St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

2nd Class had a great time presenting their class play ‘The Little Rascals’ in December. We picked the story because we love the film and Ms. Brennan wrote some lines for us and gave us parts. We wanted to have fun and have a story that would include girls and boys, and especially something that would be a reminder that we are the first class in St. Peter’s with boys and girls! Why not listen to our performance here? You should also check out our video of some of our characters. We hope you like it!

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Make sure you follow Polly’s example and get to bed nice and early – if you want to track Santa, check out our Christmas websites edition of ‘Wednesday for Parents’ from last week here.

Wishing all of our students, staff, family and friends a very merry Christmas! 

This week, alongside the excitement of the play, 5th class were busy making Christmas logs! The boys were very grateful to Ms Sexton’s mam and dad, who provided the logs (nicely chopped with the spaces for the candles neatly drilled in, much to the relief of Miss) and the candles and the bows and the holly!

Here’s an Animoto to show off our work:

Merry Christmas!

Thanks to the great support of the family and friends of St. Peter’s, we managed to win our EduBlogs award! This is a huge achievement and recognition of the work done by the children of our school. The Edublogs Awards are recognised internationally and we are privileged to have our name beside so many other outstanding achievements online.

We thank you sincerely for our nominations and votes. It will encourage us to use sound and technology to enhance our lessons further. The award is the best Christmas present we could get. To acknowledge our thanks, the boys and girls made this message this morning. Thank you so much, and Merry Christmas from us to you!

From Ms. Brennan and Ms. Sexton.

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I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for making yesterday’s concert such a great success. We were so proud of all of our students and thank our audience for creating such a fantastic atmosphere. I’d like to say a special thanks to all of the staff for their commitment and dedication to your children. Last night topped off an amazing term in what is a historic year for our school.

Yesterday also brought great news for our blog! Thanks to your support and votes we won our first EduBlogs Award, recognising our podcasting work. This is a great achievement and we really hope to build on this as we continue to work towards our Digital Schools Award.

We’d like to wish Ms. Hyland all the best on her maternity leave. We’ll really miss her funny stories. We can’t wait to meet the latest addition to our Peter’s family.

Finally, I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope Santa is good to you all!

Have a lovely break and see you on the 6^th January, 2014!

Emer.

Today marks the last ‘Wednesday for Parents’ post of 2013! We hope to gradually build up a bank of resources for parents so if you find something that we should be telling others about, please let Ms Sexton know!

This week’s post is all about fun websites for the days leading up to Christmas! (It’s also quite a short one – mainly due to this – very excited to see you all tomorrow!) As always, all sites were checked when this post was published but St Peter’s is not responsible for the content of external websites.

First one is the official NORAD Santa tracker. The Santa Tracker doesn’t begin until Christmas Eve but in the meantime, you can explore the North Pole. Excellent site!

Google have also accessed Santa’s map and have plans to track him on Christmas Eve. In the meantime, they have daily interactions and activities. This site is very child-friendly and definitely worth a look!

And for the little people who keep asking, is it Christmas yet? Find out here 🙂

Finally, during all the chat with the students about Christmas over the last few weeks, it’s become clear that, while they enjoy the presents and especially the excitement around Santa’s visit, the highlight for Christmas is spending time with the people they love. All their retellings of the Christmas story have focused on the part about the family, and they are quite aware of the ‘reason for the season’. With that in mind, the final thing I want to share with you today is an ad by Excentric. Maybe you’ve seen it before, but if not, it’s definitely worth a look!

Merry Christmas everyone and we’ll be back in the New Year with more ‘Wednesday for Parents’ posts!

Christmas is our favourite time of year. We love decorating our school, putting up all of our art and Christmas lights. It is a magical time. Have a look to see what it is like!

If you can’t see our video, please click here!

Yesterday 2nd Class read the story of The Little Match Girl. It is a sad story that reminds us to be grateful for all of the lovely things that we have in our lives at Christmas time. We decided to record the nice things that we want to do this Christmas to show true Christmas spirit. You can see our wishes in our video above and hear our promises in our podcast below!

Thanks to our great friend Seomra Ranga for helping us to say our Christmas Spirit ideas and for making the lovely signs!

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Mini-Scientist – Sam, AaronG, Davy and LukeOB from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.

Today Sam Smith, Luke O’Brien, Aaron Gray and Davy Berry-Connell went to represent St. Peter’s in Intel.-Aaron

We all had a great day in Intel even though we didn’t go through to the grand finals-Davy

There were loads of great projects out there and there was over 5000 workers. There is a huge lunch room-Sam

We are very proud that we got that far in the Mini-Scientist competition. -Luke

I had a great day out in Intel-Nugget

It was a great day in Intel. There was a girl called Sue that was doing a magic scientist show -Aaron

There were over 35 different projects in Intel-Davy

We got a hat and earphones as our prize for taking part-Sam

We all had great name tags and loads of people wanted to try our game-Nugget

We in St Peter’s are so proud of this group. They had a constant stream of visitors – both students and adults – and they explained their project really well to everyone. Everyone was really impressed by the standard of work and the group’s ideas. Thanks also to the parents of the four boys, who gave them so much support. We’re delighted to have taken part in the Mini-Scientist this year and we’re looking forward to it again next year. Thanks to Intel for the fantastic prizes and to Sarah and Emily for all their hard work organising it! Well done again boys – Ms Sexton

While it is lovely to think of the delicious food, exciting toys, fancy decorations and fun days out at Christmas time, it is important not to forget the real reason behind Christmas. Here, boys from all of our classes will read the story of the First Christmas and remind us of the real reason behind this special time.

Our crib in 2nd Class, it is helping us to learn about The First Christmas!

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