St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

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 — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 3, 2014

We’ll keep you updated on the progress we make as the weeks pass! We can’t wait to get started during Science Week, next week!

Yesterday, we had a very special visitor for Roots of Empathy in 2nd class. Our unit at the moment is called ‘Caring and Preparing for the Baby’ and we were learning all about teething.

Ms Whyte brought Baby M in to visit us and we were so excited to see her again!

We predicted how many teeth Baby M would have this time and Patrick (who was absent for our predictions) and Lana were correct – she doesn’t have any teeth yet. Check out our predictions.

We asked Ms Whyte lots of questions about Baby M (and her twin, Baby R) and Ms Whyte showed us her bag that she brings out with the twins. We guessed lots of the things that Ms Whyte brings with her, but other ones made us surprised. We’ve learned lots about teething and preparing for the baby. Take a listen to our podcast to find out more and then watch our Animoto for all the photos from yesterday!

Here are some Vines from our visit from Baby M. We can’t believe how much she has grown since her first visit!

Today was Pasta Day in St. Peter’s! We were all well fed by Paddy and Mr. Foley, with everyone enjoying a meal together in the hall.

Have a look at some of our tweets from the day!

5th class think #pastaday is the best day ever pic.twitter.com/s3iACOlk42

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 6, 2014

Fit4Skool tweeted us too!

@StPetersBray congratulations on the healthy eating for lunch! Plenty of energy for the afternoon!!

— Fit4Skool (@Fit4Skool) November 6, 2014

4th class are enjoying their pasta on #pastaday pic.twitter.com/IpEFIVoTWz

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 6, 2014

6th enjoying Pasta Day! #pastaday pic.twitter.com/IsjPuSVpVs

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 6, 2014

Mr Foley and Paddy are busy in the kitchen! Will Mr Foley's shirt be white by the end of the day? #pastaday pic.twitter.com/aF3kHNIHGH

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 6, 2014

And we're off! #PastaDay is in full swing – 2nd and Ms Keating's class are first up! Yum yum! pic.twitter.com/dJ2sJv5B4Z

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 6, 2014

Yum yum! We can’t wait for next year’s Pasta Day already!

In Junior Infants we have some special friends, two of these friends are Cheeky and Charlie. In September Cheeky showed us how to sit on the mat and Charlie showed us how to sit on our chairs. Now that we are doing so well in school, we are able to take Cheeky and Charlie home!

Even Mr. Foley wants to take Cheeky and Charlie home!

Last week Cian took Cheeky home.

Cian told us all about what fun himself and Cheeky had. Liam looks like he can’t wait to take Cheeky home!

Cian and Cheeky went to the cinema together and went to see his brother play a football match.

Junior Infants love to play! We learn lots while we play, we practise our language skills and we learn how to interact with each other in a fun way.

Cian and Cian love to paint!

Every week we learn a new topic during Aistear. We even have some Mums, Dads and Grannies in to help us in the mornings, and we love showing off  everything we have made!

Toby loves to paint too! Jake is having lots of fun playing with Norah’s Ark!

Junior Infants would like to say a big thank you to Claire Martin, the mam of T.J. in fourth class, she handmade all these beautiful aprons just for us! Now, when we are playing with the sand and when we are painting, we won’t get messy! A big thank you to Claire  from all of us!

2nd class took their first steps into the world of animation today! As you know, our Creative Schools submission last year was based on stop-motion animation, so we thought it was about time that 2nd class got a taste of one of our favourite creative activities in St Peter’s. Other classes have used Go Animate in the past, and we really enjoyed creating our little video using their latest updates. We chose the background, the length of the scenes, the characters, how the characters acted in each scene and, of course, we recorded the voices!

We chose to use part of our ‘comhrá’ for the script (St Peter’s has a history of using animation in Irish – you can check out the work of last year’s 3rd class here and here). We hope you enjoy our video and we’re looking forward to trying it out again soon!

2nd class Gaeilge by stpetersbrayblog on GoAnimate

Yesterday, 22 students from 5th and 6th class travelled to the Aviva to watch UCD Waves play in the final of the FAI Women’s Cup. Unfortunately, the result didn’t go our way (we were cheering for UCD Waves) but we had a brilliant day – as you can see in the Animoto and the Storify of all the tweets. Thanks to UCD Waves for our tickets and to Dublin Bus for supplying our transport. Thanks also to Paddy, Ms Flanagan, Mr Kinsella, Ms Kane, Ms Keating, Ms Sexton and Mr Foley for organising the trip and coming along to look after the students – and to Alan for the photo above!

For many of the students, it was their first trip to the Aviva – an unforgettable day!

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Today everyone in the senior end of school started work on the Athletics strand in the curriculum. It was a brilliant way to kick start the second part of term! Check out our latest vines!

Here we are enjoying a training session with Irish international, Karen Duggan!

Remember, even though winter is coming – stay fit, active and healthy!