St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We were delighted to take part in the FIRST Lego League Competition in Galway again this year as part of our Lego Club. This was our third year to enter the competition and we had a brilliant time again. There are 3 main elements to the competition – The Project, Core Values and The Robot Game & design Problem For the project this year we were asked to look at ways we find, use, transport and dispose of water and how we could improve this. We started looking at all the ways we use water in our lives. At Lego Club we split into groups and listed all the ways we use water every day. Then we... 

Having taken a look at our school garden we agreed that it needed some love and attention.  We decided this was a project to work on in the school as part of both our Discover Primary Science and Maths project, and our sustainability project.  In 6th class we all drew our own pictures and wrote short descriptive pieces of writing about how our garden currently is.  We then put our landscaping skills to the test in planning how we would like our school garden to be.  We also did some video interviews on yard at break time with children from other classes to get some of their ideas.  We discussed... 

Today 6th class welcomed Mr Gavin Duffy to St. Peters for Dragons Den.  He was joined on the panel by Ms Whyte, Mr Foley, Mr Kinsella and Paddy.  Each group battled their nerves to put on an amazing array of presentations where their products for Junior Entrepreneur were scrutinized by the judges.       The groups presented:  A clever sun hat with added technology Slime A phone holder A torch Stress balls Grassy heads A music speaker with crafts Handy holders          All groups received incredible feedback from the Dragons, who couldn’t decide between two products in the... 

Back in action! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/xMjJEmnGvI — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2018 Hi everyone! Happy New Year! We hope you are all well and ready to have a super 2018. Here is what we have been getting up to. Did you see our lovely art work recently? We are learning about Van Gogh in #4thClass. We used oil pastels to create tributes to Starry Night, his famous painting. #creativeschools pic.twitter.com/9vearRWhOk — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 19, 2018 We are enjoying our brain breaks on Go Noodle! Well, it is awards season! #4thClass... 

We are loving taking part in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme.  Today we were visited by entrepreneur and businessman Brian McGovern.  We were extremely inspired by his business journey which he started when he was in 6th class. We are now super motivated and we feel confident and ready to take on the dragons in Dragons Den on Monday.    

Can we design a rollercoaster which reaches an elevation above it’s starting point (without using a motor)?  This is the question 6th class worked tirelessly to answer over the past number of weeks.  Today, a group from the class were in the RDS to present their work to the judges and a sold out audience of curious parents, teachers and children.  Here are some pictures of our project and the work we did so brilliantly today. We attracted the interest of RTE news 🙂 and we even made it on to the telly. Follow this link below and we will make our appearance at 0:51 on News Today!  Well... 

Well, it has been a very busy few weeks in Mrs. Reilly’s 4th Class room! Here is some of our news. As always, our class spirit is so important. We work on our behaviour and team work skills always! We had some visitors to help us! We have three lovely helpers from @SalesforceOrg in our room today. They have joined in in lots of activities! It is so fun. #4thClass — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) December 1, 2017 Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate this day. Today we gave thanks in circle time for all we are grateful for. We give thanks everyday for the health, happiness... 

The whole school took part in our Green Schools Action Day on Friday the 10th of November.  We dressed in Green and all classes took part in lessons and activities around the theme of litter and waste.  We also focused on our school garden and we looked at improving this area. Junior Infants created a town called Juniorville using recyclable materials they gathered from home. Senior Infants gathered recyclable materials, sorted and classified them before creating their own junk art inventions. 1st class planted some seeds for our school garden.  These included peas, brocolli and rocket which... 

Hi everyone! We’ve been very busy since our last blog post! Here is what we have been getting up to in October. We had a fabulous time celebrating Halloween! We’d the best time with the rest of the school at the disco! A big thank you to our PA who put so much time & effort into it! #4thClass 🎃 pic.twitter.com/DqeOgsgVlV — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 27, 2017 The Hocus Pocus cinema is open in #4thClass! The excitement! 🎃🎬 We earned this reward for working so hard this midterm! — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October... 

On Wednesday, the senior boys set off for what was to be a fantastic day of football in the Emmets blitz.  They encountered some tough competition in their three matches. Team photo after a successful day in Emmets.   First up they took on Kilcoole and were unlucky to fall short by 2 points.  Following this, the boys dug deep to show superb character in coming back and winning their final two games.  The defence were super solid with great communication and team work on show.  Some fantastic scores by Des, Dylan F, Dean T and Nathan greatly helped the boys on their way.  Well done Peters!!!