St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

This week, Senior Infants were given a ‘magic’ art challenge. For this challenge they needed 2 sheets of kitchen roll and markers. See if you can do it at home! Here are the instructions: Credit:https://www.instagram.com/muinteoirniamh_infants/?hl=en Have a look at some of the amazing artwork made by Dylan and Nevaeh: Nevaeh’s Spring Art Dylan’s Art Another one from Dylan!  

Senior Infants have been sending Miss Conway their fantastic work everyday! They have been reading and writing, solving maths problems and speaking and singing in Irish at home. On top of all of that hard work, our senior infants have found some other ways to have fun at home. Let’s have a look at what they’ve been up! Keeping Busy in the Garden!🌲🌻🌳 Planting beautiful flowers!Helping to plant in the garden!Rhys and his brother Luke working hard in the garden! Creating Amazing Art! 👏  We had caterpillars in our class that turned... 

Engineers Week 2020 This year for Engineering week, 4th Class took a trip to Bray Library to meet with a local Bray Engineer to learn about the important role of being an engineer.                                                                                                            We learned... 

In first class, we became engineers, we made our very own catapults! Here’s how we did it: Firstly, we had to investigate how catapults worked. We watched different videos which showed us loads of different catapults, how they were made and how they worked!Each group then decided which catapult they wanted to make. Each group then decided on the materials they wanted to use. They could choose from straws, lollipop sticks, bottle caps, plastic spoons, pipe cleaners, elastic bands, sellotape and plastic. For their design, they needed to choose the materials that would keep their catapult... 

Discover Primary Science 2nd Class Lesson Brief Summary of our STEM Experiment: Stimulus/Rationale: Recently, 2nd class wanted to investigate different methods of transport for Santa Claus. This was stimulated by a question I posed to the class, ‘If the reindeer went on strike on Christmas Eve how would Santa Claus travel to deliver presents to all the boys and girls?’ We brainstormed some alternatives coming up with rockets, flying cars, jet-pack’s, wings etc. however a quick and feasible alternative we agreed would be a parachute. Task: Design and build a parachute for... 

Our questions were –Which liquid will cause our candy cane to disappear the fastest? To conduct our experiment, we needed: 3 plastic cups, 3 candy canes, vinegar, warm water and cold water. We labelled our 3 clear cups and then filled the cups with warm water, cold water and vinegar. Then, we made predictions. We thought the vinegar would make the candy cane disappear because it was smelly! We voted to put the “hook” side of the candy cane down so that more of the candy was in the liquid. We put one candy cane in each cup and watched to see what would happen. Within... 

STEM for Fun with the junior classes started a couple of weeks ago. Here Junior Infants, Senior Infants and 1st Class were brought to the hall each week to work with teachers and parents to engage in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths games and challenges. This is a way for the children to engage in STEM skills in a fun and less formal way. We have been running STEM for Fun in the school for the last 4 year now and is always a favourite with pupils. Throughout the year each class will get a 5 week block of STEM for Fun with thanks to our HSCL, School Completion, teachers and... 

This week in Science, we decided to find out whether or not our brains are affected when we eat chocolate. Firstly, we watched a video about the brain and illusions and how sometimes we can trick our brain with illusions. We then tried to create our own illusions by tricking our brain into thinking we had a hole in our hand. This was done by rolling a lined sheet of paper and holding it up to our eye and looking through it, while moving our hand towards and away from our eye –  it did look like we had a hole in our hands!! 🙂 Next, we looked at a slide where there was different words... 

                                     Second Class and Materials    Second class have been really busy learning all about materials. We have been examining how different materials are used in our environment.   There is building work happening outside our classroom at the moment and it is a bit noisy. We decided we would experiment with different materials to make earmuffs for ourselves so that we can work in peace!   Choosing Materials  Everybody in the class decided they would bring different things from their house to test for our earmuffs. We collected:  Paper... 

Humpty Dumpty STEM Experiment   Here in Junior and Senior Infants, we had great fun reciting the Humpty Dumpty rhyme. This got us thinking about how we could help protect Humpty Dumpty from cracking in the future. We decorated our individual Humpty Dumpty’s by using whiteboard markers to draw faces on our hard boiled eggs.     We then placed each Humpty Dumpty into a ziplock bag filled with different materials to cushion Humpty’s fall to see which material would best protect him. Before beginning the experiment, we discussed the different materials we would use to try...