St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

‘Wednesday for Parents’ returns to one of our most popular types of posts this week – what’s on over the school holidays! Hopefully there’ll be lovely weather over the two weeks so we’ve included a nice mixture of indoor and outdoor activities.

• The Mermaid Theatre in Bray has a number of events for children over the Easter break. They’re screening (the original) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Sunday 13th April at 2pm. Tickets cost €5 and can be booked here. Then, on the 15th and 16th April, the Mermaid welcome spellbinding Children’s Theatre at 3pm & 7pm. Their show ‘Human Child’ combines live music, puppetry and a magnificent set. Tickets €10 (adult) and €8 (child) Family Ticket:4 for €30 and you can book them here.
• There are a number of Easter Egg hunts around – Kilruddery have one on Easter Sunday. They cost €12.50 plus admission for the egg hunt pack.
• Another interesting egg hunt takes place in the Croke Park GAA museum. It involves a tour of the museum and a hunt for tokens to redeem against an Easter egg. Tickets cost €8.50 for children and €12.50 for adults. You can find more info here.
• Easter at the Ark focuses on the millenium celebrations of the Battle of Clontarf. There’s lots of really cool events on to commemorate it, including designing shields and stage combat! You can read more about it here.
• Imaginosity always have a number of great events on – you can check them out here. We highly recommend the free websites on how to save the planet and the shows with Jungle Dave. Read more about them here.
• One local event from Imaginosity deserves a mention – they’ve teamed up with Powerscourt to create a Scientific Story Adventure. It looks amazing! Tickets for adults are €8.50 and for children over three are €5, but there are family tickets available. Check it out here.
• The Museums in the city are a fantastic family day out for free! They have a number of special events commemorating Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf. Details are here.
• Our friends from the National Stud deserve a special mention – they’ve been incredibly helpful over the last few weeks as 5th and 6th class study ‘War Horse’ (did you see our Twitter Q&A?) They’re offering free pony rides over the Easter holidays – check out the details here. Ticket prices can be found here.
• We couldn’t have an Easter events post and leave out Glenroe farm – I remember taking part in their egg hunts myself! You can find details here.
• Family Fun is a website that recommends family days out around the country – they’ve an exhaustive list of everything that’s on! Check them out here.

As always, you can find all previous ‘Wednesday for Parents’ posts here. We’d love to update our post with your tips – let us know what you recommend!

Baby T was back in today. We’ve been learning all about emotions and sleeping recently. He was so friendly! He is never sad. He is taller and heavier now. He loves to play with the toys and can keep eye contact! Gwen taught us a lot about sleep and how Tristan needs lots of it. We have looked at all of the emotions babies can feel. We feel them too! We are learning a lot from Tristan. See our photos in the video above and don’t miss our lovely Vines from T’s visit below!

On Monday St. Kieran’s visited St. Peter’s for the second time this year to take play a friendly football match.  Both teams had children from different classes and a special mention goes to the girls on each team who ran rings around the boys! Kathleen and Kelly Anne for St. Kieran’s and Abbi for St. Peter’s  played brilliantly. The result was a draw in the end with both schools winning one match each. The next time the schools will meet will be on Monday the 28th of April! We can’t wait for our next set of matches. Thanks to Paddy, the best coach ever!

By the boys and girls on the Football Team.

A couple of weeks ago, we were thrilled and excited to get news that we’d won a prize from STEPS for our work during Engineer’s Week. Sam, AaronG, LukeOB and Davy from 5th class had seen Scientific Sue in action at the Intel Regional Finals of the Mini-Scientist and they raised the excitement levels by telling everyone how cool her show was! You can check out her website here – we highly recommend her show!

One of the coolest things about the prize was that we were allowed to invite other schools to join in the fun. The first session of the day was at 9.45. (more…)

We, in 5th class, have been updating our bulletin boards this week and one of our boards in the corridor celebrates the year so far!

We chose our favourite photos and memories from the year so far. Can you guess what featured in our favourites?

