St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Here are the week’s Halloween headlines: Ms Brennan’s 2nd class gave a great round up of their Halloween songs and decorations here Mr Foley’s 4th class posted podcasts of their spooky stories here – listen if you daaare! Ms Sexton’s 5th class learned how to use GoAnimate and used it to create Halloween jokes here, here and here! Our ‘Wednesday for Parents’ post rounded up great ideas about what to do over the midterm – read all about it here The Student Council continue their great work – listen to their latest podcast here Speaking of... 

Next week, schools are closed for midterm! This week’s Wednesday for Parents focuses on ideas for entertainment, here in Bray, around County Wicklow and a few further afield. Some events may need to be booked early. In no particular order, our top recommendations are: Sealife! Sealife have a Scary Fish Festival on next week with zombie pirate trick or treating, design a ‘Frankenfish’ competition, facepainting and a pirate quiz trail! If you can, it’s well worth booking online as you can save up to €14 on family tickets. It’s €29 to book online for a family of... 

In 1978, St Peter’s beat Scoil Íosagáin in the final of the Millar Shield in Croke Park. Christopher O’Keefe is at the top left of the picture. He played in goals on the day and a huge thanks to his son Chris O’Keefe, who provided us with the photo and gave us permission to share it on the blog! Big thanks also to Ray Howard, who put Chris in contact with us. Ray played for Scoil Íosagáin and scored two goals on the day!  

Welcome to our second edition of the St Peter’s Post! As always, this post is a handy place to catch up on any news from the week that you may have missed during the week! This main headlines from this week were: This week was Maths Week 2013 and there were a number of events taking place, including a table quiz on Thursday. The quiz was thanks to Seomra Ranga and went down a storm! Congratulations to Team 14 –  John from 3rd, Alan from 4th, LukeMc from 5th and Eduard from 6th – who came top of the leaderboard. Blog post to follow on Monday, when the team members are presented... 

One of our most popular events every year is our 6th class project for the Primary Science Fair at the BT Young Scientist Exhibition. We love how much the students learn from it and the confidence they get from demonstrating experiments, explaining the Science and showing off their hard work! This year, we’re taking part in the Intel Mini-Scientist project as a way to involve other classes in the fun of displaying a science project. The exhibition will take place on Tuesday 3rd December at 10am and it promises to be an amazing day. 4th, 5th and 6th will display individual, paired or small... 

So, it’s been a busy week on the blog this week! If you missed anything, you’ve come to the right place! The headlines this week are: Second class began their Irish dancing classes in the hall – their video showing off their steps can be found here Third class received lots of compliments for their beautiful reading corner here Fourth class celebrated their fantastic attendance here Fifth and sixth created a post about their peace posters for Bray Lions Club here St Peter’s has a twitter account – you can find it here – plenty of photos and quotes from our... 

      Today in school, we had our first fire drill of the year. Although it was unexpected, all the students reacted immediately, leaving everything behind them. They left the building quickly and calmly and then lined up at the agreed meeting spot for the class teachers to do a headcount. Well done everyone! There are some really good websites with fantastic activities to help kids to learn about fire safety – even more important than usual coming up to Hallowe’en! In no particular order, here’s our top 5: http://www.firesafekid.org/kidszone – this one... 

At the moment, many of the classes are working on place value in Maths. Place value is an important topic because it leads into addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. If your child is having difficulty with the topic or would like a bit more practice, here are some excellent sites with activities to try out. Most of these activities are more suitable for the senior classes. 1. Ordering numbers -putting numbers in order from smallest to biggest 2. Notation boards – How many thousands, tens and units in a number? 3. Place value game – Up to 100 thousand 4. Words as numbers –... 

Every year, Culture Night takes place in late September. This year, it’s on the 20th of September – a Friday. It’s an amazing night where you can access venues and events around the country for free. Although all events are free, some may need to be booked in advance – which is why we’re drawing attention to them nice and early!