St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

It is autumn and in 2nd Class we are taking part in the ‘Signs of autumn 2013 Twitter Project’ with 5th Class. We are going to get in contact with other schools on our new Twitter account and talk about autumn. We will record podcasts, make art, tweet messages, take photos and get outside to see Autumn in our area. We want to see signs of Autumn and tell you all about it! We are following the #anfomhar hashtag on Twitter and we will put this into all of our tweets so you can see our messages with all of the tweets from other schools. We are so excited! Listen to our first #anfomhar... 

A huge thank you to all of the parents, past, present and future pupils, families and local supporters who made Saturday’s Open Day such a great success. It was wonderful to see so many new and familiar faces and we hope you enjoyed the day. It was a day that highlighted those things that makes Peter’s such a special school and we couldn’t have done it without your continued support. The day started at 2pm with an energetic and entertaining performance of the Circle of Life. There was great joy and delight as each class joined the stage and 2nd Class got a special welcome as... 

Last week, Culture Night took place across the country. We already posted about our fantastic contribution to the Signal OutDoors project – worth checking out here if you haven’t already! The Mermaid ran a number of events on the night, including children’s animation workshops. We in St Peter’s booked two places for our students to take part in the stop-motion animation workshop. Leon from 5th and Eduard from 6th took part and had a fantastic time. Both students are looking forward to teaching their classes how to use stop-motion animation. Maybe Film Club will be in the... 

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Shiver me timbers! Sure today be Talk Like A Pirate Day! Some of us wandered around the school and recorded some students talking like pirates – what do you think? We had great fun! We’re off to the high seas! [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/111247291″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] ps. Ms. Sexton had a cool joke. What is a pirate’s favourite letter? ARRRRRRRRR! Flickr/kafka4prez  

Congratulations to our new Student Council (2013-2014) pictured here today during their first meeting. The members of the Council are Codie Sweeney Kearney and Kelsey O’Callaghan (2nd Class), Kian Farrell and Finn O’Neill (3rd Class), Stephen Mooney and Jack Jin (4th Class), Leon O’Donoghue (5th Class) and Jamie Doonan (6th Class). Sam Smyth (5th Class) will be this year’s Chairperson and Ian Lawless (6th Class) will act as Secretary. As they gathered for their first meeting, the SC recorded a very short podcast to introduce themselves, talk about life in school and also... 

Fifth class have taken their first steps into the exciting world of Scratch! Although one or two members of the class had already tried it out, most are working with it for the first time – and enjoying every minute! Scratch is a free programme that introduces students to software development – it can be accessed here. Some of the students have already downloaded the programme to use at home, but  it can also be accessed online without having to download it, if you set up a Scratch account. Fifth class are going to set up a class Scratch account to make sharing and accessing each...