St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Junior Infants have been discussing Humpty Dumpty coming up to Easter. We felt sorry for poor Humpty after he fell off the wall and couldn’t be put back together. So we discussed how we could have protected Humpty Dumpty when he fell. We decided to test which material might have protected the poor egg. Each group chose a different material to fill a bag containing an egg. The bag was then dropped from the same height off the table in the classroom to see if it would protect the egg from breaking. Groups chose Play Doh, water, flour, popcorn and paper from materials provided. We made... 

Welcome to our submission for the Curious Minds (previously the Discover Primary Science and Maths) Award for 2023. This is our 18th year taking part in the awards, once again, we are applying for the Plaque of STEM Excellence. This award is given to schools that carry out extensive work in science, technology, engineering and maths, all of which are very important in St. Peter’s. This is the 9th year that we have had Junior and Senior Infants taking part in the award! It is great to see the young scientists have so much fun learning about science and maths. Each year we try to put... 

We planted lots of different flowers on Tuesday! We can’t wait to see them bloom. We have also been working on some Easter art. Take a look at our cute little chicks in their eggs 🐣 We used pegs, card and glue to create these. They turned out great!  

This year 6th class took part in the ESB Science Blast and asked the question: ‘How clean is our school? An investigation into the unseen micro- organisms that are found in our school’. We thought this was an interesting question and that we might find some very surprising results! Take a look below at our investigation… We started examining this question by researching and learning about bacteria, fungi and viruses. Bacteria: We know that bacteria are single – celled organisms, and that there are probably more individual bacteria than any other sort of micro... 

Bhí an-spraoi againn ag ceiliúradh Seachtain na Gaeilge ar scoil i mbliana. Ghlacamar páirt i go leor imeachtaí ranga agus rinneamar ceiliúradh le chéile mar scoil freisin. Ghlacamar páirt i tóraíocht taisce, ceolchoirm, tráth na gceist boird agus fiú cluiche scoile iomlán biongó! Maith sibh gach daoine as iarracht speisialta a dhéanamh go leor Gaeilge a labhairt le cúpla seachtain anuas. Féach ar chuid dár ngníomhaíochtaí thíos… Bhain muid an-taitneamh as an gceolchoirm, agus sheinn go leor amhrán, damhsaí agus dánta! Buaiteoirí Biongó!... 

We love to integrate technology into the classroom whenever we can. Children are so adept at using IT now they are practically teaching us. We We love to use the school tablets to enhance our learning, particularly during Maths stations. We use the IWB daily in the class and children love to get a chance to play games in literacy and numeracy activities. We also love to use it to help us relax with some mindfulness mediation and yoga. We teach basic programming throughout the school and love to get a chance to use the Beebots to teach early programming skills.  

Each month we look at how good our attendance is in the school and we are always trying to help improve it. February was our best month of the year so far, with 92.1% of the school being in for the month. After meeting with our Student Council, we brought back “Spin the Wheel”. The Student Council went through what each prize was before assembly and decided to keep them the same as before. We agreed that each class gets to spin the wheel if their attendance improves from the previous month. Mr. Vance had an assembly with the school on Tuesday. There was a lot of excitement amongst... 

Yesterday second class loved getting their hands dirty while they took on the task of investigating the makeup of soil. During this experiment, the boys and girls looked for which man-made and natural components of soil they could find. We noted our findings on our worksheets and compared results from each group. There was great excitement as we found a worm in the soil as well! We then used the soil to plant our own seeds as we have been learning about the plant life cycle. Stay tuned for the update on how our growing our own plants goes under different conditions!  

We had a lovely day celebrating World Book Day in school. We all wore our pyjamas in as a special treat, it was very cosy! As part of the celebration, we visited the school library to read some new books, Mr. Vance even stopped by and read us a funny story. Have a look at some pictures below of us having some hot chocolate and completing some fun book wordsearches. 4th Class came down to our class and partnered with us for some shared reading of story books from our class library. We made special bookmarks that we can use when reading ourselves at home! Senior...