St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We started off the month with some Autumn Art. We used autumnal paints for our colourful dot painting. They turned out so well and really brightened up the classroom! We had great fun designing and carving a pumpkin this month for Halloween and learning about the stages in which a pumpkin grows. We had a brilliant last day before the mid-term, dressing up and painting pumpkins! Happy Halloween from all of 4th Class   

3rd class have had another super month this October in school, read on to see the different activities they’ve been up to! Rang a trí kicked off October by learning how to multiply, they’re pros at it now and even built an array city showing the different arrays to make numbers. For maths week, we then looked at division and recognised the link between multiplication and addition and division and subtraction. To help us divide, we used skittles in groups and of course ate them after 😋 Using skittles to divide We also learnt all about plants this month. We learned... 

STEM Flying ‘Ghosts’ We learned all about electricity this week – especially static electricity. We created our own static electricity by rubbing balloons on our hair and jumpers making them stick to the walls and windows. We made some of our ‘ghosts’ fly using the static from our balloons! Pumpkin Painting We had great fun painting pumpkins as a group – deciding on characters together, painting and drawing their faces! We will raffle off Olaf, the Ninja Turtle and Scarecrow tomorrow and kids can take them home for their Mid-Term! Pumpkin... 

Today in first class we celebrated Maths Week by going on a math hunt around the school! We found different 2D shapes, lengths, numbers and worked out our speed while running and doing jumping jacks. we had to unlock all of these challenges together as we moved around different areas of the school , it was so much fun!  

We got a great start to Maths Week in first class by finding 2D shapes in the classroom. Each group got a different shape that they had to search for in the room! Take a look at what we found: We then made some 2D monsters with the new shapes we had learnt about. Take a look at our creations:  

Fifth Class are delighted to be back and have had a wonderful month settling back into school. We have been doing some great things in class and have been working very hard. Our first theme to start off the year was inventors. We looked at a range of different inventors and even came up with our own inventions! One inventor we studied was Leonardo Da Vinci. We learned that not only was he was a brilliant inventor, he was also an artist, sculptor and engineer. In art we looked at his most famous painting, The Mona Lisa, and decided to put a modern twist on it! Check out our ‘Modern... 

In 4th Class for Maths this month we have been learning about Time. We made a life size clock to help our understanding of time on an analogue clock! In Art we drew self – portraits with a twist this year as we designed our own masks! This week we had our long-awaited Bike Day! We took part in activities out in the yard and talked about bike safety. Thanks to Paddy for organising!  

Wow, its hard to believe we’re back to school a month already, September always flies! We have had a busy first few weeks getting settled and getting down to some 3rd class business 😎 Here are some of 3rd on their first day… We started into the month getting to know each other and finding out different facts about ourselves.. And our teacher! Our Science focus for the month was The Human Body 🦴🧠 we learned about the different organs and ‘Skelly’ dropped in to show us his!! We labeled our own skeletons organs and even played... 

To celebrate European week of sport, all classes took part in a sporting challenge. Below are some of the photos from the Junior Infants challenge.  

2nd class were so excited to return to school! they have created some fantastic art work by drawing self-portraits, designing their own masks and writing about their goals for this year! 2nd really enjoyed practising their cursive handwriting using whiteboards, writing with pencil and markers! We created symmetrical names which turned out to be our very own name monsters. We also are trying to enjoy the September sunshine by getting outside for our SESE! Working in pairs we had to search for things in our yard that stimulated our senses.