St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

On Tuesday in 4th class we talked about the two best footballers in the world, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. We discussed what they were best known for. Abhishek said that Messi is known as “The King of Dribbling”. We talked about why he is so good at dribbling. Abhishek said that it was because of his balance. When we talked about why his balance was so good, Mason noted that he was tiny and that this helped him. We decided to investigate what it is that helps us keep our balance, as part of this year’s Discover Primary Science and Maths award. Mr. Foley explained... 

We are learning about Summer this month and can’t wait to see all of the beautiful bugs and animals and minibeasts again! We hope to see ladybirds, snails, caterpillars, butterflies, ants, bees, bloodsuckers and spiders! We decided to make our own minibeasts today because it doesn’t look like the Summer has come yet! You will need: a knife, an apple, peanut butter, chocolate chips and sesame sticks. First ask an adult to chop the apple in half. Take out the stem and seeds. Then you spread 6 blobs of peanut butter on the back of the apple. Next you place chocolate chips on the peanut... 

4th class started a new novel earlier this month called ‘Holes’. It’s by an author called Louis Sachar. So far, we’re really enjoying it and we spent this afternoon working on an activity online based on the novel. We also took the opportunity to share our thoughts on the book so far with the wonderful world of Twitter! We Storified our tweets so that we could share them with you too – and we also included tweets from Maria O’Sullivan, who is a fantastic librarian and always encourages our reading. We’re looking forward to updating you on what we think... 

Here in Ms. Mitchell’s class we are learning about Summer this month! We are looking forward to spotting lots of changes in the world around us now. We will be looking closely to see a change in the weather, people’s clothes, the food we eat, new flowers growing and all of the new bugs and animals that come out for Summer. But before all of this starts to happen we all closed our eyes and used our senses to think of what happens in the world around us in Summer. We tried to remember all of the things that we see, hear, smell, feel and taste during the Summer. Next we shared our memories... 

This week’s student of the week is Nathan O’ Brien AGAIN!! Nathan has worked extremely hard in every subject all week, his homework has improved greatly and he has had a wonderful, polite and positive attitude towards his classmates and teachers. Well Done Nathan, keep it up!!  

Hello bloggers around the world! Today we did a podcast of our Irish story called Mamó. Everyone in the class called out the first and the last box from the story. We used our random name picker to give out the boxes from the story. Each boy in the class got to call out a box on their own. Before we started recording Mr. Foley let us practice a little bit. Everyone did really well. Jack B got the tongue twister! Try it for yourself; shuigh siad síos sa seomra suí! Mr. Foley deleted the first part of the story by mistake (again!) but we were able to do it again, and our second time was even better.... 

This week’s student of the week prize was shared by Johnny Moorehouse and Nathan O’Brien! Both boys had full attendance, full uniform and were on time all week! They worked extra hard, especially with their morning maths and phonic sentences. They were polite to eachother and their classmates and behaved well all week- well done boys!  

Ms. Mitchell’s class studied the topic of Sound for the Discover Science Project;                                                                               read on to find out what we discovered! Exploring what we know and thinking aloud First we had a quick” think, pair, share” about what we think of when we hear the word “Sound”. Next we shared our thoughts and wrote them on the board in a thought shower, some were very interesting! Afterwards we decided to start thinking about what sound actually is? We had some super thoughts! Nathan k... 

After much anticipation the long wait is over… After many weeks working on his full length Stop Motion Animation Jordan is finally ready to release his movie to the world! This critically acclaimed feature film will leave you on the edge of your seat wanting more. Luckily Jordan has a sequel scheduled for pre summer release. Now sit back and enjoy! IMG 0172[1] from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.  

In the latest ‘reflection’ post from the Eircom Junior Spiders Awards, we share some of the exciting interviews we gave on the day. We were so lucky to be interviewed by Ireland’s largest independent radio station, Today FM. Juliette from Today FM interviewed Caoilynn, Tommy, James, Oisín and Ms. Brennan. It was an amazing experience, especially considering that tens of thousands of people listen to this station every day! Well done to our brilliant students who did us proud as always. Listen to the clips from the 1pm and 4pm news below! Thanks to Today FM for letting us put...