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Hi my name is Codie and I’m in 3rd class. I hope you enjoy my Toontastic video. I spent a while writing the story and then making it! My characters are Tony, JJJ, Bender the robot and the two bullies, King Arnes and Onetwo. It’s about a science fair where the bullies try to steal JJJ and Tony’s invention- Bender, but they fail! I hope you like watching it.
Last Friday, we had a new twist on an old tradition on St Peter’s – the Mini-World Cup! You can read all about last year’s Mini-World Cup here. This year, we had three Mini World Cup tournaments – Junior and Senior Infants played in the morning, 1st and 2nd classes played between break and lunchtime and the older classes had their tournament after lunch. Here are a few photos and Vines from the day – and you can read more about the infant classes and their tournament here.
Congratulations to this great boy and girl. They have been working hard and behaving well.
Every time we try hard in junior infants we get a star. We then put the star on our star jar. Look how many stars these two have earned!
Some nifty footwork skills there!
This junior infant boy loves football!!
Good save!
Once a week the Junior and Senior Infants have a lunch time soccer club with teacher and the sixth class boys. The sixth class boys are unbelievable coaches, leaving teacher with lots of time to take photos!
Yesterday Paddy organised a mini world cup day for us. The boys and girls from soccer club had great fun showing off their skills on the field and everybody had lots of fun. Thanks Paddy for mini world cup day and thanks a million to the sixth class boys for their hard work, patience and superb coaching skills!
6th Class made their visit to the Bray ‘Seomra’ Youth Centre this afternoon!
They tweeted about their fantastic day!
#6thClass are in Seomra, the Bray Youth Centre. Thanks to Clay, Martina and Peter for welcoming us! #Bray pic.twitter.com/EFsEb1MnwY
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 28, 2015
Peter is welcoming us. #6thClass #BraySeomra pic.twitter.com/t2fr0HSrvG
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 28, 2015
We're making smoothies! #6thClass #BraySeomra pic.twitter.com/y35deMNIw0
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 28, 2015
We're playing games! #6thClass #BraySeomra pic.twitter.com/G36zwUehsK
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 28, 2015
Super ping pong! #6thClass #BraySeomra pic.twitter.com/XRYVBOuEzZ
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 28, 2015
Adam loved making the smoothies!
Seomra is an amazing space. It is so welcoming. Paddy and Sadbh are having great fun. #BraySeomra #6thClass pic.twitter.com/rxw02z4KC6
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 28, 2015
What an afternoon in Seomra! We are so lucky to have such a lovely resource near us. Thanks to Clay, Martina & Peter! pic.twitter.com/LqEJUORDBT
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 28, 2015
We can’t wait to attend the centre lots over the next few years. Thanks to Martina, Clay, Peter and all the gang for having us! Everyone should check out the amazing work that they do.
6th Class had an exciting day yesterday!
HUGE excitement in #6thClass as we got our photos taken this afternoon for a class mural that will be unveiled at graduation! #schoolspirit— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 26, 2015
Here are previous murals that can be seen on the #6thClass landing. We can't wait to see our one! #creativeschools pic.twitter.com/QYti7XdURw— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) May 26, 2015
Each year our 6th Class mural idea comes from a major project 6th had been involved in. Last year it was all about the Junior Spiders and our Grand Prix win.
The 2015 theme is our Junior Spiders website ‘Pi in the Sky’, made to celebrate our RDS Primary Science Fair project!
We’re looking forward to the unveiling of our mural at Graduation on Wednesday, 24th June!
So #6thClass had a brilliant time with Bike Day! We were so busy filming and cycling that we forgot to tweet. We’ll share on Monday!
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 21, 2015
#6thClass are showing real school leadership as they help Paddy with the Junior…. http://t.co/S3tQRipmgS pic.twitter.com/4lLqvXEuft
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 20, 2015
#6thClass had an amazing Bike Day 2015 last Thursday. Thanks to Paddy for another brilliant day. #activeschools https://t.co/cvdPFIsjk9
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 25, 2015
We really love practicing our balance and steering technique! #BikeDay #6thClass #activeschools https://t.co/pOJIAaV8fA
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 25, 2015
#6thClass got some serious @classdojo reward points for being so patient and helping at #BikeDay! #schoolspirit https://t.co/8THuKowN4L
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 25, 2015
What a way to see out our last ever Bike Day in St. Peter’s! 🙂
Hi, it’s Rowan from third class here. I had loads of fun doing my Toontastic project. It took a long time but I enjoyed it. The characters are Jody, Alisa, Wolf Mann , Gue Monster, the ghost and mum. It’s a cartoon about when Alisa gets a goal when playing football and she goes really crazy. Then her brother Jody gets mad. He gets even madder when Alisa accidentally pushes him down a magic hole into a scary place. I hope you enjoy it because I enjoyed making it!
