St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We are thrilled to announce that our new sensory room is complete! The room was built with the generous grant St. Peter’s received from Salesforce.org. Each of the children have now had the opportunity to explore the room and they all agree it really is magic! The room has many wonderful elements including a bubble tube, a trampoline, a slide, and a ball pool.  It was so fantastic seeing the children’s eyes sparkle and their happy faces when they experienced the room for the first time. We truly are very lucky. Thanks again Salesforce.org!    

We have just received some very exciting news! St. Peter’s has become the first school in Ireland to receive funding under Salesforce.org’s Circle the Schools programme. Under the scheme – originally developed in the US – St. Peter’s will receive $100,000 (€92,000) grant to upgrade it’s digital literacy, special educational needs and STEM teaching capabilities. A portion of the grant will go towards the creation of a new computer room with state of the art technology and also towards the creation of a multi-sensory room. This room will allow students a place... 

The New Year got off to a flying start in St. Peter’s Primary School! Festina Lente came to visit with beautiful miniature horses. The junior classes were allowed to pet them and they asked lots of questions on how to look after them. The new Board of Management met in early January and discussed all of the important issues relating to the school. Sixth class took part in the Primary Science Fair which runs in conjunction with the BT Young Scientist. They created and programmed a talking robot called OBOT. They had a great time in the RDS and really impressed all of the visitors to their stand.... 

Check out the pictures from our photo shoot to promote the 2015 Junior Spiders competition! We can’t wait to enter again this year… more to come on that one!  

The St. Peter’s Primary Student Council ran a very successful Crazy Sock Day on November 28th. This was a fundraising effort that the Student Council wanted to hold in the run up to Christmas. We wanted our students to help those in need in Christmas. We ran the Crazy Sock Day by asking everyone to wear in socks into school that were big, colourful, funny and even homemade!  Everyone who took part donated a euro from their pocket money, with all money going to Concern. It was a great day. People arrived in with all sorts of socks! Even the teachers got involved. Have a look at all of our... 

Last Wednesday, the St. Peter’s Primary Student Council had a very, very important meeting. We decided early in the year that we wanted to run a meaningful fundraiser before Christmas. We have decided to help those in need this Christmas, and also to have a little fun when doing so! We have decided to do these things: 1. Run a fun, Crazy Sock Day where all staff and students will wear CRAZY socks to school. Everyone will be asked to kindly give €1 to charity! We will then use the money to buy Concern Gifts for people in need! Here are Aoife and John telling everyone about it as they made... 

Recently we were delighted to receive a new set of books for each class from 1st to 6th as part of a competition run by Prim-Ed Publishing. Read the release for Prim-Ed below…   St. Peter’s Primary School wins New Wave English in practice workbooks for the entire school. Recently, Prim-Ed Publishing ran an online competition that offered the chance to win workbooks for an entire school.The competition was open to Principals, teachers, parents and pupils and all were invited to submit a review of one of Prim-Ed’s workbooks. The winner, Patrick Kinsella, a teacher at St Peter’s... 

Welcome to this week’s ‘Wednesday for Parents’! As you may know, one of our success stories last week was our involvement in Mathletes, well documented here. Mathletes is a free tournament that aims to change the teaching and learning of Maths in Ireland. It’s an online and in-person competition that uses Khan Academy as a tool to improve the student’s maths skills and knowledge. Today’s ‘Wednesday for Parents’ is all about how you can use Khan Academy as a parent to improve your child’s Maths skills. So, what is Khan Academy? Khan Academy... 

Congratulations to our new Student Council for the new term! They have a very important job to represent our students and make sure they do all that they can to make St. Peter’s be as nice a place as possible for their fellow students. They will come up with lots of ideas to run events, represent their classmates at meetings and also help us to fundraise for charity at Christmas time! Here are the new members of the Council! 1. 1st Class: Adem Standage and Jack Roche 2. 2nd Class: Ava Byrne and Jerry Wall 3. 3rd Class: Brooke Carey and Jamie Hipwell 4. 4th Class: John O’Brien and Aoife... 

Can you believe it?! We are so close to our 2,000th comment on the blog! We’re only blogging a year and a half and we’ve had so many wonderful, amazing, supportive comments from our pupils, school community and other schools! Well done everyone! To celebrate, we’re running a little competition on the blog. We’d love to see the 2,000th comment come in the next few weeks. The 2,000th comment will win a €15 book token! Nobody knows JUST how close we are to it, and we won’t tell you either! It’s all part of the competition! So get commenting, one and all! Let’s...