During Engineer’s Week 2015, third class had a visit from Joe, a Civil Engineer from Dublin City Council. Joe showed us pictures of a water treatment plant. We thought this was really interesting, so, for Discovering Science 2015, we decided to filter some dirty, grassy water of our own! We filtered water in two ways! Have a look at Kelsey, Dominick, Caoilynn and Dylan watering how well Caoilynn can filter the water using her hand – her face tells a story of its own! Kelsey and Dylan then watched how the water would filter as it passed through a thick J-cloth! Brooke, Kia and Ryan...
11 May
As part of their study into materials, 2nd class have been designing and making ponchos! We’ve been examining the properties of materials recently and last week we discussed the meaning of the word ‘best’ when talking about products. What does ‘best’ mean? 2nd class are brainstorming as part of their #ponchopopup project #designandmake — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 8, 2015 We decided that ‘best’ has different meanings depending on the context. Check out some of the meanings ‘best’ can have in our Vine. One of the...
5 May
Phew! 6th Class are still recovering from a hectic #artweek15 and #TechWeekIrl! Check out just some of our tweets from last week’s events! What an amazing week #6thClass had celebrating #techweekirl! Watch our highlights video! #edchatie http://t.co/pTJwfblh0a #animoto — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 1, 2015 We’ve made a #techweekirl @GetKahoot Quiz in #6thClass! Do it with us! The pin is 1279. Go to kahoot.it pic.twitter.com/sWkXG5PMTz — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 1, 2015 Well done to our students of the week (Jade and Leon) for putting...
29 Jan
Hello people of the internet! In Fourth Class we have been doing our Write a Book project recently. First we had to plan out the plot. Then we had to write it out chapter by chapter. We did six chapters each. After each chapter was written we passed out the copies and everybody got to read a random story. We wrote a comment on each story. When we had it finished we typed it out. We also illustrated two pictures for inside the story and the front cover. We have also been doing long multiplication and division. We’re just finishing division now. We have been playing Maths games to see if we...
19 Jan
Last Friday week (9/1/15) 6th Class took their RDS Primary Science Fair project to the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. We had an amazing day, and tweeted throughout! Care to catch up on the day that was? Have a read! We're on the bus! Great excitement on the 145! @TheRDS Primary Science Fair here we come! #HawkPi #6thClass #BTYSTE #schoolspirit — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 9, 2015 Our stand! @TheRDS Primary Science Fair! #BTYSTE pic.twitter.com/WoAUm2Hti3 — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 9, 2015 Ois showing some of the crew...
6 Nov
We got brilliant news last week. 6th Class found out that they have been accepted to participate in the RDS Primary Science Fair in January of next year! 6th Class are absolutely thrilled to say that we’ve been accepted into the RDS Primary Science Fair at the @BTYSTE! Roll on January! — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 3, 2014 This is a great honour for our school, and we hope to continue on a wonderful tradition of participation in the Primary Science Fair. This is our @BTYSTE RDS Primary Science Fair project title! #STEM #edchatie #scienceweek14 pic.twitter.com/Ilo3K8JHOC...
16 May
Welcome to our submission for the Discover Primary Science and Maths award for 2014. As you know, Maths and Science are really important to us here in St Peter’s. There are a number of criteria that needs to be fulfilled when applying for the award. We’re using our blog to submit our award and to link back to our activities during the year. Our AoSME number is WW007. Step 1: Greenwave -read all about our work about weather and about recording the signs of Spring here. Step 2: Prescribed activities – Ms Mitchell’s class learned about 2nd class worked on the Materials strand...
1 May
This week, we’re integrating our usual work (along with other exciting events) with Tech Week Ireland and with Digital Art Week. One way that 5th class have taken part in both events was to experiment with SketchUp. SketchUp has a bit of a history in St Peter’s. In 2009, 6th class at the time were declared the Senior Engineering Class of Ireland. In the lead up to the finals, they presented a project at the BT Young Scientist Primary Science Fair (and won the top prize on the day with two other schools!). The class were looking out for ways to develop their project and Leon (Kelsey...
28 Apr
Daft Punk – Technologic from Anastasia Bandrina on Vimeo. Welcome back everyone! We can’t wait for Term 3 to start. We have so many exciting things on the cards – and this week will be hard to beat! We’re starting off Term 3 with Tech Week 2014. It is a celebration of the opportunities that technology brings into our lives, as it inspires and encourages us in our learning and daily work. The aim of Tech Week is to highlight how important technology is to us, as we work creatively in school and at home! We can’t imagine life in St. Peter’s without the internet,...
8 Apr
A couple of weeks ago, we were thrilled and excited to get news that we’d won a prize from STEPS for our work during Engineer’s Week. Sam, AaronG, LukeOB and Davy from 5th class had seen Scientific Sue in action at the Intel Regional Finals of the Mini-Scientist and they raised the excitement levels by telling everyone how cool her show was! You can check out her website here – we highly recommend her show! One of the coolest things about the prize was that we were allowed to invite other schools to join in the fun. The first session of the day was at 9.45.
