St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We had great fun celebrating Science Week this year! Science is one of our favourite subjects and we love taking part in STEM activities! One of our favourite weeks of the year! We loved taking part in STEM for Fun in the hall this year and had the chance to try lots of different activities including creating paper planes and racing them, programming Bee Bots, building a circle using Pringles, building the tallest tower using paper and using Lego to create a ‘vehicle of the future’. In our classroom we discussed ideas that we hope Science will help us answer in the future... 

STEM for Fun with the junior classes started a couple of weeks ago. Here Junior Infants, Senior Infants and 1st Class were brought to the hall each week to work with teachers and parents to engage in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths games and challenges. This is a way for the children to engage in STEM skills in a fun and less formal way. We have been running STEM for Fun in the school for the last 4 year now and is always a favourite with pupils. Throughout the year each class will get a 5 week block of STEM for Fun with thanks to our HSCL, School Completion, teachers and... 

Classes have been working really hard on attendance and it shows again this month with attendance up on the previous year. We are running our Easter Egg Competition for April so anyone with full attendance for the first 10 school days in April will get an Easter Egg going home…….well pupils, not teachers 🙂 Well done to March’s All Star Attenders listed below. All Star Attenders March       Junior Infants Rhys      Cahill Layla      Clarke Mia        McAuliffe Quinn Nicole   O’Brien Aria        O’Hanlon Fionn    ... 

Well done to February’s All Star Attenders listed below. Another really good month for school attendance. Keep up the good work. All Star Attenders February       Junior Infants Rhys      Cahill Ava        Dowling Mia        McAuliffe Quinn Nicole   O’Brien Aria        O’Hanlon   Senior Infants Jake       Barry Luke      Cowap Richard Gall Amira    Grefaldeo Filip        Jankowski Riley      Kearney Mia        Keating Noah     Kelly Martin  Kenna Layla      Kilkenny Nevaeh               ... 

We kicked off our new school year with a good start on attendance. Despite the usual coughs, colds and sniffles we made a big effort to get in to school and had an extra special bonus prize this month. Any child in everyday for the last 2 weeks of January got to go to the “School Cinema”. We had the hall set up with a giant projector screen and watched Gnome Alone in the morning, complete with popcorn. We also had several classes beat their attendance from January last year and will be kicking off the prizes for those classes with pizza parties this week. Keep up the good work on attendance... 

With a busy month of play practice for Christmas concerts children did really well getting to school and preparing for one of the best days in the school calendar. Well done to all our All Stars for December and keep it going into the new year. Happy Christmas everyone. All Star Attenders December       Junior Infants Rhys      Cahill Layla      Clarke Harley   Dodd Ava        Dowling Kayleigh Doyle Tori        Doyle Martin  Kane Jamie    Lawless Mia        McAuliffe Quinn Corey    Mullen Nevaeh                Murphy Hallie    ... 

Well done to all our All Star Attenders who were in school every day in November. If you didn’t make it this month, try really hard to get your name up there for December. All Star Attenders November       Junior Infants Zara       Butler Rhys      Cahill Layla      Clarke Mia        McAuliffe Quinn Corey    Mullen Hallie     Murphy Aria        O’Hanlon   Senior Infants Jake       Barry Sam       Johnston Mia        Keating Noah     Kelly Martin  Kenna Layla      Kilkenny Nevaeh               ... 

Lot’s of really great work going on by teacher to improve attendance with each class having their own attendance display board and competition for children to win prizes as a group. Well done to all those who are working hard on their attendance and congratulations to our All Star Attenders for October listed below. Happy Halloween! All Star Attenders October       Junior Infants Taylor    Buckley Zara       Butler Ava        Dowling Jamie    Lawless Mia        McAuliffe Quinn Corey    Mullen Nevaeh                Murphy Hallie    ... 

Welcome back to another year and to our monthly All Star Attenders’ Post. For those of you who are new, each month we make an effort to recognise all those students who have had 100 % attendance for the month. Each student with perfect attendance is given a stamp in their attendance booklet and can claim a prize each month or save their stamps for bigger prizes. We also run a class competitions and if the class beats their attendance for the same month last year they win a prize. Some of the prizes last year included trips to The Mermaid Arts Theatre to see a show, Cinema Experience in the... 

Welcome back to the first All Star Attenders blog post of the new school year. For those new to the school, as you probably know, we work really hard on improving attendance here in the school every year, aiming to have children in school as much as possible. Every month classes compete against each other for best attendance, with the winning class receiving an awesome prize. We also acknowledge the great efforts of individual pupils who have perfect attendance each month in our All Star Attenders post. Teachers also reward students individually for attendance throughout the year and we run individual...