St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We made Easter Egg bird’s nest to eat today. Here is all the ingredients and how to make it. We all enjoyed it, but we haven’t eaten them yet! They are still cooling! We love Easter! You need to buy: Chocolate, mini eggs, golden syrup,  butter and shredded wheat. You need to get: Wooden spoon, a bowl, pot, hot water, muffin cases and trays. This is how you make it: First you put chocolate, golden syrup and butter into a bowl. Next put the bowl on the pot of hot water. Then you stir it until it is melted. After that you mix the shredded wheat into the bowl and stir it altogether. Scoop... 

Baby T was back in today. We’ve been learning all about emotions and sleeping recently. He was so friendly! He is never sad. He is taller and heavier now. He loves to play with the toys and can keep eye contact! Gwen taught us a lot about sleep and how Tristan needs lots of it. We have looked at all of the emotions babies can feel. We feel them too! We are learning a lot from Tristan. See our photos in the video above and don’t miss our lovely Vines from T’s visit below!  

On Monday St. Kieran’s visited St. Peter’s for the second time this year to take play a friendly football match.  Both teams had children from different classes and a special mention goes to the girls on each team who ran rings around the boys! Kathleen and Kelly Anne for St. Kieran’s and Abbi for St. Peter’s  played brilliantly. The result was a draw in the end with both schools winning one match each. The next time the schools will meet will be on Monday the 28th of April! We can’t wait for our next set of matches. Thanks to Paddy, the best coach ever! By the boys... 

A couple of weeks ago, we were thrilled and excited to get news that we’d won a prize from STEPS for our work during Engineer’s Week. Sam, AaronG, LukeOB and Davy from 5th class had seen Scientific Sue in action at the Intel Regional Finals of the Mini-Scientist and they raised the excitement levels by telling everyone how cool her show was! You can check out her website here – we highly recommend her show! One of the coolest things about the prize was that we were allowed to invite other schools to join in the fun. The first session of the day was at 9.45.  

2nd Class just LOVE Art. We enjoy taking time to create beautiful art that is individual and carefully planned out. We love being creative! Our favourite art activities at the moment are weaving and making things with clay! Just like all of the rest of the school, we have decorated our corridor and take great pride in our displays. When our school is colourful and interesting it makes us proud of our work. We love when people tell us our art is nice. At the moment, our Art is all about spring and Easter. Would you like to see what a lot of our recent Art work looks like? Enjoy our video!  

Last night, four of our students went to Killiney Castle Hotel for the Write A Book awards! Casey from 2nd class, Luke from 4th, Ben from 5th and Kyle from 6th were very excited to receive their medals and certificates from Pat Seaver from the Blackrock Education Centre and Mary Mitchell O’Connor, TD. Casey’s story was called ‘Bullies Never Win’ and had a beautiful theme of friendship and loyalty. You can read her story here. Luke’s story was called ‘The Dwarven City of Dishea’ – a story to give the Hobbit a run for its money! Ben’s story was... 

In March we did a LOT of work on data during our maths lessons. We found out that data is showing information in lots of different ways. We used pictograms, tally charts and bar charts. Bar charts were our favourites ( “Yum” said Adam!) We worked in teams of 2 to ask the whole school what was their favourite break time fruit? They could choose between an apple, orange or banana. We made tally charts in our copies when we asked each class. Next we went back to our class and made bar charts from the information. Then we made giant posters to show every class’s choice of fruit. We... 

As you know, we have had a VIP visitor in St. Peter’s since before St. Patrick’s Day. Brigid came to visit us, and we were curious about what kind of a bee she was ever since our Polly got an invitation to visit her! It was lovely when she came to stay and play with Polly. This morning when we came in, she was gone! She has flown back to Greystones. Thanks to our friends in St. Bridget’s for allowing her to visit us. They are the best bloggers and tweeters! We loved having Bridget to stay. Here a send off podcast for Bridget.  

2nd Class have gotten to the end of Chapter 5 in Zac Power, Frozen Fear. It’s a brilliant, exciting book. The podcasts help us with our: 1. Predicting, 2. Making connections, 3. Creating images, 4. Inferring, 5. Putting it all together. Now we are working on re-reading! Remember, you can catch our previous book/reading podcasts on the blog by clicking on the title! 1. The Magic Finger 2. The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me 3. Esio Trot 4. Care of Henry 5. Alfie Green and the Magical Gift  

2nd Class have now explored four different Roots of Empathy themes.  So far we have looked at: 1. Meeting the Baby 2. Crying 3. Caring for Baby and Teething. We recorded podcasts about Roots of Empathy before. You can find them here and here!   Our Roots of Empathy journey board that we are adding to all year! Last week we looked at Emotions. We recorded a podcast about it. Something amazing happened when Baby T was in last week. If you follow us on Twitter you might have heard about it! If you don’t, then you HAVE to hear our podcast to find out! It is so exciting! We hope you like...