’re posting our word problems to Twitter… can you solve them all?

Today's #6thClass Maths word problem! pic.twitter.com/u3GfC8vGIA

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 14, 2015

This morning's #6thClass word problem! Start your day by solving it! pic.twitter.com/glRZLU8ga9

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 9, 2015

We’ve had two weeks of ‘Student of the Week’ awards…

Joint Students of the Week! #6thClass For homework, attitude, effort and attendance! pic.twitter.com/ILWyIhvQT4

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 11, 2015

The first #6thClass Student of the Week! #schoolspirit pic.twitter.com/C1GKCqcrqS

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 4, 2015

We made out a Drama contract and tried out the first of our strategies, Still Image!

#6thClass had great fun creating 'still images' in Drama! Well done guys! pic.twitter.com/IneLtXhaNN

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 11, 2015

We already had our first Confirmation preparation mass on Sunday 13th February. The theme was ‘Belonging’!

#6thClass are preparing for their first Confirmation Mass this Sunday. The theme is 'Belonging'.

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 11, 2015

We made some art for the altar too!

Our #6thClass presentation board for the altar for mass on Sunday. Every bit made by the class themselves! #teamwork pic.twitter.com/gqqRRvEY9r

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 11, 2015

We’re been very artistic and we created Roald Dahl Dream Jars and we also decorated our classroom door!

Alana, Dylan & Molly are getting @ClassDojo points for their creative BFG Dream Jars! #6thClass #RoaldDahlDay pic.twitter.com/143cIzFsyp

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 10, 2015

We were SO excited when Irish Rugby retweeted us!

Our #6thClass door for Term 1. We used last week's art! We're supporting @IrishRugby! #COYBIG #rugbyworldcup pic.twitter.com/EVAM2bhgqp

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 10, 2015

We set our Reading goals for the year ahead too.

Setting reading goals and completing our SAlfie folders in stations! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/fFiO9qiZJl

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 10, 2015

We recorded some Vine videos to help us to remember Maths facts in Place Value!

Zero is VERY IMPORTANT in Place Value! It can be a 'place holder'! #6thClass https://t.co/f1YhiiiQEB

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 10, 2015

Notation board really help us with Place Value! #6thClass https://t.co/NcKoot0FpH

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 10, 2015

Our favourite rule in Place Value! The High 5 rule! #6thClass https://t.co/P00rxE1tJs

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 10, 2015

We’ve also been really enjoying our new class novel. It’s called ‘Reaching the Heights’.

#6thClass paired reading https://t.co/tjvpTKed8U

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 10, 2015

Total silence as we are gripped to 'Reaching the Heights'! What a brilliant story it is! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/Kc9X7hQnjX

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 9, 2015

Teamwork has been a major theme of the month so far…

Maths teamwork at the IWB! We're working on Place Value! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/9uwUsHoruV

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 10, 2015

It's that time of year again! We're making BFG Dream Jars for #RoaldDahlDay! #6thClass @roalddahlmuseum pic.twitter.com/zg2DQHiJFx

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 9, 2015

We got a FANTASTIC tweet from the Roald Dahl Museum!

Fantabulous @StPetersBray! Hope you have a brilliant @roald_dahl Day #RoaldDahlDay

— Roald Dahl Museum (@roalddahlmuseum) September 9, 2015

Cocoa is back, and Paddy is delighted!

Paddy is so happy that cocoa is back! #schoolspirit pic.twitter.com/FETcbx5aZ9

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 9, 2015

Ms. Travers is now in our room everyday helping us with our new English ‘POWER!’ stations!

Recount reading and writing, postcard writing and grammar challenges make up our English Power Stations today! #6thClass

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 9, 2015

Tá an-obair déanta againn go dtí seo sa Gaeilge!

Seanfhocal na Seachtaine i Rang 6: 'Tús maith, leath na hoibre!' #6thClass

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 7, 2015

Briathra na Gaeilge i Rang 6, S1-Bhí/Bíonn/Beidh. Chuaigh/Téann/Rachaidh. Tháinig/Tagann/Tiocfaidh. Inné/Gach Lá/Amárach. #6thClass #Gaeilge

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 3, 2015

The two lads are working hard in Festina Lente!

Good luck to the two lads who start their work placements in @FestinaLenteHS today! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/6toXGQ0rno

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 7, 2015

We’re getting behind the Irish rugby team for the World Cup!

Team #6thClass supporting @IrishRugby! pic.twitter.com/QZeHMjJDgI

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 4, 2015

We're using the #rugbyworldcup to improve our Geography skills in #6thClass! Can you identify the flags? @IrishRugby pic.twitter.com/LtsKMpYZW3

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 3, 2015

We’re back to GAA training with Tommy!

The first #6thClass GAA session with Tommy! #activeschools pic.twitter.com/xRHZyYh2Kh

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 4, 2015

We also started our Evernote e-portfolios. They are a pretty cool way to take care of our best work!

We've added our Gaeilge test and Art to our @evernote e-portfolios! Everyone now has five pieces of work in their folders. #6thClass

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 4, 2015

Jack B and Stephen set up the shop!

New price list for the Stop and Shop! From Jack B and Stephen #6thClass #schoolshop pic.twitter.com/6ixPyMib1Q

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 4, 2015

We have learned off a poem to help us to remember the counties of Ireland…stop and ask us the poem in the corridor!

#6thClass are starting their geography work with maps and re-learning the county names using a poem! pic.twitter.com/N5Mq3p3bvZ

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 2, 2015

We have a ClassDojo rewards shop set up…

Our #6thClass @ClassDojo rewards! What would you go for? pic.twitter.com/8RaBaMpM6C

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 2, 2015

We’re all set with our rotas for the year ahead!

#6thClass responsibility is so important! We made our rotas for the daily jobs and…. http://t.co/9Xnquw7p5s pic.twitter.com/BOBagDOgAS

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) August 28, 2015

We learned off our classroom attention grabbers for the year ahead!

And some more! #6thClass https://t.co/B3zTyjCqby

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) August 28, 2015

And some more! #6thClass https://t.co/B3zTyjCqby

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) August 28, 2015

And finally, here are our class rules…

Here are our simple #6thClass rules for the year ahead! Do you like them? Tommy pic.twitter.com/o2S6SHJVGW

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) August 28, 2015

PHEW! We weren’t lying when we said we were busy!

We’ll be back early next week with loads more to share. Until then…be sound! From 6th Class.

Ps. Hi and a big ‘miss you!’ to last year’s 6th Class. It’s been great to see you all calling in in your new uniforms! Special hello to Leon who sent us a lovely message via the blog. You guys rock!