St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

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)

As you know, we’re big fans of Khan Academy in St Peter’s! You can read all about Mathletes, which uses Khan Academy as a platform, here.

We’ve recently established our first Digital Youth Council in St Peter’s (more on that to follow!) and their first job was to demonstrate how to use Khan Academy as a student at the Khan Academy Symposium in Eircom HQ on Saturday.

Our students were superb on the day and we were extremely proud of how enthusiastic and engaging they were. We received so many compliments about our students’ behaviour, manners and knowledge! Thanks especially to Harry from the Digital Youth Council, who was so encouraging about our Mini Digital Youth Council and to Kelly, for all her hard work!

Thanks also to the parents, who travelled in and helped us out – we really appreciated it!

Ms Brennan and Ms Sexton

Click through for our Storify of the day! (more…)

In 2nd class, we’ve been learning poems as part of our Dinosaur theme. We each chose a poem to learn off from a book of Dinosaur poetry. We practised putting expression into our poetry and speaking clearly! When we were ready, we recorded our poetry using Voki. We loved recording our poems using Voki – we thought it was a really cool way to present our work.

Tristan

Arpit

Jodie

Nathan

Ava

Maddy

Emanuele (who has been practising his alphabet! He’s working really hard!)

Lana

Recently, in 2nd class, we have been exploring sound as part of our music lessons. We’re developing our performance skills, our listening and responding skills and our composing skills, using body percussion and our voices. One of our favourite songs at the moment is Boom-Chicka-Boom and we’ve been using it to explore the elements of music and different sounds that we can make with our voices.

We recorded a version of Boom Chicka Boom using Sound Cloud!

We also made a list of sounds that we can make with our bodies and our voices. We worked together as a whole-class activity to list 29 different sounds (and we really could have kept going…) and then we designed symbols for our sounds. We’re going to use these symbols to compose a piece of music next week. Check out Nathan’s set of symbols!

We’re learning all about body percussion in music in 2nd class. We’re designing symbols for our sounds. pic.twitter.com/fl7zGMkZhc

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We each chose sounds to perform and acted as conductors in our little orchestra. The conductor pointed to that person, who then made their sound. We learned a lot about performing and conducting different combinations of sounds. Check out our Vines to see what we tried out.

Recently in St Peter’s, we’ve been celebrating healthy eating. Last week, we had Sandwich Day, where some of our classes got to make a sandwich with lots of healthy fillings! 2nd class made a podcast about their choice of fillings and we have lots of lovely photos in our Animoto.

In our classrooms, we practised procedural writing and the senior classrooms learned about nutrition and fitness as part of our work towards our Active Flag!

Thanks to Mr Foley and Paddy for all their hard work organising such a fantastic day!

A small selection of the bread needed for Sandwich Day! pic.twitter.com/HB7QSxqc1J

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Operation Sandwich is in full swing! pic.twitter.com/YXglZgMbMr

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Yesterday, 2nd class had their 4th Roots of Empathy session with Paddy. So far, we’ve met Baby M and covered the theme ‘Meet the Baby’. Yesterday, we started a new theme – ‘Crying’.

We talked about why babies cry.

We love our Roots of Empathy sessions.

Story time is always special during Roots of Empathy.

We read ‘How are you peeling?’ this week.

Our doll is called Nicole.

Listen to our podcast about what we learned during this week’s session. Well done to Adam, who led his very first podcast.

We can’t wait to welcome Baby M into our class next week!

The Grand High ‘Vitch’, who says the lines that we learned off!

6th Class have learned off lines from The Witches by Roald Dahl and have been performing them in class! Would you like to have a listen? We’ve been working on our accents!

In Ms. Keating’s Class we are learning about procedural writing. We have been focusing on recipes for the last few weeks. Last week we made frozen strawberry yoghurt and the week before we made jelly.

This week we learned how to make butter and today we got the opportunity to make it in class.

All you need to make butter is cream, a pinch of salt and a jar.

The method is simple:

1. Pour the cream into the jar.
2. Add a pinch of salt and close the jar tightly.
3. Shake the jar for a few minutes until the cream separates.
4. Open the jar.
5. Remove the butter milk from the jar and place the butter on a plate.
6. Butter a cracker.
7. Taste and enjoy

We had great fun in class today and we really enjoyed tasting our yummy butter.  We are already looking forward to next week’s procedural writing activity.

Feel free to try out our butter recipe for yourselves. You won’t regret it 🙂

Welcome to Ms. Keating’s Class. There are 10 boys in the class ranging from 2^nd to 6^th Class.

5 things we love about our class:

• Helping one another
• Our teacher
• Cooking
• Class games
• WOW cards

3 things we are looking forward to this year:

• Our School Trip
• Our Class Trip
• Teachers vs. Students

Our Favourite TV shows:

• The Simpsons
• Pawn Stars
• Total Wipe-out

Our favourite movies:

• Matilda
• Goal
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Mission Impossible
• Jurassic Park

Our favourite musicians:

• The Furies
• Eminem
• The Dubliners
• Bob Marley.

Our favourite time of the year:

• Halloween

Our favourite thing about St. Peter’s:

• Our School Trip.

Our best memory in St Peter’s so far:

• Bike Day.

We’re learning about volcanoes in 2nd class at the moment. As part of our artwork this month, we learned about paint and colour. We watched videos of volcanoes erupting and picked out the colours that we noticed in the video. We picked red, orange, yellow and a bit of brown to use. We tried a new technique to portray a volcanic eruption called straw painting. We watered down the paint, poured some on the page and blew through a straw to make the paint move all over the page. It was REALLY messy but the effect was really cool. We learned that the page gets very wet from the paint so you have to be careful not to tear it with the straw. We made the volcano part from brown wrapping paper, which we scrunched up to make it look rocky and then we chose to paint it or leave it plain. Our volcanoes are up outside our classroom door. Check them out in our Animoto!