St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

As we arrive at the end of June, we start looking back over the year so far. This has been an extremely busy year in St Peter’s! Aside from our annual Christmas play, Discover Primary Science work and various sporting events, we had Mr Vance’s tea party, Film Club’s tribute to Mr Curran, the jungle themed artwork and Roots of Empathy for 2nd class. And that’s only to mention a few! What was your favourite memory of 2012-2013?  

Here are a few photos of the fantastic work that was done by the boys and girls of Hollyoaks Montessori. The Montessori has been in the school for over sixteen years and we are delighted that they are going to remain here as part of our new school development. Susan and Gretta have worked very hard all year and took great pride in watching their little students graduate yesterday. A special thanks also to Susan for helping us to prepare for our end of year celebration on Tuesday.    

Thank you to everyone who supported our recent Sponsored Walk. We walked to Shanganagh Park and back and every class had a wonderful time. We even got a little sunshine and had a lovely picnic! It was a great success and we managed to raise €1,120. This money will go towards buying equipment for use in the school. We are so grateful for each and every donation and we’d like to thank our parents and families for being a constant source of support when we run fundraising events. Please have a look at the pictures of the day – can you spot anyone you know?              

As many of you are aware, Mr Curran is retiring next week. To mark the occasion, we organised a number of events. Yesterday, we had a jam-packed afternoon of celebrations for Mr Curran. During the afternoon, we presented the ‘Mr Curran award for handwriting’. Each student handed up a sample of their handwriting. Mr Curran chose a winner for each class (these will be announced at prizegiving next week) and then chose Senior and Junior overall winners. The Senior Winner for 2013 was Luke Kelly from 6th class. Luke has beautiful handwriting – Ms Sexton has often wished that she... 

3rd Class have been really busy throughout the year. Here they are, in front of some of the poems they have written. Can you recognise the smiling faces? The adorable cheeky chappies from 3rd Class! Here are some marvellous examples of our procedural writing! We had to create our own medicine recipes and describe how we would make them. We loved creating our own versions of George’s Marvellous Medicine!  

Our Cup Final Match Report By Archie & Johnny After all the tension between Spain and Germanys match, it led to PENALTIES. Oh yes, it was time for penalties!  St. Peters Mini World Cup 2013 had gone to the wire. All the teams taking part were eager to see who would receive the gold. The tension was rising. 64 players were watching by their countries side hoping for a good win. It was 21 degrees on Friday and sweat was dripping from our wet faces. It was up to Jake to score one goal to put Spain in the lead. It all worked out, Jake shot the ball through the air and slipped past Juniors fingers... 

Yesterday saw the annual Wicklow Sports Day organised by Cumann na mBunscoil in Charlesland, Greystones. Twenty-one students from St Peter’s represented their school in a variety of events, from sprints to field events, such as the ball throw and the long jump. The sun shone all day and the boys found shade at one stage of the afternoon under our gigantic school banner! The boys all performed really well on the day and were great representatives of the school in their behaviour and their sportsmanship. Adam from 6th won first place in the ball throw with a fantastic third attempt, catching... 

Last Friday was the annual St. Peter’s School Sports Day. Thankfully the rain held off and the day was another great success, with great support from parents during every event. Ms. Whyte, Ms. Flanagan and Conor cooking up a feast at the BBQ! Highlights of the day included each class taking on the teachers in games of Bulldog, with Tautvydas showing the rest of the school exactly how the high jump is done! The multi-sports in the afternoon was great fun, with the boys playing hurling,  

                  We will have our annual school Sports Day this Friday (May 31st) in school. We’re all really looking forward to it! Paddy has put together a timetable for the day and it is pasted below,  so do have a look before Friday to know what activities we have in store! All we need now is for the sun to shine to make it a perfect day! What event are you most looking forward to participating in on Friday? ******* Sports day timetable 10:00 High Jump 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th class. 10:30 Bulldog 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th class. 11:00 Small... 

                              This year, the Bray Lions Club is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with the theme of ‘Past, Present and Future’. To celebrate the present, they planned the ‘Better Bray Challenge’. The Lions Club do great work in our area and we were delighted to play our part in their community project this year, as we all work to make Bray a better place to live, work and play. Our goal in St. Peter’s was to keep the area outside of our school grounds cleaner. We planned to do...