St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Junior Infants were very excited about Science Week. This week, along with STEM for Fun we got to explore magnets and how they work. Early in the week we explored magnetism. We talked about what magnets are and watched a short video on magnetism. We then investigated things that were magnetic by testing our magnets out around the school and yard outside.

During Aistear we got to explore magnets and magnetic objects more. We used magnets to test items that might be magnetic and categorise items that were magnetic and non magnetic.

Finally at the end of the week we looked at a group of items as a class and use our prediction sheets to draw and try to predict which items were magnetic and which were not. We then tested these out to see if our predictions were correct.

This week in 5th class, we has great fun doing lots of different experiments to celebrate science week!

We have been learning all about the respiratory system and what happens to the body when we breathe. We completed a STEM activity and created our own model of the lungs to show how they work when we breathe!

https://youtube.com/shorts/t1nGcD6ev28

We investigated pitch using glasses and some water. We wanted to find out how to make the highest and lowest sound we could.

1. We placed all our glasses in a line. We used glasses of the same size and shape to make sure it was a fair test.
2. We used a pencil to hit the empty glasses. We listened to the sound.
3. Next, we added different amounts of water to each glasses. We hit the glasses with a pencil again and listened.
4. We discovered that the more water in the glass, the lower the sound we made. The less water in the glass, the higher the sound.

We also spent some time researching famous scientists and the work that they carried out!

We had a great week and learned a lot about science!

We had great fun this week during Science week making a bubbly mess in class. The children created their potions in groups and watched as the bicarbonate of soda made the potion bubble higher and higher until one potion overflowed!!

5th and 6th class went on a trip to Glasnevin Cemetery. We had a tour guide who showed us the graves of some historical fugures in Irish history, such as Daniel O’ Connell, Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera. We heard stories of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Civil War and rebellion!
We learned lots of information and we had a great day!

We have been working hard in 3rd class with our science week activities. We are learning about space this month. We made these rockets using just paper, tape and a straw! Have a look at our blast off 🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀

Fourth class took part in Intel’s Mini- Scientist Competition last month. They did an excellent job experimenting, designing and presenting their projects to the school. A big Congratulations to Lucy, Layla and Elena who were chosen to represent our class in the next round of the competition.

This month in Senior Infants we transformed our Aistear roleplay into a potion lab. We had lots of fun making potions and spells buy combining our different ingredients to make our disgusting potions.

In the play dough area, we made trick or treat sweets, a witch’s broomstick, a web for a spider and lots of other Halloween themed items!

Our other Aistear station was carving pumpkins, Senior Infants did a brilliant job taking out all the seeds and cleaning the pumpkin.

We made a lot of Art for Halloween, check it out below.

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During Maths Week one of the activities we did was making Pattern hats which we could wear. We made AB and ABC patterns.

Finally, on the last day before the midterm we had a Halloween party where we dressed up, danced to music and made spooky eye chocolate apples!

Fourth class have started Anti-Bullying Month by describing what bullying means to them. Take a look!

We learnt three important points about bullying today;

Bullying is….

• Hurtful
• Repeated
• Deliberate.

6th class were very lucky to have Mrs. Doyle teaching them for the past few weeks. We took part in fantastic lessons and learned so much! We studied themes such as sustainability and the environment, autumn and our local area and took part in such fun, interactive Gaeilge lessons!

We also took part in some great debates, learned how to sew and presented reports we drafted to the whole class. Thank you so much to Mrs. Doyle, we hope you can come back to visit us soon!

We had a great time celebrating Maths Week 2022 in 6th class and took parts in lots of fun activities!

We thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the Maths Week Mini Quiz with Franz
Schlindwein, on Zoom. There were lots of interesting questions and we practised the day before with some fun brain teasers – see if you can have a go here:

Then we took part in a Maths trail in the school and yard areas, that involved putting our Maths skills to the test.

We split into groups and followed the instructions as accurately as possible.

The trail involved measuring, calculating area and perimeter, observing and tallying results of data collected, measuring and recording time and comparing results with other teams to determine accuracy!