St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

6th class have had a great month celebrating Anti – Bullying month during November. It’s so important to celebrate this month in school in order to raise awareness about bullying and the many different forms it can take. As senior students in our school, we feel a responsibility to lead by example and make sure that our school is an open, welcoming and inclusive place to be. These golden rules contain some great advice and help us to identify and practise kind behaviour. Some of the activities we took part in included walking debates about bullying, identifying trusted... 

We had a great time investigating and discussing all things scientific this year! One of our favourite activities was when we linked our PE lesson with Science. We decided we would investigate our heart rates and the impact that certain exercises and activities have on our heart rate. How to take your heart rate To begin with, we discussed and took our ‘resting’ heart rates. This was a little bit tricky at first (some of us were worried we didn’t have any 😅) but after some perseverance we became comfortable calculating them. We did this by counting the... 

Welcome to the St. Peter’s Christmas Play 2021! This year, our classes have been really busy putting together fantastic videos of the students singing, dancing and acting for you. We really hope you enjoy the show!  

First class were so lucky to get a visit from Bex to help us think more about creativity. Firstly, Bex made this gorgeous ‘Creativitree’ with us to get us thinking about creativity: If you look closely you can see how we are creative: Bex then helped us to make tinfoil butterflies on her next visit: During the week 1st class were learning about hot air balloons, we decided to make our construction of a hot air balloon more creative by all making our own unique baskets to put onto them. Take a look at our constructions: We... 

Ancient Egypt We spent the month of April learning all about Ancient Egypt. We learned about Tutankhamen, the boy king, all about the pyramids and how they used to mummify their kings as they believed in the afterlife. Our favourite lesson was one of our Science lessons which involved mummifying a tomato. First, we learned all bout the mummifying process – removing the insides, cleaning the insides, then filling them up with natron (salt). Then, we applied all this new knowledge to our tomatoes. We cut out all the guts and cleaned the insides and then packed it tight with our own special... 

In Senior Infants, we have been learning all about life cycles! Before the Easter Holidays, senior infants took in our own class caterpillars. We wanted to watch them on their journey from caterpillars into butterflies! They grew from eggs and were caterpillars when we got them. We kept them in our room and each table looked after them each day. When we came back from the Easter Holidays, we noticed that the caterpillars had made their chrysalides! 👏 We put them into our butterfly garden and then waited for the next two weeks for them to turn in to butterflies …! Over... 

Senior Infants had so much fun getting involved with all of the amazing activities organised for wellness week. Check out what they got up to below… We kicked off the week with some challenges, activities and an obstacle course with Paddy in the hall! All of senior infants felt great after all that exercise! Exercise helps us to be happy too! 😊 At the start of the week, we read ‘Have You Filled a Bucket Today?’We thought of all the different things that our friends and families to do ‘fill our buckets’. Then we planned all of the kind, helpful things... 

Last week we celebrated wellness week in 1st class. We enjoyed loads of activities that relaxed us and made us feel better, have a look at some of the things we did! We started off the week by looking at different feelings, we discussed how we could feel better if we were feeling down, anxious or stressed and we tried these activities out during the week. Some of these activities included the following: Bubble Breathing- Taking deep breathes and acting like your blowing bubbles (or actually blowing them!) is a great way to calm down. 2. Healthy eating- It is important... 

This week was fantastic! We explored lots of different ways to take care of our bodies and our mind. We did some fabulous activities too and had lots of fun! This is our Calm Corner in 2nd Class. Check-In Zone Every day we checked in to our feelings ‘Zone’. This was a great way to think about our feelings and emotions. Music & Mindfulness We did lots of lovely Mindful Art. We learned that doing simple colouring and drawing is a great way to relax our minds. We really enjoyed playing the drums with Drum Nature. Sports Day 🏀 We had such fun with... 

Rubber Band Racer We spent some time studying renewable energy and different types of renewable materials. Making this rubber band racer was a STEM activity we did to explore the different ways to create energy and movement. We had to carefully insert the chassis pieces into the cardboard box to make the rubber band racing car balanced. Working together in the groups we fitted both wooden pieces before putting on the wheels. It was quite tricky adding in the rubber bands during this step but with a little help we managed to get it in. The Race! At the end of the lesson...