St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

The Green Schools Committee have been hard at work in picking litter each week.  We have noticed a distinctive decrease in the amount of litter which has been collected.  We have been allowing enthusiastic non-members to join our litter picks in preparation for the National Spring Clean which will be happening in Early April. Litter beware!!! Our worst blackspot 🙁 Taking our litter picking to the next level 🙂 We are very excited to be welcoming a visitor to the school later this month.  We will be learning all about composting and how we can use this as a way of decreasing the amount... 

We are continuing to work hard on keeping our school litter free.  Today 3rd class volunteered to take on the challenge during their lunch break.  They did a fantastic job.  Who said cleaning couldn’t be fun?? Carefully making sure the litter is put into the correct bins  

The green schools committee got down to business by picking litter around the school last week. This will continue to be done every week as we are committed to keeping our school clean and green and getting our first green flag which is based on the theme of litter and waste!  

We are delighted to be taking part in the First Lego League competition again this year. There are 3 main elements to the competition – The Project, Core Values and The Robot Game & design Picture Conor McCabe Photography The Project: There are three main parts to our project; Identify a problem, Design a solution, Share with others. This year’s challenge was to look at how animals and humans interact, find a problem with one of these interactions and develop an innovative solution. After weeks of research & brainstorming we finally decided to focus on bees for the Animal Allies... 

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

Welcome to our submission for the Discover Primary Science and Maths award for 2016. This is our 11th year taking part in the Awards! Once again this year we are applying for the Plaque of STEM Excellence. This award is given to schools that carry out extensive work in science, technology, engineering and maths, all of which are very important in St. Peter’s. This is the 2nd year that we have had Junior and Senior Infants taking part in the award! It is great to see the young scientists have so much fun learning about Science and Maths. Yet again, a huge amount of work has gone into this. Every... 

We all had an amazing time at the First Lego League in Galway. It was such a wonderful experience and we were so grateful to The First Lego League, Debbie, Bernard and all of the volunteers from SAP who made it such a wonderful day. We presented our work to the judges and represented our school and Co. Wicklow with pride. Our team ‘Smash the Trash’ not only won medals but we also received a trophy for all our hard work. We are looking forward to next year already! Check out some pictures from the day:         We are so excited to be heading to Galway tomorrow morning.... 

We were all very excited that Lego Club started back this week! This year we are taking part in an international competition called the First Lego League. As part of the competition we will be looking at three different things – A Trash Trek Project, A Robot Game and The First Lego League Core Values. This week we started building our models that will be used for our robot game. We worked in teams to make Models no. 1, 2, 3 and 4 using the instructions on the laptops. Next week we will continue making the rest of the models. We also hope to have our new Lego table made, set up for next week’s... 

  Welcome to our submission for the Discover Primary Science and Maths award for 2015. This is our 10th year taking part in the Awards! This year we are applying for the Plaque of STEM Excellence, a new award which is given to schools that carry out extensive work in science, technology, engineering and maths, all of which are very important in St. Peter’s. The other big change this year is that it is the first time we will have had Junior and Senior Infants taking part in the award! It is great to see the young scientists have so much fun learning about Science and Maths. As this is a... 

On Friday 9/1/15, 6th Class took their RDS Primary Science Fair project to the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. We had an amazing day, and tweeted throughout! We were delighted to be accepted to exhibit. Care to catch up on the day that was? Have a read here! We made a wesbite to present our data and project. That website can be found here. We also got nominated for an Eircom Junior Spider Award for the website we created to present our project. We got to visit Facebook for the day and attend an amazing awards ceremony! Read about that day here.