St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We were delighted to welcome in our new Junior Infants this year who have settled in really well. Despite being unable to have our traditional open day in June we are delighted with how well everyone has adapted to their new surroundings. Every morning we start the day with circle time and our welcome song. We are busy “working” every day with free play and Aistear. The topic this month is homes, where we are learning all about different houses, rooms and families. We also try to fit in some fun physical activities in the hall or in the yard outside while the weather... 

2nd class were so excited to return to school! they have created some fantastic art work by drawing self-portraits, designing their own masks and writing about their goals for this year! 2nd really enjoyed practising their cursive handwriting using whiteboards, writing with pencil and markers! We created symmetrical names which turned out to be our very own name monsters. We also are trying to enjoy the September sunshine by getting outside for our SESE! Working in pairs we had to search for things in our yard that stimulated our senses.  

The new senior infants have settled in very well to their new classroom this week. School is a little bit different this year as we are all trying our very best to prevent the spread of COVID19. We are using hand sanitizer everyday, trying our best to keep apart from our friends, following the arrows on the floor and our teachers are wearing masks all the time. (There are big smiles behind the masks!) We talked all about how we can keep our distance from children who are not in our group 👩🏼‍🏫👨🏾‍🏫. We got some new... 

Welcome back to the new school year! This month, we’re starting with 6th class, who are showcasing some of the work they’ve been doing in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) so far. We started by reminding ourselves of some of the great work we did with Ms Kane last year in 5th class! We read ‘Rosie Revere, Engineer’ which talks about the importance of perservering and we discussed how a setback shouldn’t stop us from trying again. Our first STEM challenge of the year seemed easy! In our pairs within our pods, we had to build a tower...