St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

In Ms. Mitchell’s class we were so excited to find out what was going to happen next in The Twit’s so we read THREE chapters of the book today!

We all took turns reading and listening carefully to the story.

Mr. Twit was trying to help Mrs. Twit grow taller by stretching her. He tied her ankles to a ring in the ground and then he tied her neck and wrists to 60 gas filled balloons.  Mr. Twit planned to leave her there for a few days but then he had a different idea. He cut the  strings on her ankles and Mrs. Twit went up into the sky like a rocket! Mrs. Twit was very clever and she bit 21 balloon strings and she floated back down to earth. When she was coming back down the birds flew past and saw her knickers!! We all thought this was hilarious.

After every chapter we talked about what had happened in that chapter and how Mr and Mrs Twit might have felt.

Then we predicted what was going to happen in the next chapter.  We were all happy and laughed at some of the predictions. Arturas thought that Mrs. Twit would fly away up to space,  Johnny thought Mrs. Twit was going to get stretched out very tall and I thought Mrs. Twit was going to fall and hurt herself. We all found the predictions very funny and couldn’t wait to keep reading and find out who was right.

We are really enjoying reading The Twits and  can’t wait to see what is going to happen next!

By Lorcan Berry

This week is so busy. We’re getting involved in #TechWeekIrl and we’re off to the Junior Spider awards ceremony on Tuesday!

We’re also taking part in Digital Art Week (#artweek14), and we can’t wait to combine two of our favourite things – Art and ICT! There is so much potential here to use technology to create wonderful pieces of art. We haven’t taken part before, but our online twitter and blogging friends have made this an unmissable event. We’ll be combining our #TechWeekIrl events with all Art activities and we’ll be tweeting and blogging all week. It will be a great opportunity to learn from other schools and online friends! This is how the whole week will work. 

There are brilliant apps and ideas on the website here and here. Why not try them our at home?

We can’t wait to get involved! Here’s to a great #artweek14!

Daft Punk – Technologic from Anastasia Bandrina on Vimeo.

Welcome back everyone! We can’t wait for Term 3 to start. We have so many exciting things on the cards – and this week will be hard to beat!

We’re starting off Term 3 with Tech Week 2014.  It is a celebration of the opportunities that technology brings into our lives, as it inspires and encourages us in our learning and daily work.

The aim of Tech Week is to highlight how important technology is to us, as we work creatively in school and at home! We can’t imagine life in St. Peter’s without the internet, our laptops, our telephone or our teacher iPads! We love all STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) activities in our school, and we use every opportunity to participate in national and local events that celebrate these subjects. Some of our previous STEM activities can be seen here!

We have an exciting week of events planned. We’re also taking part in Digital Art Week 2014, and we’re off to the Junior Spiders Awards ceremony on Tuesday. There is no better way to celebrate #TechWeek14!

We’d like to thank  The Irish Computer Society (ICS) as they act as the coordinator of Tech Week.  We’ve love to hear from other schools, universities, institutes of technology, libraries or community groups that are taking part. Make sure you tweet us @StPetersBray!

Want to get involved? The website suggests some activities! 

• a Tech Week quiz

• an open day for families so that your learners can showcase their work/ progress

• getting a Technology professional in to talk to your group

• Organising a Tech Walk (this enables you to take part in the Tech and Go Seek Competition

If you are an event organiser: Simply sign up here and then register your event!

If you are a student/ youth group member: See the Primary and Secondary sections of the website for more information.

Have a great Tech Week! See you on twitter and check out our blog for posts during the week!

Welcome to our weekly online newsletter – the St Peter’s Post! We’d a really exciting week with the arrival of Scientific Sue. We were delighted to welcome five local schools to see Sue in action and they were all really impressed by Sue and by our beautiful school! It was lovely to be able to share our prize with them and we’re very grateful to Engineers Ireland for organising it.

