St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

5th class are currently getting ukulele lessons of the ukulele master that is Frankie! We are loving our Wednesday morning lessons with him!! We will be doing a concert for the school at  the end of the month to show the boys and girls what we have learnt.

ukulele

Too precious for life on Earth Jodie. Heaven is now your playground. We hope you liked the balloons and smiles that we sent to you. Thinking of you today and always xxx

We were learning all about Patterns this week, so we decided to brighten up our yard with some colourful chalk drawings #SeniorInfants

On October 3rd our St Peter’s runners had a great time competing at the cross-country event in Avondale.

Everyone ran well and behaved excellently!

Thanks to Paddy for training and preparing us all so well!

Smiles all around for their first day in Senior Infants last month.

We started learning about Autumn in September, we all put on our hi-visabilty jackets and off we went for a walk around the green. The children saw the changing colours of the trees, we found conkers, acorns and many more items. The children are really enjoying learning about Autumn, we are are learning about hedgehogs, hibernation and bears this week.

For the whole month of September the girls and boys in Senior Infants were all working hard cooking and baking in our restaurant. In our role play area the children got the chance to become waiters, chefs waitresses and customers. Here are a few pictures of the students enjoying our restaurant. In our construction area the children built restaurants. In our fine motor skills area the children make cakes for our restaurant using straws. In our art section we created Gingerbread men and we read books about food in the library.

Hello from Mrs. Reilly's #4thClass! We are so excited for the year ahead! We've had a great week settling into our new class. #backtoschool

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 1, 2017

Welcome back to school every one! We’re thrilled to be starting the year together again.

Ready to ROCK #4thClass! We're one happy, hardworking team! Here is to a great year off to a brilliant start! #classspirit pic.twitter.com/Y2cXrAsOxf

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 13, 2017

We took our class photos in #4thClass! We're a great team! #classspirit pic.twitter.com/uy7olcoik2

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 13, 2017

Meet #4thClass! pic.twitter.com/eU37bAEmKy

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 12, 2017

Inspired by our movie of the summer.. #4thClass are 'one in a minion' this year! pic.twitter.com/nUw8BVSy4E

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 12, 2017

We celebrated Roald Dahl Day together.

Happy #RoaldDahlDay! We are celebrating our favourite author today! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/ruSLueYNiX

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 13, 2017

We were so excited to start our Twitter and blogging adventure in 4th Class. We started the year with a good look at internet safety.

Once everyone has permission to be on twitter we will be sharing our day with you all. We love school! #4thClass

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 1, 2017

We just completed a survey all about our use of the internet and what we understand about Internet Safety! #4thClass

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 6, 2017

Our first visitor to #4thClass! Cliona from @CyberSafeIE is with us to continue our work on Internet Safety! pic.twitter.com/uUFlHncbvl

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 12, 2017

We are exploring particular apps, and how we need to be safe online. We need to start conversations about Internet Safety at home. #4thClass

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 12, 2017

Our golden rules for Internet Safety! We tweet safely every day. #4thClass pic.twitter.com/FHdWkXkUZU

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 12, 2017

We are enjoying a dodgeball tournament this month, and we’re back running every Friday.

It's all go in #4thClass PE! We've started a dodgeball tournament! We're in 5 teams. pic.twitter.com/ep43IuS1YI

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 13, 2017

Friday is our running day! Look at our fast video! Benjamin helped to tweet this! #4thClass https://t.co/JgIAN8S6Uz

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 15, 2017

We’re working on our writing and reading strategies.

Our genre work has started. We are reading lots of recount samples. Our strategies are recalling and summarising! #4thClass

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 6, 2017

We read lots of lots of recount writing so that we can get familiar with it. This is the first step in our writing workshop! #4thClass

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 6, 2017

We started the ClassDojo empathy series.

We have begun our unit of work on the @ClassDojo Empathy series. We are putting ourselves into the shoes of others! 👞 #4thClass pic.twitter.com/totjv6OpSH

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 15, 2017

We are really enjoying our literacy games!

