St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

6th class have been busy baking this year! Baking lessons allow us to put our practical Maths skills to use – weighing, measuring and timing – and also give us an opportunity to engage in some procedural writing.

So far this year, we have made banana bread and fairy cakes. We work in groups and each have different responsibilities when it comes to following Liz’s delicious recipes!

Take a look below at our lessons in action:

All of our recipes are on display in the 6th class corridor, let us know if you would like a copy to try out yourself!

We think baking is a great way to celebrate Maths Week too! We highly recommend getting involved in some active learning

3rd Class celebrated Space Week with different activities each day. We learned all about the earth and the different layers that make up the planet. We then molded our own planets out of clay and painted the layers from core to mantle.

While learning about the moon we decided to check out how craters are formed with a fin experiment involving flour, cocoa powder and various sized marbles.

We tested out which type of cola would make the best “Rocket Fuel” with the coke and mentos experiment. We figured the cola that produced the highest fountain would have the greatest force and therefore the make the best fuel.

Finally we were delighted to take part in the Dream Space webinar all about our solar system and learning how to code our own Space Invader computer game.

Last week, we celebrated Space Week! Second class learned about constellations.

We made some well known constellations using mini marshmallows and cocktail sticks. We hope you like them.

We learned lots of new things during Space Week this week. We loved reading Chris Hadfield’s book ‘The Darkest Dark’ about his dreams to be an astronaut. We also watched the 1969 moon landing which we couldn’t quite believe. We even learned about Neil Armstrong and did some art work of him.

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5th class have being working so hard to complete our JEP. We can not wait for our open day on friday the fifth of May .Every class will have a chance to come down and buy our amazing SQUISM’S, for €1.50.

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Junior Infants have been discussing Humpty Dumpty coming up to Easter. We felt sorry for poor Humpty after he fell off the wall and couldn’t be put back together. So we discussed how we could have protected Humpty Dumpty when he fell. We decided to test which material might have protected the poor egg.

Each group chose a different material to fill a bag containing an egg. The bag was then dropped from the same height off the table in the classroom to see if it would protect the egg from breaking. Groups chose Play Doh, water, flour, popcorn and paper from materials provided.

We made predictions on which material would work best. Water was the clear favourite with 7 predicting it would protect the egg the best. It was a fairly even split across the others with 4 predicting flour and popcorn and 3 predicting Play Doh and paper would do the best job.

We were surprised that the eggs in the paper and Play Doh broke on the first drop. The egg in the water broke when we increased the height of the drop. We couldn’t believe that the eggs in flour and popcorn survived.

We needed a bigger height so decided to drop them from a first floor window in the school. Even more amazingly the eggs both survived. We figured if we ever fall from a wall we want to be inside a bag of flour or popcorn for protection.