St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

If you missed our last two posts don’t worry, here is your chance to catch up with Novembers “St Peter’s All Star Attenders Awards.” 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”. So far our winners have been; September: Ms. Fry’s 2nd Class (Trip to a show in the Mermaid Arts Theatre) October: Ms. Shimmin’s 3rd Class (Home cinema experience) This... 

Great practice today down in the hall! It’s really starting to feel like Christmas! Play season is upon us and we have a busy week ahead. On Wednesday our Junior and Senior Infant classes will be sharing songs and plenty of cheer in the hall at 12:45pm. On Thursday, our 1st and 2nd Class will join forces at 1.30pm to present the hilarious and entertaining ‘Straw and Order’, a nativity story like one you’ve never seen before! Both performances will get us all in the mood for the senior classes (2nd- 6th) who will perform the annual Roald Dahl musical on Monday. This year... 

The Parent Association held it’s AGM on Monday the 30th November in the school. Principal Emer Whyte, Chairperson of the Board of Management, Ray Hughes, and HSCL Teacher Paddy Kinsella attended to speak to the Parent Association  about upcoming events and the Board of Management. Ray spoke to the Parent Association about the job done by the BOM. As the BOM changes this year two new Parent Reps for the board were nominated unopposed. John Coyle and Fiona Clucas will now move into the role of Parent Reps on the Board. Sharon Byrne was selected to be the staff rep replacing Dave Foley. Noleen... 

Christmas has landed in St. Peter’s. We are all feeling festive in St. Peter’s today and can’t wait for all our Christmas plays!  

Last Wednesday we were delighted to have a group of parents come in to learn the basics of flower arranging and designing Christmas wreaths. Places were limited to first come first served and we were delighted it filled up in no time. Everyone had a great time designing their own wreaths and flower displays as well as getting to know other parents. It was hard to pick a winner on the day, as all the creations were wonderfully designed but I think everyone agreed that Paddy Kinsella’s was by far the best!!!! Thanks to the following parents for getting involved; Melanie McDonald, Fiona Clucas,... 

On Monday 30th of November SPECS, a brand new service to Bray, held their official launch. To celebrate, SPECS held an art competition in the town for schools and clubs. Homework club in St. Peter’s took part in the competition and we were delighted to hear that our very own Leon Reynolds from 3rd class was one of the winners. Leon was invited to the launch to receive his prize which was awarded to him by Minister Simon Harris. He also got to meet the Ombudsman for Children, Dr Niall Muldoon and his picture was put on display on the day. Leon drew a picture of something he loves to do with his... 

Over the past the couple of weeks in Senior Infants we have been learning about hospitals and doctors as part of our Aistear activities. It linked in really nicely with our theme of food and healthy habits! We discussed lots of new vocabulary like ‘accident’, ’emergency’, ‘surgeon’, ‘thermometer’ and ‘stethoscope’. We discussed going to the doctor if we don’t feel well and going to the hospital if we need an operation or have broken our arm or leg. During our role play we played the parts of secretary, doctor, nurse, hospital chef,...