St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

On Monday a new noticeboard went up on our corridor. Mr. Foley gave us an answer and we had to guess the question. The whole school including the teachers were allowed to guess the question, except for Mr. Foley because he knows what the question is. We were told that the answer was “Blue”.

There were many guesses put up on the noticeboard. On Tuesday we got a clue that it was related to “The Simpsons”, after Ian Lawless (6th Class) gave the closest question on Monday.  The six people that guessed it correctly were Mason, Ryan, Luke, Alan (all in 4th Class), Billy and Jamie (both in 6th Class). The correct question was “What colour are Maggie’s clothes?”.Mr. Foley stuck up red arrows to show the correct questions. He is going to give us a new answer every Monday up until Christmas.

Here is a sample of some of the other guesses put up;

What colour is Ms. Brennan’s car?

What colour is Marge’s hair?

What colour was Bart Simpson’s shorts?

What colour are Mr. Foley’s eyes?

What colour are the legs on the chairs and tables?

By Dylan W, Luke, Abhishek, Carl, Jack B., Jack J. Alex, Ryan, Jordan, Stephen, Dylan M., and Mason

We made lava lamps. It was so cool! We wanted to do them because we saw that 3rd Class did them last year. You can see their work here. Why don’t you see our video? Later we will put up two more videos, our makey makey board and our volcanoes!

Lava Lamps for Science Week 2013! from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.

It’s that time of year again folks! It’s hard to believe, but we are already ordering our Christmas annuals. Please tell someone on the Student Council if you would like to order one, they cost €3 and they’re packed with brilliant puzzles, stories, quizzes and more!

On the 8^th of November, a GAA tournament for fifth and sixth classes took place in Bray Emmets GAA Club. There were six local schools involved. Our first match was against St. Fergal’s B team and we floored them with a whopping three goals and one point! Our second match was against Bray School Project and we scraped through with a one goal lead. After another win against St. Fergal’s A team, we left the stadium delighted and victorious. It was a great tournament and we would like to thank Paddy for all his hard work. Thanks also to Ms. Whyte and Ms. Sexton for letting the boys go.

By Archie Farrell

Here  are some pictures of our cross country events from last week!

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In St Peter’s, we try to use real life examples for work on reading comprehension skills. This includes newspaper articles, websites, recipes and instruction manuals.

Last week, in 5th class, Ms Sexton gave each group of four in the class a kit with flower bulbs, soil and flowerpots. We had to follow the instructions carefully – different bulbs needed to stick out of the soil at different heights. We also had to place them in a cold, dark place for the first few weeks. After a lot of brainstorming, Ryan suggested Les’s room. We have to remember to water them every week.

Here’s an Animoto with some of the pictures of us working on our kits:

We’ve also signed up for Incredible Edibles, which will take place in the Spring. Have you planted any flowers for the Spring yet?

Congratulations to the boys and girls who were presented with their Seatbelt Sheriff certificates recently. They worked very hard to earn the certs, wearing their badges to remind family and friends how important it is to wear your seatbelt. Well done all!

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

2nd Class finished up Food Dudes last Friday. We loved taking part and being healthy! Why not check out our last podcast on it?

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First week back after midterm and after what we packed into this week, it feels like we’ve been back for weeks!

Here are the week’s headlines:

• A popular addition to this week’s blog was a look back over the first half term in numbers. Read all about it here!
• Our student council have lots of big plans on this week’s podcast!
• 2nd class podcasted about what they’ve learned in Geography recently here
• The Mini-Scientist work is starting to take shape – read our tips for researching your topic here
• Speaking of the Mini-Scientist project, 4th class blogged about their preparation so far here
• Ms Kane is helping to teach 5th class at the moment. Read all about what they learned about South America this week here
• ‘Wednesday for Parents’ dealt with the issue of web safety this week
• Take a look at 2nd class’s dancing skills in their Animoto video here
• The ‘Wednesday for Parents‘ post over the midterm was about Halloween online!
• Ms Hyland’s class were cooking – check out photos here
• International Tongue Twister Day was on Thursday. We used Twitter to share our lesson, we got great suggestions for tongue twisters from Alex and Caoilynn’s mam and we swapped tongue twisters with St Patrick’s NS in Glencullen! We also made a podcast of tongue twisters here!

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This week, Ms Kane has been visiting 5th class. The theme we’re following  in 5th class in November is ‘South America’.

Oisín interviewed the rest of the class about what they’ve learned so far this week.

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• We talked about the statues on Easter Island and watched this video about how the statues might have been moved on the island.
• We used what we know about forces to draw our own conclusions about the Easter Island statues.
• We learned about cities in South America and we summarised the information.
• We learned about the Incas and the Aztecs and all about the tribes.
• We listened to Irish music and South American music and we compared the two. Here’s Davy’s work on responding to the music:

• We learned all about Pope Francis, who comes from South America, and why he chose his name.
• We also created artwork using paint, using South America as an inspiration.
• In Drama we created freeze frames about trekking in the Amazon jungle.
• For International Tongue Twister day, we made up our own tongue twisters with a South American theme, you can listen to them on the podcast.
• We interacted with other schools and with parents on Twitter and shared our tongue twisters:

Ms Kane will be with us for another 4 weeks, so we will be sharing more of what we’ve learned about South America next week! Where would you like to visit in South America?

We had a brilliant day today trying out different funny thing for Tongue Twister Day! Have a listen to hear our Tongue Twisters!

– Ryan, Caoilynn, Kayden, Kelsey, Dean T

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