St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Today is Safer Internet Day!

Here in St Peter’s, we’re very conscious of Internet Safety. While it’s important to have general rules to prevent cyberbullying and to protect ourselves online, it’s even more important to develop skills and attitudes to help us to respond to any situation.

On the blog, we’ve covered Internet Safety for ‘Wednesday for Parents’ twice. This is an idea of what we recommend! This post was the first ‘Wednesday for Parents’ of 2014 and suggested Digital Resolutions to improve Internet Safety for families.
Today, to mark Safer Internet Day, some of the younger classes watched videos to teach us about Internet Safety. Older classes watched the coverage of Safer Internet Day on news2day here.

6th Class also explored Webwise, particularly these lessons from the ‘My Selfie’ resources to help us learn about internet safety.

We tweeted out tips for Safer Internet Day!

We are looking at the brilliant MySelfie videos from @Webwise_Ireland. Sharing photos online had consequences for all. #SID2016

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 9, 2016

RESPECT. Consequences. Actions. Intimidation. Isolation. All words we have explored in relation to cyber bullying today. #6thClass #SID2016

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 9, 2016

Remember – the Internet is NOT at fault. Bad behaviour is the root of the problem. OWN your behaviour online. #SID2016

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 9, 2016

Learn to take a screen shot on your device here https://t.co/G5al6DApBU#SID2016

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 9, 2016

We also now all know the Safer Internet Day Rap, ‘Cause I Like it!’ Watch it here!

Anti-Cyber Bullying Rap – I Like It [Official Music Video] from PDST Technology in Education on Vimeo.

Well done to Jack B in 6th Class who had his picture featured in an article in the Irish Independent! The article was all about the RDS Primary Science Fair.

You can see the image here.

You can read the full article here.

We all had an amazing time at the First Lego League in Galway. It was such a wonderful experience and we were so grateful to The First Lego League, Debbie, Bernard and all of the volunteers from SAP who made it such a wonderful day.

We presented our work to the judges and represented our school and Co. Wicklow with pride. Our team ‘Smash the Trash’ not only won medals but we also received a trophy for all our hard work. We are looking forward to next year already!

Check out some pictures from the day:

We are so excited to be heading to Galway tomorrow morning. We are taking part in the First Lego League in the Raddison Blu Hotel with 28 other schools from around the country.  Ms. Whyte told the whole school about our trip during Assembly. She said it’s the furthest the school has ever gone on an outing ever!

We have been working hard in Lego Club for the past few months in order to prepare for competition.

There are four parts to the competition:

1. The Robot Game
2. The Trash Trek Challenge
3. Robot Design
4. Core Values

The theme of this year’s competition is “Trash” and finding new ways to look after our environment.

For the robot game we have used Lego software to write different programs to make our Lego Mindstorm complete a number of missions to help protect our environment e.g. using a composter, a sorter in the recycling centre, etc.

For the project element we focused on the problem of Junk mail.

We picked junk mail as our problem, because we thought it was hurting the environment. It took us weeks to come up with an idea for the Trash Trek Challenge.

Our solution was to make a website for junk mail where you could pick what mail they want to end up reading rather than rubbish they don’t. The name of the website is Smash the Trash. Why not check out our sample website on smashthetrash.weebly.com and let us know what you think.

As part of our project we also interviewed an Environmental Officer for Wicklow County Council called Moira Byrne. Moira was able to explain to us all about recycling and what happens to junk mail that people throw away. She said she thought our idea was great and wants to hear more about it as we continue to work on it even after the competition.

We also interviewed Debbie Merrigan who is from the First Lego League. Funny thing is her phone and her car had a conversation in the middle of the interview. She was a great help explaining exactly how the competition will run on the day and giving us lots of encouragement.

Check back with us next week and we’ll tell you all about our trip to Galway.

Junior Infants met some miniature horses. We learned how to brush a horse. We learned some safety rules around horses.

The ladies were so very nice!

Great brushing!

Thanks for coming in to teach us about miniature horses!

Last week, Mr. Foley’s class went on a day trip to Dún Laoghaire! 

Ben made a video on Animoto using all of the photos taken on the day.

Would you like to see it?

Well done Ben. 6th Class are very proud of you.

Last month, 6th Class filmed with Swipe TV, RTÉ’s flagship television series for 7 – 12 year olds with Simon Mulcahy, Claire O’Reilly and Mebs the puppet. We took part in the ‘Who Rules the School’ quiz, where the idea of the game if your team wins…the teacher gets gunged! Jack J and Jack B represented the class. Ms. Brennan was nominated and faced the gunge…did she escape?

