St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We conducted three experiments in 5th class for Science Week 2021. Experiment 1: To investigate the influence of different liquids on a hard boiled egg shell that will act as tooth enamel. We placed four hard boiled eggs into bowls with either milk, apple juice, vinegar and coca-cola. We left the eggs to sit in the liquid for the duration of the week before removing them. We were surprised that the apple juice egg looked worse than the coca-cola egg! The egg that was in the vinegar was shriveled up and wrinkly! Experiment 2: We investigated the growth of bacteria on bread.... 

STEM activity 1: We started of Science week by seeing if there was any link between our favorite colour and our favorite taste. We began by making a pictogram using gummy bears to show the votes of the classes favorite colours. Take a look: After this, we tasted some fresh jellies and decided on which one was our favorite to taste. We talked about different ways we could make this graph and decided that a block graph was the quickest. Here are our results: We were surprised that there was no link between our taste and favorite color as we had predicted there... 

November has been Anti-Bullying month in St. Peter’s. Each week for the month Junior Infants have been engaging in activities to learn more about what bullying is and what we can do if we or someone we know is being bullied. We discussed and watched videos on different bullying scenarios and how people might feel in different situations. Anti-Bullying Videos and Discussions We talked about how as individuals we can achieve success but working together as a team and class we can be be even better. We added some team work skills into our lessons like Cross the Arctic in PE and created a... 

We had a lot of fun in our Aistear stations this month! Our role play corner was turned into a potion lab. There we made potions with lots of different ingredients including fingers, eyeballs, spiders and lots more! We drew our own magic potion ingredients in a different station and then could ‘make’ them in our cauldrons at the role play area. We had Bike Day this month which was lots of fun. We all followed the course that was set out and showed off just how good we were at riding our bikes! Senior Infants learnt how to partition numbers this month....