St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Welcome to our second “St Peter’s All Star Attenders Awards.” Classes really tried hard in October to work on attendance and scores all around the school went up. At the end of every month children with full attendance for the month receive a certificate and have their name put on the Wall of Fame. The class with the greatest attendance each month also receive a class prize and all students with full attendance get named “All Star Attenders”. This winning class for best attendance in October was…….. Ms. Shimmins’ 3rd Class. 3rd Class had a choice of prizes and decided to go with... 

Congratulations to these two great boys who know all of the Jolly Phonics 72 tricky words! They have both been working very hard at school and at home to learn these words and have done so well! Fantastic work boys!  

Our theme in 5th class for October was Africa. We’ve been focusing on a different continent every month and we’re looking forward to showing you our work on Asia next month. Our big focus was a collaborative art project. We drew the outline of Africa and of all the borders of the African states. We used this tool from Class Tools to choose the countries that we were going to research. We researched the African states using this website. Our criteria for success was to write the name of the country, draw the flag of the country and two other pictures to represent that country. Some... 

While learning about different jobs that people do in Senior Infants we decided to think about what we would like to be when we grow up. There were lots of brilliant suggestions! Some boys and girls wanted to be vets, bus drivers and painters while others wanted to be doctors and nurses. We wrote down what our dream job would be and why. We then decided to put our work into envelopes and posted them to the school. We had to include the school address and put a stamp on each envelope. After learning about the job of a postman we knew that our letters would arrive soon! We were really excited when... 

We’ve been so busy! So #6thClass are back on the tweet machine! We’ve been so busy! Will we fill you in? #schoolspirit — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 4, 2015 In Art we’ve been making clay food, Claes Oldenburg style!  Are you feeling hungry? #6thClass Claes Oldenburg clay work is making us feel very peckish! Brill designs! #edchatie pic.twitter.com/qZc1TrllFY — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 9, 2015 Delicious food on offer this week in #6thClass art! pic.twitter.com/XEBzKketeJ — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October... 

We were all very excited that Lego Club started back this week! This year we are taking part in an international competition called the First Lego League. As part of the competition we will be looking at three different things – A Trash Trek Project, A Robot Game and The First Lego League Core Values. This week we started building our models that will be used for our robot game. We worked in teams to make Models no. 1, 2, 3 and 4 using the instructions on the laptops. Next week we will continue making the rest of the models. We also hope to have our new Lego table made, set up for next week’s... 

This month in 4th class, we are learning about weather. In Geography we made our own Anemometers. Did you know an anemometer is used to measure wind speed? Here are a few pictures of our class recording the wind speed. For the next two months, we will be using our anemometers to investigate and record the wind speed everyday. Feel free to check out our record chart in class! 🙂