St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Following on from our epic first blogpost on our #budget15 project, 6th Class are back with even more videos from the day Minister Harris came in. We hope you enjoy them!

Sadbh our Taoiseach welcomes Minister Harris from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.

Aaron, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs! from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.

Andy, Minister for Education from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.

Robert, Minister for Jobs from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.

Luke, the Minister for Social Protection from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.

We had GREAT fun for Maths Week in 2nd class. On Monday, we used our Maths Eyes to find square corners around the school. You can find our blog post about it here.

On Tuesday, we thought about a word problem and drew out the answers in our copies…

For #mathsweek14 2nd class are answering this question. We’re looking for as many combinations as possible! pic.twitter.com/awWp9rgfIg

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 14, 2014

We then made a poster showing some of the possible combinations to answer the word problem.

2nd class are making a #mathsweek poster to show all the possible combinations for our word problem! pic.twitter.com/PhijrrHHoj

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 14, 2014

2nd class made a poster to show their workings for a word problem for #mathsweek14 #edchatie pic.twitter.com/SwOp1HG0zA

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 15, 2014

Then on Thursday, we had a short Skype with Cloughfin NS in Donegal and then we played Get Kahoot for the first time. Ben from 5th class, who is also on the Digital Youth Council, helped us with tech support!

We had a great time for Maths Week 2014!

As many of you know, last year we were made a Digital School of Distinction. This award was the icing on the cake of a brilliant year of digital learning in our school. Minister Ciaran Cannon met with students from every class and we got a chance to walk him through some of the many things we do that make digital learning a key priority in our school.

On Wednesday, we had the great honour of being filmed and interviewed by the Digital Schools organisers (and Microsoft!) about our work in our school. We spoke about our digital learning journey and displayed our work. We can’t wait to see the finished product! We’ll post a link here when it is online!

Here is a little preview until then…

Roll it there Colette! Microsoft & @digital_schools are interviewing teachers and students all day today! #edchatie pic.twitter.com/HFfEJabCjs

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 15, 2014

Great memories from our filming day yesterday! @digital_schools pic.twitter.com/MPL5A9wTg7

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 16, 2014

Last Friday 6th Class had an amazing day. After a long time working on our Budget project, we presented our project to the Minister of State Simon Harris! Simon is our local TD and we were delighted to welcome him to our school.

Before we began our project, we learned all about local and national politics. This took a lot of time! We were really proud of of all we learned.

Next, we broke up into groups. We decided that Sadbh should be our Taoiseach and Sam should be our Tánaiste. Then they picked Ministers. Ministers are the people who run different departments. Our Ministers then decided what they wanted the Minister for Finance to spend the State money on. We wrote and recorded our Budget submissions. Here they are!

Leon was the Minister for Finance. He had to sit and listen to the submissions. He then went to work with his Department Officials to decide how to spent the money and he wrote the budget!

On the big day we delivered the Budget in style!

Minister for Finance Leon O’Donoghue delivers the St. Peter’s Budget! from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.

We had a brilliant day. We tweeted all about it!

Thank you so much to @SimonHarrisTD for visiting 6th Class and hearing our #budget15 project! He was a brilliant sport and so nice to us.

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 10, 2014

Simon tweeted too!

Great to engage with 6th class pupils of @StPetersBray on issues of importance to children ahead of Budget 2015. pic.twitter.com/OMg9aqN5GT

— Simon Harris TD (@SimonHarrisTD) October 10, 2014

Leon on the morning of our Budget!

The Minister with his file on the morning of #budgetday! #budget15 #edchatie pic.twitter.com/1jc0yFcQa4

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 10, 2014

The all important #budget15 document! pic.twitter.com/2Ni3Q3YwfO

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 10, 2014

We’re ready for Leon to commend our #budget15 project to the house! Excited to hear what he has to say! pic.twitter.com/JDXAdMLYny

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 10, 2014

We can’t wait to visit Leinster House and see Simon and his colleagues at work!