Welcome to the first All Star Attenders Post of the New Year. At the end of every month children with full attendance for the month receive a certificate and have their name put on the Wall of Fame. The class with the greatest attendance each month also receive a class prize and all students with full attendance get named “All Star Attenders”.
So far our winners have been;
September: Ms. Fry’s 2nd Class (Trip to a show in the Mermaid Arts Theatre)
October: Ms. Shimmin’s 3rd Class (Home Cinema Experience)
November: Ms Keating’s 4th Class (Home Cinema Experience)
This winning class for best attendance in December was Ms. Shimmin’s 3rd Class. This is the second time this year that 3rd Class have been the best class for attendance and have won a trip to the Mermaid Arts Theatre in February.
Check back each month to see who has won the class prize for best attendance and check if your name has made the All Star Attenders List.
Well done to 3rd Class and to the following “All Star Attenders” from each class for December;
Junior Infants
Joey Chumakson
Heidi Clucas Keogh
Taylor Coakley
Oliver Duraj
Lauren Hipwell
Noah Johnston
Max Murray
Jake Thomas

Senior Infants
Carl Barry
Daniel Byrne
Chloe Farrell
Tobias Farrell
Jodie Fitzpatrick
Cameron Martin McAteer
Cian McDermott
Lauren O’Brien
Cian Petty
Aysha Simpson Murray
Elif Standage
1st Class
Ellie Byrne
Damiano Carabaich
Carla Cheevers
Haylie Treacy
Oisin Troy

2nd Class
Karl Ashe
Josh Coen Troy
Amalia Elin Gall
Craig Hipwell
Alec Kealy
Dylan Lawless
Tadhg McDonald Hemp
Jack Roche
James Simpson Murray

3rd Class
Tristan Byrne
Tadhg Cahill
Emanuel Carabaich
Nathan Douglas
Madeleine Farrell
Callum O’Sullivan O’Carroll

4th Class
Caoilynn Ashe
Brooke Carey
Casey Crinnion
Caithlin Farrell
Dylan Fitzpatrick
Rowan McFarland Bolger
Dylan Moloney
Amber O’Sullivan O’Carroll
Codie Sweeney Kearney
Dean Thomas

5th Class
Patrick Braganciuc
Stephen Brien
Aoife Dolan
Lex Farrell
Dylan Hempenstall
Leanne Kealy
Finn O’Neill

6th Class
Jack Barsoum
Robyn Brauner
Alex Coffey
Luke Connolly
Jordan Farrell
Jack Jin
Ryan McCormack
Stephen Mooney
Alannah O’Brien
Calvin O’Callaghan

MR. FOLEY’S CLASS
Adam Hackman
Arturas Ratkevicius

The judge at the RDS Primary Science Fair made some lovely comments about the 6th Class project on robotics. Would you like to read his comments?

‘I knew nothing about robots or programming before coming to hear the students speak, but I certainly have learnt a lot now!

A very ambitious project to get the class using programming software.

I was incredibly impressed with the depth of knowledge and the understanding of how to manipulate the drag-block software and that a booklet summarising instructions for how to program the robot was produced as well.

We had an amazing discussion about the future use of robots such as this and the sort of more complex ability that would make it useful in future homes.

Perhaps if the project were to continue, or run again, it would be good to outline simple tasks that it would be useful for the robot to do. This could be done in theory, even if it is beyond the ability of the software at present.

But all in all, a brilliant project, brilliantly carried out! Well done!’

Thank you to the judge for his lovely comments!

We were thrilled to receive our trophy!

A proud and happy moment with our trophy! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/0KhjUJfIsr

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2016

Tomorrow we’ll tell you more about what we did for the fair!

We’re back to school with a bang! 6th Class made what has now become the annual trip to the RDS Primary Science Fair last Friday. Read all about how we got on!

We made a robot for the fair. Our work started way back in November! We were busy from last Wednesday putting the finishing touches to our designed robot.

We are really busy in #6thClass getting ready to present @TheRDS Primary Science Fair on Friday! We built a robot! pic.twitter.com/TzQqSA80ab

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 6, 2016

A busy morning putting finishing touches on our Science Fair project to be displayed in @theRDS tomorrow! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/7ZHKv9bSU3

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 7, 2016

Our students are giving a presentation on their @TheRDS Primary Science Fair project. We’re working on our oral language skills. #6thClass

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 7, 2016

Superb questions from the floor helping our students to prepare for @TheRDS Science Fair. #6thClass #schoolspirit pic.twitter.com/9gSKOwidE9

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 7, 2016

Finally, Friday arrived! We were so excited to arrive into the RDS and get set up!

