St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

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!

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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 with their prizes!
• This week saw the first cross-country event of the year in Arklow – well done to all who took part! You can read all about it here. Also, congratulations to the boys from 5th class for putting together such a great write-up of the day.
• 2nd class became Seatbelt Sheriffs this week. What does that mean? Check it out here ! (more…)

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When others in our class go to Friday Fit Club we have a Project Club. We do art, crafts, poetry, computers and podcasting in this time. We get better at some of our favourite things. We decided to make a video showing our school Halloween decorations. We are good at Animoto and used it for our video.  Do you like our scary school?

– Casey, Codie, Dylan, Dylan, Kayden, Dean T

If you can’t see out video, please click here!!

We’re so excited to show off what we have been doing with our MakeyMakey board. Have  a look to see what 2nd and 5th have invented – a human piano, a banana piano and a PacMan controller that works with the computer even though it is just made by pencil and paper. We love Science! Do you like our video?

If you can’t see the video click here!

Want to know everything about Ireland, and in six minutes? Check out this amazing video!

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 group projects at the exhibition and judges from Intel will come out and ask them questions about their project. More details will follow as we move along – plenty of blog posts, I promise! – but for the time being, today’s ‘Wednesday for Parents’ deals with the initial dilemma of ‘what will I do for my Mini-Scientist project?’ (more…)

Cross country is a running event that lots of different schools enter.

Second class will be able to enter  next year,  but this year, eight people from each class entered it in teams.

It was a tough competition for all the runners in Arklow.

We had a good day. All the classes were having fun.

Andy was the runner of the day.

All the classes had class photos taken. We had a good time on the bus. Everyone was singing on the bus.

A big thanks to Paddy and everyone who came along, including Ms Sexton and Ms Byrne.

Everyone said we were on our best behaviour and we did our school proud.

By Oisín, Aaron G, Davy, Andy and Ryan (5th class)

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Thanks to everyone who helped out at the recent Open Day! Thanks to the parents (and kids) who helped to set up and then provided tea. coffee and refreshments for the day. Thanks to the Parents Council who put in so much effort to help to organise the day.

Thanks to all the parents and students who delivered the leaflets to homes and local businesses.

Thanks to all the people who sourced prizes for our raffle. A special thanks to all the local businesses who helped out with refreshments and prizes:

• Costcutters, Bray
• Tesco Express, Shankill
• Dunnes Stores, Bray
• Get Fresh, Bray
• Centra, Bray

Thanks to everyone who took part in the day, to the students for their performances and for working so hard in the weeks coming up to it and to the teachers for preparing them! A special thanks to Ms Whyte for all her hard work to show off St Peter’s as the wonderful school it is. Congratulations on the success of the day – we look forward seeing you at the next event! If you missed the post with all the photos from the day, you can find it here.

We are all so excited about the arrival of our new MaKey MaKey board to St. Peter’s. MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century that turns everyday objects into touchpads when you combine them with the internet. It’s a simple Invention Kit for Beginners and Experts doing art, engineering, and everything inbetween! We love our one and we all spent today trying it out.

Why not check out the MaKey MaKey video above to give you an idea about how it works and we’ll show you what we made tomorrow!