St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! The countdown has officially begun and we’re all getting very excited.

Here’s a taster of what’s been going on in St. Peter’s in the week’s headlines:

• Second class have had a very special visitor this week! Polly the Polar Bear arrived on Tuesday and you can watch a very excited second class explain her unexpected entrance here.
• Mini-Scientist was top of the talked-about list in the senior classes! The date has been changed to Wednesday 4th December – you can help your child to prepare for talking to the judges by asking them lots of questions about their projects, especially questions that begin with ‘why?’ – for example, why did you choose this question? Why did X happen?
• 4th class have been getting very excited about Christmas. Read all about their preparations here.
• Thaispeáin Rang A 5 a n-obair le podchraoladh. Éist leo anseo.
• Student Council have had a very important week. Their weekly podcast, keeping us all up to date on the news of the school, is here. They also received their badges here and launched the 2fm Toy Appeal here. Well done to Kelsey, Codie, Finn, Kian, Jack J, Stephen, Leon, Sam, Jamie and Ian for all their hard work. And of course, thanks very much to Ms Brennan who helps the Student Council with all the great work that they do!
• Speaking of toys, the Late Late Toy Show takes place tonight. You can listen to us chatting about the Toy Show and more of our Christmas memories here!
• We were delighted during the week when South Dublin Libraries published a book review from Leon O’Donoghue, one of our fifth class students. You can read all about the link between St Peter’s and the library here and you should definitely read Leon’s review here.
• 2nd class have packed in a lot of PE into the first term – watch their Animoto video here.
• The mystery of Mr Foley’s board was solved by Ryan McCormack this week. The answer was New York – find out the question here.
• This week’s ‘Wednesday for Parents’ focused on getting into the Christmas Spirit. Check out some of our ideas here.

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This week in St Peter’s, 2nd class have had lots of excitement with the adventures of Polly the Polar Bear. You should definitely check out the video all about her arrival here. For anyone who missed it on Twitter, here’s a short recap of Polly’s adventures this week!

Tonight is a magical night for every child in the country, because The Toy Show is on! Today some of the boys and girls in St. Peter’s shared their memories of The Toy Show. Why not listen to what they had to say! Have a wonderful Toy Show night!

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2nd Class have gotten off to a fun, active and healthy start in Term 1. Their activities have ranged from weekly Irish Dancing lessons, GAA and football training, weekly relay running and general games and athletics work. On top of all of this they have been eating fruit and veg every day with their Food Dudes planners getting regularly updated! They are example to us all. Check out their fancy footwork and dainty dancing so far this term!

PE in 2nd Class from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.

4th, 5th and 6th are working really hard on their projects and we can’t wait to see the finished results!

Dia dhuit!

Bhíomar ag obair go dian i rang a 5 ar caitheamh aimsire i mí na Shamhna. D’fhéachamar ar físeán as Gaeilge faoi Katie Taylor inniu. Is féidir linn cur síos ar ár gcaitheamh aimsire a dhéanamh. Seo ‘podchraoladh’ uainn. Chuir Adam na ceisteanna orainn.

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Am I allowed to talk about it yet?? As of today, there are 28 sleeps to Christmas! Here’s a list of all the things of all things Christmassy in Bray and a bit further away. We’d like to think of this as a starter list, so we can add to it as the month goes on. We will also have a separate post later in the month with all the details of masses, carol services etc in St Peter’s Parish!

• Obviously, the main date for your diary is the 18th December for St Peter’s Primary’s performances of Roald Dahl’s ‘Cinderella’ – always a popular event and we’re sure this year will be no different! Rehearsals are going really well and we’ve a great show in store for you!
• Bray has a number of amazing events planned for the Christmas season. The Live Crib takes place in the Design Centre (opposite the Royal Hotel) on December 14th, 15th, 21st and 22nd, with animals from Glenroe Farm. Admission is free! (more…)

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Hello bloggers, this is 4th class. It’s coming close to Christmas and we’ve been busy over the past few weeks getting ready. In class we each designed our own Christmas card (Mr. Foley also did one). We started practicing our Class Christmas Play, but sorry we can’t tell you what we’re doing it on, it’s a surprise! We have also been practicing our songs for the School Christmas Play in the library with every class. Before we went up to the library we practiced them in our classroom. The lines for the Christmas Play were given out yesterday for the people who wanted one and we also found out who the main characters are, but again we can’t tell you!

We finished our third class novel called “Rover Saves Christmas” by Roddy Doyle. We are doing book reviews at the moment. Some boys are typing it and some boys are writing it out. We also did an interview on the book, the podcast will be up soon.

We hope that our Christmas cards and Play will go well!

By Tommy, Dylan W, Calvin, Carl, Abhishek, Jack B, Luke, Jack J, Alex, Stephen, Dylan M, Mason

Yesterday afternoon, the correct question was revealed. We knew that the answer was New York. After 54 guesses, Ryan in our class was the first and only pupil in the whole school to get it correct! The question was “Where are the Jets from?”. The clue we got on Monday was that Kayden in 2nd Class was wearing their football gear as a Halloween costume.

The next answer will be up on Monday. The question is, do YOU know the question….!

By Calvin, Abhishek, Jack B, Luke, Jack J, Stephen, Mason, Dylan M.