Hi everyone! We’ve been very busy since our last blog post! Here is what we have been getting up to in October. We had a fabulous time celebrating Halloween! We’d the best time with the rest of the school at the disco! A big thank you to our PA who put so much time & effort into it! #4thClass 🎃 pic.twitter.com/DqeOgsgVlV — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 27, 2017 The Hocus Pocus cinema is open in #4thClass! The excitement! 🎃🎬 We earned this reward for working so hard this midterm! — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October...
16 Jun
We have experimented with baking and cooking this year, overall, I think we have some budding chefs in the 6th Class Classroom! I’m not sure if many of the tasty treats made it all the way home for parents to taste! Throwback to the time we got so engrossed in our science experiment and (with a broken clock!) managed to spend an extra 15 minutes in school…every pupil’s dream!! Halloween was a lot of fun with great art projects like these! The class created 3 full- size creatures to terrify the guests at the Halloween Disco! (I’m not too sure how James feels about being the monster model...
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...
5 May
Senior Infants have been taking part in an after-school club based on STEM. Carl Dempsey from Salesforce has been helping out with the club and we’ve really enjoyed welcoming him to our classroom. All of the sessions were based on nursery rhymes or fairytales. We measured this tower and it was the tallest! Session 1 was based on Humpty Dumpty and materials. Humpty Dumpty likes to sit on high structures so we got into groups and built walls as high as we could. The walls had to stand by themselves by the end of the five minutes. We learned a lot about what makes structures sturdy –...
5 May
STEM for Fun with the junior classes started a couple of weeks ago. Here Junior Infants, Senior Infants and 1st Class are brought to the hall each week to work with teachers and parents to engage in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths games and challenges. Check out some of our pictures below (where the adults seem to be having just as much fun as the children!)
8 Oct
Hi everyone! We can’t believe it is October already! 5th Class have been doing some brilliant work with Ms. Brennan and our visiting teacher Ms. Mooney. Read all about it below. Firstly, here are some of our videos! Dancing out to our tables! #5thClass https://t.co/SO2cNFdc8A — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016 ‘Óró, sé do bheatha ‘bhaile!’ i Rang a Cúig! #5thClass https://t.co/VsN2bcUe8e — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2016 The Trolls ‘Can’t Stop The Feeling’ dance on @GoNoodle is our favourite...
24 Sep
We’ve had a very busy week in Senior Infants! This week, we started morning stations – Ms Halligan worked on blending with us, Ms Sexton worked on our reading, another station worked on handwriting and the fourth station had some DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) time and worked on their free writing. We love using our whiteboards for free writing! Ms Ní Chionnaith helps our class during our Ready Set Go Maths stations. This week, we worked on patterns with different sets. Some groups worked with beads and threading, creating patterns with size, shape and colour. Other groups worked...
20 Sep
Good afternoon! Here is an update from 5th Class! We’ve been busy. We are now older and doing lots of jobs in school. Our classroom lunch supervisor! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/EbHpjowi1h — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 1, 2016 We’ve had a couple of wonderful Students of the Week! The first 🌟 of the week in #5thClass! He wins it for giving 100% & making a big effort to take part in everything! pic.twitter.com/QSbXcjNwfg — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 2, 2016 The 🌟 of the week in #5thClass! A team player with...
22 Apr
Second class has been exploring lots of different materials and their properties over the last while. As a part of this we have been looking at lots of different questions about what different materials are like. The other week, we watched an amazing video of Felix Baumgartner as he jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere. You can see the video here http://www.redbullstratos.com/gallery/?mediaId=media1902415096001 Ms. Fry showed us a picture that Felix Baumgartner had drawn as a little boy of himself jumping with a parachute and it really got us thinking! We started wondering about what...
18 Apr
Having learned about the Titanic last week, the children in first class decided to undertake the challenge of designing their own boats. First we brainstormed the properties of boats and we decided that they need to float, carry people and have some way of moving. Then we discussed what types of materials would be good to use when building boats. We concluded that materials such as paper and cardboard would be no good as they would get soggy. Instead we would need to use waterproof materials such as plastic and strong materials such as metal. The first step we took was to see what objects...