Here are the week’s headlines:

• You can read all about Scientific Sue’s visit here!
• We’re now on our Easter holidays – 3rd class had great fun yesterday at their Easter egg hunt. Check out all the fantastic photos from the day here.
• Ms Mitchell’s class and 2nd class made Easter nests – well done to Jordan K who wrote up the recipe for anyone who’d like to try it. Check it out here.
• 5th class had an online Easter egg hunt. You can have a go here.
• And in our final Easter related post of the week, ‘Wednesday for Parents’ covered events happening over the Easter holidays. Plan a great day out here.
• 6th class made the most beautiful artwork with charcoal – see their famine ships here.
• Our corridors are beautifully decorated – check out 2nd class’s art here.
• 5th class have a bulletin board in their section of the corridor of their favourite moments of the year so far. What did they choose? Find out here.
• Well done to Paddy and Mr Kinsella who took part in a fundraising event for LauraLynn last week.
• It was another big week for stop-motion animation on the blog – Tommy from 4th class shared another of his amazing films – you have to check it out! Watch it here.
• 3rd class also posted a stop-motion video this week, which got a great reaction at our recent Seachtain na Gaeilge concert – ‘An Timpiste’ – watch it here.
• 2nd class posted an epic podcast this week about the book they’re reading – ‘Zac Power’. Listen to it here.
• Catch up on all the football results from recently here.
• We were delighted to welcome in Baby T for Roots of Empathy. Did you see the Vines of him giggling? Make sure you watch them here.
• The Student Council continue to do great work – listen to their podcast here.
• Our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) work continues with Design and Make – check out 5th class’s excellent work here.

But, wait, there’s more! Here’s the rest of this week’s news: (more…)

3^rd Class had a very ‘egg-citing’ day on Friday. They took part in an Easter egg hunt around our school. The children worked in teams of three and four. They completed five different challenges over the day which led them to clues as to where the Easter eggs were hidden. Adam Hackman was the star of the show with his quick skills completing the egg co-ordinates grid and working out that the second set of eggs were in the library. The boys found eggs in the grass at the front of the school, in the library and in the back yard. Once they had completed all of the challenges they made their way to Ms Whyte who gave them their last token. This token was cashed in with Ms. Byrne for an Easter egg! Many thanks to Mr Kinsella for all of his help with the challenges and hiding the eggs.

The boys really enjoyed the day and we wish you all a very Happy Easter. Check out the pictures from our Easter Hunt here!

Well done to Paddy and Mr Kinsella who took part in the LauraLynn Kettlebell Challenge at Shoreline Leisure, Bray last Saturday. LauraLynn is Ireland’s only children’s hospice which works with children with life-limiting conditions. It also provides residential care for young adults with disabilities. The lads managed to lift 2,000 kettle bells between them in the hour and raised much needed funds for the charity.  Many thanks to Ms. Whyte, Mr. Foley and of course Ari who came along to support them. Well done!

Seo é an Stop Motion – ‘An Timpiste’ ó rang a trí. Tá súil againn go mbainfidh tú taitneamh as.

IMG 0158 from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.

Sixth class have been creating beautiful artwork with their teacher Ms Hughes lately – did you see their planets?

This week, they used charcoal to draw famine ships. Check out their fantastic artwork below.

Sixth class would like to really thank Ms Hughes for all her work with them over the last few weeks – we hope we see you soon!

Today we’ve an unusual Easter egg hunt in 5th class – we used Mission MapQuest to have a European Easter egg hunt – all without leaving the library!

We used the clues from our Folens workbook ‘Where on Earth? 5th class’ on the exercise on the EU.

Here’s the link if you’d like to play along:

EU Easter hunt

You may have noticed the new noticeboard outside 5th class focusing on their recent adventures in Design and Make.

It’s all part of Ms Sexton’s course in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) and as you can see from the Prezi – the students of 5th class had all of the good ideas in this lesson!

Click on the title of the post to check out our Vines and see what happened when we tested them – watch Adam’s closely! (more…)