St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

This week was fantastic! We explored lots of different ways to take care of our bodies and our mind. We did some fabulous activities too and had lots of fun! This is our Calm Corner in 2nd Class. Check-In Zone Every day we checked in to our feelings ‘Zone’. This was a great way to think about our feelings and emotions. Music & Mindfulness We did lots of lovely Mindful Art. We learned that doing simple colouring and drawing is a great way to relax our minds. We really enjoyed playing the drums with Drum Nature. Sports Day 🏀 We had such fun with... 

Welcome to our final update to our whole school story! Well done to all those who took part over the last number of weeks, it’s been fantastic to see all your submissions being added together to create our own story, accompanied with lots of superb illustrations! The final question we needed to answer was: ‘what will our rabbit wish for’? Check out the brilliant end to our story here! What a fantastic story! Huge well done to all involved. We hope you enjoy reading!  

Rubber Band Racer We spent some time studying renewable energy and different types of renewable materials. Making this rubber band racer was a STEM activity we did to explore the different ways to create energy and movement. We had to carefully insert the chassis pieces into the cardboard box to make the rubber band racing car balanced. Working together in the groups we fitted both wooden pieces before putting on the wheels. It was quite tricky adding in the rubber bands during this step but with a little help we managed to get it in. The Race! At the end of the lesson... 

Since 3rd class returned to school last month, after 3 months of at home learning, they were eager to get going again and to learn lots of new information. We started learning about procedural writing in literacy ✏️ As a whole class, we wrote a detailed procedure of how to make a paper aeroplane. Then, we followed the instructions to see if they made sense and if we could make an aeroplane from what we had written and of course tested the planes outside. ✈️ Later in the week, we wrote about how to make chocolate nests 🍫. We wrote our instructions... 

We had great fun taking part in our recent STEM challenge. We have been learning about climate change, sustainability and also celebrated Engineers Week 2021. To bring all of our recent learning together we decided to make our own eco racers, test how they operate and race them to see what makes them travel fast and in a straight line. We think eco racers might be the future of car design because their friendly to the environment, not using fuel to operate and can be cheap to make! Before we got building, we planned our design based on the materials we knew we would be working with. It’s...