St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Hard to believe that we’re at the end of our first month in Senior Infants – lots of exciting things planned for October already! This week, our butterflies all emerged and we set them free on Thursday. It was really interesting to watch the tiny caterpillars eat and grow into not-so-tiny caterpillars. They then turned into chrysalises and then emerged as butterflies. This was our first week in the Homes theme of Aistear. It was also our first week of the Conversation Station – which led to amazing creations in our PlayDoh station. Can you see the multi-coloured hammers? Small... 

We’ve had a very busy week in Senior Infants! This week, we started morning stations – Ms Halligan worked on blending with us, Ms Sexton worked on our reading, another station worked on handwriting and the fourth station had some DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) time and worked on their free writing. We love using our whiteboards for free writing! Ms Ní Chionnaith helps our class during our Ready Set Go Maths stations. This week, we worked on patterns with different sets. Some groups worked with beads and threading, creating patterns with size, shape and colour. Other groups worked... 

Today is an International Day of Peace. We celebrated in Junior Infants by creating beautiful hearts to spread the love on this very special day. We used our very best crayon grip and colouring skills in designing our hearts. The whole class were very excited to use scissors for the first time to cut them out! We decided that to honour this special day, we would be very mindful of being kind to each other. Lots of love, Junior Infants ❤  

Good afternoon! Here is an update from 5th Class! We’ve been busy. We are now older and doing lots of jobs in school. Our classroom lunch supervisor! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/EbHpjowi1h — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 1, 2016 We’ve had a couple of wonderful Students of the Week! The first 🌟 of the week in #5thClass! He wins it for giving 100% & making a big effort to take part in everything! pic.twitter.com/QSbXcjNwfg — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 2, 2016 The 🌟 of the week in #5thClass! A team player with... 

In June, our famous Lego film director and producer Tommy Lang graduated from 6th Class. He’s off to secondary school and already doing great things, calling in to update us on his news. He has kindly shared one final video with us so that we can share it with everyone on the blog. Anyone who has ever been frustrated by the outcome of their NCT will enjoy it! We are so proud of you Tommy, and thank you for sharing your wonderful creativity with us through the years. You are a credit to you and your family and we can’t wait to welcome you back to school in June when you deliver a masterclass... 

This week, in Senior Infants, we’ve continued our unit on ‘food’. Our favourite part of the day continues to be Aistear and every day, there’s an improvement in imagination and creativity! The stages of Aistear are ‘Plan, Play, Review’ and we’ve become very good already at sharing our ideas with each other. To help us, we’ve started using Aistear copies to reflect on our learning. Look at our drawings and labels in our Aistear copies! This week, our stations were Socio-dramatic (the kitchen), Sand, Construction and Small World. This week, the Socio-dramatic... 

A HUGE congratulations to Ella and Amber – the girls were our very first trophy winners having received the most points in the class this week. Ella and Amber were STARS this week – they put their hand up when they needed to ask a question, they were kind to others in the class and worked well as a part of their table teams. They also sang along to our new Irish and class songs and walked so well in their line. Finally, the girls took such good care with all their work. They coloured inside the lines and did their very best to join the dots and continue their patterns on their handouts. Well... 

This September, Senior Infants have been learning all about food through Aistear. Every day, we take a different station to work on. We plan our play and then we review it afterwards. We’re working very hard to improve our listening skills by looking at the person who is talking and summarising what they say. Last week, our stations were Construction, Socio-dramatic area (The Coffee Shop), Sand and Art. This week, our stations are Socio-dramatic area (The Coffee Shop), Play Doh, ICT and Small World (The Ice-cream shop). We also have a writing station that anyone can using during our Aistear...