St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We’ve been so busy!

So #6thClass are back on the tweet machine! We’ve been so busy! Will we fill you in? #schoolspirit

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 4, 2015

In Art we’ve been making clay food, Claes Oldenburg style! 

Are you feeling hungry? #6thClass Claes Oldenburg clay work is making us feel very peckish! Brill designs! #edchatie pic.twitter.com/qZc1TrllFY — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 9, 2015

Delicious food on offer this week in #6thClass art! pic.twitter.com/XEBzKketeJ

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 9, 2015

And some more….yummy! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/2H4H0APC7V — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 9, 2015

We then moved onto making clay owls! 

Our clay art has attracted a lot of praise! This week we are making clay owls! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/E5C0Kgikli — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 4, 2015

So #6thClass have had a great ‘owl’ time in Art this morning! #creativeschools pic.twitter.com/IVofEDu1ym — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 6, 2015

In English we’re preparing for 2016…

We’re looking forward to starting this book after Halloween @SummerBuzz #6thClass We will tweet using #Rang1916 pic.twitter.com/FAseCxe850 — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 22, 2015

…but we’ve been working on the other parts too!

We’re looking at real life examples of procedures/instructions. Our genre is Procedural writing! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/ahg7lrtChv — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 4, 2015

We use Read Write Gold to improve our word processing! Jordan did great work & got @ClassDojo points! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/7N9eYjRVOW — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 4, 2015

We always do Look, Cover, Write, Check for our Gaeilge and English SWST spellings on Thursday mornings! #6thClass — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 5, 2015

Today’s word problem, written by someone in the class! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/fcVJHXifY6 — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 5, 2015

In Geography… 

Lots of atlas work taking place in #6thClass! pic.twitter.com/P6d4Z4lYEB — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 4, 2015

We’re working on place names in Ireland. We’re using maps to find settlements with Ard, Bally, Beg, Carrick … https://t.co/WT8HAxAGpl — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 4, 2015

We found out we’ll be in this year’s Primary Science Fair in the RDS!

Excited to hear that our #6thClass project has been accepted to exhibit at @TheRDS Primary Science Fair! We can’t wait for it! #edchatie — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 1, 2015

We’re reading @IrishTimes in #6thClass. It was sent to us because they have a brilliant supplement on @ScienceWeek! pic.twitter.com/124tU2fT1Y — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 4, 2015

Our class also took part in Random Acts of Kindness Week:

We have been celebrating #RAKWeek! #6thClass messengers are collecting the acts of kindness messages! #schoolspirit — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 4, 2015

We made vine videos about our random acts of kindness for #RAKWeek! #6thClass https://t.co/F8bf4QEugT — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 5, 2015

Lots of examples of kindness here! #RAKWeek #6thClass https://t.co/hkaH0aRuOl — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 5, 2015

And some more! #RAK https://t.co/5zr9Ed2V14 — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 5, 2015

In Music we studied ‘Songs of War’.

Today’s music lesson in #6thClass! https://t.co/Tv6hyFgzYY Our theme this month is ‘Songs of War’. — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 4, 2015

Two of our students did really well in the Bray Drugs Aware art competition!

We are also so proud of our two classmates who have been successful in the @BrayDr…. https://t.co/izh9rH8hHC pic.twitter.com/6ahQqpTe2T — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 4, 2015

What a fantastic day our #6thClass students had at the @BrayDrugsAware presentation yesterday. Thanks all! #Bray pic.twitter.com/LFp5L1Y7Ml — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 5, 2015

Our Gaelic footballers took part in the Coughlan Cup…

It’s wet and miserable but our spirits are high at @BrayEmmets for our Coughlan Cup games! pic.twitter.com/XnOBYI6B9l — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 5, 2015

Team picture! pic.twitter.com/TmI6s6YwhP — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 5, 2015

…and we named a few more Students Of The Week!

Our #6thClass Student of the Week is someone who never gives up, always shows up and is always kind to everyone. pic.twitter.com/ZQIef0cLwI — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 6, 2015

We were all very excited that Lego Club started back this week!

This year we are taking part in an international competition called the First Lego League. As part of the competition we will be looking at three different things – A Trash Trek Project, A Robot Game and The First Lego League Core Values.

