St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

4th Class have been exploring, experimenting and questioning themselves all about sound.  We began by brainstorming the word ‘sound’. Ideas were flowing from pitch, to how it travels, to music and instruments all the way to vibrations. The ukulele was also mentioned as we are learning the instrument, at the moment. Hence, came the idea to make music, so we put our minds to it and made our version of a guitar. Plastic containers, elastic bands, glass and water. We tested the plastic containers with the elastic bands…..straightaway the kids were making music. The sound being created by the... 

We measured using metre strips for accuracy around the windy track. In total the length of the rollercoaster was 3 metres and 28 cm.  It took the ball between 30 and 40 seconds to reach the bottom once released. We had great fun with this!  

3rd class recycled rolercoaster Made using only recycled materials. This rollercoaster has been a working progress over the past month. The children faced many challenges in this construction.  Measuring lengths and widths of tracks and also experimenting with different heights to ensure the ball would have enough momentum to make its way down to the bottom. We found that using skewers for support was important.  We also had lots of problem solving in areas where the ball was stopping or falling off the track. Estimation of the track length  

Hi everyone! 5th Class here, and we’re going to tell you all about how we celebrated Engineers Week 2017. Firstly, we explored the work of engineers. We had a special project to complete on the interactive board in school! We also looked at this wordle challenge completed by some of our brothers and sisters a couple of years ago. We’ve started #engweek17! We built a word wall, looked at the work of engineers and we prepared for our afternoon challenge! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/8kgipCJ35I — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 6, 2017 For Engineers Week this year we: Completed... 

5th Class have been really busy since the last time we gave you an update on what we were up to! A month ago we marked International Women’s Day by recording a podcast about inspirational women who we look up to. We have recorded a podcast for #IWD2017! #5thClass — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 8, 2017 #5thClass celebrated International Women’s Day with a podcast! #edchatie #IWD2017 #internationalwomensday https://t.co/MuWBIPOesF @audioBoom — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 8, 2017 Cause I Like It! Sharing our #IWD2017 message for all to hear!... 

St. Peter’s had a day to remember last Wednesday when our girls team won Division 3 of the Wicklow Times Shield. On a day of very poor weather conditions, they battled through to top a tough group that included Templerainney, Greystones Educate Together and Gaelscoil Chill Mhantàin. The girls fought back from 5-2 down to force a draw against a great Templerainney side thanks to scores from midfield pair Bridget Cox and Lauren Cheevers. The game finished 5-5. It was a different story in the second match against Greystones Educate Together as we lead 4-1 but scraped a 4-3 victory in the end... 

On Tuesday students from 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class took part in a 3 kilometer run at Avondale house.  Here is some of the action. 3rd class united!!! 6th class strike a pose!!! No nerves on the start line So many taking part   Adem leading the charge for 3rd class Thomas taking it all in his stride 🙂 Craig and Josh are staying ahead of the competition 🙂 Dylan enjoyed his first athletics outing. For sure, this will not be his last 🙂 Jack and Codie catch the rest napping and sneak around the outside Well done to all who took part.  We are all so proud of you 🙂  

Our task for Monday was to design and create a marble maze using a variety of materials.  Here are some of our creations. ‘Feed me’……..created by Liam The aim is to get the Malteaser into it’s mouth. Not as easy as it sounds. Summer has cleverly added in a riddle for the player to solve before progressing through her puzzle. The route is clearly mapped out for the user to save any confusion. Karl has used the idea of a football pitch. He has some very tricky holes in the pitch for the player to navigate with the marble.  Here he is encountering a problem with his... 

The Green Schools Committee have been hard at work in picking litter each week.  We have noticed a distinctive decrease in the amount of litter which has been collected.  We have been allowing enthusiastic non-members to join our litter picks in preparation for the National Spring Clean which will be happening in Early April. Litter beware!!! Our worst blackspot 🙁 Taking our litter picking to the next level 🙂 We are very excited to be welcoming a visitor to the school later this month.  We will be learning all about composting and how we can use this as a way of decreasing the amount... 

We’ve been very busy in 5th Class for the last while – here’s what we’ve been up to! We have some new friends in our classroom! We got a fish tank and got help from our friends at Bray Sea Life to set it up! Aisling and Pauline from @braysealife are teaching us so much! We are excited to get our tank set up! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/g4xlGfpQhB — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 28, 2017 So proud to have our @braysealife tank installed in #5thClass! pic.twitter.com/wCXpod5uqv — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 28, 2017 We had great...