First week back after midterm and after what we packed into this week, it feels like we’ve been back for weeks! Here are the week’s headlines: A popular addition to this week’s blog was a look back over the first half term in numbers. Read all about it here! Our student council have lots of big plans on this week’s podcast! 2nd class podcasted about what they’ve learned in Geography recently here The Mini-Scientist work is starting to take shape – read our tips for researching your topic here Speaking of the Mini-Scientist project, 4th class blogged about...
26 Oct
Here are the week’s Halloween headlines: Ms Brennan’s 2nd class gave a great round up of their Halloween songs and decorations here Mr Foley’s 4th class posted podcasts of their spooky stories here – listen if you daaare! Ms Sexton’s 5th class learned how to use GoAnimate and used it to create Halloween jokes here, here and here! Our ‘Wednesday for Parents’ post rounded up great ideas about what to do over the midterm – read all about it here The Student Council continue their great work – listen to their latest podcast here Speaking of...
20 Oct
Welcome to our second edition of the St Peter’s Post! As always, this post is a handy place to catch up on any news from the week that you may have missed during the week! This main headlines from this week were: This week was Maths Week 2013 and there were a number of events taking place, including a table quiz on Thursday. The quiz was thanks to Seomra Ranga and went down a storm! Congratulations to Team 14 – John from 3rd, Alan from 4th, LukeMc from 5th and Eduard from 6th – who came top of the leaderboard. Blog post to follow on Monday, when the team members are presented...
12 Mar
Congratulations to the following boys who were on the team that won our Engineering Week quiz – Dylan Hampenstall (Mr. Kinsella’s class), Jack Barsoum (Ms. Whyte’s class), Alan Duda (Ms. Byrne’s class), Adam Farrell and Sam Barsoum (Mr. Foley’s class) and Cian Cleary (Ms. Brennan’s class). Everyone really enjoyed themselves and had a great time answering questions about science, technology and engineering.
18 Apr
Welcome to our submission for the Curious Minds (previously the Discover Primary Science and Maths) Award for 2024. This is our 19th year taking part in the awards, once again, we are applying for the Plaque of STEM Excellence. This award 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. We are delighted that this is the 10th year that we 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. Each...
23 Mar
Welcome to our submission for the Curious Minds (previously the Discover Primary Science and Maths) Award for 2023. This is our 18th year taking part in the awards, once again, we are applying for the Plaque of STEM Excellence. This award 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. This is the 9th year that we 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. Each year we try to put...
30 Nov
We had a great month in senior infants this month – we were learning all about The Sports Shop in Aistear. We played in our ‘Lifestyle’ Sports shop during our role play area, designed and made our own GAA jerseys from different fabrics in our art station. We designed the layout of our own sports shop using large Jenga blocks and designed our own obstacle course and then made it from LEGO. Our Lifestyle Sports Shop We celebrated Science week during November. We carried out an experiment in class – we added gummy bears to water to see what would happen...
3 Dec
3rd Class have been up to lots over the last few weeks and have been kept very busy! We celebrated Anti – Bullying month this and are now all feel very confident that we would recognise what bullying is, what we’d do if we saw it happening to others and how to deal with it if it ever happened to us. In maths we learned to tell the time – we spend a while exploring clocks and the hands and talking about how many seconds are in 1 minute, how many minutes in an hour, hours in a day etc. We soon got the hang of how the ‘to’ side and ‘past’...
19 Nov
To celebrate Science Week 2015 we decided to get creative in Senior Infants. We have been learning about ‘House and Home’ recently and read one of our favourite books ‘The Three Little Pigs’! We love this story and were inspired to try to design and create our own houses using some different types of materials, including plastic straws, wooden blocks, coloured card and Play Doh. We wanted to find out which material would be best to use to make a house for our classroom puppets. Before the group experiments began we made some predictions. We predicted that the wooden blocks...
1 Dec
This year the #eddies13 (EduBlog Awards) are 10 years old. The awards reward educators, students, teachers and educational communities who reach out to inform, include and inspire others. We were absolutely delighted when three of our favourite blogs, www.anseo.net, www.seomraranga.com and www.merrybeau.edublogs.org nominated us for our blogging and podcasting work, and we only felt it appropriate that we give back by nominating those sites that have helped us in the past 11 months on our blogging road. We hope that it reflects the help and guidance we have received from those below, and please...
