St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Here are the week’s Halloween headlines:

• Ms Brennan’s 2nd class gave a great round up of their Halloween songs and decorations here
• Mr Foley’s 4th class posted podcasts of their spooky stories here – listen if you daaare!
• Ms Sexton’s 5th class learned how to use GoAnimate and used it to create Halloween jokes here, here and here!
• Our ‘Wednesday for Parents’ post rounded up great ideas about what to do over the midterm – read all about it here
• The Student Council continue their great work – listen to their latest podcast here
• Speaking of fantastic podcasts, 2nd class finished their class novel, The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me this week. DylanM’s superb interview of the class is well worth a listen. You can find it here. (more…)

Paddy movie from St Peter’s, Bray on Vimeo.

26.2 miles

320 laps of our back yard…

Thousands of runners…

Including Paddy!

On Monday, 28th October 2013, Paddy will take part in the Dublin City Marathon. Check out the video we made this morning to cheer him on.

Good luck to everyone taking part in the marathon on Monday!

Leave your good luck messages for Paddy (and anyone else you know!) in the comments!

We just loved The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me. Roald Dahl is our favourite! We hope you like Dylan’s interview of us. It is our favourite podcast so far! Let us know what you think!

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This week, whenever we’ve had a spare 5 minutes, 5th class have been using GoAnimate to create Halloween jokes. Here’s our final instalment of the week. You can find our previous work here and here! We hoped you enjoyed them this week!

halloween joke Oisin and aaron by stpetersbrayblog on GoAnimate

Johnny and Robert Halloween Joke by stpetersbrayblog on GoAnimate

AaronJ and Alan – Halloween Joke by stpetersbrayblog on GoAnimate

Luke and Jack Halloween Joke by stpetersbrayblog on GoAnimate

Leon and Ryan Halloween Joke by stpetersbrayblog on GoAnimate

Next week, schools are closed for midterm! This week’s Wednesday for Parents focuses on ideas for entertainment, here in Bray, around County Wicklow and a few further afield. Some events may need to be booked early.

In no particular order, our top recommendations are:

• Sealife! Sealife have a Scary Fish Festival on next week with zombie pirate trick or treating, design a ‘Frankenfish’ competition, facepainting and a pirate quiz trail! If you can, it’s well worth booking online as you can save up to €14 on family tickets. It’s €29 to book online for a family of 2 adults and 2 children, but €43 if you book on the day. More information here!
• The Mermaid! The Mermaid have a showing of Monster’s University on Tuesday 29th October. Tickets cost €5 each and information can be found here.
• Kilruddery have a number of creative events on – for €20, you can use materials to build a scarecrow and be in with a chance to win a prize. For €5 you can choose a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, draw a design and leave it with the master carver to be collected later. More information here.
• Wicklow Gaol go all out for Halloween and while some of the activities are for adults only (and the staff of Peter’s can vouch for the creepiness of these events!), there are a number of family activities, such as treasure hunts, facepainting and a ‘terrifying touch tour’ – intrigued? Check out their calendar here! Family tickets seem to run at €19 each (2 adults/3 children) for each event. (more…)

Here are m0re Halloween jokes from 5th class using Go Animate.

Halloween jokes-Sam and Ameesh by stpetersbrayblog on GoAnimate

Halloween joke Davy and Luke OB by stpetersbrayblog on GoAnimate

Halloween joke – Andrei and Adam by stpetersbrayblog on GoAnimate

More to follow tomorrow!

Happy Halloween to everybody in St. Peter’s and the viewers from outside our school worldwide. Everybody in Fourth Class has written a scary story for Halloween. Some were as long as 3 pages.

After we finished writing them, some of our stories were recorded on Mr. Foley’s iPad. We used an app on the iPad called “Soundcloud”. Some of the pupils who recorded did it in hilarious and scary voices.

Mr. Foley recorded some boys while others were working. Of course when everything was going great Mr. Foley deleted the first two stories by accident! Nine boys recorded their stories. They were Carl, Abhishek, Dylan W, Alan, Jack B, Luke, Jack J, Stephen and Alex. If you’re brave enough to listen to our stories, click on the podcasts below….

Written by Stephen, Jack B, Mason, Alan, Abhishek, Dylan M, Jack J, Tommy and Dylan W.

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Last Thursday, as part of Maths Week, we took part in a Maths Table Quiz. Paddy and Mr Kinsella, after much deliberation, split 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes into mixed teams of 4 for the quiz in the library. The quiz was provided by Seomra Ranga, always a great source of resources for primary schools. You can check out Seomra Ranga here! Thanks to Ms Byrne, Ms Sugrue, Ms Kane and Mr Staunton for correcting the quiz papers and for keeping the scoreboard up to date. Ms Sexton read out the questions and the jokes. Thanks to Paddy for taking the photos! Well done to Team 14 who were the winners – Eduard from 6th, LukeMc from 5th, Alan from 4th and John from 3rd, who had the most amazing reaction to winning!

Well done to everyone who got involved and thanks to Seomra Ranga for a really enjoyable afternoon – it was a great addition to our activities for Maths Week 2013! Any good maths jokes??

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Our very spooky Pumpkin jars!

2nd Class are just so excited for Halloween. We have learned songs, rhymes and poems in Irish and English and we made toffee apples and pumpkin jars. We even had some báirín breac to see who would get married first!

Later in the week we will play Halloween games from long ago, bake Halloween topper cupcakes, carve pumpkins and make our trick or treat bags. We are using our English, Gaeilge, Art, Music and History lessons all about Halloween this week!

The toffee chocolate apples we made, they were yumm

Here are some of our rhymes and poems!

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Here is some spooooooooky music!

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