St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Hello and happy new school year to one and all! What a fantastic fortnight we have already had. We’re adjusting to life in 6th Class, taking on new responsibilities and jobs and getting to grips with lots of new work. We spent the first week and a half getting to know each other, making sure our new pupils know where everything is and who everyone is, setting up our class shop (more on that later!), organising our room, labelling and numbering our books and copies, and doing our autumn tests! We also made out the rotas for cocoa duty, fruit delivery, roll book delivery, PE equipment supervision... 

Earlier today, two buses of 1st to 5th class students set off on the school tour of 2015 in Fort Lucan. Everyone had a fantastic day and we were extremely proud of the behaviour and school spirit of all the students who went along – lots of smiles in the photos below! This Vine sums up how well the day went – sleepy heads on the bus home are a good sign of a great day out! Lots of fun on the trampoline! Red slide or blue? Which did you choose? You can find photos from our school tour 2014 here and from 2013 here!  

Jordan’s Lego Stop Motion sequel from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. Last year, Jordan’s first Stop Motion Movie was a huge success throughout the school. When it finished, he promised his fans that there would be a part two in the coming year. Ladies and gentlemen, here we have it, ‘Lex Returns’, Jordan’s long awaited sequel. It’s back and it’s bigger and better than ever. The usual ‘good guys’ like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutles, Superman, Aquaman and Wonderwoman are back to save the day. After a breakout from jail, all the villains... 

Last Friday, we had a new twist on an old tradition on St Peter’s – the Mini-World Cup! You can read all about last year’s Mini-World Cup here. This year, we had three Mini World Cup tournaments – Junior and Senior Infants played in the morning, 1st and 2nd classes played between break and lunchtime and the older classes had their tournament after lunch. Here are a few photos and Vines from the day – and you can read more about the infant classes and their tournament here.      

Here in 5th class we were lucky enough to have a fish tank in our room for a 6 weeks, with lots of different types of sea creatures. We spent the month learning all about the oceans and how we can look after them. This was an opportunity for us to learn lots about water. One of the most exciting things we looked at was water pressure. Pressure is the force that pushes water through pipes. Water pressure determines the flow of water from the tap. Using the strand Energy and Forces we tested how water pressure would be affected as it flowed through various size openings. What we needed: • 6 Large... 

Thanks to everyone who made our open morning for Grandparents’ Day so special. It was lovely to have you visit our school. We had grandparents, neighbours, friends of the Parish and our Mams and Dads in to see our rooms, work and performance. We performed a couple of classics from previous shows and had a lovely time. Thanks to our Parents’ Association for their hard work and time spent serving tea, coffee and other lovely treats! We can’t wait for Grandparents’ Day 2016!  

Congratulations to our wonderful Sacramental Choir who sang so beautifully at the recent Confirmation. 24 boys and girls from 2nd to 5th came to St Peter’s Parish Church on Saturday morning after weeks of practice at lunchtimes! We got great feedback about their beautiful singing and their school spirit was really appreciated! We’re looking forward to hearing them again at the Communion ceremony on the 24th April!  

We all dressed up! The #studentcouncil would like to thank everybody for dressing up for #WBD2015! We are going to post school picture collages now! — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) March 5, 2015 6th Class dress-up for #WBD2015! #DorkDiaries pic.twitter.com/R6bNpwvxU6 — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) March 5, 2015 More 6th Class dress up! #WBD2015 #DiaryofaWimpyKid pic.twitter.com/k7RFNyXJP0 — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) March 5, 2015 2nd class are a Mr Men (and little Miss) library for #wbd2015 We've been busy making costumes this week!... 

Hello bloggers, St. Peter’s 5th Class were extremely lucky to be one of only 12 schools in all of Ireland to be chosen for the Explorer’s Project this year. The Explorer’s Project is aimed at helping us understand marine and sea life better. As part of the project, 5th class have been given a fish tank containing lots of sea creatures to take care of for 4 weeks and will be given a tour of Sea Life in Bray, with their resident Marine Biologist, Joanna. To get everyone involved 5th class are running a competition for all classes to come up with the best names for our sea creatures.... 

6th Class embraced the festive spirit in December and planned a Secret Santa in class. The gifts were thoughtful, personalised, homemade and delivered with the best of fun, laughter and friendship. What more could you want? We also had a lovely lunch of ‘Christmas sandwiches’ – delicious! What a lovely way to finish off a term with so many great highlights. Just do a search for ‘6th Class’ above to catch up with everything we’ve been getting up to! Well done guys! Have a luck at some of our snaps from the Christmas half day!