Over the last two weeks in Make-It Club, first and second class explored lots of different reusable materials to make junk-art robots out of. They worked in groups of five to design and make robots out of recycling from home. They used Easter egg boxes, egg cartons, milk cartons, bottle caps, scraps of string, pipe cleaners, paint strips, tinfoil and pretty much anything else that they could find in their recycling boxes.
They worked so well in teams, with everybody having a part to play and even had better imaginations than their teachers when it came to using different items for different parts. Whether it was putting another box on the back of the robot to make a battery, using round makeup tins for wheels or making a separate remote control to make the robot work, the children were full of original ideas.
Here are the end results, which are now displayed in the corridor, reminding us to reduce our waste, reuse items we can, and recycle what’s left!!
Welcome to our submission for the Discover Primary Science and Maths award for 2015. This is our 10th year taking part in the Awards! This year we are applying for the Plaque of STEM Excellence, a new award which is given to schools that carry out extensive work in science, technology, engineering and maths, all of which are very important in St. Peter’s.
The other big change this year is that it is the first time we will have had Junior and Senior Infants taking part in the award! It is great to see the young scientists have so much fun learning about Science and Maths.
As this is a new award, the criteria that has to be fulfilled has changed slightly this year, as can be seen below. A huge amount of work has gone into this, well done to all the pupils and teachers who took part. For the third year in a row, we are using our blog to submit our award and to link back to our activities that have taken part during the year. Our AoSME number this year is WW001.
Step 1: Science
For this step, we carried out six hands-on Science investigations under the four different strands in classes throughout the school. We also tried to include Maths in these investigations where possible, linking in with Step 4.
6th Class also took part in the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, which you can read all about here.
We also took part in the Intel Mini-Scientist Awards, which you can read about here.
Step 2: Technology
In the second step, we had to ensure that technology was used by our pupils. As winner of the Junior Spider Awards last year, technology has become a part of every-day life in St. Peter’s.
For example, 6th Class’ entry for the BT Young Scientist Award was based on using a Raspberry Pi. They also developed their own blog to showcase their work. You can read all about their exciting year here.
Our pupils also used technology to design their entry for the Intel Mini-Scientist Awards. Three of our pupils designed a dance mat which you can read about here.
Throughout all the other classes in the school, pupils of every age have also used cameras, laptops, animoto, and this blog, as well as apps such as vine and twitter,to showcase the work that they have been doing during the course of the year. As you can see from our submission this year, we have continued to implement technology in our day-to-day teaching and learning, with Maths and Science at the forefront of this.
Step 3: Engineering
For the third step of our application for the DPSM Plaque of STEM Excellence, we took part in Engineering Week in the school. As part of this, an engineer visited 3rd Class and spoke to them about the different types of engineering. You can read more about his visit to our school here.
During Engineer’s Week in the school, there was also Design and Make activities. 3rd Class and 6th Class joined forces and designed and made a new school, which you can read about here.
Step 4: Maths
Throughout our Science investigations, we incorporated Maths where possible, For example, Senior Infants used bar graphs to record their results here, and 4th Class used mathematical skills to measure the heights of their classmates here.
The school also took part in Maths Week in October 2014. Read about all the Maths and fun that took place in 2nd Class during Maths Week here.
Step 5: STEM Showcase
6th Class took part in the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in the RDS in January this year. They put a huge amount of work and effort into their innovative idea, developing a goal line technology system using a Raspberry Pi. You can read all about their experience here.
We hoped you enjoyed reading our submission!
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s Junior Infants, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s Senior Infants, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 1st class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 2nd class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 3rd class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 4th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 5th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 6th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by Ms Kane’s class, click here.
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