St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Hello everyone 😄 Well done for all the fantastic art work you have been doing over the past few weeks. We are so impressed with how creative you all are. For your art challenge this week you can design and create a robot using any materials that you have at home. You could use items that you no longer need or use anymore. You could use items that you were going to throw away in the bin. You could borrow an item just while you are making your robot and then return it after. Be as creative as you can! 😊 Have a look at some of these examples of recycled robots to give you some... 

Well done to everyone for sending in such lovely pictures for their art challenge this week! Have a look at some of the creations by this very talented bunch 😄 Elena – 2nd Class Toby – 5th Class Daniel – 5th Class Mia – 2nd Class Tadhg – 5th Class Jayce – Junior Infants Well done everyone for your great work 😄  

Hello everyone! Well done for sending in such wonderful artwork last week. They were so bright and colourful. 😄 Completing the art challenge will earn you some extra Dojo points which all go towards Spin The Wheel. Send your pictures to your teacher on Class Dojo or to the School WhatsApp. Your art challenge this week is based on a famous painter called Pablo Picasso. He was born in Spain in 1881. He loved to paint, draw and create sculptures. He made over 1,800 paintings and some of them have been sold for more than $100 million! Have a look at some of his paintings. Follow... 

Well done to everyone for creating such bright and colourful pieces of art! 😊 Have a look at some of the beautiful pictures created by our very talented pupils Chloe – 5th Class Corey – 1st Class Liam – 6th Class Harley – 1st Class Elif – 5th Class Elena – 2nd Class Aysha – 5th Class Jayce – Junior Infants Milan – Senior Infants Ruby – 4th Class Caleb – Senior Infants Well done everyone!  

Hello everyone! 😄 Next Sunday is Valentine’s Day 🧡 Try out this step-by-step art activity to celebrate! Send in any pictures that you make to your teacher on Class Dojo or send it to the school Whatsapp and it could be included in next weeks blog! Be as creative as possible. We can’t wait to see what you make 😍 To complete this art activity you will need: Paper, a pencil and four different colours (crayons, markers, colouring pencils, paint – whatever you have at home!) Here are examples of what we will be making: Follow the steps... 

STEM Flying ‘Ghosts’ We learned all about electricity this week – especially static electricity. We created our own static electricity by rubbing balloons on our hair and jumpers making them stick to the walls and windows. We made some of our ‘ghosts’ fly using the static from our balloons! Pumpkin Painting We had great fun painting pumpkins as a group – deciding on characters together, painting and drawing their faces! We will raffle off Olaf, the Ninja Turtle and Scarecrow tomorrow and kids can take them home for their Mid-Term! Pumpkin... 

Last time, we learned all about lines in this post. Today, we’re building on that work to include shape. Again, the activities in this post don’t require much more than pencil, paper and some colours if you have them. You can do some of the activities if you like or all of them if you’d prefer. Please send in some of your creations to your teacher through Class Dojo – we’d love to see them! Shape is one of the seven elements of art. It’s always 2D so it’s flat. Shapes can either be geometric or organic shapes. You can see the difference below.... 

For your Friday art lesson this week, we’re learning all about lines! We’ve a number of activities that you can try out at home, that don’t need too many materials. You can choose to do all of them or just a few depending on what inspires you. Please send us pictures of some of your work through your teacher on Dojo and we’ll feature some of them next week in our Virtual Gallery! Line is one of the elements of Visual Arts – a line is basically a dot that has gone for a walk so for your warm up, we’d like you to take your pencil for a walk! You can colour it...