St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

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St Peter’s is delighted to announce that our first annual Spelling Bee will take place on Friday, January 31st!

We received our pack of rules, word lists and a dictionary from Easons this week. The Spelling Bee is a national contest, organised by Easons and Tubridy on 2fm. You can read more about it here.

5th and 6th classes will take part in the school competition and then one winner will go forward to represent the school at the county final.

Wondering how to prepare for the Spelling Bee? We suggest that you read as much as possible because the more words you come across, the easier you’ll find the list of words. If you’d like a list of words for a trial run, look back over this post. We put certain words in bold to suggest them for practise! Have you any suggestions for tricky words to watch out for?

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5th class have been focusing on maps and transport this month. Some of our activities so far have been:

• researching different types of transport
• studying maps of the London Underground
• reading and responding to transport themed poetry
• writing about our dream journeys
• working on our transport project

We’ve also discussed where our dream travel destinations would be and we’ve been working with Google Maps to explore the world. We found this really cool website that lets you make up a worldwide treasure hunt and we made up clues about where we’d like to visit. Here’s a class one that we worked on together. Unfortunately, we couldn’t embed it, but you should click on the link and then make your own one – it’s great fun!

The cover of our book

2nd Class have just finished their latest book. It is called ‘Care of Henry’ and it is written by Anne Fine. We really liked it and managed to read it in just two weeks! We made a podcast to tell you all about it. We had great fun and managed to put some opera singing in again! Well done to Kia for stepping up to be our latest presenter!

Remember to keep reading, and have fun with books!

Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr

Picture from here.

Many people in our world have made real difference to our lives. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is just one of them, and one of the greatest. Today we celebrate Martin Luther King day and stand with people from all over the world who respect great people who stand up for equality and freedom.

In this post, 6th Class will read his great ‘I Have A Dream’ speech to inspire us all to be better people, to be fair and equal and to work together for a better world.

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Welcome to the 10th edition of the ‘St Peter’s Post’ and it’s absolutely packed! This week saw ‘Write A Book’ in full swing, the Virtual Science Fair continued and there were a number of fantastic podcasts. It was also a very busy week for comments on the blog – students and teachers loved reading every single one!

Our Virtual Science Fair continued this week with the following projects from 6th class:

• This project from Billy, Keane and Kevin asks ‘Can one hand react quicker than the other?’
• ‘Can we make a lightbulb light up without using any wires?’ asked Johnny, Dylan and Kyle
• And ‘Which slime is the strongest?’ asked Jamie, Robert, Sky and Sam
• In other Science Fair related news, Lester and Eduard tell us all about their trip to the BT Young Scientist Exhibition here.
• Finally, our home page for the Virtual Science Fair is here, with links to all the projects so far.

Other headlines from this week include:

• You can watch an Animoto with all the photos from the Christmas play here.
• Also from the Christmas play, 5th class posted a video of their ‘Elf Factor’ here.
• 2nd class made beautifully colourful clay birds – check them out here. (more…)

We had a great time today. We made lovely little clay birds and we added feathers. We love using clay. We hope you like our birds. TWEET TWEET!

Our birds in one big pic

Before Christmas, 5th class had a Little Book Club where we read the four nominees for the BGE Book Awards Children’s Book (Junior) award to our little cousins or brothers. Well done to Ameesh, Oisín, AaronG, Alan, Johnny and especially to AaronJ for leading it. Check out our podcast discussing how we got on:

Laureate na nÓg contacted us on Twitter today to let us know about the nomination process for children. We think that 5th class have already chosen their nomination – Chris Judge is highly praised by our Little Book Club. You can read more about the nomination process here.

Can you recommend any books for our next Little Book Club?

Wondering what our Student Council have been up to so far in Term 2? Have a listen here!

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This year, 5th class took on the Elf Factor as their class play for the Christmas concert. You can see photos from the Christmas play here and listen to 2nd class and their ‘Little Rascals’ play here. We hope you enjoy our video – we really enjoyed making it!

The Elf Factor from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.