St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

The number one rule in 6th Class is to have class spirit. Here are some lovely examples of us enjoying school, helping each other and being ‘6th Class legends’! The class who art together…stay together! Working overtime ahead of Confirmation! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/LYDZ7Ola5O — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) April 18, 2016 This was the final result… …To this! Serious teamwork in #6thClass today! Confirmation countdown -3 days! pic.twitter.com/td0BQfVR5x — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) April 18, 2016 A post Confirmation stroll on... 

What a brilliant week! Just like last year, 6th Class did some really cool activities for Tech Week 2016. Have a look at a summary from our ‘tweet machine’! We worked on Animoto again! We made an @Animoto video using @PaddyMullenMayo's lovely pictures of our Confirmation! Check it out! https://t.co/mJjlBA7Eke #6thClass — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) April 26, 2016 We welcomed Sustainable Energy Ireland to our classroom to teach us a thing or two! Onto our next Tuesday challenge! @SEAI_Schools are here and doing a workshop with #6thClass! pic.twitter.com/XFGEaM1dVt —... 

A huge well done and a thank you to all of our students and teachers who contributed to making our 2016 Confirmation such a beautiful and memorable day for all. Everyone did so well and all of the hard work paid off. As always, our choir were wonderful and did us all proud. 6th Class had practiced so hard and prepared wonderful artwork in the run-up to the day. We are so grateful to Sr. Patricia, Fr. Larry, Fr. Eddie and the entire parish team for their continued support of our students. We remember Fr. James too, and send him our very best. We hope you like our slideshow that we created! Thanks... 

Welcome to our submission for the Discover Primary Science and Maths award for 2016. This is our 11th year taking part in the Awards! Once again this year we are applying for the Plaque of STEM Excellence. This award is given to schools that carry out extensive work in science, technology, engineering and maths, all of which are very important in St. Peter’s. This is the 2nd year that we have had Junior and Senior Infants taking part in the award! It is great to see the young scientists have so much fun learning about Science and Maths. Yet again, a huge amount of work has gone into this. Every... 

Junior infants learned that pushing and pulling were a force. We then learned that there  was another invisible force called “magnetic force.” We learned that magnets attract some materials. We learned that these materials are made of metal. We also learned that magnets have two poles, the north pole is red and the south pole is blue. We had some investigations to do: We would  find out that poles that were the same repelled each other and poles that were different attracted each other. We would also find out which materials were attracted to magnets! Poles that are the same or “like”... 

On Thursday April 14th, Mr. Foley’s class made their much awaited trip to Dublin Zoo, a designated DPSM Discover centre, as part of the school’s application for this year’s award. Adam, Luke, Patrick, Nathan K, Nathan O’B, Arturas, Jordan and Johnny all made the trip and for many, it was their first time to the zoo. It was a day they will never forget, and was the perfect mix of learning and fun. We were very lucky that all the animals seemed to be very energetic and the crowds were not too big as we spent almost 3 hours walking around and learning about each of the animals. Johnny’s... 

Second class has been exploring lots of different materials and their properties over the last while. As a part of this we have been looking at lots of different questions about what different materials are like. The other week, we watched an amazing video of Felix Baumgartner as he jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere. You can see the video here http://www.redbullstratos.com/gallery/?mediaId=media1902415096001 Ms. Fry showed us a picture that Felix Baumgartner had drawn as a little boy of himself jumping with a parachute and it really got us thinking! We started wondering about what... 

This year in 4th Class we have been learning all about climbing and Mount Everest. In November, a special visitor called Rob came into our class and spoke to us about his climbing experiences. We were all very eager to ask Rob lots of questions   Rob brought us prayer flags from Nepal in November   He even brought prizes for the people who asked the best questions. A few weeks later, we were notified that Rob was planning to climb Mount Everest, one of the most daring mountains in the world. At first we were scared. Our teacher came up with a plan. We decided to design and sign a wonderful... 

Senior Infants have been busy exploring and investigating different materials. We have looked at wood, plastic, fabric, cardboard and rubber and have learned that they all look and feel very different. Investigating and experimenting is something we like to try whenever we get the opportunity. After reading ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ by Julia Donaldson we decided it might be a good idea to try to design and make a coat for the Gruffalo’s Child to wear. We knew that the Gruffalo’s Child liked to explore the woods near his home but it seemed silly that he wasn’t wearing a coat out in the... 

In 4th class, we are currently learning about Australia. We learned all about the Great Barrier Reef and the amazing plants and animals that live there. This led to a discussion on water pollution and environmental awareness. We discussed oil spillages in the sea and how this damages marine and bird life. With this in mind, we decided to create lava lamps to investigate and observe how oil and water react when put together. The Great Barrier Reef First we brainstormed our previous knowledge on water pollution and oil spillages. We discussed this as a class. We then predicted what we thought would...