For now, here is a little collage of us enjoying our brand new literacy games for our Friday Fun Stations! See you all next week! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/71oFT5RMa2

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 1, 2017

Our Guided Reading sessions are going well too!

Reading workshop and guided reading in action in #4thClass. We are divided up into teams and work on different skills! #literacy pic.twitter.com/gwckuoCmhc

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 19, 2017

We’re also doing great work in Maths.

Good morning everyone! We are very busy in #4thClass. We have started our Maths morning routine. Maths games, tables, Maths circle time…

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 4, 2017

… Mental Maths and Maths problems! We are also working on Place Value! #4thClass!

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 4, 2017

We started our Go Noodle brain breaks too.

Starting our #4thClass @GoNoodle adventure! #activeschools pic.twitter.com/JOjkFMi9gr

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 5, 2017

And we’re reading the best book ever!

Reading a @roald_dahl classic! We've started our comprehension strategy work, we're working on our predictions! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/ZcgP6K9KA1

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 5, 2017

Our reading workshop time is our happiest time! We are predicting and making connections! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/ugmY3xNTfl

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 6, 2017

We set our attendance goals for the year!

We had assembly. We set our goals for the year! We want to have our best school attendance yet! Check out our Class league. #4thClass pic.twitter.com/4iFQp3WSfi

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 8, 2017

We also started our Friday tests.

We did our first set of Friday tests. We're working hard. We received lots of @ClassDojo points too! We changed our monsters. #4thClass

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 8, 2017

We LOVE Art class in 4th Class.

We used our visualiser to help us to focus on our facial features when we were drawing our self portraits! #4thClass #STEAM pic.twitter.com/QJHdSzUCsA

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 8, 2017

Autumnal art in #4thClass pic.twitter.com/pXPxViESti

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 19, 2017

Never wait until Friday for Art! Celebrate your creativity in school EVERY day! Today we made pinch and coil clay pots! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/TQ8ZPRMe6H

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 25, 2017

All of this work meant that we deserved some golden play time!

The Friday Golden Time challenges have begun! R reckons he can beat Mrs R in Jenga EVERY week! So far he is 2-0 up! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/Gsg5c1Fo90

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 8, 2017

We’re hard at work on our SAlfies.

Good morning! We're working on our SAlfies. We are making our Reading goals for the year ahead! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/E07H6jHCfe

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 11, 2017

We have started our end of month assessments. We are self assessing and doing some work to see what we can improve on in October! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/KGzGzeGHHt

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 25, 2017

Our library corner is growing all the time.

New @Gill_Books for our #4thClass library! We LOVE reading! #classspirit pic.twitter.com/u25OKXeWWk

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 25, 2017

We have started looking at local history too.

It was an afternoon of local history as we explored the history of our school! We began sketches of the old and new buildings. #4thClass pic.twitter.com/bT48nx0TZ6

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 26, 2017

And our meditation and mindfulness sessions are so popular.

Total calm and mindfulness in the room as we take a brain break between lessons. Thank you @GoNoodle! #4thClass https://t.co/gdnGsFj1Qv

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 26, 2017

Finding a moment of calm, being present in the ‘now’ and avoiding the maze like Mojo in @ClassDojo! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/q7IB3A7B0A

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 26, 2017

Phew! We’re off to a busy start! See you soon for another update!

From 4th Class.

In Senior Infants, we’re very proud of our two Green Schools reps – Aaron and Joey!

Lately, we’ve been learning all about litter and the importance of keeping our environment clean. We went on a walk to see if we could find litter in our local area and members of our class have been helping Ms Ward and the Green Schools team to do litter picking. We also designed posters to encourage our school community not to litter. Here are some photos of our activities!

Here are our posters!

Singing Club 2017 from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.

Congratulations to our fantastic singing club who created this music video recently. Keep an eye out for our special guest, Adam Nolan! Thanks to Paddy for directing our video and for our lovely end-of-year party!