St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We know many of you have been following our Health and Wellbeing Programme concentrating on body and mind thanks to Healthy Ireland and Bray Area Partnership. Having produced a series of yoga and mindfulness videos for the junior classes, our Wellbeing Facilitator, Yvonne Doyle, has put together a series for senior classes too. Yvonne is a yoga and meditation tutor and has experience in delivering these types of activities in schools around Wicklow. We will put up 2 this week and next for you to try out and let us know how you got on. Namaste 🙂  

Welcome to our submission for the Discover Primary Science and Maths award for 2020. This is our 15th year taking part in the Awards, although this school year has been a little different! Once again, we are applying for the Plaque of STEM Excellence. This award is given to schools that carry out extensive work in science, technology, engineering and maths, all of which are very important in St. Peter’s. This is the 6th year that we have had Junior and Senior Infants taking part in the award! It is great to see the young scientists have so much fun learning about science and maths. Each year... 

There were 32 players of last week’s quiz! In third place was Amalia from 6th class, in 2nd place was Kamran from 3rd class and in 1st place was Kurina from 4th class. Well done everyone! Kurina, you may choose a prize from the photo posted on School Story! This week has a different format! 15 of the staff in the school shared childhood photos. Can you guess who each staff member is? We opened it up to the staff a few days early and here’s the leaderboard! Up at the top with 14 out of 15 questions correct were Mr Vance and Ms Roche (Mr Vance won on points based on how... 

The first person to post a Spider-man fact wins this colouring book. Good Luck everyone!  

Welcome to session 2 in our 4 part yoga and mindfulness series. The videos are easy to follow and can be done in your own time. You can also re-watch and practice each video a number of times to improve your technique. Check out the video below and keep letting us know how you are doing. Namaste 🙂  

We are going fruit themed this week with recipes for Banana Bread and Fruit Winders. This delicious recipe is ideal for a healthy snack and can be adjusted to suit your taste. Thank you for your photos, videos and comments so far. We are putting together a promotional video to go with our Healthy Ireland videos so if you would like to be included please send a photo or video of you trying out one of our recipes of yourself cooking at home or the finished product. Happy baking!  

To tie in with Try it Thursday, we want all students to try to tie their shoe laces on their own. Don’t worry if you don’t get it first time, practice makes perfect. We also want our younger classes to be able to take their jacket on and off. Ms. Meaney will show you how it’s done below. For our older classes (3rd to 6th), we want you to send a photo with someone who inspires you or that you look up to. This could be a family member or someone famous. Ms. Hoban has chosen a family member who is a nurse and doing great work at the moment. Paddy has gone with Muhammad Ali. We... 

The first person to comment with a spider- man fact when they see a photo of spider man on the blog will win a Spider-Man large colouring book (see below).  

To balance out Tech Tuesday, we are encouraging everyone to get out and connect with nature. Whether it’s in a field, forest or backgarden, try to get out and notice the plants, animals and insects. Simply post a photo with 4 different colour leaves or with a bird or insect in the background to enter this week’s competition. Best of luck! Ms. Kane and Ms. Conway have shown us what you can find.  

Hi everyone, A huge thanks to everyone who entered into the first draw to win a prize by posting a video or photo for the first two challenges. Check out most of your photos and videos by clicking on the link below. Challenge 1 Challenge 2 h The winners of the competition are Challenge 1- Liam and Corey Mullen Challenge 2- The healthy eating challenge- Mia Keating and Tadhg McDonald. Most Creative Prize- Richard Gall for his photo with the fruit and veg on his body. To claim your prize you will have to leave a comment after this post saying which of the prizes in the photo...