St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Check it out! 6th Class are in today’s Irish Independent talking about their coding work. Click here to read the article.  

As you know, St. Peter’s students and staff recently welcomed the opportunity to create videos to help to promote and encourage other schools to participate in the Digital Schools of Distinction process. We recorded three different videos, two for the Digital Schools of Distinction website and another for the Microsoft Partners in Learning project. Congratulations to the students who did such a great job when they were interviewed. It was an incredible opportunity to show how we encourage staff to stay up to date with exciting trends in technology, how we use twitter in our school and also... 

As many of you know, last year we were made a Digital School of Distinction. This award was the icing on the cake of a brilliant year of digital learning in our school. Minister Ciaran Cannon met with students from every class and we got a chance to walk him through some of the many things we do that make digital learning a key priority in our school. On Wednesday, we had the great honour of being filmed and interviewed by the Digital Schools organisers (and Microsoft!) about our work in our school. We spoke about our digital learning journey and displayed our work. We can’t wait to see... 

Last week we had the great honour of welcoming the Minister of State in Department of Education to St. Peter’s. We had already met Minister Ciaran Cannon at the Excited Digital Learning Conference in Dublin Castle, and this meeting in our school was to celebrate the fact that we have been granted ‘Digital School of Distinction’ status! Showing off our awards and work from this school year! This award was the icing on the cake of a brilliant year of digital learning in our school. Minister Cannon met with students from every class and we got a chance to walk him through some of... 

Last Friday week, 2nd Class had the huge honour of Skyping 2nd Class from St. Mary’s Convent Primary School in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. This class had interviewed the famous astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield just that week, and so the class had many questions to ask them about what Chris Hadfield had said about his time in Space on the ISS! We were also lucky enough to be joined by a twitter friend that day. Anne McMorrough is a lecturer in MIE (where Ms. B studied to become a teacher) and wanted to meet the class to talk about creativity in the classroom. We had just met Anne at the Excited... 

Last Saturday, St. Peter’s had the huge honour of showcasing their technology and ICT use in Dublin Castle at the Excited Digital Learning Conference. We were invited to participate having completed the Digital Schools of Distinction adjudication. It has been an incredible year for St. Peter’s, and we have worked to improve and enhance our use of ICT at every level in the school. This has led to great success at a national level, and we have been successful in the national Eircom Junior Spiders awards, the national Mathletes finals and we have also won a Creative Schools award for use... 

We were delighted to welcome Neil from the Digital Schools of Distinction Awards to our school today. He came to speak to staff and students about our use of ICT methods and resources. He looked at the resources we have, and how we use them. He spoke to staff and students about stop-motion animation, podcasting, blogging, Twitter, Scratch and the use of our interactive whiteboards. He was also interested to know how staff use technology in running our school. It was a fantastic opportunity to reflect on the great work our students have undertaken over the past few years. It would be a great honour...