On March 6th, 6th class took part in the first ever ESB Science Blast in the RDS. We were really proud to attend and to present our project on the science of the playground. We had a brilliant day, attending two workshops, speaking to the judges and exploring the other stands. Over the last few months, we’ve taken part in a number of investigations related to the playground. These investigations taught us a lot about slides, zip lines and surfaces, but more importantly, we learned a lot about fair testing, the process of design and make and the skills of STEM. Thanks to the RDS and ESB for...
8 Mar
Second and Fifth class decided to join together to celebrate Engineers Week on Wednesday and had lots of fun completing a STEM challenge. We worked together in small groups to try to build a structure that was strong and tall. We had to build using either a square or rectangular shape because we wanted to see if this would make any difference to how strong and tall our structures would be. Teamwork was also very important! We used plasticine and and small match sticks to create our structures. Check out some of our photographs below to see us in action! We worked really well...
27 Apr
Welcome to our submission for the Discover Primary Science and Maths award for 2018. This is our 13th year taking part in the Awards! Once again this year we are applying for the Plaque of STEM Excellence. This award is given to schools that carry out extensive work in science, technology, engineering and maths, all of which are very important in St. Peter’s. This is the 4th year that we have had Junior and Senior Infants taking part in the award! It is great to see the young scientists have so much fun learning about Science and Maths. This year, we did a whole school experiment involving...
20 Jan
Back in action! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/xMjJEmnGvI — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2018 Hi everyone! Happy New Year! We hope you are all well and ready to have a super 2018. Here is what we have been getting up to. Did you see our lovely art work recently? We are learning about Van Gogh in #4thClass. We used oil pastels to create tributes to Starry Night, his famous painting. #creativeschools pic.twitter.com/9vearRWhOk — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 19, 2018 We are enjoying our brain breaks on Go Noodle! Well, it is awards season! #4thClass...
10 Dec
Well, it has been a very busy few weeks in Mrs. Reilly’s 4th Class room! Here is some of our news. As always, our class spirit is so important. We work on our behaviour and team work skills always! We had some visitors to help us! We have three lovely helpers from @SalesforceOrg in our room today. They have joined in in lots of activities! It is so fun. #4thClass — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) December 1, 2017 Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate this day. Today we gave thanks in circle time for all we are grateful for. We give thanks everyday for the health, happiness...
8 Jun
Wow, how busy have we been? We’ve already packed so much into our last term! Read on to find out more! We made a video about friendship! We also made news recordings! Watch #5thClass using the Newsbooth app and @Vimeo to record breaking news stories from our history work this year! https://t.co/QEyVVsUaVk — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) May 12, 2017 Breaking news from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. Breaking news from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. 5th Class Breaking news from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. Breaking News from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. We’re...
8 May
Welcome to our submission for the Discover Primary Science and Maths award for 2017. This is our 12th year taking part in the Awards! Once again this year we are applying for the Plaque of STEM Excellence. This award is given to schools that carry out extensive work in science, technology, engineering and maths, all of which are very important in St. Peter’s. This is the 3rd year that we have had Junior and Senior Infants taking part in the award! It is great to see the young scientists have so much fun learning about Science and Maths. Yet again, a huge amount of work has gone into this. Every...
3 May
Hi everyone! 5th Class here, and we’re going to tell you all about how we celebrated Engineers Week 2017. Firstly, we explored the work of engineers. We had a special project to complete on the interactive board in school! We also looked at this wordle challenge completed by some of our brothers and sisters a couple of years ago. We’ve started #engweek17! We built a word wall, looked at the work of engineers and we prepared for our afternoon challenge! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/8kgipCJ35I — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 6, 2017 For Engineers Week this year we: Completed...
6 Mar
We’ve been very busy in 5th Class for the last while – here’s what we’ve been up to! We have some new friends in our classroom! We got a fish tank and got help from our friends at Bray Sea Life to set it up! Aisling and Pauline from @braysealife are teaching us so much! We are excited to get our tank set up! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/g4xlGfpQhB — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 28, 2017 So proud to have our @braysealife tank installed in #5thClass! pic.twitter.com/wCXpod5uqv — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 28, 2017 We had great...
13 Jan
We are delighted to be taking part in the First Lego League competition again this year. There are 3 main elements to the competition – The Project, Core Values and The Robot Game & design Picture Conor McCabe Photography The Project: There are three main parts to our project; Identify a problem, Design a solution, Share with others. This year’s challenge was to look at how animals and humans interact, find a problem with one of these interactions and develop an innovative solution. After weeks of research & brainstorming we finally decided to focus on bees for the Animal Allies...
