St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Did you know that there’s not just one type of engineering? Just like a doctor can specialise as a GP or a surgeon, the career of an engineer can be very specialised too! Today, we learned about the different disciplines of engineering here on the Steps website. We each chose a different area of engineering that we would be interested in. Well done to Alan for leading today’s podcast! What area of engineering would you be interested in?  

We have used StoryBird to show three more stories brought to life on our blog. Well done to Abbi, Billy and Jamie in 2nd Class!  

2nd Class have spent a lot of time on their Write-A-Book projects since we came back to school in January. We have drawn pictures for them and bound them but we also decided to put them up on the blog using our new favourite web tool, StoryBird. Here are some of our stories, we hope you like them!  

Hi this is Johnny, from 5th class. My Write-A-Book project is about a superhero who saves the world’s biggest jewel. I finished my story and I started editing it today. It’s really easy to edit on the laptop because you can right-click to get help with spellings. Mr McAdam, the student teacher, helped me to edit my story. Next I have to do my illustrations and my cover. Here’s a podcast from my class about how they’re all getting on:  

This year, 5th class took on the Elf Factor as their class play for the Christmas concert. You can see photos from the Christmas play here and listen to 2nd class and their ‘Little Rascals’ play here. We hope you enjoy our video – we really enjoyed making it!   The Elf Factor from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

Aaron here, Robert’s out today but he made a podcast yesterday asking us how our ‘Write a Book’ project is going. Yesterday, I ran out of ideas so I started going back over my work. I found parts to add more detail into. When I was reading over my work, I was asking myself questions as if I was the reader. For example, I had written that I was nervous and when I read back over it, I added 4 sentences saying why I was nervous. I like editing because it makes your book much better and you’ll get more readers. Here’s a picture of my editing work: Thanks for reading... 

Today we tried to use Storybird to help us with our Write-A-Book project. We challenged ourselves to use pictures to make up a story. We use Storybird to write stories. It is cool because the pictures are there for you. We try to put them together to make sense! We wrote this story in just 5 minutes! Have a look!  

Cinderella, via Animoto! There are many great days in St Peter’s every year. There are great days when we all feel as if we’ve worked together to achieve something special and great days when our fantastic students get to show off the results of all their hard work. Of all the great days in the school calendar, there’s a special one that stands out – we love our Christmas play! We had our first performance at 11.30 a.m. on the Thursday morning and our second at 7 p.m. and we had a ball from start to finish. For those who aren’t familiar with our Christmas plays, we...