St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We are delighted to be taking part in the First Lego League competition again this year. There are 3 main elements to the competition – The Project, Core Values and The Robot Game & design Picture Conor McCabe Photography The Project: There are three main parts to our project; Identify a problem, Design a solution, Share with others. This year’s challenge was to look at how animals and humans interact, find a problem with one of these interactions and develop an innovative solution. After weeks of research & brainstorming we finally decided to focus on bees for the Animal Allies... 

Throughout the year, Dylan and Adem of Ms. Fry’s second class, completed Speech and Drama lessons every week with Ms. Farren. They worked so hard at their lessons and at home and were ready in March 2016 to make their journey to the Royal Irish Academy in Westland Row, to complete their Grade 1 Speech and Drama exam. Dylan and Adem in the Royal Irish Academy. The boys had practiced and prepared their poem, mime, storytelling skills, reading and theory to present to the examiner in the Academy. She was particularly impressed with their story ‘Bedtime’ by Hugh O’Brien and... 

Recently, the whole school learned a song and sang it together at assembly. We chose ‘I Lived’ by One Republic because the lyrics are so inspirational. It’s all about experiencing the good and the bad of life and is written by a father to his newborn son. We loved singing the song together and a special well done to our soloists – Casey, Patrick, Sophie, Toby, AJ, Kristina, Carl, Tristan, Finn, Lex, Adem, Ellie and Hayley.   I lived from St Peter's, Bray on Vimeo.  

Second class has been exploring lots of different materials and their properties over the last while. As a part of this we have been looking at lots of different questions about what different materials are like. The other week, we watched an amazing video of Felix Baumgartner as he jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere. You can see the video here http://www.redbullstratos.com/gallery/?mediaId=media1902415096001 Ms. Fry showed us a picture that Felix Baumgartner had drawn as a little boy of himself jumping with a parachute and it really got us thinking! We started wondering about what... 

Last Tuesday, March 15th, in every school across the country, students are celebrating Proclamation Day as part of the celebrations of the centenary of 1916. In St Peter’s, we had a very special ceremony, where every class was involved, finishing with the raising of the Irish flag that was presented late last year by the members of the Defence Forces. We also displayed artwork in the hall related to our projects on the Easter Rising. Our ceremony started with an introduction from our principal, Ms. Whyte. Next, Amber from 4th class, Finn and Chris from 5th class and Alex, Alana and Ryan... 

Like every school in the country, we were really proud to celebrate Proclamation Day 2016. Here are some of our tweets from the day! Our #ProclamationDay assembly has started! #Rang1916 pic.twitter.com/22yiSJ1hBk — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) March 15, 2016 Every class has written a proclamation. Dylan(4th) is giving a speech about the importance of the Irish language! #ProclamationDay — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) March 15, 2016 Casey is next up with a brilliant speech on class size and support for all in education! #ProclamationDay #Rang1916 pic.twitter.com/1bEO0bB1pm —... 

Recently, we celebrated the 100th day of the school year in St. Peter’s and we had lots of events to mark the day! We are all 100 days smarter, but what would we look like if we were 100 YEARS smarter? We used an app to age some of our classes to find out! Click ‘read more’ to see the rest of the photos!  

Second Class learned a lovely Roald Dahl poem and enjoyed getting to perform it for senior infants!  

Today was a very important day for St. Peter’s. The Irish Defence Forces delivered the Irish Flag and the 1916 Rising Proclamation to our school. This was to mark the Centennium of the 1916 Rising next year! We learned how to take care of the Irish flag and we also got the opportunity to ask the Defence Force questions about the 1916 Rising. Two children from 6th class did the school very proud today! They stood up on stage and read from the Proclamation and also told a personal story about their connection to the 1916 Rising. As a school, we then came together and sang Amhrán na bhFiann. It... 

Have you met our #studentcouncil? We work for all of the students in our school! We meet every fortnight. pic.twitter.com/9nHzwo6a1P — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) October 5, 2015 Congratulations to our new Student Council for this term. We are very proud of you and know that you will do very well. Here are your new council. Listen to their very first podcast here!