St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Why not listen to the Christmas poems that 2nd Class have learned? [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124302131″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]  

On Thursday, we’d a visit from Hugh and Ian from Wicklow Mountain National Park. Each class got to choose a topic to learn about. 5th class chose to learn about Irish mammals. We learned a lot and we got to hold stuffed animals and skulls. We also listened to recordings of wildlife sounds. We really enjoyed the visit and put together a podcast of facts about Irish mammals. Andy interviewed the class for this podcast. Thanks to Hugh and Ian for such an interesting talk! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/123359968″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true”... 

2nd Class have done so well with their reading this term. They have read three books, all written by Roald Dahl! They have read The Magic Finger, The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me and Esio Trot. Why not listen to our latest podcast about Esio Trot? We also think back and chat about all of the books! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/123014045″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]    

Tonight is a magical night for every child in the country, because The Toy Show is on! Today some of the boys and girls in St. Peter’s shared their memories of The Toy Show. Why not listen to what they had to say! Have a wonderful Toy Show night! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/122435437″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]      

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Hello bloggers, last week our class finished our third novel this year. It is called “Rover Saves Christmas” by Roddy Doyle. It is really funny. We did an interview about and recorded it as a podcast. We used soundcloud to record the podcast. We used the iPad to record our voices. We wrote questions in our English copy to see who had the best questions for the interview. Jack Barsoum interviewed the whole class (He did a great job! – Mr. Foley). Our voices seemed to sound different. This is because our voice vibrates through our skull so we don’t hear our voices like other... 

Today in 6th class we were working on our Mini-Scientist project. We were planning out our experiments on our report book template. We wrote down what we knew about our projects and did research to find out more information. We created a podcast using Soundcloud and spoke about our project. Ian Lawless interviewed the lot of us. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120094009″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] By Patryk, Ian, Jordan, Jamie and Archie.    

We have finished our second book of the year. We really liked our latest book called The Magic Finger. Roald Dahl wrote it. We have now read two Roald Dahl books. The first one was called The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me. We recorded a podcast about that here. Why not check out our podcast about The Magic Finger now? Well done to Dean for doing a great job presenting the podcast. We are proud of you. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119915447″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]  

St Peter’s is proud to have students of different nationalities and cultures. Today, we have a recording of Ameesh saying a poem. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119154332″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] This is a book that my dad learned from when he was in school in India. The language is Tamil. The poem I say in the podcast is about a toy. My dad taught me the poem. The boys in the class asked me to teach them it too.  

This week, Ms Kane has been visiting 5th class. The theme we’re following  in 5th class in November is ‘South America’. Oisín interviewed the rest of the class about what they’ve learned so far this week. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119140161″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] We talked about the statues on Easter Island and watched this video about how the statues might have been moved on the island. We used what we know about forces to draw our own conclusions about the Easter Island statues. We...