St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Following on from our two blogposts on our #budget15 project, 6th Class are back with even more videos from the day Minister Harris came in. We hope you enjoy them! Alan, our Minister for Communications! from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. Emmet, the Minister for Arts! from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. Luke, the Minister for the Environment from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. Taylor, the Minister for Health! from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.  

Following on from our epic first blogpost on our #budget15 project, 6th Class are back with even more videos from the day Minister Harris came in. We hope you enjoy them! Sadbh our Taoiseach welcomes Minister Harris from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo. Aaron, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs! from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo. Andy, Minister for Education from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo. Robert, Minister for Jobs from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo. Luke, the Minister for Social Protection from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.  

Last Friday 6th Class had an amazing day. After a long time working on our Budget project, we presented our project to the Minister of State Simon Harris! Simon is our local TD and we were delighted to welcome him to our school. Before we began our project, we learned all about local and national politics. This took a lot of time! We were really proud of of all we learned. Next, we broke up into groups. We decided that Sadbh should be our Taoiseach and Sam should be our Tánaiste. Then they picked Ministers. Ministers are the people who run different departments. Our Ministers then decided what... 

6th Class are really enjoying their latest book, ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl. This is our third  podcast and we are delighted with how it came out. Davy and Alan presented and they did a great job! Lots happened in the story since we spoke last, don’t miss this podcast! Warning: It contains major spoilers!  

What a week 6th Class have had! We’ve been working so hard. Every subject got our best effort and we’ve started getting stuck into some brilliant project work too! Here are some of the highlights… We set up our technology group work activities! We had our first Mystery Skype session! It was so helpful for our geography! Enjoying the @SkypeClassroom #mysteryskype with Wicklow Educate Together! #wicklow #geography pic.twitter.com/UzZbebhe7M — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 1, 2014 We recorded a ‘Reading Tips’ podcast: We had a super training... 

As captain of the St. Peter’s Football team, I would like to wish our local club Bray Emmets the very best in this weekend’s senior and junior county finals. I am a proud club member.  Every year we play a game of cic fada and the club runs a fair on that day. There are matches on every week and I love being a member of the club and I’ve loads of friends there. The Club also host local school competitions and I’m looking forward to leading the St. Peter’s team out this season. My manager’s name is Tom and my coaches are Terry, Micheal and John. I will be playing... 

As you know, we’re big fans of Khan Academy in St Peter’s! You can read all about Mathletes, which uses Khan Academy as a platform, here. We’ve recently established our first Digital Youth Council in St Peter’s (more on that to follow!) and their first job was to demonstrate how to use Khan Academy as a student at the Khan Academy Symposium in Eircom HQ on Saturday. Our students were superb on the day and we were extremely proud of how enthusiastic and engaging they were. We received so many compliments about our students’ behaviour, manners and knowledge! Thanks especially... 

Recently in St Peter’s, we’ve been celebrating healthy eating. Last week, we had Sandwich Day, where some of our classes got to make a sandwich with lots of healthy fillings! 2nd class made a podcast about their choice of fillings and we have lots of lovely photos in our Animoto. In our classrooms, we practised procedural writing and the senior classrooms learned about nutrition and fitness as part of our work towards our Active Flag! Thanks to Mr Foley and Paddy for all their hard work organising such a fantastic day! A small selection of the bread needed for Sandwich Day! pic.twitter.com/HB7QSxqc1J —... 

The Grand High ‘Vitch’, who says the lines that we learned off! 6th Class have learned off lines from The Witches by Roald Dahl and have been performing them in class! Would you like to have a listen? We’ve been working on our accents!