St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Junior Infants were the first class to win the attendance award in St. Peter’s this year. They had the best attendance school wide, for the month of September! Well done Junior Infants! As their prize, Junior Infants attended the St. Peter’s cinema. It was SO much fun! To start, each Junior Infant was given a ticket that they needed to look after very carefully. They lined up at the cinema entrance, gave their ticket to the cinema officials and each got to collect their popcorn, sweets and drink from the cinema shop. After a security announcement, the movie was ready to begin. The... 

SuperValu Bray very kindly welcomed our class of Senior Infants to their bakery today. The class learned about food safety, wore the hats and gloves that the bakers wear, watched the jam doughnuts being filled with jam and then got to cover the doughnuts in sugar. After that, they watched a cake being covered in cream and sprinkles. Finally, they got to watch the dough being kneaded into bread rolls. They got to take home their doughnuts and got  a goodie bag too (and the teachers got doughnuts too!) Thanks so much to SuperValu Bray for being so kind to us all. We had a brilliant morning and... 

This is our Senior Infant update for last week! We use Class Story with Class Dojo every day to keep our families in the loop about all the goings on in Senior Infants, but here are some of our photos of our work from last week. We’re learning about the colours. Last week, we learned about primary colours. This week, we learned all about secondary colours and made colour wheel umbrellas. Lots of fun in the Aistear sand stations during the week The socio-dramatic station was the construction yard and the architect’s office this week. We used pictures of famous buildings to inspire... 

Hard to believe that we’re at the end of our first month in Senior Infants – lots of exciting things planned for October already! This week, our butterflies all emerged and we set them free on Thursday. It was really interesting to watch the tiny caterpillars eat and grow into not-so-tiny caterpillars. They then turned into chrysalises and then emerged as butterflies. This was our first week in the Homes theme of Aistear. It was also our first week of the Conversation Station – which led to amazing creations in our PlayDoh station. Can you see the multi-coloured hammers? Small... 

We’ve had a very busy week in Senior Infants! This week, we started morning stations – Ms Halligan worked on blending with us, Ms Sexton worked on our reading, another station worked on handwriting and the fourth station had some DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) time and worked on their free writing. We love using our whiteboards for free writing! Ms Ní Chionnaith helps our class during our Ready Set Go Maths stations. This week, we worked on patterns with different sets. Some groups worked with beads and threading, creating patterns with size, shape and colour. Other groups worked... 

Today is an International Day of Peace. We celebrated in Junior Infants by creating beautiful hearts to spread the love on this very special day. We used our very best crayon grip and colouring skills in designing our hearts. The whole class were very excited to use scissors for the first time to cut them out! We decided that to honour this special day, we would be very mindful of being kind to each other. Lots of love, Junior Infants ❤  

This week, in Senior Infants, we’ve continued our unit on ‘food’. Our favourite part of the day continues to be Aistear and every day, there’s an improvement in imagination and creativity! The stages of Aistear are ‘Plan, Play, Review’ and we’ve become very good already at sharing our ideas with each other. To help us, we’ve started using Aistear copies to reflect on our learning. Look at our drawings and labels in our Aistear copies! This week, our stations were Socio-dramatic (the kitchen), Sand, Construction and Small World. This week, the Socio-dramatic... 

A HUGE congratulations to Ella and Amber – the girls were our very first trophy winners having received the most points in the class this week. Ella and Amber were STARS this week – they put their hand up when they needed to ask a question, they were kind to others in the class and worked well as a part of their table teams. They also sang along to our new Irish and class songs and walked so well in their line. Finally, the girls took such good care with all their work. They coloured inside the lines and did their very best to join the dots and continue their patterns on their handouts. Well... 

This September, Senior Infants have been learning all about food through Aistear. Every day, we take a different station to work on. We plan our play and then we review it afterwards. We’re working very hard to improve our listening skills by looking at the person who is talking and summarising what they say. Last week, our stations were Construction, Socio-dramatic area (The Coffee Shop), Sand and Art. This week, our stations are Socio-dramatic area (The Coffee Shop), Play Doh, ICT and Small World (The Ice-cream shop). We also have a writing station that anyone can using during our Aistear... 

Today, we had our First Day in St. Peter’s and what a day it was! We were so brave this morning and found our seats so quickly. We were happy to make new friends and learn each others names. We had a special treat and used paint to make our hand prints – you can see them on display in our classroom! We started doing some work on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We loved the story and are learning a new song about the large, medium and small  sized bears in the story. We have beautiful singing voices! We hope you like our pictures in our beautiful frame. We are excited for the year...