St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We have been learning about space in Ms. Kane’s class in celebration of Space Week. We learned about the International Space Station, completed some space art and watched some very interesting videos from the well known Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield. We were thrilled when we tweeted about what we learned about him and he saw it! Art workRepresentations of spaceUsing our imaginationsGetting creative!Fun times! We decided to carry out a design and make activity based on ‘robotic arms’. We discussed the use of ‘robot arms’ in space and learned that astronauts... 

We have had a great start to the new year in Ms. Kane’s class. We are happy to be back and were so excited to see our friends again! It’s been a busy month, filled with lots of new learning and some of our favourite, familiar activities! One of the most exciting things we’ve done is baking! Ms. Kelly has the best recipes and it wasn’t long before we were making lots of new treats! So far, we’ve made flapjacks, cookies and fairy cakes. Baking allows us to practise Maths skills like estimating and measuring in a practical way. We’ve also completed some procedural... 

To celebrate European week of sport, all classes took part in a sporting challenge. Below are some of the photos from the Junior Infants challenge.  

We were delighted to welcome in our new Junior Infants this year who have settled in really well. Despite being unable to have our traditional open day in June we are delighted with how well everyone has adapted to their new surroundings. Every morning we start the day with circle time and our welcome song. We are busy “working” every day with free play and Aistear. The topic this month is homes, where we are learning all about different houses, rooms and families. We also try to fit in some fun physical activities in the hall or in the yard outside while the weather... 

Welcome to our virtual Junior Infants open day! We’re so happy that you’re here! We recommend that you use a tablet/computer so that you can make the screen as large as possible. Make the picture full screen so that you can interact with the links. There are a number of links in the picture to let your child explore their classroom. Here’s a list of them: Mr Kinsella’s Bitmoji (sitting on the chair) links to a video introducing himself.Mr Vance’s Bitmoji links to his video.The school crest links to the Infant Education section of our website. Each of the... 

This year, Mr. Foley’s group showed us just how good they were at baking and cooking! Every Wednesday, the group turned into “The BC Crew”, which stands for the Baking and Cooking Crew! We loved when Wednesday would come around because we would get to cook or bake, and the food was always really tasty. It was great to work together to prepare different meals each week, all under the watchful eye of Liz! Each week, the first thing we did was wash our hands. Once we had all the ingredients out on the table, we took turns washing and cutting the different ingredients. As we read the recipe,... 

Mr. Foley’s class went to visit Sealife as part of our Discover Primary Science project. Sealife is a SFI Discover Centre in Ireland. It was the first time some of the pupils had made the short trip to Sealife and everybody had great fun there while learning about what lives in the sea both in Ireland and abroad. While we there we learned all about the different types of fish in Irish sea water, as well as tropical fish that can be only found in Ireland in the centre in Bray. These tropical fish need warm water to survive and our seas are too cold for them. Luckily, some of the tanks in Sealife... 

On Thursday April 14th, Mr. Foley’s class made their much awaited trip to Dublin Zoo, a designated DPSM Discover centre, as part of the school’s application for this year’s award. Adam, Luke, Patrick, Nathan K, Nathan O’B, Arturas, Jordan and Johnny all made the trip and for many, it was their first time to the zoo. It was a day they will never forget, and was the perfect mix of learning and fun. We were very lucky that all the animals seemed to be very energetic and the crowds were not too big as we spent almost 3 hours walking around and learning about each of the animals. Johnny’s... 

Last week, Mr. Foley’s class went on a day trip to Dún Laoghaire!  Ben made a video on Animoto using all of the photos taken on the day. Would you like to see it? Well done Ben. 6th Class are very proud of you.  

In maths this week we have been learning all about capacity. Here are some photographs of the boys working in pairs as they measure water using different sized containers.                 We had so much fun and can’t wait to do more work on capacity next week!