This week we started building our models that will be used for our robot game. We worked in teams to make Models no. 1, 2, 3 and 4 using the instructions on the laptops. Next week we will continue making the rest of the models. We also hope to have our new Lego table made, set up for next week’s meeting!

Here’s a peak at what we got up to:

This month in 4th class, we are learning about weather. In Geography we made our own Anemometers.

Did you know an anemometer is used to measure wind speed?

Here are a few pictures of our class recording the wind speed. For the next two months, we will be using our anemometers to investigate and record the wind speed everyday.

Feel free to check out our record chart in class! 🙂

In St Peter’s we always try really hard to work on attendance and encourage children to be in school every day. 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. Now, we are starting a monthly blog post called “All Star Attenders”. Each month we will list all the children who have received certificates for the month and who the winning class for the month was.

This winning class for best attendance in September was…….. Ms. Fry’s 2nd Class. 2nd Class won a free trip to the Mermaids Arts Theatre to see a puppet show called Bláth. They had a great time and absolutely loved it. 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 2nd class and to the following “All Star Attenders” from each class for September:

Junior Infants
Grace Carton
Aaron Chumakson
Joey Chumakson
Heidi Clucas Keogh
Taylor Coakley
Abbie Coen Troy
Ben Douglas
Oliver Duraj
Lauren Hipwell
Noah Johnston
Louis Murray-Coyle
Avaleigh O’Hagan
Jake Thomas
Brooke Tobin

Senior Infants
Barry Carl
Luke Cahill
Jake Clucas Murphy
Kristana Daniel
Chloe Farrell
Toby Farrell
Chloe Fitzpatrick
Ryan Martin
Cameron Martin McAteer
Kurina Mason
Cian McDermott
Lauren O’Brien
Sophie O’Connor
Eliif Standage

1st Class
Ellie Byrne
Damiano Carabaich
Liam Mullen
Tristan O’Brien
Kyra O’Shaughnessy
Oisin Troy
Ned Wall

2nd Class
Karl Ashe
Josh Coen Troy
Jamie Cowap
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Amalia Elin Gall
Brian Grefaldeo
Dylan Hackman
Craig Hipwell
Alec Kealy
Dylan Lawless
Liam Mason
Tadhg McDonald Hemp
Ruairi McFarland Bolger
Ava Rose Reynolds
Adem Standage
3rd Class
Tristan Byrne
Tadhg Cahill
Emanuel Carabaich
Lana Douglas
Nathan Douglas
Maddy Farrell
Adam Kelly
Kevin Pestana
Jerry Wall

4th Class
Caoilynn Ashe
Kayden Clucas
Casey Crinnion
Dean Douglas
Caithlin Farrell
Shannon Hipwell
Rowan McFarland Bolger
Kelsey O’Callaghan
Dean Thomas

5th Class
Patrick Braganciuc
Stephen Brien
Aoife Dolan
Abbie Fitzpatrick
Dylan Hempenstall
Leann Kealy
Christopher Mullen
Finn O’Neill
James O’Shaughnessy

6th Class
Jack Barsoum
Robyn Brauner
Alex Coffey
Luke Connolly
Molly Douglas
Jordan Farrell
Jack Jin
Tommy Lang
Dylan Mason
Ryan McCormack
Alannah O’Brien
Calvin O’Callaghan
Ava Treacy
Dylan Wheeler

MR. FOLEY’S CLASS
Adam Hackman
Arturas Ratkevicius

Last week our Twitter pal Mags visited us in 6th Class! She is a science wizard and taught us so much! We got to try out Little Bits and lots of other cool things!

Such a great morning in #6thClass! We had our #StudentCouncil hustings and now @magsamond is here to visit! pic.twitter.com/RcseRewFB1

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 24, 2015

A masterclass with @magsamond! It's the best treat ever for #6thClass! pic.twitter.com/cSzQVtP48F

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 24, 2015

Magic science moments with @magsamond! #6thClass are enthralled! pic.twitter.com/Az3pqvMiml

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 24, 2015

Now @magsamond is teaching us all about Little Bits! It's so much fun. #classspirit pic.twitter.com/lkkRTC8rSd

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 24, 2015

Mags tweeted us lovely things!

@littleBits Amazing morning with scientists, musicians, makers, doers of the future in 6th @StPetersBray with @PrimEdTeacher

— Mags Amond (@magsamond) September 24, 2015

Here is a highlights video we have worked on!

