St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Hello everyone! Well done for sending in such wonderful artwork last week. They were so bright and colourful. 😄 Completing the art challenge will earn you some extra Dojo points which all go towards Spin The Wheel. Send your pictures to your teacher on Class Dojo or to the School WhatsApp. Your art challenge this week is based on a famous painter called Pablo Picasso. He was born in Spain in 1881. He loved to paint, draw and create sculptures. He made over 1,800 paintings and some of them have been sold for more than $100 million! Have a look at some of his paintings. Follow... 

Paddy’s back with another great activity for you! Let us know how you get on in the comments!  

Well done to everyone for creating such bright and colourful pieces of art! 😊 Have a look at some of the beautiful pictures created by our very talented pupils Chloe – 5th Class Corey – 1st Class Liam – 6th Class Harley – 1st Class Elif – 5th Class Elena – 2nd Class Aysha – 5th Class Jayce – Junior Infants Milan – Senior Infants Ruby – 4th Class Caleb – Senior Infants Well done everyone!  

For this week’s activity we’ll be making a home-made pet! I can’t wait to see all the animals you make. What will I call my little red animal? Follow the link for the instructions; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htrW7E3o2Vw  

Atmospheric pressure is the air all around us. It weighs on us all the time, but we can’t feel it. First the atmospheric pressure (or the tiny air molecules all around us) presses against the bottom of the cardboard same way it presses against us. This pressure holds the card up. But the weight of the water should still be heavy enough to push it off right? That’s what most people would think, but if you look at the top of your upside down glass, you can see a small pocket of air. Now, the air outside the glass is at one pressure and the air inside the glass is at another. There isn’t... 

Well done to everyone who did this week’s STEM activity at home. It was brilliant to see all the different materials that worked for the experiment. Here’s some videos and pictures to show you! 1st class 2nd class Senior infants Junior infants 2nd class 5th class  

Hello everyone! 😄 Next Sunday is Valentine’s Day 🧡 Try out this step-by-step art activity to celebrate! Send in any pictures that you make to your teacher on Class Dojo or send it to the school Whatsapp and it could be included in next weeks blog! Be as creative as possible. We can’t wait to see what you make 😍 To complete this art activity you will need: Paper, a pencil and four different colours (crayons, markers, colouring pencils, paint – whatever you have at home!) Here are examples of what we will be making: Follow the steps... 

This week we are doing a 1 minute AMRAP challenge. Can you beat Paddy?  

Senior Infants have been busy working hard at home this month. We would love to show you some of our work! 🎆✨ Jacob, Jenson, Ella and Emily made these beautiful St.Brigid’s crosses on the 1st of February as it was St.Brigid’s day. We learned all about Brigid and her colourful cloak! We practised our tricky words and put them into sentences too! We had a tricky word hunt around our house to see if we could find any tricky words at home. 🕵🏼‍♀️ Tricky word detective Zoe found the words ‘all’ and ‘by’... 

Hi everyone! This week we are starting weekly STEM activities. I will upload them to the blog every Tuesday. I will use materials that people will have at home so you can try them out yourselves. We would love to see you recreate the experiments. You can show us by sending pictures in! I want to get you thinking during these activities, so I won’t be giving you the explanation to the experiments straight away. Next week I will explain how and why this activity works, but we’d love to hear your thoughts first! Good luck and enjoy 🙂