St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Make sure you follow Polly’s example and get to bed nice and early – if you want to track Santa, check out our Christmas websites edition of ‘Wednesday for Parents’ from last week here. Wishing all of our students, staff, family and friends a very merry Christmas!   

This week, alongside the excitement of the play, 5th class were busy making Christmas logs! The boys were very grateful to Ms Sexton’s mam and dad, who provided the logs (nicely chopped with the spaces for the candles neatly drilled in, much to the relief of Miss) and the candles and the bows and the holly! Here’s an Animoto to show off our work: Merry Christmas!  

I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for making yesterday’s concert such a great success. We were so proud of all of our students and thank our audience for creating such a fantastic atmosphere. I’d like to say a special thanks to all of the staff for their commitment and dedication to your children. Last night topped off an amazing term in what is a historic year for our school. Yesterday also brought great news for our blog! Thanks to your support and votes we won our first EduBlogs Award, recognising our podcasting work. This is a great achievement and we really hope to... 

Christmas is our favourite time of year. We love decorating our school, putting up all of our art and Christmas lights. It is a magical time. Have a look to see what it is like! If you can’t see our video, please click here!  

Yesterday 2nd Class read the story of The Little Match Girl. It is a sad story that reminds us to be grateful for all of the lovely things that we have in our lives at Christmas time. We decided to record the nice things that we want to do this Christmas to show true Christmas spirit. You can see our wishes in our video above and hear our promises in our podcast below! Thanks to our great friend Seomra Ranga for helping us to say our Christmas Spirit ideas and for making the lovely signs! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/125096045″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true”... 

While it is lovely to think of the delicious food, exciting toys, fancy decorations and fun days out at Christmas time, it is important not to forget the real reason behind Christmas. Here, boys from all of our classes will read the story of the First Christmas and remind us of the real reason behind this special time. Our crib in 2nd Class, it is helping us to learn about The First Christmas! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/125098648″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true”... 

This week in Fourth Class the answer has been revealed. The answer is Santa Claus. There are 63 questions up so far. Most of the questions are from our class. We think somebody might already have got the question correct. A boy from our class got the question last time. He was the only one. We know this new answer but do you know the question?? By Dylan M, Mason, Stephen and Calvin  

2FM and SuperValu are set to team up again with the St Vincent de Paul to help those who need it the most in our community this Christmas. The Toy Appeal has been a great success over the past 4 years. This year they have an even bigger goal and we want to help them to transform Christmas for thousands of families throughout the country. This year, St Peter’s have decided to get involved. We want to ensure that no auntie or uncle, granny or grandfather struggling financially has to personally suffer to give some simple presents this Christmas. There are several ways to get involved: Buy... 

CLICK ABOVE TO HEAR A MESSAGE FROM SANTA PADDY! 2nd and 3rd Class have been really busy making lanterns for the turning on of the Christmas lights at the Civic Plaza at 4.30pm  this Saturday, the 23rd. We all hope you will go and support our town. We can’t wait to see Santa and the lights, it is going be magic! Our local Bray Chamber have given us safe tealights so we can use our paper lanterns. There will be a raffle to see which person who comes with a lantern will get to switch on the lights with Santa. HO HO HO and see you there! From 2nd Class! ps. Remember Santa is always watching... 

It’s that time of year again folks! It’s hard to believe, but we are already ordering our Christmas annuals. Please tell someone on the Student Council if you would like to order one, they cost €3 and they’re packed with brilliant puzzles, stories, quizzes and more!