St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Ms. Hyland’s boys were busy painting the summer months for our summer project. We picked nice, bright colours that remind us of summer. What is your favourite season?  

To celebrate National Spring Clean Week 2013  we went to pick up rubbish in the area around the school in order to help our area to be the cleanest it can be. It is so important to take care of our environment, and the boys in St. Peter’s love to do all they can to make our area neat and rubbish-free.  

Sixth class began their transfer programme with Michelle from School Completion on Monday morning. Over the next few weeks, Michelle is going to help the class to get ready for secondary school. This morning, we moved our boxes to the library  

  Sixth class were recently visited by Jacqui from YoungBiz. First we talked about the qualities that make an entrepreneur – like ‘self-starter’, ‘risk-taker’, ‘creative’, ‘problem-solver’, ‘smart’ and ‘persistent’.  

Well done to the boys who made a mini-business before Easter and sold some seasonal cards to the staff and parents of the school. The boys had to work with a budget to buy materials and had to create the designs for the cards. They showed great creativity and business sense! We think that they are destined for Dragon’s Den or the Apprentice!  

  Our boys in St. Peter’s have many interests. Lorcan (Ms. Hyland’s Class) has a particular love of animals. Recently he brought his beautiful dog Star to school. He is very proud of Star and brings her to lots of different dog shows. When Star goes to a show, Lorcan has to parade around the ring with her. It takes a lot of time and love to look after Star. We are very proud of Lorcan and thank him for teaching us so much about how to care for a show dog.  

We decided to ignore the snow and wind outside and make our corridor noticeboard come alive with Spring blooms and colour! We worked really hard to make it pretty. Ms. Flanagan helped us with the letters. We are proud of our work! -Ms. Brennan’s class    

A belated Happy Mothers’ Day to all the wonderful women who work in and support our school. Special thanks to our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters and godmothers who do so much for us everyday. Ms. Brennan’s class baked some ‘I love Mam’ cookies, what do you think of them?    

4th class took part in a Gaelic tournament in Loughlinstown against lots of other schools in January. Even though we didn’t win the tournament we had great fun doing the ‘Leon shuffle’ and celebrating Luke McKeever’s super goal. Our goalie Alan also received great compliments from other coaches watching the games. 4th Class also made Valentines cards for their mothers, grannies, sisters etc. in February (not to mention a few girlfriends but we won’t mention anyone’s names!) We used a mixture of colours, textures and designs to create our masterpieces and Andy impressed us all with his... 

6th Class recently re-created some very famous American landmarks in Art class. Have a look at what the boys have to say about their work – and click here to listen to them speaking about it! Dillon is holding the Statue of Liberty. It is in New York Harbour on Liberty Island and first opened in 1886. It was a gift from the French people to the United States. It is a model of the Roman goddess of Freedom who was called Libertas. She holds a torch and a tablet that has the American Declaration of Independence date on it (July 1776). The statue welcomed people as they came into America. We...