Here we are! Delighted to be set up and presenting @TheRDS Primary Science Fair! #edchatie #Bray #Wicklow pic.twitter.com/YEKBvPzZUE

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2016

Team Peter’s take over @TheRDS! #edchatie pic.twitter.com/vPtPrvtkPI

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2016

Having fun at the fair! Our traditional Sci-elfie 😄 @StPetersBray @primedteacher @emervance @therds pic.twitter.com/LeA6a5UJTC

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2016

We were busy all day, meeting people and giving interviews!

Busy giving interviews @TheRDS! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/W8Gi0fCpDt

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2016

Busy showing everyone how we got OhBot to move, talk and wink! He also tells jokes! #edchatie @theRDS pic.twitter.com/s4f5ZLMWi2

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2016

Hard at work here! Our stand @TheRDS is rocking! #6thClass #STEM #Wicklow #Bray pic.twitter.com/pHRznjdB8c

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2016

We met some very good friends from Swipe TV on RTE!

Great to catch up with the #SwipeTV gang at @TheRDS Science Fair! Here we are with Claire! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/qxYImA90wI

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2016

And we were all so thrilled to see Sam from 6th Class 2014-2015 who popped by to quiz on us our project!

Very proud to meet our 2015 Student of the Year @BTYSTE visiting our @TheRDS stand! Great to see you Sam! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/vECx71Y2aT

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2016

Mojo made the trip too, he wanted to supervise our good behaviour!

I see Mojo made his way here to @TheRDS Science Fair to hang out with OhBot and …. https://t.co/clJ5tGAdW1 pic.twitter.com/s07w7fgc70

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2016

We got such a lovely response from the judge, and he gave us a trophy to say well done!

A proud and happy moment with our trophy! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/0KhjUJfIsr

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2016

Next week, we’ll tell you more of what the judge said. We’ll also be telling you more about OhBot, our robot and what we actually did for the fair.

Here’s to a BRILLIANT start to 2016!

If you missed our last two posts don’t worry, here is your chance to catch up with Novembers “St Peter’s All Star Attenders Awards.” At the end of every month children with full attendance for the month receive a certificate and have their name put on the Wall of Fame. The class with the greatest attendance each month also receive a class prize and all students with full attendance get named “All Star Attenders”.
So far our winners have been;
September: Ms. Fry’s 2nd Class (Trip to a show in the Mermaid Arts Theatre)
October: Ms. Shimmin’s 3rd Class (Home cinema experience)
This winning class for best attendance in November was Ms. Keating’s 4th Class. Ms. Keating’s class chose the home cinema experience after hearing how much 3rd class enjoyed it last month. They watched The Santa Claus 2 and loved it, complete with cinema shop, popcorn and goodies.
Check back each month to see who has won the class prize for best attendance and check if your name has made the All Star Attenders List.
Well done to 4th Class and to the following “All Star Attenders” from each class for November;
Junior Infants
Grace Carton
Jasmin Coogan Moorehouse
Ben Douglas
Lauren Hipwell
Noah Johnston
Max Murray
Zuzanna Siakala
Jake Thomas

Senior Infants
Carl Barry
Kristana Anna Daniel
Chloe Farrell
Tobias Farrell
Cian McDermott
Liam McGrath
Lauren O’Brien
Sophie O’Connor
Elif Standage
1st Class
Ellie Byrne
Damiano Carabaich
Haylie Treacy
Liam Mullen
Kyra O’Shaughnessy
Ned Wall

2nd Class
Karl Ashe
Jamie Cowap
Brian Grefaldeo
Dylan Hackman
Craig Hipwell
Dylan Lawless
Adem Standage

3rd Class
Tristan Byrne
Tadhg Cahill
Emanuel Carabaich
Nathan Douglas
Madeleine Farrell
4th Class
Caoilynn Ashe
Brooke Carey
Bridget Cox
Abbi Douglas
Dean Douglas
Caithlin Farrell
Jamie Hipwell
Dylan Moloney
Amber O’Sullivan O’Carroll
Dean Thomas

5th Class
Christopher Mullen
Patrick Braganciuc
Stephen Brien

6th Class
Robyn Brauner
Alex Coffey
Luke Connolly
Astrid Douglas
Jordan Farrell
Jack Jin
Mason Kelly
Alannah O’Brien

MR. FOLEY’S CLASS
Adam Hackman
Arturas Ratkevicius