St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

The new senior infants have settled in very well to their new classroom this week. School is a little bit different this year as we are all trying our very best to prevent the spread of COVID19. We are using hand sanitizer everyday, trying our best to keep apart from our friends, following the arrows on the floor and our teachers are wearing masks all the time. (There are big smiles behind the masks!) We talked all about how we can keep our distance from children who are not in our group 👩🏼‍🏫👨🏾‍🏫. We got some new... 

As your first year in the school finishes up, we have a special video to celebrate how much we enjoyed having you in St Peter’s. Have a lovely Summer and we look forward to seeing you in September!  

Senior Infants and First Class were given a mission! Read about our mission below: First, we designed our boxes! We wrote letters to our future selves describing what we have been doing during these strange times! Our families helped us to create amazing art that shows who we lived with during this time! Finally, we filled our time capsules with artwork, masks, gloves and anything that we used during these weird times to help us! Thanks to parents and families for all of their help to make our time capsules!... 

At the end of May, we read a new book at home. The title of the book is ‘How to Catch a Star’. The author of the book is Oliver Jeffers! He is the person who wrote the book. Have a look at some of the activities we did during the week! Have a look at some of our beautiful star artwork below: We retold the story using pictures: We made plans to catch our own stars!: We did some superstar stuff at home too! (AS USUAL!) Here’s Harley’s bird nest that he found when walking through the woods! 🙂  

Last week 3rd class once again took on the STEM challenge of the week: Pringle Ringle. This was an engineering project in which students had to create a ring using only Pringles – no tape or glue allowed! The challange required a lot of patience as well as careful Pringle placement! First they had to fill in a recording sheet where they had to guess how many Pringles were in the container and how many they thought they’d need to build the ring. Next, they sketched out their plan. When they completed the task they said how many they actually used to build the ring and reflected... 

Last week 3rd class had the tricky STEM challenge of designing and building a model that represented a rule that they follow at home! This included any chores they may have. They had to plan it out first, design it, make it and test that it worked. Then, make any changes to the model before sending it to me. As usual, I was blown away by their imaginative and creative ideas. Check out the pictures below to see what some of 3rd class do at home for their parents 😁 Well done 3rd class, brilliant ideas! This model explains that homework must be completed everyday at the table... 

This week 3rd class took on the tricky STEM challenge of building their own bridge! They had to research bridges and then design one based on their research. They could use any materials they wanted but the bridge must have been strong enough to hold a food can. Once they had their ideas down on paper, they began the hard (but fun) part – building the bridge. And when this was completed they tested out its strength by using a food can on top. Some had to amend some areas and make slight changes but the results are fantastic, check out the pictures below, I was so impressed. Super... 

🌼Sunday, 10th of May was a special day that our second class students had been looking forward to. It would have been their First Holy Communion Day. For now, this date has been postponed but we put together this video to celebrate the occcasion! 🌼All of us are really looking forward to this day in the near future but for now, have a look to see some familiar faces with a special message! Click here: https://spark.adobe.com/video/KGFDHYx0NjQa4 or watch below!   

This week, we listened to the story ‘Commotion in the Ocean’ by Giles Andreae. This book was full of lots of short rhymes that told us about all of the creatures that live in the sea! 🐟 🐬 Senior Infants taught their teacher about sea creatures!🐠 🐠 Some children wrote about the shark, one wrote a story about a crab named Buttercup. Miss Conway even got to learn some new information about the big blue whale and the jiggly jellyfish. Miss Conway had a great time learning all of this new information from senior infants. Thanks for teaching...