St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Some of our 5th and 6th class boys went to play a soccer blitz at Wolfe Tone Football pitch today. We competed against some great teams from St. Kieran’s, St. Fergal’s and Bray School Project; every school entered two teams into the Blitz. Every team played three matches each. From St. Peter’s, Team 1 won one of their matches by 3 goals to nil and Team 2 won all three of their matches! Davy Berry set up a fantastic goal against St. Kierans which Alan Duda executed perfectly! Our trainer Paddy’s “superkeeper” Eduard had a clean sheet in every match, he never... 

Today at 1.30pm Oreo the Spring lamb came to visit our school. Ben, Johnny,Jordan and Nathan O’B from Ms Mitchell’s Class got to hold the lamb and pet him too. Oreo was very happy to see us all. Jordan noticed that he had no teeth. Johnny noticed that he had a black nose and was very soft to touch. Ben thought he was very woolly and soft too. Nathan got a very cuddly hug off Oreo, they became good friends! Nathan missed Oreo a lot! After seeing Oreo our class had a big chat about the kinds of farms sheep live on, where wool comes from, and where we get our yummy lamb dinners from too! ... 

It’s no secret that we love Roald Dahl in St Peter’s. Roald Dahl Day was celebrated in great style by 2nd class at the start of the year, we choose a Roald Dahl fairytale for the school play every year and we even have Roald Dahl month every year. This year, Roald Dahl month fell in February and 5th class chose to read Matilda. Our chapter of Matilda every morning has become one of our favourite parts of the day and we’ve only one chapter left. Roald Dahl loves language and word-play and we enjoyed reading his words aloud! To celebrate World Book Day, we all chose an extract from... 

Let’s start with a picture that says it all! We consulted with parents a couple of weeks ago about homework online. On a number of occasions over the last week, 5th class have had the option of substituting a maths homework activity for 10 minutes of Khan Academy. On Tuesday evening, this happened: The light grey represents time in school, while the dark grey represents time outside of school.  So what is Khan Academy? Let us explain! The Khan Academy is a free resource that allows anyone to take classes in Maths, English and Science. It suggests topics for you based on whatever topics... 

We all thoroughly enjoyed decorating and eating our delicious pancakes today! Ryan and Nathan had very creative ideas and quite a lot of toppings too!! White chocolate, sugar & lemon and golden syrup were our favourites! As we ate we talked about what Pancake Tuesday is and discovered that it is also  called  ” Shrove Tuesday”. Ben told us that it is always the day before Ash Wednesday. Ryan explained that it is always just before Lent begins. Nathan O’B knew that Lent lasted for 40 days and 40 nights. We are looking forward to getting our Ashes at mass tomorrow.  

Today we thought about all of the signs of Spring in nature, we then went on a nature walk to check if had forgotten to add anything ! Afterwards we made a wordle of all things to do with Spring and nature. We learnt that Spring is a time of growth; the plants and trees are starting to grow buds & leaves, and the animals are coming out of hibernation. Many animals are having babies now too, we have noticed lambs, calves and chicks. We named quite a lot of Spring flowers today too; daffodil, snowdrop, bluebell, tulip, primrose, can you think of anymore? Ms. Mitchell found some frogspawn and... 

  (Pictiúr le Oisín) Comhábhair 100g plúr Salann ubh amháin 300 ml bainne spúnóg im te   Modh 1. Criathraigh an plúr agus salann i mbabhla. Bris an ubh i mbabhla. Cuir leath an bainne agus an im te sa mheascán freisin. Cuir an meascán le chéile le spúnóg. 2. Cuir an bainne eile sa mheascán agus cuir é le chéile le spúnóg. 3. Cuir friochtán ar an teas. Nuair a bhíonn an friochtán an-te, cuir an mheascán sa fhriochtán. Tar éis cúpla nóiméad, tóg an pancóga amach agus cuir ar bpláta é. Bí cúramach – beidh sé te! 4. Ith é agus bain taitneamh as.   Le... 

5th class recently took part in the Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards. The challenge was to write a short play on the theme of Friendship. It was a great opportunity to write in a new format. LukeO’B wrote a short play about making friends in difficult situations. His play is set in a homeless shelter and his two characters are boys, aged 10 years old. His actors were Andy and Leon. Andy wrote a short play about making friends on your first day in a new school. His characters are Peter and Paul, and it’s Paul’s first day. His actors were AaronJ and Robert. Well done boys!... 

We’ve had a ball with Engineer’s Week this week! Here’s a round up post of all the activities that took place in different classes over the week… 2nd Class made Apple Mummies! You’ll find out how they did it here. Our apple mummies! They also did the ‘raw egg’ test. It is definitely something that you could all try at home! Find out how to do it here! Our raw egg test What the egg looked like after the vinegar dissolved the shell! We put it over the light to be able to see through it! When we looked at electrical engineering we made string telephones. We... 

Every year we use K’nex to help us to explore and improve our construction and engineering skills. This year, our K’nex challenge became part of our Engineering Week 2014 set of activities. Previous challenges include building a bridge, building a lifeboat and building a quad bike. This year we decided to have a local slant on the activity. As you all know, Bray is the hometown of Katie Taylor. We set a challenge to the students to build a tower called after Katie, that would be the centre-point if Bray ever hosted the Olympics. We can dream! The design needed to be: 1. Between 50cm...