St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

In week 8, we finished off our work on our Homes unit and in week 9, we moved onto our unit about Money. This has been a very exciting fortnight as we got great news about an investment in our school by Salesforce. You can read all about it here. We’ve had lots of fun in the Aistear stations this fortnight with puppets, socio-dramatic, small world, sand, PlayDoh and our very popular construction station. First, we plan, then we play, then we review. We problem-solve a lot before we play about how we’ll ask to use something that someone else has. Here are some things that we say: Can... 

We have just received some very exciting news! St. Peter’s has become the first school in Ireland to receive funding under Salesforce.org’s Circle the Schools programme. Under the scheme – originally developed in the US – St. Peter’s will receive $100,000 (€92,000) grant to upgrade it’s digital literacy, special educational needs and STEM teaching capabilities. A portion of the grant will go towards the creation of a new computer room with state of the art technology and also towards the creation of a multi-sensory room. This room will allow students a place... 

Thanks to Karen for putting together the beautiful autumn and Halloween display in the doorway at the new entrance to the school. Sincere thanks also to Susan and Brooke for making sure we had the best of bales available for the display too! Team Peter’s at its best!  

Hi everyone! We can’t believe that it is almost Halloween! We have had a great fortnight. Here is what we have been up to! Brooke represented the school in a horse riding competition! Here she is, with her beautiful new pony Stoney! Watch her competing in the video below. A beautiful picture of Brooke and Stoney competing at the weekend! Expect a brilliant video of her skills on the blog later! 🐎 #5thClass pic.twitter.com/8HLySokn5s — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 19, 2016 Brooke and Stoney from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. Code Week has been a huge success... 

In Senior Infants, we had a really exciting week. On Tuesday, we visited SuperValu to see the bakery. You can see all of our photos from our lovely trip here. This week, we continued our work on homes and construction. Our Aistear socio-dramatic corner became an estate agency. We learned about renting and landlords. We learned words like apartment, bungalow and detached. Look at all the beautiful homes we had for sale! In our PlayDoh stations, there was lots of creative work this week. Our teacher noticed that we liked working in groups a lot. Can you spot the snails, the pepperoni pizza,... 

In Junior Infants, we have been getting used to the idea of doing an hour of play each morning for Aistear. Our first theme was ‘Space’ as last week was space week. In this collage, Garylee and Fia did wonderful teamwork in which Garylee made a spaceship and Fia made an alien. Oisin and Reece were also enjoying their playtime in the malleable area and both boys created wonderful aliens. In the role play area, some of the boys and girls look very scary indeed! Below, in the construction area, Leon and Kaiden were working together to construct spaceships and rockets. They did a super... 

Junior Infants were the first class to win the attendance award in St. Peter’s this year. They had the best attendance school wide, for the month of September! Well done Junior Infants! As their prize, Junior Infants attended the St. Peter’s cinema. It was SO much fun! To start, each Junior Infant was given a ticket that they needed to look after very carefully. They lined up at the cinema entrance, gave their ticket to the cinema officials and each got to collect their popcorn, sweets and drink from the cinema shop. After a security announcement, the movie was ready to begin. The... 

SuperValu Bray very kindly welcomed our class of Senior Infants to their bakery today. The class learned about food safety, wore the hats and gloves that the bakers wear, watched the jam doughnuts being filled with jam and then got to cover the doughnuts in sugar. After that, they watched a cake being covered in cream and sprinkles. Finally, they got to watch the dough being kneaded into bread rolls. They got to take home their doughnuts and got  a goodie bag too (and the teachers got doughnuts too!) Thanks so much to SuperValu Bray for being so kind to us all. We had a brilliant morning and... 

This is our Senior Infant update for last week! We use Class Story with Class Dojo every day to keep our families in the loop about all the goings on in Senior Infants, but here are some of our photos of our work from last week. We’re learning about the colours. Last week, we learned about primary colours. This week, we learned all about secondary colours and made colour wheel umbrellas. Lots of fun in the Aistear sand stations during the week The socio-dramatic station was the construction yard and the architect’s office this week. We used pictures of famous buildings to inspire... 

Hi everyone! We can’t believe it is October already! 5th Class have been doing some brilliant work with Ms. Brennan and our visiting teacher Ms. Mooney. Read all about it below. Firstly, here are some of our videos! Dancing out to our tables! #5thClass https://t.co/SO2cNFdc8A — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016 ‘Óró, sé do bheatha ‘bhaile!’ i Rang a Cúig! #5thClass https://t.co/VsN2bcUe8e — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016 The Trolls ‘Can’t Stop The Feeling’ dance on @GoNoodle is our favourite...