Next month 6th Class will visit Leinster House and see our politicians at work! We can’t wait! #budget15

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 10, 2014

Here are some more videos from the day! We hope you enjoy them!

Davy, Minister for Sport, Transport and Tourism. from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.

Christian, The Minister for Public Expenditure! from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.

We’ll post lots of more video footage next week!

Ps. Thanks to Simon for sending a lovely piece about our school and class to the Wicklow Times!

We're delighted that our #budget15 project featured in the Wicklow Times! From all in 6th Class pic.twitter.com/8XYlEqDblI

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 16, 2014

We have lots of exciting plans in 2nd class for Maths week! We decided to kick off Monday of Maths week by looking for square corners in the corridor and in the front yard. Square corners are also known as right angles. Squares and rectangles have four right angles. Check out our Animoto – our Maths Eyes were wide open today!

We had so much fun practising our handwriting using blood quills in Ms. Keating’s class!

A blood quill is a dark magical object. It is a type of quill that does not require ink, as it writes with the blood of the person using it. Harry Potter used this in detention in the 5th book: The Order of the Phoenix. This week in Ms. Keating’s class we got the opportunity to practice our handwriting using our own home-made blood quills (a quill and a red pen).

It was so exciting writing with red pens. We took our time to make sure we could write as neat as possible, we even had a practice run before writing on our teabag stained pages.

I hope you like our display as we all worked so hard on it!

6th Class are really enjoying their latest book, ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl. This is our third  podcast and we are delighted with how it came out. Davy and Alan presented and they did a great job!

Lots happened in the story since we spoke last, don’t miss this podcast! Warning: It contains major spoilers!

Name of class: Fourth

Teacher: Ms Walsh

We love many things about our class ! The top five are:

• Art
• Our classmates
• Watching The Children’s News while we eat our lunch
• The comfortable reading zone with it’s very own sofa and blanket area
• The Irish and Maths games we play!

Three things we are looking forward to this year:

• Project work,
• Soccer
• Multi- Sport!

Our favourite TV shows:

• Hawaii Five-O
• The Children’s News

Our favourite movie is The Lego Movie

Our favourite musicians: We love everything:

• Pop
• Rap
• Country
• Traditional !

Favourite time of year in St Peter’s are Sports Day and Christmas (The Play!)

Favorite thing about St Peter’s:

• Everything especially the hot chocolate made by Mrs Murphy!

Best memory in St Peter’s so far: The teachers!

What a week 6th Class have had! We’ve been working so hard. Every subject got our best effort and we’ve started getting stuck into some brilliant project work too!

Here are some of the highlights…

We set up our technology group work activities!

We had our first Mystery Skype session! It was so helpful for our geography!

Enjoying the @SkypeClassroom #mysteryskype with Wicklow Educate Together! #wicklow #geography pic.twitter.com/UzZbebhe7M

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 1, 2014

We recorded a ‘Reading Tips’ podcast:

We had a super training session with Tommy, and a brilliant running session with Paddy!

We also spent a lot of time on our Cleachtadh cainte!

We interviewed the Irish and UCD player Karen Duggan who predicted (correctly!) that Kilkenny would win the All-Ireland!

We got started on our latest art activity!

Working hard at our papier mâché in 6th, we’re making the planets for World Space Week next week! #art #papiermâché pic.twitter.com/RT2qaGNYcC

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 2, 2014

As captain of the St. Peter’s Football team, I would like to wish our local club Bray Emmets the very best in this weekend’s senior and junior county finals.

I am a proud club member.  Every year we play a game of cic fada and the club runs a fair on that day. There are matches on every week and I love being a member of the club and I’ve loads of friends there.

The Club also host local school competitions and I’m looking forward to leading the St. Peter’s team out this season.

My manager’s name is Tom and my coaches are Terry, Micheal and John. I will be playing under 13 this year. I play half back or full back usually for Bray Emmets.

Hopefully the boys will do the business at the weekend! Good luck to everyone!

by Ben Gorman (6th Class)