St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

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... 

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”...