St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

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... 

Welcome to our submission for the Discover Primary Science and Maths award for 2014. As you know, Maths and Science are really important to us here in St Peter’s. There are a number of criteria that needs to be fulfilled when applying for the award. We’re using our blog to submit our award and to link back to our activities during the year. Our AoSME number is WW007. Step 1: Greenwave -read all about our work about weather and about recording the signs of Spring here. Step 2: Prescribed activities – Ms Mitchell’s class learned about 2nd class worked on the Materials strand... 

3rd Class looked at the Energy and Forces strand of the Science curriculum for Discovery Primary Science, focusing on the topic of gravity. We also integrated this into other subjects such as Maths and History. Our title was: ‘Investigating How Helicopters Fly’. Our objectives were: To investigate gravity as a force To explore how some things fall To investigate if the size and shape of the rotor blades affect the way a helicopter spins To investigate if the weight of the paper helicopter affects the way a helicopter spins Kian drew this picture to show how we made our paper helicopters: Here... 

Hello, we are Ms. Brennan’s 2nd Class. This is our first time to do the Discover Primary Science and Maths Project. We are really excited. We completed part two of the project where we designed and made experiments from the Materials strand. We did the  ‘Which Ball Is The Bounciest’ test.  We hope you enjoy reading our project! Which ball is the bounciest? What you need A variety of balls Metre stick Hard surface on which the balls can bounce Grass surface on which the balls can bounce Here we are, showing you the balls we used! Skills we used for this experiment 1. Predicting 2.... 

On Tuesday in 4th class we talked about the two best footballers in the world, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. We discussed what they were best known for. Abhishek said that Messi is known as “The King of Dribbling”. We talked about why he is so good at dribbling. Abhishek said that it was because of his balance. When we talked about why his balance was so good, Mason noted that he was tiny and that this helped him. We decided to investigate what it is that helps us keep our balance, as part of this year’s Discover Primary Science and Maths award. Mr. Foley explained... 

We’ve been working hard to record our signs of Spring using Greenwave. We really missed Mr Curran who retired last year as he’s always brilliant for noticing the signs of Spring! Here’s our dashboard: Some of the classes have been following the weather forecast during News2day on the RTE player and discussing what the meteorological terms mean.  

Ms. Mitchell’s class studied the topic of Sound for the Discover Science Project;                                                                               read on to find out what we discovered! Exploring what we know and thinking aloud First we had a quick” think, pair, share” about what we think of when we hear the word “Sound”. Next we shared our thoughts and wrote them on the board in a thought shower, some were very interesting! Afterwards we decided to start thinking about what sound actually is? We had some super thoughts! Nathan k... 

In the latest ‘reflection’ post from the Eircom Junior Spiders Awards, we share some of the exciting interviews we gave on the day. We were so lucky to be interviewed by Ireland’s largest independent radio station, Today FM. Juliette from Today FM interviewed Caoilynn, Tommy, James, Oisín and Ms. Brennan. It was an amazing experience, especially considering that tens of thousands of people listen to this station every day! Well done to our brilliant students who did us proud as always. Listen to the clips from the 1pm and 4pm news below! Thanks to Today FM for letting us put... 

The 2014 Eircom Junior Spiders winners were announced at a ceremony at Google HQ in Dublin today. Hosted by RTÉ’s Aidan Power, the awards recognise and reward primary and post primary students for the innovative ways they use the internet, especially around website development, school blogs and design. At primary level, the Mega Spiders have three categories – Best Project, Best School Blog and Best School Website. There is also a Grand Prix award for the overall winner. We were delighted to win both awards for Best School Blog and the Grand Prix! “What a fantastic bunch of winners we... 

A little message from our Voki friend ahead of our exciting day at the Eircom Junior Spider Awards. Good luck to our students Caoilynn, Tommy, James and Oisín who will represent us on the day at Google HQ in Dublin. We’re so proud of you all! Have a great day, win or lose!