St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

On the 16^th of December 2013, 6^th Class were offered to go to Festina Lente horse riding club. To start off, 4 people went to a stable to ride on horses and trot. Eduard, Archie, Adam and Lester were first to go on the horses. We all had an amazing time and look forward to our next visit!

Sky, Dylan and Kevin were at the workshop first. They made soaps with the shapes of snowmen, Christmas trees, love hearts and stars. They had to pick their scent and colour to make it and then some of the people there put hot liquid in the shape of the person’s choice. They also made wishes to Santa, which they had to keep secret and to put it up the wishing tree to make it come true.

Thank you to Paddy and Ms Sugrue for bringing us, we had an amazing time.

Merry Christmas to all at Festina Lente.

By Archie, Eduard, Lester, Sky, Kevin, Adam and Dylan

Busy, busy times in St Peter’s! Mr Curran has been in this week sticking up our Christmas lights. The backdrop for the play has been drawn out and the painting has started. The many tubs of costumes have been taken out and lists of props have been drawn up. Actions to the songs have been learned and the lines run like clockwork. The class teachers have taken on a slightly frantic look at mention of class plays and sing the Cinderella songs in the staffroom without realising! We’re in the depths of the Christmas play and it’s as magical as ever! Of course, there’s lots of other things going on too and if you missed anything during the week, you’ve come to the right place to catch up… (more…)

Hello bloggers. On Wednesday the 4th of December there was a Science Fair in our school. 4th, 5th, and 6th class had to do Science projects, but sadly 2nd and 3rd couldn’t join the Fair. Finally the big day arrived. Two judges came around looking at our projects. The bird group from our class won the runners-up prize. Tommy, Dylan M, and Mason were in the group. All of them got a winner’s prize bag. Everybody who took part in the Science Fair got a goody bag.

By Jack J, Abhishek, Alan and Dylan W

This week in Fourth Class the answer has been revealed. The answer is Santa Claus. There are 63 questions up so far. Most of the questions are from our class. We think somebody might already have got the question correct. A boy from our class got the question last time. He was the only one. We know this new answer but do you know the question??

By Dylan M, Mason, Stephen and Calvin

Hi bloggers. Today’s post is about the Hallelujah Choir. Last Thursday we went to Citywest in Dublin and sang in the Hallelujah Choir. At half past one we got on the bus but Jordan went in by car. He collected food for us all on the way. We checked in and we had to rehearse for the choir. After the rehearsal we got our dinner. The doors opened at 6:30pm and over 3,000 parents watched us sing and dance. It was over at 9pm. When we got collected it was 10pm. Everyone had fun. The next day we could come in at 11am because we were at the Choir. It was a great event.

By Carl, Tommy and Jordan

Everybody has been extremely hardworking and busy getting ready for Christmas. We have been working real hard on the Christmas Plays. I think the plays are going to be better than last year. It has been one and a half weeks and all our class know our lines. The School Play still needs some work but we’ve loads of time. Mr. Curran came in and helped with our Christmas decorations. I hope you like the Christmas Play. The School Play is on the 19th of December at 11:30 am and 7pm.

By Jack B and Luke

We put our pictures out side the class room to show our toys that we drew for our toy show.

We also coloured jumpers for the display for the toy show.

We cut laminated letters saying St. Peter’s Toy Show and stuck them on a board out side the class room.

Most of us drew vehicles but Ben, Sam and Oisín made different toys.

by Ben and Andy

Goodbye Ratatouille bulletin board – What’s on the menu for numeracy in St Peter’s?

And presenting… our new Toy Show board!

You can listen to our podcast from the day of the Toy Show here

P.S. Speaking of podcasts, we’ve been nominated for an Edublog award. We’d really appreciate your vote! See here for more information or vote below

Why not listen to the Christmas poems that 2nd Class have learned?

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year… But what about when it’s actually the most difficult time of the year?

This week’s ‘Wednesday for Parents’ deals with the difficult topic of how to cope with Christmas when you’re bereaved and grieving – particularly how to access resources to help children to cope at Christmas time after the death of a loved one. Above anything else, I want to emphasise that this post is only intended as a list of resources – everyone grieves in different ways and what works for one person, mightn’t work for another.

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On Friday, Ms Kane finished her placement with 5th class in St Peter’s. The theme for her five weeks was ‘South America’ and 5th class are now experts on all things South America! We were really lucky to have Ms Kane as a teacher and the boys commented this morning on how strange it was not to have her in the classroom. Her lessons were always interesting and creative and she had a great rapport with the boys.  Here are some of our favourite things that we covered during Ms Kane’s placement:

• I loved making the tribal masks – Aaron J
• I liked learning about the Voladores, who jump off high poles and spin around like birds – Ameesh
• My favourite thing was practising sprints in PE – LukeMc
• I liked learning about Hernando Cortés – Ben
• I liked learning about all the games that people played years ago – LukeO’B
• I loved learning about forces and how they used it to move the statues – AaronG
• I loved watching the David Attenborough video of the rainforest – Andy
• I liked learning about all the animals that the animals made in Music – Jack
• I loved watching the video of tlachtli, the ball game, and I loved learning about Brazil and the rainforests in the Amazon – Johnny
• I loved learning about the Aztecs and the Incas – Ryan
• My favourite lesson was making the Olympic stadium in Art – Robert
• I loved all the artwork that we did with Ms Kane and the Drama lesson, especially the press conference – Adam
• My favourite part was learning about the different types of Music – like salsa and traditional – Leon
• I loved the Science lesson on reaction times – Davy
• I loved learning about the Easter Island statues – Andrei

We hope to see her very soon – she’s promised to keep in touch!

Thanks a million, Ms Kane!

P.S. have you heard? St Peter’s has been nominated for an EduBlog award – read all about it and vote here!