St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

4th class are learning all about Greece and we discovered that Greece was where the first Olympic Games was held. As a Stem challenge we decided to make our favourite Olympic Games and sports into table top challenges. Each group picked a sport and began designing and creating ways they could make that into a table top game. We were delighted with our results and loved giving 3rd class a chance to play! Take a look at our homemade Olympic Games:  

If you’re looking for the answer, Fourth Class can tell you! First, it is important to choose a lever and a fulcrum. We used a ruler (lever) and a pencil (fulcrum). In order to balance it we found its centre of gravity. We then tried balancing the lever using coins on either side. We found out that two of the same coins must be at the same distance on each end of the ruler in order for the lever to balance. Take a look at our results:  

With all the excitement of Christmas we thought we would do a festive experiment. Our questions –Which liquid will cause our candy cane to disappear the fastest? To conduct our experiment, we needed: 4 glasses, 4 candy canes, vinegar, warm water, milk and cold water. We labelled our 4 clear glasses and then filled them with warm water, cold water, milk and vinegar making sure to put the same amount of liquid in each glass. Then, we made predictions. The vast majority thought the warm water would melt the candy cane the quickest! We put one candy cane in each cup and watched to... 

6th class have had a great month celebrating Anti – Bullying month during November. It’s so important to celebrate this month in school in order to raise awareness about bullying and the many different forms it can take. As senior students in our school, we feel a responsibility to lead by example and make sure that our school is an open, welcoming and inclusive place to be. These golden rules contain some great advice and help us to identify and practise kind behaviour. Some of the activities we took part in included walking debates about bullying, identifying trusted... 

We had a great time investigating and discussing all things scientific this year! One of our favourite activities was when we linked our PE lesson with Science. We decided we would investigate our heart rates and the impact that certain exercises and activities have on our heart rate. How to take your heart rate To begin with, we discussed and took our ‘resting’ heart rates. This was a little bit tricky at first (some of us were worried we didn’t have any 😅) but after some perseverance we became comfortable calculating them. We did this by counting the... 

November has been Anti-Bullying month in St. Peter’s. Each week for the month Junior Infants have been engaging in activities to learn more about what bullying is and what we can do if we or someone we know is being bullied. We discussed and watched videos on different bullying scenarios and how people might feel in different situations. We talked about how as individuals we can achieve success but working together as a team and class we can be be even better.We added some team work skills into our lessons like Cross the Arctic in PE and created a colourful collage to show what we... 

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Junior Infants were very excited about Science Week. This week, along with STEM for Fun we got to explore magnets and how they work. Early in the week we explored magnetism. We talked about what magnets are and watched a short video on magnetism. We then investigated things that were magnetic by testing our magnets out around the school and yard outside. During Aistear we got to explore magnets and magnetic objects more. We used magnets to test items that might be magnetic and categorise items that were magnetic and non magnetic. Finally at the end of the week we looked at a... 

This week in 5th class, we has great fun doing lots of different experiments to celebrate science week! We have been learning all about the respiratory system and what happens to the body when we breathe. We completed a STEM activity and created our own model of the lungs to show how they work when we breathe! https://youtube.com/shorts/t1nGcD6ev28 We investigated pitch using glasses and some water. We wanted to find out how to make the highest and lowest sound we could. We placed all our glasses in a line. We used glasses of the same size and shape to make sure it was... 

We had great fun this week during Science week making a bubbly mess in class. The children created their potions in groups and watched as the bicarbonate of soda made the potion bubble higher and higher until one potion overflowed!!