St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Our school garden is a project we undertook as part of our Discover Primary Science and Maths project, and our sustainability project a number of years ago that has continued to be popular with pupils and classes.  Our landscaping skills have been put to to the test in planning and maintaining the garden and have even had parents in to help with plants and ideas. Being adjacent to our infants yard, both junior and senior infants are constantly on patrol for guests who have escaped from our bug motel, ensuring they are returned to their rooms uninhibited. It is often with delight... 

Having taken a look at our school garden we agreed that it needed some love and attention.  We decided this was a project to work on in the school as part of both our Discover Primary Science and Maths project, and our sustainability project.  In 6th class we all drew our own pictures and wrote short descriptive pieces of writing about how our garden currently is.  We then put our landscaping skills to the test in planning how we would like our school garden to be.  We also did some video interviews on yard at break time with children from other classes to get some of their ideas.  We discussed... 

The whole school took part in our Green Schools Action Day on Friday the 10th of November.  We dressed in Green and all classes took part in lessons and activities around the theme of litter and waste.  We also focused on our school garden and we looked at improving this area. Junior Infants created a town called Juniorville using recyclable materials they gathered from home. Senior Infants gathered recyclable materials, sorted and classified them before creating their own junk art inventions. 1st class planted some seeds for our school garden.  These included peas, brocolli and rocket which... 

  We would like to say a huge thanks to everybody in all classes who volunteer to pick litter on the yard during break and lunch time.  Thanks to these efforts, there is seldom a scrap of litter floating about.  It is getting more and more difficult to find litter to pick:) This September we began keeping a school garden.  With help from Stephen we prepared our raised beds.  He helped us sow some strawberries. Our potatoes and strawberries in the raised beds. We throw our weeds into the compost bin. We were told to keep some green mixed in with our fruit. We look forward to adding more... 

In St Peter’s, we try to use real life examples for work on reading comprehension skills. This includes newspaper articles, websites, recipes and instruction manuals. Last week, in 5th class, Ms Sexton gave each group of four in the class a kit with flower bulbs, soil and flowerpots. We had to follow the instructions carefully – different bulbs needed to stick out of the soil at different heights. We also had to place them in a cold, dark place for the first few weeks. After a lot of brainstorming, Ryan suggested Les’s room. We have to remember to water them every week. Here’s...