St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Last night, four of our students went to Killiney Castle Hotel for the Write A Book awards! Casey from 2nd class, Luke from 4th, Ben from 5th and Kyle from 6th were very excited to receive their medals and certificates from Pat Seaver from the Blackrock Education Centre and Mary Mitchell O’Connor, TD. Casey’s story was called ‘Bullies Never Win’ and had a beautiful theme of friendship and loyalty. You can read her story here. Luke’s story was called ‘The Dwarven City of Dishea’ – a story to give the Hobbit a run for its money! Ben’s story was... 

In March we did a LOT of work on data during our maths lessons. We found out that data is showing information in lots of different ways. We used pictograms, tally charts and bar charts. Bar charts were our favourites ( “Yum” said Adam!) We worked in teams of 2 to ask the whole school what was their favourite break time fruit? They could choose between an apple, orange or banana. We made tally charts in our copies when we asked each class. Next we went back to our class and made bar charts from the information. Then we made giant posters to show every class’s choice of fruit. We... 

We got a very exciting Tweet on Saturday evening from Sean O’Sullivan, who launched Mathletes with Ciaran Cannon, a Minister for State in the Department of Education. You might know Sean O’Sullivan from the programme ‘Dragons Den’ and he’s famous around the world as an inventor, an entrepreneur and an investor. We’re big fans of Khan Academy and Mathletes and we’ve posted two updates since we’ve started here and here. So, what did it say in the Tweet? Overall best @MATHletes_ie primary school in Leinster (from Bray, Wicklow) St Peter’s Primary #GoMathletes —... 

Today, the senior Gaelic football team took part in a blitz in Ballinakill, the new Centre of Excellence near Rathdrum. We were delighted to be runners-up in the blitz today! Our first match was against Kilbride. We won by one point. Jordan Whyte scored the first goal of the day for St Peter’s. We lost our second match to Donard. Ben Gorman showcased his skill in that game by dummying the ball. We played Kilmacanogue in our third match and we won. Dylan Kane scored a cracker of a goal. He took his bounce, his steps, then a solo then hammered it past the keeper. Ballinakill is deadly –... 

This week Johnny, Arturas, Nathan K  and Ryan  made huge improvements in their spellings and tables tests. They are working hard to be the best and we know that they are doing their learning homework every night. Ms. Whyte popped in to our room to  congratulate the boys and give them  all prize stickers. Well Done boys, keep it up!  

We celebrated Daffodil Day today by making our own daffodils! They are very easy to make, you could  even try it at home! Here’s Ryan to tell you “How to”! “We got a yellow piece of card and we traced our hands with pencil. Next we cut out our hand prints. Then we folded them in the middle and put the straws in  the middle too. We sellotaped the straw inside. After that we added green leaves to the stem. We are going to give them to our Mam’s for Mother’s day on Sunday because they are so beautiful!”  

Yesterday, we got a very exciting package in the post – it was the planting pack from AgriAware. We love taking part in the AgriAware Incredible Edibles project every year. You can see our planting post from last year here. This year, Oisín was our photographer and he captured all the fun of the afternoon. We took the opportunity to plant immediately because we’ve been dodging raindrops all week so we were delighted to get some dry weather yesterday afternoon! We’ll keep you updated on the progress of our plants. We grew spring flowers earlier in the year, which turned out really... 

Bhí ceolchoirm againn an seachtain seo caite mar bhí Seachtain na Gaeilge ar siúl? An bhfaca tú an scannán ó rang a trí? Tá sé anseo! Bhí rang a cúig ag canadh ‘An Prionsa Úr’. Éist leis an podchraoladh agus bain taitneamh as!  

Congratulations to the St. Peter’s Senior football team who were runners-up in the Division 3 final of the North Wicklow League. Mr. Foley presented them with their medals during school assembly on Friday. The boys were narrowly defeated by St. Laurence’s after a great display. By coming second in their division, they qualified for a Wicklow tournament in the Centre of Excellence in Ballinakill, Rathdrum. Special mention must go to Eduard Grefaldeo who played in goal and only conceded one goal in four games, and to Jordan Whyte who won Player of the Tournament. Well done for showing such great... 

It’s been a while since we put together one of our ‘In Numbers’ pieces, so we thought it was about time that we reflected on what we have been getting up to since our last one that we posted on November 5th! In short, our blog has the following: 1. 369 blogposts, with 27,088 pageviews! Wow! 2. A whopping 1,413 comments at the time of writing! 3. 78 podcasts that have been played 1,838 times! To add to that, our twitter has… 1. 1,758 tweets. 2. 365 followers. In the 19 weeks since that last post, we have added to the many activities and projects that are typical of the...