St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Hi, I’m Sam in 6th Class. Last night I wrote a book review about Goodnight Mister Tom. Here it is, I hope you enjoy it!

Characters:

.William Beach (Willie)

.Zach (Dies)

.Mister Tom (Tom Oakley)

.Sammy (Dog)

.Carrie

.Ginnie

.George

Places

. Little Weirwold

.Bradford

.London

.Salmouth (Salt-On-The-Mouth)

.Skyron

Author:

Michelle Magrain

Cover art:

David Frankland

Plot

We start with Willie who is evacuated in WW2 and is given to Tom. At first Tom doesn’t like having Willie around but then he starts to get used to having him around. Willie is terrified of Tom and Sammy but on his birthday he starts to like Tom and not be afraid of Sammy. Sadly, Willie’s mom died so Tom adopted Willie and they lived a happy live.

Review

I like the book but it took a while to get interesting and that’s why I am giving it a 7/10.

Every Wednesday, I attend the chess club down at the Esplanade Hotel on the seafront.

We hold many tournaments there and practice every Wednesday. People are welcome to join us anytime. The season ended recently and lasts for a few months. The final match was 5-1 to the opposing team down in Wicklow. If enough children go, a special room will be added for younger players. We hope for the community to grow and win more Leinster leagues.

If you are interested in joining, just ask me for the details and I’d love to see more people on our school get involved in Chess!

The famous Irish gymnast Kieran Behan! Picture from gymnasticsireland.com!

Hi, I’m Archie in 6th Class and I do gymnastics. It is very fun if that is the thing you like doing. It challenges you to stay fit, flexible and focused!

The stretches are hard depending on how flexible you are. Personally, I find them hard. You do all training exercises as you do in most sports. Gymnastics is very good for parkour, as they are basically the same thing.

I joined gymnastics to improve my parkour skills and become better at it. I do gymnastics up in Ballyogan. The name of the gym is Trojan. There are about eight people in my group, it is an all boys group.

I’d really recommend Gymnastics. It’s a fantastic way to make friends and stay fit!

5th class recently took part in the Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards. The challenge was to write a short play on the theme of Friendship. It was a great opportunity to write in a new format.

LukeO’B wrote a short play about making friends in difficult situations. His play is set in a homeless shelter and his two characters are boys, aged 10 years old. His actors were Andy and Leon.

Andy wrote a short play about making friends on your first day in a new school. His characters are Peter and Paul, and it’s Paul’s first day. His actors were AaronJ and Robert.

Well done boys! Keep an eye out over the next few weeks for more of our short plays!

This Wednesday, we kick off a series on helping your child with homework. Our series is going to give you a number of simple tips to help you to help your child with all aspects of their homework. We want to know what works for you and what you’d like advice on. We’d love to hear from you! To get us started, we brainstormed our best homework tips at a staff meeting earlier this week. We hope this post will be edited regularly, as we get more and more tips and advice!

Here’s the structure of our mini-series:

• Week 1 (today): General tips and links
• Week 2: How to help your child with his/her learning homework
• Week 3: How to help your child with reading homework
• Week 4: How to help your older child with study skills

Today, we’re covering general tips for helping with homework!

• Agree on a set time for homework with your child. Among other tips, Schooldays.ie suggest that you allow your child some element of choice, i.e. that your child may start and finish when they want to, providing it falls between 3pm and 5pm. (more…)

Wow! We have great blogging and twitter friends. One of our favourite friends (called Summer Buzz) has flown onto our blog with a message for all of you.

Some of the students wanted to share what they are reading with Summer Buzz! Here are the names of the books that some of 2nd Class are reading at home.

1. Dean D is reading a book all about Mojang and the discovery of Minecraft!

2. Dean T is reading Doctor Seuss on the Loose!

3. Codie is reading Five Kids and It!

4. Kayden is reading a non-fiction book about dinosaurs.

5. Casey is reading Pinocchio.

6. Abbi is reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid ‘Dog Days’.

7. Ryan is reading Silly Cow!

8. Dylan M is reading Oliver Twist.

We are hoping that we will have even more updates on our reading for you soon! We hope that Buzz is proud of our reading at home.

For the last number of weeks, Ms Brennan and Ms Sexton have been organising an after-school club to prepare for the Creative Schools. We’re working on a collection of stop-motion animations to show the greatest moments of invention and discoveries. It’s called the ‘A-ha Moments Project’ and we can’t wait to show you all of our hard work.

So far, we’ve chosen our moments of discovery, storyboarded our animation, written the scripts and started to build with clay. Next, we need to film!

Here’s a sneak peek at some of our work so far, courtesy of Patryk from 6th class.
 

Keep an eye out on the blog for updates!

As you all know, 2nd Class have been lucky enough to have dancing every Wednesday this year.

They have loved taking part and they are really grateful to their lovely teacher Sue! Dancing is great fun and helps us to keep fit! We love doing it for PE.

Just for some fun, we decided to learn a little bit about Riverdance, the famous dance from the Eurovision. It was cool to look at the video and imagine what it is like to dance in front of loads of people all over the world. The music is excellent and was written by a man called Bill Whelan.

Would you like to see us give it a goal at assembly? Have a look here!

IMG 7921 from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.

2nd Class are getting ready for their First Confession and First Holy Communion. We decided to podcast about our work so far. We are working hard to prepare for our sacraments. Have a listen to our podcast here!

Some very excited St. Peter’s students with their finished books!

Well done to the boys and girls who completed the Write-A-Book project just before the midterm break.

We were delighted with the standard of the finished books and we hope that the students are really proud of the work done.

This is the first time we have participated in the project and we really enjoyed it.

Our books have now been sent to other schools and teachers for correction. We are also lucky enough to have the chance to read the work of children from other local schools as part of the project!

One book from each class will be picked as a ‘Merit Book’ and three will be ‘Highly Commended’. We will find out soon who the lucky winners are!