St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

As promised, here is Patryk in 6th Class reading another Seamus Heaney poem in tribute to the famous poet. This one is called Blackberry Picking and we hope you enjoy hearing it. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108631640″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]    

We were all very sad to hear about the passing of Seamus Heaney, one of Ireland’s most favourite and loved poets. We wanted to remember his great work, and so 5th and 6th Class have recorded some of his poems. Click on the piece below to hear Leon and Sam from 5th Class as they read ‘Digging’, one of Heaney’s most well-loved poems. We will hear from 6th Class tomorrow and look forward to hearing what they have read. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108488513″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true”... 

We have many treasured memories from this school year, and today’s school tour will stand out as one of the best. We went to Fort Lucan in Dublin and we had a fantastic time, with all the students behaving brilliantly. Many thanks to Karen for all of her time spent in planning the tour. Many of the boys are already thinking of their next trip out to Lucan! Here is a short slideshow of images from our day out! If you can’t see it, please click here. Make your own slideshow at Animoto.  

                We are hoping to learn a little more about Scratch in computer club this week. Ms. Sexton has already tried it out with her class and recently Ms. Brennan went to a course to learn some more about the programme. One of our favourite sites ‘Seomra Ranga‘ describes it as – ‘… a visual programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art and share these creations on the web. It is a fun and interesting way to introduce software development to pupils’. Scratch... 

St. Peter’s BNS is a school with eighty-four students and eight teachers. Our school is on Hawthorn Rd. in Little Bray. Most of our students are from the area. Our teachers are Ms. Brennan, Ms. Sexton, Ms. Sugrue, Ms. Byrne, Mr. Curran, Mr. Kinsella and Mr. Foley. Our principal is Ms. Whyte. We have many staff in our school including Ms. Flanagan, Paddy, Karen, Les, Lily and Mrs. Murphy. Everyone works really hard to make our school a very nice place to be. We love it here. It is very colourful and we get to do all of our favourite things, such as sport and art. Our school work is extremely...