St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

In November, our class took part in our whole school Anti – Bullying month. We discussed why bullying happens, how to react if it does happen and who we can ask for help. We reminded ourselves that bullying is any behaviour that is: repeatedhurtful deliberate We learned more about the different types of bullying, including physical, emotional, verbal and cyber. We also recognised our role in preventing bullying across our school community as 6th class students. Check out the pledges we made below and some positive messages we want to spread in school. Spreading positivity!... 

Coinnigh oraibh ag cleachtadh do chuid Gaeilge a oiread agus is féidir sa bhaile agus ar scoil! Is é an frása nua atá againn don lá inniu… Ná déan dearmad ar do chuid uachtar gréine!  

Maith sibh go léir ag déanamh sár – iarracht le do chuid frásaí Gaeilge an tseachtain seo! Is é frása na seachtaine ná… Ná déan dearmad uisce a ól nuair a bhíonn sé te amuigh!  

This week in school, we celebrated science week. The theme we were looking at was ‘HUMAN?’. We have been learning about the respiratory system and exploring how our lungs work and help us to breathe. We made a model lung using balloons, plastic bottles and plastic bags. The bottle acted as our rib cage, the balloon was our lung and the bag worked as our diaphragm. Take a look at our lungs! Our model lungs We also looked at how humans have worked to make advances in medicine and helping humans. We created our own version of a bionic hand. We looked at how bones, tendons... 

This week we celebrated Science Week by looking at the theme ‘HUMAN?’. We looked at electricity and the developments humans have made with electricity over time. We made our own circuits and then decided to make our own light houses. These lighthouses had to; Stand on their own,light for 10 seconds, be 3D. Take a look at our lighthouses!  

Fourth class are taking part in Anti Bullying month this November. We have started the month by thinking about what bullying means to us. Take a look at what we wrote down; We have talked about many types of bullying such as; Physical bullying,Emotional bullying,Verbal Bullying,Cyber bullying. We also made some anti bullying posters to hang up to make people aware of anti bullying month in our school!  

During Maths Week, 5th class cretaed their own word problems for the class to solve. We looked at different operations and what kind of words we needed to use in our word problems to tell our friends how to solve them! We also worked to create some 2D shape tessellation art work. We used an irregular shape to really test our skills and we created some excellent art work!  

Fáilte ar ais go dtí Frása na Seachtaine! Nuair a bhíonn báisteach an – trom is féidir linn a rá… Tá sé ag stealladh báistí. Má tá sé ag stealladh báistí caitheann a lán daoine cótaí báistí chun fanacht tirim.  

6th class decided to take part in a Design and Make STEM activity to celebrate Halloween! Take a look at the instructions below! We were given a task to design and make a 3D Hallowe’en monster or ghost and we had to make it move! We had to follow these instructions! We had to ensure all the instructions were followed carefully and accurately! We used classroom materials to make our creations and we were impressed by each groups individuality and creativity! Ensuring design is decorated! Teamwork! Design process! Testing for movement.Final preparations! Using our knowledge... 

An mhí seo beimid ag foghlaim faoin an aimsir. Is é frása na seachtaine inniu… Tá sé ag cur báistí. Má tá sé ag cur báistí b’fhéidir go mbainfeá úsáid as ‘scáth fearthainne’ chun fanacht tirim!