2nd Class were delighted to welcome Baby Tristan on his first visit to St Peter’s. He was a brilliant teacher and we learned so much. We are looking forward to the next few months getting to know our great teacher. Thanks Tristan and Gwen!
Between preparations for the Mini-Scientist showcase (photos to follow) and Hallelujah Choir, not to mention our Christmas play, this week’s post is a little bit late!
This week is a tutorial on how to use Animoto! We discovered Animoto last June as a way to display our photos. The Animoto that made the most impact was the one on our Open Day.
Animoto can be used as a way for your child to present a project. It’s also a lovely way to display photos as a slideshow. It can be shared online by email or social media. Today we’ve a step-by-step way to set up an Animoto project. We hope you find it useful!
The photos I chose to work with are these ones from around the school. I usually copy and paste all the photos I want to use into a folder in ‘Pictures’ so that I can get to them easily, but you don’t need to.
2nd Class have done so well with their reading this term. They have read three books, all written by Roald Dahl! They have read The Magic Finger, The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me and Esio Trot.
Why not listen to our latest podcast about Esio Trot? We also think back and chat about all of the books!
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As you may know already, we’ve close links with South Dublin Library Service! You can read our post on Leon’s review for them here. We asked our friend @SummerBuzz if she had any good suggestions for books to make Polly feel more at home (especially because Polly was reading the ‘Frozen Planet’ book on Kia’s chair when we came in this morning).
Summer Buzz’s cousin, Winter Buzz, left us a Voki with a suggestion! Thanks Summer Buzz and Winter Buzz! It’s so cool that we can interact with different groups, organisations and even bees through all our technology in St Peter’s!
P.S. Check out Polly’s new jumper! Thanks Abi and Molly for making it for her!
This year the #eddies13 (EduBlog Awards) are 10 years old. The awards reward educators, students, teachers and educational communities who reach out to inform, include and inspire others. We were absolutely delighted when three of our favourite blogs, www.anseo.net, www.seomraranga.com and www.merrybeau.edublogs.org nominated us for our blogging and podcasting work, and we only felt it appropriate that we give back by nominating those sites that have helped us in the past 11 months on our blogging road. We hope that it reflects the help and guidance we have received from those below, and please be assured that there were many, many others all worthy of a nomination… you know who you are!
The process for nominating is available at edublogawards.com, after which there is a voting process and finally, an awards ceremony.
We hope you enjoy our nominations and you might be inspired to read the incredible work of those linked below!
By Ms Sexton and Ms Brennan
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! The countdown has officially begun and we’re all getting very excited.
Here’s a taster of what’s been going on in St. Peter’s in the week’s headlines:
In other news this week: (more…)
This week in St Peter’s, 2nd class have had lots of excitement with the adventures of Polly the Polar Bear. You should definitely check out the video all about her arrival here. For anyone who missed it on Twitter, here’s a short recap of Polly’s adventures this week!
Tonight is a magical night for every child in the country, because The Toy Show is on! Today some of the boys and girls in St. Peter’s shared their memories of The Toy Show. Why not listen to what they had to say! Have a wonderful Toy Show night!
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2nd Class have gotten off to a fun, active and healthy start in Term 1. Their activities have ranged from weekly Irish Dancing lessons, GAA and football training, weekly relay running and general games and athletics work. On top of all of this they have been eating fruit and veg every day with their Food Dudes planners getting regularly updated! They are example to us all. Check out their fancy footwork and dainty dancing so far this term!
PE in 2nd Class from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.
4th, 5th and 6th are working really hard on their projects and we can’t wait to see the finished results!
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s Junior Infants, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s Senior Infants, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 1st class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 2nd class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 3rd class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 4th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 5th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 6th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by Ms Kane’s class, click here.
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We were the Scoilnet Star Site for December 2013!
