St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

6th Class are constantly thinking of new and innovative ways to improve their Mental Maths. We want to be able to think on our feet and not forget key Maths language, steps and processes.We’ve been working so hard on our Maths language, and we made sheets to help us with key terms and steps. This is all to help us ahead of our Secondary School entrance exams! Last Friday, we had a little bit of fun. As you know, we love podcasting, and so we decided to challenge each other to the ‘Top 50 Maths questions you must be able to answer before you leave 6th Class’. We recorded it as... 

We’re very excited to share the highlights of this year’s Mini-Scientist showcase in St Peter’s! Last year was our first year to take part in the Intel Mini-Scientist programme and we really enjoyed it. You can find all of our blog posts related to the Mini-Scientist competition here. This year, we approached it slightly differently. In September, we formed a Mini Digital Youth Council (you can learn more about the senior version here) and we decided that as part of their work, they could take part in the Mini-Scientist programme and they were encouraged to include a focus on... 

Last Friday week (9/1/15) 6th Class took their RDS Primary Science Fair project to the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. We had an amazing day, and tweeted throughout! Care to catch up on the day that was? Have a read! We're on the bus! Great excitement on the 145! @TheRDS Primary Science Fair here we come! #HawkPi #6thClass #BTYSTE #schoolspirit — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 9, 2015 Our stand! @TheRDS Primary Science Fair! #BTYSTE pic.twitter.com/WoAUm2Hti3 — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 9, 2015 Ois showing some of the crew... 

6th had a brilliant week this week. Some highlights include… Our ‘Road to Irish Independence’ podcast that we recorded! We just love learning about Irish History! Speaking of which, check out the lovely picture Johnny drew! Johnny drew a great picture to go with his 1916 essay! pic.twitter.com/5yOp8hAEKx — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 16, 2015 Aaron G and Andy were joint Student of the Week winners! Top job lads! Joint winners of Student of the Week! Well done lads, great effort all week. pic.twitter.com/0ZjbIF7Npa — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray)... 

6th Class were really proud to present their class sketch before the Christmas performance of Jack and the Beanstalk. We spent many weeks plotting and planning a funny sketch, and we wrote the whole play ourselves! We wanted to include some funny in-jokes from our time in 6th Class so far (here’s why we put in a reference to the Budget!) and we also wanted to include some funny characters and well-known figures! Have a listen to the play, we hope you enjoyed it! We loved every second of planning, writing and performing it. With such characters, how could it be any more entertaining?!  

6th Class embraced the festive spirit in December and planned a Secret Santa in class. The gifts were thoughtful, personalised, homemade and delivered with the best of fun, laughter and friendship. What more could you want? We also had a lovely lunch of ‘Christmas sandwiches’ – delicious! What a lovely way to finish off a term with so many great highlights. Just do a search for ‘6th Class’ above to catch up with everything we’ve been getting up to! Well done guys! Have a luck at some of our snaps from the Christmas half day!  

On November 27th, 6th Class visited Leinster House as the final part of our #budget15 project. As you all know, earlier in the school year 6th Class presented local Junior Minister Simon Harris with a budget we had prepared. We divided up into ministerial roles and the department of finance ‘officials’ in class set to work to prepare a document suitable to present to Minister Harris. After weeks of work, when our project was done, Minister Harris came into our class and we presented him with out work. He really liked it! To reward us for our work, Minister Harris invited us into Leinster... 

Today 6th Class helped 3rd, 4th and Ms. Keating’s class to work on their coding to celebrate #hourofcode week! We used activities on this site! Caoilynn and Sadbh are problem solving on http://t.co/1cUFopfusR! #Frozen #hourofcode pic.twitter.com/RzNu72n4yV — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014 Coding snowflakes! #hourofcode #Frozen pic.twitter.com/hnzq569B68 — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014 Using Elsa and Anna animations to teach coding in 3rd and 6th Class! #hourofcode #frozen https://t.co/eBCGdA5aCq via @vine — St. Peter’s... 

Daniel O’Connell 6th Class have been learning about Daniel O’Connell in History. Last Friday (during Golden Time!) we decided to have a little bit of fun as we looked back over all we learned. Step up Oisín, quizmaster extraordinaire! The rest is history! Enjoy the Rapid-Fire-Daniel-O’-Connell-quiz-time!  

Where did that time go? It’s hard to believe that we’re thinking about the Christmas performances already! This year our performance schedule is slightly different, to reflect the fact that we have three new classes! Junior and Senior Infants will prepare a play together, First and Second Class will prepare a play together and Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Class will perform individual class plays. Not only that, they will also perform the annual Roald Dahl musical as a large group together! This year, our Roald Dahl musical is ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. Everyone got a chance...