St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

The longest Snowman: We divided into groups of three. Each group got 6 sheets of paper, 30 cm of sellotape and 2 pipe cleaners. A classroom timer of 12 minutes was set on the board. The aim of the challenge was that each group had to make the longest snowman they could in the time given. Take a look at the different ways we made our snowmen: Christmas Catapults: We decided on an easy structure to follow to make our catapults. All we needed was a spoon, lollipop sticks and elastic bands. They turned out amazing! When they were made we tested them in loads of challenges- who... 

The month of December brought a lot of sweet treats into our classroom. We started the month by baking these gorgeous marshmallow-crispie cupcakes. take a look: We also got creative using Nutella and biscuits to make our very own reindeer biscuits. They were delicious. One of our favorite parts of the month was getting hot chocolate and chocolate lollipops delivered to the classroom by Mr Vance and Karen.  

In 2nd Class we have been exploring Christmas Traditions in Ireland and in other countries. We had great discussions about what the children were looking forward to for the New Year and Christmas Day. We created Christmas lanterns – with our Christmas wishes in them – and Christmas wreaths in preparation!  

Welcome to the St. Peter’s Christmas Play 2021! This year, our classes have been really busy putting together fantastic videos of the students singing, dancing and acting for you. We really hope you enjoy the show!  

We made Santa sleighs out of Lego last week in 5th class. We tested our sleighs for speed, safety and distance! We also tested to see if they would stay together after a crash test! We had so much fun!  

We had a busy week last week making sleighs out of Lego 🛷 we tested their speed, how many pushes they needed to travel 6 metres and we did a crash test! The children really enjoyed it 😊  

With all the excitement of Christmas we thought we would do a festive experiment. Our questions –Which liquid will cause our candy cane to disappear the fastest? To conduct our experiment, we needed: 4 plastic cups, 4 candy canes, vinegar, warm water, milk and cold water. We labelled our 4 clear cups and then filled the cups with warm water, cold water, milk and vinegar. Then, we made predictions. The vast majority thought the warm water would melt the candy cane the quickest! We put one candy cane in each cup and watched to see what would happen. Within 2 minutes all three...