St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We had an exciting start to the week! Ms. Allen joined us on her teaching practice journey. We love having her work with us. It's a brilliant morning in #6thClass. We have a teacher working with us on Team 6th Class for the next 4 weeks! Welcome Ms. Allen! — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 23, 2015 We’re working on our typing skills for our life skills series. A keyboard practice sheet in #6thClass. pic.twitter.com/3rRwcoymhn — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 23, 2015 Jordan is working on improving his typing. He is using the BBC dance... 

For the past couple of weeks we have been learning about ‘Food’ in Senior Infants. We have discussed our favourite kinds of food (pizza, chicken, bread and potatoes!) and where certain foods come from. For example we know that Sushi is a Japanese dish, France is famous for bread and Italy is famous for pasta. We also discussed how important it is to eat healthy food. Healthy food gives us energy and helps us to concentrate in school. We love to eat healthy foods like apples, bananas, fish and wraps. We learned about the ‘food pyramid’ and worked in groups to create our own... 

Junior infants have settled really well into school and are working hard! We love our sounds. So far we have done the sounds- s,a,t,i,p,n,c,k,e and we are now working on h! We sing fun songs with our sounds and do fun actions with them too! Look at this boy’s great work! This great boy has been working really hard on his sounds- look how well he has done! We have been having lots of fun and learning lots in Aistear too! Hard at work and having fun!   We love showing off what we have done! Look what we made! We are great at jigsaws! One of the things that we’ve been working really... 

Lately, in 5th class, we’ve been working on the skills we need to carry out investigations. Ms Whyte asked us to consider which is the best kitchen towel and to compare it with the type we use in the school already. We brainstormed what ‘best’ means in the context of lots of different situations. Here are some of the qualities we brainstormed for ‘best sandwich’ We also brainstormed ‘best car’, ‘best clothing’ – even ‘best fake tan’! When we had lots of practice, we brainstormed what ‘best’ means in the context... 

We’ve had a lovely few weeks in 6th Class. Here are some pieces of news from our room! We were delighted to welcome the Defence Forces to our school! We are celebrating our Flag Day! We have welcomed the @defenceforces to our school. #Rang1916 pic.twitter.com/2XMKjOIamw — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 16, 2015 We are listening to the history of our national flag. 🇮🇪 #Rang1916 pic.twitter.com/vLZ0H7lI8D — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 16, 2015 Stephen and Tommy from our class had big jobs to do for Flag Day! Very proud... 

Well done to the Student Council who encouraged everybody to do so many lovely random acts of kindness for our RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) Week. They travelled around to the various classes to find out some of the lovely things that went on! In Junior Infants, Jake helped his brother when he fell. Jasmine helped somebody who fell on yard too! Joey helped to clean up his kitchen with his Mum. Ruby watched TV with her Dad to keep him company. In 3rd Lana held the class the door open for people and she also opened the gate for Les. Barry was nice to a new student and Tristan made his bed without... 

To celebrate Science Week 2015 we decided to get creative in Senior Infants. We have been learning about ‘House and Home’ recently and read one of our favourite books ‘The Three Little Pigs’! We love this story and were inspired to try to design and create our own houses using some different types of materials, including plastic straws, wooden blocks, coloured card and Play Doh. We wanted to find out which material would be best to use to make a house for our classroom puppets. Before the group experiments began we made some predictions. We predicted that the wooden blocks... 

Today was a very important day for St. Peter’s. The Irish Defence Forces delivered the Irish Flag and the 1916 Rising Proclamation to our school. This was to mark the Centennium of the 1916 Rising next year! We learned how to take care of the Irish flag and we also got the opportunity to ask the Defence Force questions about the 1916 Rising. Two children from 6th class did the school very proud today! They stood up on stage and read from the Proclamation and also told a personal story about their connection to the 1916 Rising. As a school, we then came together and sang Amhrán na bhFiann. It... 

Last week we had a very interesting visitor in 4th Class. Rob Mortell, a mountain climber came in to talk to us about his trips. He showed us amazing photographs and videos and also brought in his gear for us. Here are a few examples of the items he brought in: Dehydrated food, snow boots and crampons, a down jacket, a helmet, goggles and Buddhist prayer flags. He even brought in his pick axe!                           As a class, we put together some great questions for Rob and we really enjoyed his visit! Check out some of our photos! 🙂 After Rob’s visit we did... 

Hi everyone! We had a lovely, busy week in 6th Class. Want to see our round-up of what we got up to? Our Student of the Week came as no surprise… she gave 100% to everything, had wonderful homework and so many people noticed how helpful she was. Great job! Our #6thClass Student of the Week! She is a winner for keeping an exceptional copybook and being so helpful. pic.twitter.com/4chitvQTAt — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 13, 2015 We continued our great work with our ePortfolios. It is amazing to see how our work has developed since September! We love our ePortfolios...