Check out our Animoto to see what made the cut!

2nd Class have gotten to the end of Chapter 8 in Zac Power, Frozen Fear. It’s a brilliant, exciting book. The podcasts help us with our:

1. Predicting, 2. Making connections, 3. Creating images, 4. Inferring, 5. Putting it all together. Now we are working on re-reading!

You can hear our previous Zac Power podcasts here:

1. Chapter 1-3 

2. Chapters 4-5

Remember, you can catch our previous book/reading podcasts on the blog by clicking on the title!

1. The Magic Finger

2. The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me

3. Esio Trot

4. Care of Henry

5. Alfie Green and the Magical Gift

2nd Class just LOVE Art.

We enjoy taking time to create beautiful art that is individual and carefully planned out. We love being creative! Our favourite art activities at the moment are weaving and making things with clay!

Just like all of the rest of the school, we have decorated our corridor and take great pride in our displays. When our school is colourful and interesting it makes us proud of our work. We love when people tell us our art is nice.

At the moment, our Art is all about spring and Easter. Would you like to see what a lot of our recent Art work looks like? Enjoy our video!

He’s done it again! Tommy Lang in 4th Class has made yet another outstanding stop-motion video! This one is all about a day at the beach, and the work of the coastguard. He has excellent sound in this one and his use of his voice is truly excellent. Well done Tommy! Another exceptional piece of work!

See Tommy’s previous videos here and here.

lego a day at the beach from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.

Welcome to our weekly online newsletter – the St. Peter’s Post! We’ve quite a short edition this week – but we’ve an excellent excuse! It was papier-mâché central in St Peter’s this week and we’re very egg-cited to unveil it next week. Students and staff struggled to blog with paste-covered hands – hence the lack of documentation! We’ve a big week ahead however, and we can’t wait to show off our newly decorated corridor.

We have lots of big news though this week – it was a great week for us!

Here are the week’s headlines:

• We started off the week with some fantastic news – we’ve been nominated for a Junior Spiders award in TWO categories – for Best Blog and Best Website. We’re thrilled and honoured to have our work recognised in this way. You can read our post here. Check out our fellow nominees here.
• On Monday, we celebrated the achievements of our Write A Book winners in Killiney. You can check out our post here.
• Ms Mitchell’s class planted sunflower seeds this week. We can’t wait to see how well they grow! Read their post here.
• 5th and 6th classes been doing really well in the Mathletes challenge and we received some exciting news via Twitter from Seán O’Sullivan this week. Check it out here.
• Ms Mitchell’s class have been studying Data recently – check out their fantastic work here.
• 5th class are reading ‘War Horse’ and they contacted the Irish National Stud for a Twitter Q&A here. Read all the excellent questions and answers here.
• We’re taking part in a handwriting competition at the moment – you can read all the details here.
• And on the topic of handwriting, our ‘Wednesday for Parents’ recommended links to help improve your child’s handwriting.
• Ben and Jordan were praised for their excellent work in Ms Mitchell’s class this week. Well done boys!

In other news this week:

• We had a storyteller in to speak to us all on Friday – his name was Brendan Nolan. We’re looking forward to sharing everything we’ve learned from him later in the week!
• Members of the Parents’ Association visited again this week to organise Maths for Fun for the classes.
• Thanks to Paddy, for organising lunchtime tag rugby. It’s been very popular with the senior classes!
• We signed up for Tech Week Ireland – you can read more about it here.
• 2nd class covered Sleep in Roots of Empathy this week.
• We can’t wait to welcome Scientific Sue on Tuesday – and all the schools who are visiting to join in the fun!

So, there’s a snapshot of the week in St Peter’s! As always, you can find all of our previous St Peter’s Postshere and now, with the new website, we’ve included space for the St Peter’s Posts so that visitors to the website can keep up with all of our weekly news. You can access the latest St Peter’s Post at the bottom of the front page of the website or you can click on this link to see them all!