St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Yesterday, 5th and 6th class visited Bray Garda station as part of our Community Garda, Stephen’s, work with the school. He visited 5th class a couple of weeks ago so we were really interested to see everything that we’d learned about. You can read our previous post here. We had a really interesting morning in Bray Garda station and we got to see the squad cars, the cells, the medical room, the interview room and the control room where all the emergency calls for County Wicklow come into. We also got to see the CCTV footage from the cameras around Bray. Stephen was really generous... 

2nd Class have been learning about Irish myths and legends. We decided to record podcasts and make videos to help us to remember the sequence of the stories. As always we used Soundcloud for the podcast and Vintagio for the video! This is the first post from us on this topic. We will have two more soon! They will be about other Irish myths and legends. We hope you like our video and podcast about The Brown Bull of Cooley! The Brown Bull of Cooley! from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

2nd Class have been learning about Irish Myths and Legends. We know lots about different stories from many, many years ago. We loved reading and retelling the stories. We decided to podcast about three of them and we also decided to make storyboards to put different parts of the story in order. We hope you like our videos and podcasts!  

Last week, Stephen, the Community Garda, came in to visit us to talk to us about the work of the Gardaí. We’d loads of questions for him and we learned a lot from him. We recorded a podcast about what we learned from him. Earlier in the week, we noticed on the @gardainfo Twitter account that they were having a Q&A session with a member of the Garda Dog Unit. We posted questions, as did our friends in Cloghan’s Hill School. We storified the answers to make them easier to read. Twitter is a cool way to access information on topics that we’re interested in – we’d... 

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... 

2nd Class have gotten to the end of Chapter 8 in Zac Power, Frozen Fear. It’s a brilliant, exciting book. The podcasts help us with our: 1. Predicting, 2. Making connections, 3. Creating images, 4. Inferring, 5. Putting it all together. Now we are working on re-reading! You can hear our previous Zac Power podcasts here: 1. Chapter 1-3  2. Chapters 4-5 Remember, you can catch our previous book/reading podcasts on the blog by clicking on the title! 1. The Magic Finger 2. The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me 3. Esio Trot 4. Care of Henry 5. Alfie Green and the Magical Gift  

2nd Class have gotten to the end of Chapter 5 in Zac Power, Frozen Fear. It’s a brilliant, exciting book. The podcasts help us with our: 1. Predicting, 2. Making connections, 3. Creating images, 4. Inferring, 5. Putting it all together. Now we are working on re-reading! Remember, you can catch our previous book/reading podcasts on the blog by clicking on the title! 1. The Magic Finger 2. The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me 3. Esio Trot 4. Care of Henry 5. Alfie Green and the Magical Gift