St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

In history we studied the story of The Wooden Horse of Troy.  Each of us then designed our own wooden horse. Dylan, Kian, Chris and Finn drew pictures of King Menelaus, Achilles, Helen of Troy and Paris while TJ designed the map of Ancient Greece. We then used cocktail sticks and lollipop sticks to design our own wooden horse for our classroom. It took us a long time because of all the different angles on the horse but everyone agreed it was worth it when we displayed it on our history board in third class!        

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!  

Third class  have created wonderful self-portraits. We used mirrors to study the different shapes of our faces. We discovered that no one had a perfectly round head (like a football!) but instead everyone had different shapes. We also observed the different sizes and shapes of our noses, eyes, mouths, cheeks etc. It created quite a challenge for visitors to our room to see if they could recognise each face!  This activity showed us that each of us different and special in our own way.  We also came to the conclusion that being unique is what helps make the world an interesting place to live.... 

After studying the Ancient Egyptian people, third class discovered that people in Ancient Egypt did not use letters and words like we do today. Instead they used pictures known as hieroglyphs. A sentence was made by drawing a number of hieroglyphs in a row. Children wrote on papyrus using pens made from reeds. While we didn’t use papyrus and reeds in class we did attempt to write out the alphabet in hieroglyphs.  We enjoyed it so much we decided to write our names in hieroglyphs to match our self-portraits. Try it out using our codes below and see what your name would have looked like in Egyptians... 

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... 

On Thursday night, Singing Club showed off all their hard work from the first term at the Hallelujah Choir Concert in CityWest Hotel. 24 boys and girls travelled on a bus for an afternoon of rehearsals and practice. The concert kicked off at 8pm and we were delighted to see plenty of familiar faces in the audience! The St Peter’s group were the life and soul of the party – even starting dance moves in the crowd. Special guests at the concert included Seo Linn, who during the Summer teamed up with Lurgan for their take on ‘Wake Me Up’, Connie Talbot and Tabby Callaghan. We... 

  http://learn.code.org/hoc/1 – here’s the link! One of our recent Scratch clubs with 2nd and 3rd classes focused on a tutorial, made for Computer Science Education Week (9th December – 15th December). It uses Blockly to introduce children to writing basic code. Blockly is quite similar to Scratch in many ways and the children adapted very quickly! We noticed that this tutorial was great for the children’s problem-solving skills, as they tested their code regularly and fixed it when it went wrong. It starts off at a very easy level and gets more challenging as it... 

Last Thursday, as part of Maths Week, we took part in a Maths Table Quiz. Paddy and Mr Kinsella, after much deliberation, split 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes into mixed teams of 4 for the quiz in the library. The quiz was provided by Seomra Ranga, always a great source of resources for primary schools. You can check out Seomra Ranga here! Thanks to Ms Byrne, Ms Sugrue, Ms Kane and Mr Staunton for correcting the quiz papers and for keeping the scoreboard up to date. Ms Sexton read out the questions and the jokes. Thanks to Paddy for taking the photos! Well done to Team 14 who were the winners –... 

Cross country is a running event that lots of different schools enter. Second class will be able to enter  next year,  but this year, eight people from each class entered it in teams. It was a tough competition for all the runners in Arklow. We had a good day. All the classes were having fun. Andy was the runner of the day. All the classes had class photos taken. We had a good time on the bus. Everyone was singing on the bus. A big thanks to Paddy and everyone who came along, including Ms Sexton and Ms Byrne. Everyone said we were on our best behaviour and we did our school proud.   By... 

“The boys in 3rd class are learning about telling the time in Maths this week. We are using our mini clocks to help us. Some of us found it a little tricky at the start but we are much better now. We are having great fun and even got to play the time game ‘What time is it Mr. Wolf’ on our interactive whiteboard! ”  – Chris and Lex