St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

This year, 5th class took on the Elf Factor as their class play for the Christmas concert. You can see photos from the Christmas play here and listen to 2nd class and their ‘Little Rascals’ play here. We hope you enjoy our video – we really enjoyed making it!   The Elf Factor from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

Aaron here, Robert’s out today but he made a podcast yesterday asking us how our ‘Write a Book’ project is going. Yesterday, I ran out of ideas so I started going back over my work. I found parts to add more detail into. When I was reading over my work, I was asking myself questions as if I was the reader. For example, I had written that I was nervous and when I read back over it, I added 4 sentences saying why I was nervous. I like editing because it makes your book much better and you’ll get more readers. Here’s a picture of my editing work: Thanks for reading... 

Cinderella, via Animoto! There are many great days in St Peter’s every year. There are great days when we all feel as if we’ve worked together to achieve something special and great days when our fantastic students get to show off the results of all their hard work. Of all the great days in the school calendar, there’s a special one that stands out – we love our Christmas play! We had our first performance at 11.30 a.m. on the Thursday morning and our second at 7 p.m. and we had a ball from start to finish. For those who aren’t familiar with our Christmas plays, we... 

January is always a bit of an exciting month – people make new goals and resolutions and push themselves to do and be better! You can hear 2nd class talking about their New Year’s Resolutions on their podcast here! In 5th class, we’ve been looking at the top 100 Inspirational Quotes from Forbes. You can read them here. In groups, we read the quotes and picked out our favourite ones, discussing what we think they mean. We made a podcast below of our favourite ones. Well done to Sam for leading the podcast! There are a couple of quotes in our classroom and corridor. Here’s... 

My project was called ‘Electrical Edibles’ and my question was ‘can you conduct electricity using fruit and vegetables?’ I found that I wasn’t able to power a lightbulb using fruit and vegetables during the actual project, but when I used a clock kit, I was able to. I found a picture of a Christmas tree powered by Brussels Sprouts. If my mum asked me why I wasn’t eating my Brussels Sprouts, I could say that I was saving them for something important. Photo credit  

Our title was ‘Rollercoaster on a poster’ and our question was ‘what effect does the surface have on how far a KNEX car travels?’ We found out that tinfoil was the smoothest surface so it helped the car to travel faster. We timed it by using a stopwatch. There was very little friction between the tinfoil and the KNEX wheel, so there was nothing to slow it down. Our favourite part was Ameesh’s victory dance. We liked building our KNEX structure with Mr Kinsella. It was easy to explain our project to the judge and she gave us a good comment. Thanks for reading... 

Our project was called ‘Cool Crystals’ and our question was ‘which produces the best result when growing crystals – sugar or salt?’ We found out that salt produces the best crystals. Adam’s granddad told us all about crystals. We learned that you have to use boiling water because the crystals won’t form with cold water. You need to use string so that the crystals don’t stick to the side of the glass container. We learned that saturation is when you mix in so much sugar or salt into the water that it won’t dissolve any more. It took more sugar... 

Hi I’m back with more updates from 5th class on our Write A Book Project. Last night, I worked on my storyboard and we started writing properly this morning. In class, we worked on good beginnings for our books. Our teacher got the resources here from Seomra Ranga. The most important thing with the beginning is if it grabs your attention. It has to make you want to read more. We looked at different types of openings. You could start your book on a normal day or in the middle of a big accident or event. You could also start by talking straight to the reader. You could ask questions like ‘do... 

Our project was called ‘Fizz Kids’ and our question was ‘which combination of carbonated drinks and Mentos produces the best reaction?’ We found out that Diet Coke and Coke produced the best reaction because it exploded the highest. The fizzy water made bubbles the longest but it didn’t explode so we concluded that sugar had some effect on the reaction. You can see more about our research in this video. Mini-Scientist – Fizz Kids from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. In our research, we found out that the ingredients in the Mentos react with the Diet Coke.... 

Hi, I’m Robert and I’m in 5th class. I like writing all types of stories and my favourite books are ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’, ‘Big Nate’ and ‘The boy in the Striped Pyjamas’. Our school is taking part in the Write A Book project. You get to write a book on whatever you want to. I’m going to be blogging over the next few weeks to tell you how my class is getting on. So far, we’ve picked four suggestions for stories we might write. We picked four so that we had more choice to pick from. My story is about a king with a stammer. My other three...