St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Fifth class learned how to use GoAnimate today. Here’s the first in a series of Halloween jokes that we made to practise using GoAnimate. This is by Andy and Ben!   Halloween Joke – Andy and Ben by stpetersbrayblog on GoAnimate  

This week for Maths Week, we decided to search for Maths in our environment. We based it on the ‘Have You Got Maths Eyes’ project – you can read more about it here. Most photos were taken outside of school on phones, tablets and cameras, while a few were taken in the yard. Andy even found a picture in the newspaper and cut it out. Take a look at our photos. Can you answer all of the questions? What kind of shape does the roof seem from this angle? What shape would it be if you were looking at it straight on? – Ben  

When others in our class go to Friday Fit Club we have a Project Club. We do art, crafts, poetry, computers and podcasting in this time. We get better at some of our favourite things. We decided to make a video showing our school Halloween decorations. We are good at Animoto and used it for our video.  Do you like our scary school? – Casey, Codie, Dylan, Dylan, Kayden, Dean T If you can’t see out video, please click here!!  

We’re so excited to show off what we have been doing with our MakeyMakey board. Have  a look to see what 2nd and 5th have invented – a human piano, a banana piano and a PacMan controller that works with the computer even though it is just made by pencil and paper. We love Science! Do you like our video? If you can’t see the video click here!  

Cross country is a running event that lots of different schools enter. Second class will be able to enter  next year,  but this year, eight people from each class entered it in teams. It was a tough competition for all the runners in Arklow. We had a good day. All the classes were having fun. Andy was the runner of the day. All the classes had class photos taken. We had a good time on the bus. Everyone was singing on the bus. A big thanks to Paddy and everyone who came along, including Ms Sexton and Ms Byrne. Everyone said we were on our best behaviour and we did our school proud.   By... 

2nd Class are learning about why it is important to wear your seatbelt. We are learning to put our seatbelts on because it is so dangerous being in a car without your belt on. We are seatbelt sheriffs and are reminding people to buckle up! Itis against the law to not have your seatbelt on. We have sheriff badges and it is our job is tell people to put on their seatbelt. Have a listen to our podcast to hear more! Find out more info here! by Codie, Caoilynn, Billy, Abbi, Kelsey [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/115436124″ width=”100%” height=”166″... 

“The boys in 3rd class are learning about telling the time in Maths this week. We are using our mini clocks to help us. Some of us found it a little tricky at the start but we are much better now. We are having great fun and even got to play the time game ‘What time is it Mr. Wolf’ on our interactive whiteboard! ”  – Chris and Lex    

Yesterday in St Peter’s, we had a visit from the dental nurse, Mary Byrne. She spoke to 3rd and 5th classes in the library about the importance of good dental hygiene..  

In September, we had the best attendance in the school for the month and we hope we keep it up. We managed to get 98.41% in for the month. In our classroom, we have a daily attendance chart. We get a “green” if we are all in or if only one boy is out. If two boys are out we get an “orange”. If three or more boys are out we get a “red”. So far this year we have got a green every day since we started. We are smashing last year’s score. They got 12 greens before their first orange. Today we got our 30th green with no oranges or reds at all. We’ve had... 

“In 3rd Class we have a new reading area in our classroom which includes a tent and soft mats to sit on. We love the tent and look forward to our reading time each day when we have an opportunity to read our library books” – Chris and John.