St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We had a great month in senior infants this month – we were learning all about The Sports Shop in Aistear. We played in our ‘Lifestyle’ Sports shop during our role play area, designed and made our own GAA jerseys from different fabrics in our art station. We designed the layout of our own sports shop using large Jenga blocks and designed our own obstacle course and then made it from LEGO. Our Lifestyle Sports Shop We celebrated Science week during November. We carried out an experiment in class – we added gummy bears to water to see what would happen... 

We were delighted to take part in STEM for Fun recently in the school hall. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Different stations were set up around the hall all containing elements of STEM. Junior Infants really loved the different challenges. They were tasked with constructing the highest tower they could out of paper cups and giant playing cards. They also had to make their own paper planes and measure to see how far they travelled counting in steps. It was very exciting getting to explore programming with Beebots, trying to input the correct instructions... 

This month in first class we have learnt all about what bullying is. We know that bullying can: hurt your bodyhurt your feelingsdamage your things We began the month by looking closely at how we can be better friends and took the chance to interview people in our class we wanted to become better friends with over the month. We have been encouraged by PAP which allowed us to win points for showing kindness. We continued the month by learning about ytpes of bullying and the effects it can have on people. We know the best way to stop bullying is to tell! Take a look at our tell song: h https://vimeo.com/649645054 Finally... 

Congratulations to our two winners of the Bray Drugs Task Force art competition who are pictured below. We’re very proud of you  

As you will all know by now, our school is participating in the Creative Schools programme. We are excited to be moving to the next stage of the programme after working hard to collect information from students, parents and staff about what creativity means to each group, how we already take part in creative activities and what we can do to improve our school’s approach to creativity. A huge thank you to all for your responses, they have been really helpful in deciding how we should move forward in the programme! Our students are currently considering the possibility of creating... 

We had great fun celebrating Science Week this year! Science is one of our favourite subjects and we love taking part in STEM activities! One of our favourite weeks of the year! We loved taking part in STEM for Fun in the hall this year and had the chance to try lots of different activities including creating paper planes and racing them, programming Bee Bots, building a circle using Pringles, building the tallest tower using paper and using Lego to create a ‘vehicle of the future’. In our classroom we discussed ideas that we hope Science will help us answer in the future... 

This month in 4th Class we have been taking part in activities each week for Anti- Bullying Month in St. Peters. We each wrote a different act of kindness and then we chose a random act of kindness each day. We designed and displayed anti – bullying posters! rbt  

It is antibullying month in St. Peter’s. In 5th class, we are trying to be the ‘I’ in kind! We also designed anti-bullying posters to show we will stand up to bullying!  

It’s anti-bullying month in St. Peters and we have been learning about ways in which we can lift each other up. We created this art display based on the film ‘Up’ using a variety of materials. We wrote positive notes in the balloons which remind us every day to be kind to each other!  

Junior Infants were very excited about Science Week. This week, along with STEM for Fun we got to explore magnets and how they work. Early in the week we explored magnetism. We talked about what magnets are and watched a short video on magnetism. We then investigated things that were magnetic by testing our magnets out around the school and yard outside. During Aistear we got to explore magnets and magnetic objects more. We used magnets to test items that might be magnetic and categorise items that were magnetic and non magnetic. Finally at the end of the week we looked at a group...