St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

2nd Class have gotten off to a fun, active and healthy start in Term 1. Their activities have ranged from weekly Irish Dancing lessons, GAA and football training, weekly relay running and general games and athletics work. On top of all of this they have been eating fruit and veg every day with their Food Dudes planners getting regularly updated! They are example to us all. Check out their fancy footwork and dainty dancing so far this term! PE in 2nd Class from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the Intel Mini-Scientist showcase will now take place on Wednesday 4th December at 1pm. 4th, 5th and 6th are working really hard on their projects and we can’t wait to see the finished results!    

Dia dhuit! Bhíomar ag obair go dian i rang a 5 ar caitheamh aimsire i mí na Shamhna. D’fhéachamar ar físeán as Gaeilge faoi Katie Taylor inniu. Is féidir linn cur síos ar ár gcaitheamh aimsire a dhéanamh. Seo ‘podchraoladh’ uainn. Chuir Adam na ceisteanna orainn. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/122292276″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]  

Hello bloggers, this is 4th class. It’s coming close to Christmas and we’ve been busy over the past few weeks getting ready. In class we each designed our own Christmas card (Mr. Foley also did one). We started practicing our Class Christmas Play, but sorry we can’t tell you what we’re doing it on, it’s a surprise! We have also been practicing our songs for the School Christmas Play in the library with every class. Before we went up to the library we practiced them in our classroom. The lines for the Christmas Play were given out yesterday for the people who wanted... 

Yesterday afternoon, the correct question was revealed. We knew that the answer was New York. After 54 guesses, Ryan in our class was the first and only pupil in the whole school to get it correct! The question was “Where are the Jets from?”. The clue we got on Monday was that Kayden in 2nd Class was wearing their football gear as a Halloween costume. The next answer will be up on Monday. The question is, do YOU know the question….! By Calvin, Abhishek, Jack B, Luke, Jack J, Stephen, Mason, Dylan M.      

2nd Class were absolutely amazed yesterday when they got a very interesting tweet from an old St. Peter’s friend.  Why not hear all about the tweet and the visit that resulted afterwards? Meet our new friend Polly! Polly lands in 2nd Class! from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

Congratulations to Leon from 5th class, who recently had a book review published by South Dublin Libraries! Leon is a superb reader, who always has one or two or seven books on the go. He’s also gifted with words and has an amazing vocabulary! We’re delighted to see him showcase his talents! You can read Leon’s review here! Leon reviewed John Boyne’s ‘Stay where you are and then leave’. The book was nominated for the Bord Gais Irish Book Awards in the ‘Senior Children’s Book of the Year’ category. You can read all about the Irish Book Awards... 

  http://learn.code.org/hoc/1 – here’s the link! One of our recent Scratch clubs with 2nd and 3rd classes focused on a tutorial, made for Computer Science Education Week (9th December – 15th December). It uses Blockly to introduce children to writing basic code. Blockly is quite similar to Scratch in many ways and the children adapted very quickly! We noticed that this tutorial was great for the children’s problem-solving skills, as they tested their code regularly and fixed it when it went wrong. It starts off at a very easy level and gets more challenging as it... 

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... 

2nd Class are so excited. Today they started Roots of Empathy. We had a pre-family visit. Next week Baby T will visit us for the first time. Today we sat on our green mat and practiced how to behave at the mat. We talked about the things that we think baby will do next week. We guessed how big he will be. We also voted on a name for our baby doll who will help us to learn. The doll’s name is Fia. Finally, we learned a welcome and goodbye song for when Baby T comes to visit. We can’t wait for next week and will tell you all about it then.   This is Baby Fia Hard at work on our mat   For...