St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

St. Peter’s have done it again! We have been successful in achieving the Creative Schools Award for 2014. We’re sure you have noticed all of the great work the children have been doing with Stop Motion Animation over the past year, and you weren’t alone! The Association for Creativity and Arts in Education who organise the Creative Schools Award think we are super too! On Monday, Ms. Byrne and Ms. Flanagan took four of the boys to Temple Bar’s Arc Cultural Centre to represent the school in receiving our award. Patryk, Dylan, Jordan and Szymon were treated to a fun filled day in Dublin.... 

Recently, 5th class read ‘War Horse’ by Michael Morpurgo as their class novel and really enjoyed it. We had a Twitter Q&A session with the Irish National Stud to answer some of the more technical questions from the book and we blogged about that here. As part of a prize for our excellent attendance, we watched ‘War Horse’ the film over the last few wet lunchtimes. It was really interesting watching it as the film of a book that we’d recently read. Our teacher noticed that we discussed the story a lot as we went along and we kept pointing out similarities and differences... 

Congratulations to our news Student Council for Term 3. They are: 1. Kayden Clucas Doonan (2nd) 2. Casey Crinion (2nd) 3. Adam Doyle (3rd) 4. TJ Nolan (3rd) 5. Johnny Moorehouse (4th) 6. Calvin O’Callaghan (4th) 7. Luke O’Brien (5th) 8. Luke McKeever (5th) 9. Lester Grefaldeo (6th) 10. Dylan Kane (6th)   Here is their introductory podcast!  

      2nd Class are really enjoying their latest book, Zac Power’s ‘Tomb of Doom’. It’s an excellent book, full of adventure and surprise. We recorded a podcast this morning to fill you in on all we have learned in the book so far. We also practice saying our ‘Good Reader tips’ that help us to understand what we are reading and answer even  more questions. You can hear our previous Zac Power podcasts (abour Frozen Fear) here: 1. Chapter 1-3  2. Chapters 4-5 Remember, you can catch our previous book/reading podcasts on the blog by clicking on... 

After much anticipation the long wait is over… After many weeks working on his full length Stop Motion Animation Jordan is finally ready to release his movie to the world! This critically acclaimed feature film will leave you on the edge of your seat wanting more. Luckily Jordan has a sequel scheduled for pre summer release. Now sit back and enjoy! IMG 0172[1] from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.  

James, Szymon and Lex created their Stop Motion Animation called ‘The Chase’. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we did making it! Well done boys! IMG 0160[1] from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

This week, we’re integrating our usual work (along with other exciting events) with Tech Week Ireland and with Digital Art Week. One way that 5th class have taken part in both events was to experiment with SketchUp. SketchUp has a bit of a history in St Peter’s. In 2009, 6th class at the time were declared the Senior Engineering Class of Ireland. In the lead up to the finals, they presented a project at the BT Young Scientist Primary Science Fair (and won the top prize on the day with two other schools!). The class were looking out for ways to develop their project and Leon (Kelsey... 

After many months of learning about stop-motion animations, apps, lighting, sound, props and recording… here it is. Our complete Creative Schools Awards project in one massive blogpost! So… here it is! Our project has taken us four months to complete. We decided to use our love of ICT and Art in as creative and interesting a way as possible in putting together a stop-motion animation project. We got the idea as early in the year, during Culture Night 2013, our local theatre (The Mermaid) ran a number of events on the night, including children’s animation workshops. We in St. Peter’s... 

The 2014 Eircom Junior Spiders winners were announced at a ceremony at Google HQ in Dublin today. Hosted by RTÉ’s Aidan Power, the awards recognise and reward primary and post primary students for the innovative ways they use the internet, especially around website development, school blogs and design. At primary level, the Mega Spiders have three categories – Best Project, Best School Blog and Best School Website. There is also a Grand Prix award for the overall winner. We were delighted to win both awards for Best School Blog and the Grand Prix! “What a fantastic bunch of winners we... 

2nd Class had great fun learning about Pop Art apps for #artweek14 today. They used an app on their iPad to create their own Andy Warhol pictures. Have a look! Check out our wall on the #artweek14 page here! Can you guess who this is?!