St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We loved taking part in Wellness Week. It gave us a great chance to discuss our feelings and what we enjoy doing to keep our minds and bodies healthy. We also shared some tips with each other about looking after our wellbeing in the future! We started the week with some Monday Meditation and found that this gave us a chance to breathe before beginning a new week. It’s important to take some time each day to do this. We also thought about some things in our lives that we’re grateful for and completed a ‘Gratitude Jar’ activity. Monday morning meditation! We also... 

Last week we celebrated wellness week in 1st class. We enjoyed loads of activities that relaxed us and made us feel better, have a look at some of the things we did! We started off the week by looking at different feelings, we discussed how we could feel better if we were feeling down, anxious or stressed and we tried these activities out during the week. Some of these activities included the following: Bubble Breathing- Taking deep breathes and acting like your blowing bubbles (or actually blowing them!) is a great way to calm down. 2. Healthy eating- It is important... 

This week was fantastic! We explored lots of different ways to take care of our bodies and our mind. We did some fabulous activities too and had lots of fun! This is our Calm Corner in 2nd Class. Check-In Zone Every day we checked in to our feelings ‘Zone’. This was a great way to think about our feelings and emotions. Music & Mindfulness We did lots of lovely Mindful Art. We learned that doing simple colouring and drawing is a great way to relax our minds. We really enjoyed playing the drums with Drum Nature. Sports Day 🏀 We had such fun with... 

Welcome to our final update to our whole school story! Well done to all those who took part over the last number of weeks, it’s been fantastic to see all your submissions being added together to create our own story, accompanied with lots of superb illustrations! The final question we needed to answer was: ‘what will our rabbit wish for’? Check out the brilliant end to our story here! What a fantastic story! Huge well done to all involved. We hope you enjoy reading!  

Welcome back to another update to our whole school story! Well done to all taking part each week, it’s fantastic to see your creativity being recorded as a team effort and your writing and illustrations are brilliant! Here is a special message from Bex this week: Hi Everybody, Blimey! This gets harder every week with so many amazing ideas and pictures!! As always I have tried to include as many ideas and artworks as possible but I am afraid this week not everyone has been able to be included as there were just so many. Thank you so much. So as you will read our story continues…... 

Our whole school ‘write and draw a story’ task is a great way for us to get creative and there have been lots of fantastic submissions, both written and illustrations, from lots of pupils who are eager to continue the story. A huge well done to all those who are taking part and remember, it’s never too late to get involved! Bex has sent us on another message and included the developments of the story for this week: Hurray! HAPPY BACK AT SCHOOL EVERYONE!! ️I am delighted for you all to be back at school again and wish you a wonderful first week back all together... 

Our write and draw a story creativity task has had a great response from students so far and we loved seeing all the different ideas you came up with last week in response to the question ‘Why was the rabbit there?’ Bex has sent on a message to everyone and has added some of your own ideas to the story! A huge well done to all and keep up the super work as your idea and illustration may be included in the next piece. Good Morning Everyone! WOW! What amazing ideas and beautiful pictures!! It was so wonderful to receive all your creative works. THANK YOU. It is very important... 

Hello everyone and welcome to our next creative challenge! Your responses to the question ‘what is creativity’? where so imaginative and unique, we’re sure we’re going to hear and receive amazing suggestions as we start to write and draw a story as a whole school! Take a look at the video below that Bex has sent to us and get involved by answering the question and submitting your illustrations via Class Dojo or here on the school blog. We can’t wait to hear what creative and imaginative story lines you come up with and hope that all classes get involved!... 

Snowflake! A new elf arrived in our classroom on the first of December. We decided to call him Snowflake and he played lots of different tricks on us throughout the month, what a naughty elf! Christmas treats! Every Friday we enjoyed hot cocoa and biscuits or choclate lolipops brought by snowflake. They were scrumptious! Christmas Stem! Our Christmas Stem challenge this year was to make a sled that would be able to make it from the top of the Christmas slope to the bottom without loosing its load. The load consisted of a toy horse, tissues, playdough... 

Welcome everyone to the St Peter’s Christmas Play 2020! As you may know, there has been great excitement in the school over the last week or so as our classes have prepared their Christmas plays for you! In a year like no other, we’ve put together a show that you won’t forget – so sit back and enjoy! The video below shows all of the videos, but if you would like to be able to skip to your child’s class play, you can use the links under the video to find it. Junior Infants Senior Infants 1st class 2nd class 3rd class 4th class 5th...