St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

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 video ever! #5thClass https://t.co/s4P5lpxFoG

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 4, 2016

We’ve been doing some fantastic work in Drama.

We’re doing a Role on the Wall workshop in Drama! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/9ZOMStHSLe

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 7, 2016

Our comprehension strategy actions are really coming on. We’ve been working on prediction, creating images, making connections and comparisons! This really helps us with our reading.

Our reading time in #5thClass is our favourite time of the day. We would read anywhere. Books are magic. pic.twitter.com/wmRTIDC3J0

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 26, 2016

We practiced our comprehension strategies with mime actions. Actions help us remember our strategies to make us better readers! #5thClass

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 7, 2016

We’re working on some EXPLOSIVE art that will help us with experiments in Science!

Things are about to get explosive in #5thClass! pic.twitter.com/pctIoxWhqT

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 7, 2016

The Stars of the Week keep on shining!

Happy ⭐️ of the week in #5thClass! A weekly highlight! Enjoy a homework pass on us. pic.twitter.com/VrX3wubeT5

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 7, 2016

Last week’s Student of the Week and this week’s Special Recognition Award winners in #5thClass! Well done guys! pic.twitter.com/rBqNmXF8jD

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 3, 2016

Our ‘cuppa at lunch’ Class Dojo reward is proving very popular!

Cashing in @ClassDojo points to have a cuppa with Ms. B during lunch! This is the life! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/hxnfpTflb2

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016

Many of our parents come into class to help with our work. Susan inspired Dylan to read a classic!

Thank you so much to Brooke’s Mam Susan who helps #5thClass with their reading. She inspired Dylan to read The Famous Five and he loves it! pic.twitter.com/uyt3N0yuZP

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016

Many of us know of The Famous Five but we didn’t know the song from the show. Now we all want to read it! https://t.co/DdPYtBLCCD #5thClass

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016

D has been reading a new book, and got a tweet from the author!

Hi @phlaimeaux! D in #5thClass passed the Drost Part 1 challenge and is ready for Drost Part 2! He loves your book! pic.twitter.com/fLYXS0Zvd7

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016

remember, you can check if you are a ghost by whether you can balance our book on your head https://t.co/QI5hwWx81p

— David O’Doherty (@phlaimeaux) October 6, 2016

We’ve been cooking up a storm too, making food linked to our history theme on the Aztecs!

Ms. Mooney is showing #5thClass how to make Guacamole as part of our project work on the Aztecs in History and Bia in Gaeilge! Yum! pic.twitter.com/W7U7ZG5thQ

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016

We also started our Growth Mindset and Roots of Empathy journeys of learning!

Our @ClassDojo #growthmindset journey has started in #5thClass! pic.twitter.com/aKyapUwvlj

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016

Such an exciting morning in #5thClass as we start our @RootsofEmpathy journey together! Our first of 27 sessions this year! pic.twitter.com/gMMayCf2CS

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016

We’ll have a pre-visit session now, next week our Baby Teacher will visit & then the week after that we will have a review! #RootsofEmpathy

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016

We do this routine 9 times, exploring different @RootsofEmpathy themes every time. Thank you so much to Paddy for working with us! #5thClass

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016

We were delighted to post the 7,000th tweet from our school account.

We have reached 7,000 tweets on our @Twitter journey! Great moments shared with our homes and community. #edchatie #Bray #communityspirit

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016

We maxed out a new champ on Go Noodle!

So #5thClass have maxed out another @GoNoodle champ! #activeschools pic.twitter.com/4pT1Lwc3nH

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 4, 2016

We’re learning a new song.

We’re now learning the words to ‘Best Day of My Life’ by American Authors! This is our October song! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/KkVIBfdRkn

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 4, 2016

We’re singing our September song ‘Rocky Mountain High’ in #5thClass. We are singing in a round!

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 4, 2016

We have learned some new Playworks actions!

A fun mid-morning Playworks session in #5thClass! We have mastered The Rollercoaster, *Beautiful* and Hoedown! We are yard ambassadors!

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 4, 2016

We will teach the younger classes how to do the activities and actions on yard. We will also teach Ms. Whyte! #5thClass #schoolspirit

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 4, 2016

We have been getting great compliments about our classroom door!

‘Gotta catch ’em all!’ in #5thClass! #classroomdoor #edchatie #classspirit pic.twitter.com/JgD2pIR9jU

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 3, 2016

Our ‘creative corner’ on the landing is full of our beautiful work now.

We made kinoptic art of Suns and Moons in #5thClass. Looking one way it is one picture, another way it is another! pic.twitter.com/VLZGvaWWbR

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 28, 2016

We painted our clay tributes to the Ardagh and Derrynaflan Chalices. Our replica models are on display on the landing! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/6nm0Frr1y6

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 3, 2016

We’re picking up on our brilliant STEM work from last year.

We’re up, up, up and AWAY in our #5thClass design and make STEM lesson today! pic.twitter.com/Kibpw9jtxW

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 28, 2016

STEM design and make activities in #5thClass pic.twitter.com/t9Wvz0ocBf

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 28, 2016

Which parachute is best, and why? #5thClass pic.twitter.com/xbkyd3b5x4

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 28, 2016

We perfected our parachute models in #STEM and conducted fair tests on them. #5thClass pic.twitter.com/VDeyZutaRm

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 3, 2016

Mental Maths work is our favourite!

It’s all about improper fractions and mixed number fractions in #5thClass mental maths this week. Can you convert fractions with care?

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 3, 2016

Our oral language work continues.

How clear are the instructions and directions you give to people? We are working on exact language and direction instruction. #5thClass

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 3, 2016

Today’s Question of the Day before World Animal Day tomorrow! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/78bhOofyUP

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 3, 2016

FAB (Film and Book) Club is go in #5thClass! We’re comparing and contrasting the book of The Witches to the film of The Witches!

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 23, 2016

Today is the European Day of Languages. #5thClass have been challenged to use different languages and ways of saying hello! #edchatie

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 26, 2016

Dylan was a mascot for Bray Wanderers and we were so proud of him!

Congratulations to Dylan M in #5thClass who was a proud mascot for @BrayWanderers on Friday night! A great honour!

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 3, 2016

We’re getting older and smarter!

A very happy birthday to our #5thClass birthday boy. 11 years young and looking forward to a homework pass this evening! pic.twitter.com/zRHmBl20z2

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 3, 2016

Our ‘Good News Friday’ recordings made the national lunchtime news on Today FM!

It’s a #GoodNewsFriday in #5thClass! @TodayFMNews https://t.co/STB9i5y0Yt

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 30, 2016

Hi @TodayFMNews! #5thClass are celebrating #GoodNewsFriday. Our tests are done, we have no homework and we have no early bedtime tonight!

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 30, 2016

And we’ve been keeping fit and healthy in PE!

‘Preabann sí, casann sí, léimeann sí timpeall! Cictear í, buailtear í, ard agus íseal!’ #GAA #5thClass pic.twitter.com/e6w6N2QiaQ

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 28, 2016

Time trials for #5thClass this morning! pic.twitter.com/gbf5btLll0

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 22, 2016

Our 2D shape working is coming along nicely.

We’re making ‘shapes’ in #5thClass. We’ve gone tangram puzzle mad! They are ‘seven pieces of cleverness’. pic.twitter.com/cqwQh1hTAm

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 28, 2016

FAB (Film and Book) Club is go in #5thClass! We’re comparing and contrasting the book of The Witches to the film of The Witches!

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 23, 2016

Phew! What a busy time! Keep up the great work everyone!