St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

On Thursday morning, there was great excitement in St. Peter’s when we heard that Martin O’Neill, manager of the Irish soccer team, would be visiting! We were delighted to welcome him to St Peter’s, where he took part in a press conference and answered some of our questions. He had great advice about believing in ourselves and working hard to practise our football skills. Afterwards, 6th class and some of 5th demonstrated a drill for him and had the chance to shake his hand. Judging by the levels of excitement, it was a day not to be forgotten. A big thanks to Martin O’Neill,... 

4th class conducted an experiment on the effects of different heights and materials on the speed of toy cars. We watched a range of videos as a stimulus and get us thinking on different heights. We then wanted to see if this was actually true. We wrote up our opinions as a class on what we thought would be the outcome. We used a variety of materials including toy cars (different types-large and small), ramps, school books and a metre stick. At the end of the lesson we came to the conclusion in our results that the higher the ramp the further the car would go on the ramp and onto a flat surface.... 

We were delighted to take part in the FIRST Lego League Competition in Galway again this year as part of our Lego Club. This was our third year to enter the competition and we had a brilliant time again. There are 3 main elements to the competition – The Project, Core Values and The Robot Game & design Problem For the project this year we were asked to look at ways we find, use, transport and dispose of water and how we could improve this. We started looking at all the ways we use water in our lives. At Lego Club we split into groups and listed all the ways we use water every day. Then we... 

Back in action! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/xMjJEmnGvI — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 8, 2018 Hi everyone! Happy New Year! We hope you are all well and ready to have a super 2018. Here is what we have been getting up to. Did you see our lovely art work recently? We are learning about Van Gogh in #4thClass. We used oil pastels to create tributes to Starry Night, his famous painting. #creativeschools pic.twitter.com/9vearRWhOk — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 19, 2018 We are enjoying our brain breaks on Go Noodle! Well, it is awards season! #4thClass... 

Well, it has been a very busy few weeks in Mrs. Reilly’s 4th Class room! Here is some of our news. As always, our class spirit is so important. We work on our behaviour and team work skills always! We had some visitors to help us! We have three lovely helpers from @SalesforceOrg in our room today. They have joined in in lots of activities! It is so fun. #4thClass — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) December 1, 2017 Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate this day. Today we gave thanks in circle time for all we are grateful for. We give thanks everyday for the health, happiness... 

The whole school took part in our Green Schools Action Day on Friday the 10th of November.  We dressed in Green and all classes took part in lessons and activities around the theme of litter and waste.  We also focused on our school garden and we looked at improving this area. Junior Infants created a town called Juniorville using recyclable materials they gathered from home. Senior Infants gathered recyclable materials, sorted and classified them before creating their own junk art inventions. 1st class planted some seeds for our school garden.  These included peas, brocolli and rocket which... 

Hi everyone! We’ve been very busy since our last blog post! Here is what we have been getting up to in October. We had a fabulous time celebrating Halloween! We’d the best time with the rest of the school at the disco! A big thank you to our PA who put so much time & effort into it! #4thClass 🎃 pic.twitter.com/DqeOgsgVlV — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 27, 2017 The Hocus Pocus cinema is open in #4thClass! The excitement! 🎃🎬 We earned this reward for working so hard this midterm! — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October... 

On October 3rd our St Peter’s runners had a great time competing at the cross-country event in Avondale. Everyone ran well and behaved excellently! Thanks to Paddy for training and preparing us all so well!  

Hello from Mrs. Reilly's #4thClass! We are so excited for the year ahead! We've had a great week settling into our new class. #backtoschool — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 1, 2017 Welcome back to school every one! We’re thrilled to be starting the year together again. Ready to ROCK #4thClass! We're one happy, hardworking team! Here is to a great year off to a brilliant start! #classspirit pic.twitter.com/Y2cXrAsOxf — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 13, 2017 We took our class photos in #4thClass! We're a great team! #classspirit... 

Singing Club 2017 from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo. Congratulations to our fantastic singing club who created this music video recently. Keep an eye out for our special guest, Adam Nolan! Thanks to Paddy for directing our video and for our lovely end-of-year party!