St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Yesterday, we had a very special visitor for Roots of Empathy in 2nd class. Our unit at the moment is called ‘Caring and Preparing for the Baby’ and we were learning all about teething. Ms Whyte brought Baby M in to visit us and we were so excited to see her again! We predicted how many teeth Baby M would have this time and Patrick (who was absent for our predictions) and Lana were correct – she doesn’t have any teeth yet. Check out our predictions. We asked Ms Whyte lots of questions about Baby M (and her twin, Baby R) and Ms Whyte showed us her bag that she brings out... 

Today was Pasta Day in St. Peter’s! We were all well fed by Paddy and Mr. Foley, with everyone enjoying a meal together in the hall. Have a look at some of our tweets from the day! 5th class think #pastaday is the best day ever pic.twitter.com/s3iACOlk42 — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 6, 2014 Fit4Skool tweeted us too! @StPetersBray congratulations on the healthy eating for lunch! Plenty of energy for the afternoon!! — Fit4Skool (@Fit4Skool) November 6, 2014 4th class are enjoying their pasta on #pastaday pic.twitter.com/IpEFIVoTWz — St. Peter's... 

2nd class took their first steps into the world of animation today! As you know, our Creative Schools submission last year was based on stop-motion animation, so we thought it was about time that 2nd class got a taste of one of our favourite creative activities in St Peter’s. Other classes have used Go Animate in the past, and we really enjoyed creating our little video using their latest updates. We chose the background, the length of the scenes, the characters, how the characters acted in each scene and, of course, we recorded the voices! We chose to use part of our ‘comhrá’... 

This week, in 2nd class, we’ve been learning all about Halloween. The main event was on Friday when we all dressed up! Check out our costumes: We had a brilliant day dressing up!   We put a lot of effort into our costumes. Also this week, we learned about Halloween traditions and we used last year’s podcast to learn a rhyme about Halloween safety. Look what Jerry brought in to celebrate Halloween! Look what Jerry from 2nd class brought in for #Halloween! pic.twitter.com/RWxyikwwuN — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 22, 2014   We made our own podcast about road... 

We had GREAT fun for Maths Week in 2nd class. On Monday, we used our Maths Eyes to find square corners around the school. You can find our blog post about it here. On Tuesday, we thought about a word problem and drew out the answers in our copies…   For #mathsweek14 2nd class are answering this question. We’re looking for as many combinations as possible! pic.twitter.com/awWp9rgfIg — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 14, 2014 We then made a poster showing some of the possible combinations to answer the word problem. 2nd class are making a #mathsweek poster to... 

We have lots of exciting plans in 2nd class for Maths week! We decided to kick off Monday of Maths week by looking for square corners in the corridor and in the front yard. Square corners are also known as right angles. Squares and rectangles have four right angles. Check out our Animoto – our Maths Eyes were wide open today!  

In 2nd class, we’ve been learning poems as part of our Dinosaur theme. We each chose a poem to learn off from a book of Dinosaur poetry. We practised putting expression into our poetry and speaking clearly! When we were ready, we recorded our poetry using Voki. We loved recording our poems using Voki – we thought it was a really cool way to present our work. Tristan Arpit Jodie Nathan Ava Maddy Emanuele (who has been practising his alphabet! He’s working really hard!) Lana  

Recently, in 2nd class, we have been exploring sound as part of our music lessons. We’re developing our performance skills, our listening and responding skills and our composing skills, using body percussion and our voices. One of our favourite songs at the moment is Boom-Chicka-Boom and we’ve been using it to explore the elements of music and different sounds that we can make with our voices. We recorded a version of Boom Chicka Boom using Sound Cloud! We also made a list of sounds that we can make with our bodies and our voices. We worked together as a whole-class activity to list... 

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 —... 

Yesterday, 2nd class had their 4th Roots of Empathy session with Paddy. So far, we’ve met Baby M and covered the theme ‘Meet the Baby’. Yesterday, we started a new theme – ‘Crying’. We talked about why babies cry. We love our Roots of Empathy sessions. Story time is always special during Roots of Empathy. We read ‘How are you peeling?’ this week. Our doll is called Nicole. Listen to our podcast about what we learned during this week’s session. Well done to Adam, who led his very first podcast. We can’t wait to welcome Baby M into our...