St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

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! ... 

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... 

On Monday we had a wonderful treat in Ms. Mitchell’s class because almost all of the class put in an extra super effort to our tests on Friday and had some truly impressive results! Ms. Mitchell was so proud that we even had TWO pupils of the week instead of one! As a reward we made fruit smoothies in class and got to watch footage of the Winter Olympics while drinking them. We chopped up the fruit, added yoghurt and orange juice and blended carefully, with the help of the wonderful Ms. Flanagan. We think they tasted YUM!  

This month our theme is “The Body”. We are exploring all of the different senses that the body has. This week we investigated the senses of sight and hearing. We predicted what we might see and hear around the school corridors. Next we took a “sensory walk” around our school , first with our eyes closed so that we could focus on everything we could hear! Afterwards we walked around with our ears covered so that we could just focus on everything we would see! We had a lot of fun! We found out that our school is a noisy, busy and colourful place!  

After a long, busy month we’re back on the blog! In January we did our Write a Book stories. First we had to think about what kind of subject we would choose to write about. Then we made a plan about it. We planned our five chapters. Then Mr. Foley checked our plans and then we started to write our stories into our copies. After the first and second chapter we read it out to the class. We typed all of our chapters on the computers, we saved them on to a USB memory stick and then we printed them. Ms. Flanagan bound them for us like a real book. We drew the pictures and the front cover for... 

We love to swim in St. Peter’s. We are safe and careful swimmers. We are learning all about water safety and how to swim well. This year 2nd, 3rd and 4th Class go swimming in the Shoreline every Monday. Codie and Dylan recorded this podcast to tell you all about our swimming lessons!  

It is lovely when students let us know about some of the amazing and creative things that they like to do in their spare time at home. We were absolutely delighted when Tommy Lang in 4th Class filled us in on the stop-motion animation videos that he like to make at home on his Nintendo 2DS. We were all looking forward to the new Lego movie coming out – now we’re thinking that we don’t need to see it as we have Tommy’s brilliant movie that is just incredible to watch. Well done Tommy, we’re so proud of you. Make sure you have a look and let him know what you think of... 

We are doing the theme of time this month. We used all of our new “time” words and made sure to get them to rhyme too! We also made our own ones  and they’ll be up outside the classroom soon. We hope you like our poem! *           Tick tock o’clock Tick tock around all day. Big hand, small hand, Moves around all day. Clockwise forward, anti-clockwise back, Ticking around all day. Tick tocking, click clocking, Time never stops stopping!  

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...