St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

First class visited Bray library today.  We got to read some very interesting and fun books.  There were so many cool books to choose from.  

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.  

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!  

On Monday 30th of November SPECS, a brand new service to Bray, held their official launch. To celebrate, SPECS held an art competition in the town for schools and clubs. Homework club in St. Peter’s took part in the competition and we were delighted to hear that our very own Leon Reynolds from 3rd class was one of the winners. Leon was invited to the launch to receive his prize which was awarded to him by Minister Simon Harris. He also got to meet the Ombudsman for Children, Dr Niall Muldoon and his picture was put on display on the day. Leon drew a picture of something he loves to do with his... 

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!  

Last Friday, we had a new twist on an old tradition on St Peter’s – the Mini-World Cup! You can read all about last year’s Mini-World Cup here. This year, we had three Mini World Cup tournaments – Junior and Senior Infants played in the morning, 1st and 2nd classes played between break and lunchtime and the older classes had their tournament after lunch. Here are a few photos and Vines from the day – and you can read more about the infant classes and their tournament here.      

Some nifty footwork skills there! This junior infant boy loves football!! Good save! Once a week the Junior and Senior Infants have a lunch time soccer club with teacher and the sixth class boys. The sixth class boys are unbelievable coaches, leaving teacher with lots of time to take photos! Yesterday Paddy organised a mini world cup day for us. The boys and girls from soccer club had great fun showing off their skills on the field and everybody had lots of fun. Thanks Paddy for mini world cup day and thanks a million to the sixth class boys for their hard work, patience and superb coaching...