And here are all of our vines from the day!

We had the best day! Thank you Mags!

What an inspirational, warm and fun morning we had with @magsamond. She is one in a million. She's now part of the #6thClass crew!

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 24, 2015

Have you met our #studentcouncil? We work for all of the students in our school! We meet every fortnight. pic.twitter.com/9nHzwo6a1P

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 5, 2015

Congratulations to our new Student Council for this term. We are very proud of you and know that you will do very well.

Here are your new council. Listen to their very first podcast here!

Hello everyone!

We hope you are enjoying the first few weeks of school! We have been very busy in Senior Infants and have been working very hard. We are getting used to our new jobs and classroom and have been getting to know our new pupils too. We have already learned about our local area, our family and ourselves and look forward to learning lots about different jobs people in our community do over the next couple of weeks.

We have worked really well together during morning activities and started our Aistear programme. During Aistear we will learn about lots of different and interesting themes and will have the chance to play together in lots of different areas including role play,language play and physical play stations. Team work and co – operation is really important when we play together. Check out some of our photos to see how well we are playing!

Team work!

Revising our numbers with a quick game of BINGO!

Making words using magnetic letters.

Building our own town!

Constructing Bray Head!

Local shopkeeper!

We have also been lucky enough to start GAA with Tommy and it’s so much fun! We’re learning lots of new skills and games.

Warm up time!

To make sure that we all know where everything in the school is we went on a quick walkabout last week. We visited the hall, the yards and the office. When we got back to our own classroom we decided to make our own maps of the school just to be sure we remembered all the different parts!

Map making! We know our school really well now.

Check out our map of Bray. The boys and girls worked together to re – create the main street. It really brightens up our room!

We also looked at some old photos of Bray and compared what is different in the town today and what has stayed the same. It was really interesting to see what the town used to look like!

Bray then and now!

Two of our favourite books so far this year have been the ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’ by Julia Donaldson and ‘Elmer’ by David McKee. We also listened to ‘The Rainbow Fish’ by Marcus Pfister and created some really cool fish of our own. We’re looking forward to reading lots more books this year!

That’s all from us for now but we’ll be sure to keep you updated with lots more news soon! From Senior Infants 🙂

What a great week we had in 6th Class last week. Just like 1st and 5th Class, we had an inspector come to visit us to check in on our work! He was pleased with us and really liked our English stations. We were delighted, but we now have to keep it up for the rest of the year.

One of the coolest things we did was our chalk drawings out on yard. It was so much fun! We had to create a ‘picture’ and then become part of it ourselves! We got the idea from Pinterest. We love getting art ideas from that site!

We also got an exciting (and very cute!) package from ClassDojo!

Thank you so much to Jenna and the @ClassDojo team for the present this morning! We think Mojo is so cute! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/DO8hC9Q54W

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 21, 2015

It was a jam-packed Monday!

Good morning! It’s a very busy morning in #6thClass! 8 of us are going to cross country running and 2 are in Festina Lente!

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 21, 2015

We had a new Student of the Week!

Well done to our Student of the Week in #6thClass! Superb manners, excellent tests and school spirit points all week! pic.twitter.com/YMfHy3lTpX

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 18, 2015

We did some great work on comparative and superlative adjectives too!

We started Data in Maths too!

We started some Data work in Maths. We reviewed bar charts before we move onto Trend graphs! #6thClass pic.twitter.com/IY42WJi67b

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 16, 2015

All in all, it has been a great week for school and class spirit!

Hello from 4th Class,

As we are all aware, the building for our new extension went underway today 🙂

Due to this, 4th class have decided to take on the role of architects and plan what we could add to our school if we could design the new building.

Here are some photographs of us working together in our pairs as we create school blueprints.

Make sure to keep an eye out on the 4th Class display boards for the finished designs! 🙂

This afternoon, 2nd and 5th classes joined forces to read together! 2nd class read their readers to 5th class, while 5th class encouraged them to sound out words that they weren’t sure of, praised their work and asked them questions about the stories. Afterwards, 5th class read a picture book to their partner (and made sure to do the voices!) 5th class had chosen a picture book earlier in the day and practised reading with expression and fluency. Ms Fry and Ms Sexton were really impressed with how well the two classes worked together, but don’t take their word for it – here are some Vines and photos from this afternoon!

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