St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Hello bloggers, we hope you are enjoying the blog. We are doing Science Projects at the moment, and so are Fifth and Sixth Class. For this, we got into groups of three and four. We were given time to decide both our groups and our projects. Mr. Foley was impressed how quickly and quietly we did this.

We have five groups in the class. After we were in our groups we were discussing what sort of Science Project we should do. All of us have different kinds of projects. Each group agreed on what we are doing. We have five different experiments, including dinosaurs, spiders, space, birds and the ocean.

Over the next three weeks we are going to start our projects and have them finished for December 3rd to show everyone. A judge will be coming into our school to look at Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth class’ projects. We feel sorry for Second and Third because they can’t do it but they’ll take part in the next few years.

We hope we learn loads about our projects and we can tell our parents at home, and we hope we will have great fun. All of us hope our experiments go well.

By Jack J, Alex, Ryan, Carl, Alan, Dylan W, Luke, Abhishek, Tommy (our chief editor!), Jack B, Jordan, Stephen, Dylan M, Mason

On December 3rd, the Intel Mini-Scientist exhibition will take place in the school. 4th, 5th and 6th classes will take part in the exhibition, presenting group projects. One of our Wednesday for Parents posts a couple of weeks ago dealt with choosing a good project for science fairs. This week, we’re going to concentrate on researching your topic.

Over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to model how to do a science fair project, using a sample question. If you follow along with the timeline, you should get your project finished in plenty of time!

Take, for example, the questions ‘Does playing music to plants make them grow faster?’ First, consider what you already know about plants and about music. Then ask yourself questions about what you’d like to know about plants and music! Maybe it’s about previous experiments, maybe it’s related to different types of music, maybe it’s related to different types of plants. (more…)

Myspace Message GeneratorsWe are just 9 weeks into term and already we’ve been so busy with the many activities and projects that is typical of the St. Peter’s school year. Hold onto your hats as we recap on the term so far, in numbers!

1: The amazing Open Day we held on the 28th September!

2: The number of brand new after-school clubs, to go with the existing four!

3: The number of weeks we have been dancing with our Irish Dancing teacher Sue!

4: The number of songs we performed at our school Open Day!

5: The number of times our different classes have baked or cooked up a storm in the kitchen!

6: The number of girls in our brand new school!

7: The number of different new features we have added to our blog so far this year!

8: The number of ‘Wednesday for Parents’ posts we have shared on our blog.

9: The number of symbols we stuck on our Culture Night door to represent life in St. Peters!

10: The number of students on our brand new Student Council.

11: The number of people who created our biggest human piano on the Makey Makey board – we will try to increase that later in the term!

15: The number of Roald Dahl books in our school plan, which is why we celebrated Roald Dahl Day on the 13th of September!

16: The number of Food Dudes and Dudettes in 2nd Class who have been eating fruit and veg in school for the past three weeks!

25: The number of podcasts we have recorded so far!

30: The number of days left to the Intel Mini-Scientist Fair!

32: The number of participants in our local cross country championships!

48: The number of questions in our Maths Week Quiz.

81: The number of blog posts so far this school year!

135: The number of followers our brand new Twitter account has.

288: The number of comments so far on our blog this school year.

323: The number of tweets we have sent since we joined twitter in the first week in October!

€366.60 : The amount raised for the Wicklow Hospice when we held our Rainbow Day.

€989.70: The amount raised on our Halloween Dress-Up Day!

Infinite… the number of laughs, pages read, facts shared, equations solved, friends made and memories cherished. Here’s to more in 2013/14!

 

We are going to enter our blog in the Eircom Junior Spider Awards. We are going to enter the Mega Spider category for primary schools. Have you heard of the awards? The entry date is in December. Find out more about the awards here! Do you have any suggestions to improve our blog in the meanwhile? Let us know and leave a comment below!

We have been dancing for four weeks now. We do Irish dancing. It is great fun. Our dancing teacher is called Sue. She is a brilliant dancer and was in the All Ireland dancing competition last week. She came first in the first round. We now know the Walls of Limerick, the 3 hand reel and the easy reel. Check out our latest updated video!

By –

Caoilynn, Kayden, Dylan M and Kelsey

If you can’t see the video then click here!

 

Hope the midterm is going well!

Just a short post this week to point out a few good websites with Halloween games and activities. Don’t forget this list of activities from last week for things to do out and about over the midterm

• 1Halloween has lots of ideas for costumes and decorations. They also have plenty of colouring and activity pages, along with a few simple games.
• PBS Kids is a nice one with lots of activities for younger children
• Scoilnet is an Irish educational website with lots of activities for students. This one is more suited to senior classes (3rd class up) (more…)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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