St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

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We are all so excited about the arrival of our new MaKey MaKey board to St. Peter’s. MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century that turns everyday objects into touchpads when you combine them with the internet. It’s a simple Invention Kit for Beginners and Experts doing art, engineering, and everything inbetween! We love our one and we all spent today trying it out. Why not check out the MaKey MaKey video above to give you an idea about how it works and we’ll show you what we made tomorrow!  

2nd Class are learning about why it is important to wear your seatbelt. We are learning to put our seatbelts on because it is so dangerous being in a car without your belt on. We are seatbelt sheriffs and are reminding people to buckle up! Itis against the law to not have your seatbelt on. We have sheriff badges and it is our job is tell people to put on their seatbelt. Have a listen to our podcast to hear more! Find out more info here! by Codie, Caoilynn, Billy, Abbi, Kelsey [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/115436124″ width=”100%” height=”166″... 

5th and 6th made Peace Posters over the week. There was a good few nice ones and they will be put into a competition. There are hundreds of entries internationally and loads locally. There is going to be a Bray competition. Lots of people drew doves for the sign of peace. We were not allowed to put words into it because it’s an international competition. The Bray Lions run the competition in Bray. We did it on A4 for a practice and A2 for the real one. You should do one yourself! Check out our animoto video showing what we have entered. Do you like our work?  

The Student Council had a meeting yesterday. We discussed these things: 1. The blog and our new @Twitter account @StPetersBray. Our secretary Ian tweeted what we were talking about, why not have a read? 2. How our new and old after-school clubs and sports are going this term. 3. Any student problems. 4. Making information signs for the school to remind people to wash their hands, turn off the lights and flush the toilet. 5. Running a charity event for Christmas. 6. The sports tournaments coming up this term. 7. Having a sponsored run at Halloween. We recorded a podcast to fill you in on these things.... 

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We’re very proud to announce that Ciara Brennan, our second class teacher, has been asked to give a presentation at tonight’s CESImeet in Dublin. CESI is the Computers in Education Society of Ireland, a topic very important to us all in Peter’s – you can find out more about CESI here.  Ms Brennan is well-known in the school as the first with all the latest developments in ICT and she was the one who set up our blog! She’s going to speak about podcasting in the classroom – you can find some examples of podcasting on our blog  here , here and here. Congratulations,... 

This week we’ve been taking part in the #anfomhar project – an amazing way to start our Twitter adventures! Here’s a short summary of the contribution made by 5th class this week! 2nd class also took part in the project – you can listen to their excellent podcast here and see their helicopter spinning Animoto here. There are also many fantastic pictures and observations from other schools around Ireland under #anfomhar on Twitter. Our exit ticket on Tuesday was ‘name one sign of Autumn’.