St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Thanks to everyone who helped out at the recent Open Day! Thanks to the parents (and kids) who helped to set up and then provided tea. coffee and refreshments for the day. Thanks to the Parents Council who put in so much effort to help to organise the day.

Thanks to all the parents and students who delivered the leaflets to homes and local businesses.

Thanks to all the people who sourced prizes for our raffle. A special thanks to all the local businesses who helped out with refreshments and prizes:

• Costcutters, Bray
• Tesco Express, Shankill
• Dunnes Stores, Bray
• Get Fresh, Bray
• Centra, Bray

Thanks to everyone who took part in the day, to the students for their performances and for working so hard in the weeks coming up to it and to the teachers for preparing them! A special thanks to Ms Whyte for all her hard work to show off St Peter’s as the wonderful school it is. Congratulations on the success of the day – we look forward seeing you at the next event! If you missed the post with all the photos from the day, you can find it here.

We are all so excited about the arrival of our new MaKey MaKey board to St. Peter’s. MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century that turns everyday objects into touchpads when you combine them with the internet. It’s a simple Invention Kit for Beginners and Experts doing art, engineering, and everything inbetween! We love our one and we all spent today trying it out.

Why not check out the MaKey MaKey video above to give you an idea about how it works and we’ll show you what we made tomorrow!

2nd Class are learning about why it is important to wear your seatbelt. We are learning to put our seatbelts on because it is so dangerous being in a car without your belt on. We are seatbelt sheriffs and are reminding people to buckle up! Itis against the law to not have your seatbelt on. We have sheriff badges and it is our job is tell people to put on their seatbelt.

Have a listen to our podcast to hear more! Find out more info here!

by Codie, Caoilynn, Billy, Abbi, Kelsey

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By now all of you would have seen our new year brochure that we distributed around the area ahead of the Open Day. Many thanks to the boys and parents who delivered them to local shops and homes.

If you know of anyone who would like a copy then contact Karen in the office or direct them to this post!

So, it’s been a busy week on the blog this week! If you missed anything, you’ve come to the right place!

The headlines this week are:

• Second class began their Irish dancing classes in the hall – their video showing off their steps can be found here
• Third class received lots of compliments for their beautiful reading corner here
• Fourth class celebrated their fantastic attendance here
• Fifth and sixth created a post about their peace posters for Bray Lions Club here
• St Peter’s has a twitter account – you can find it here – plenty of photos and quotes from our pupils (more…)

5th and 6th made Peace Posters over the week. There was a good few nice ones and they will be put into a competition. There are hundreds of entries internationally and loads locally. There is going to be a Bray competition. Lots of people drew doves for the sign of peace. We were not allowed to put words into it because it’s an international competition.

The Bray Lions run the competition in Bray. We did it on A4 for a practice and A2 for the real one. You should do one yourself! Check out our animoto video showing what we have entered. Do you like our work?

“The boys in 3^rd class are learning about telling the time in Maths this week. We are using our mini clocks to help us. Some of us found it a little tricky at the start but we are much better now. We are having great fun and even got to play the time game ‘What time is it Mr. Wolf’ on our interactive whiteboard! ”  – Chris and Lex

The Student Council had a meeting yesterday. We discussed these things:

1. The blog and our new @Twitter account @StPetersBray. Our secretary Ian tweeted what we were talking about, why not have a read?

2. How our new and old after-school clubs and sports are going this term.

3. Any student problems.

4. Making information signs for the school to remind people to wash their hands, turn off the lights and flush the toilet.

5. Running a charity event for Christmas.

6. The sports tournaments coming up this term.

7. Having a sponsored run at Halloween.

We recorded a podcast to fill you in on these things. Ms. B also made a GoAnimate video to get people to comment on this post. We will leave the next one. We’ll report back in two week. Thanks everyone.

St. Peter’s Student Council by StPetersPrimary on GoAnimate.

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Today in school, we had our first fire drill of the year. Although it was unexpected, all the students reacted immediately, leaving everything behind them. They left the building quickly and calmly and then lined up at the agreed meeting spot for the class teachers to do a headcount. Well done everyone!

There are some really good websites with fantastic activities to help kids to learn about fire safety – even more important than usual coming up to Hallowe’en!

In no particular order, here’s our top 5:

http://www.firesafekid.org/kidszone – this one is more suitable for younger children, but covers the basic rules in a really child-friendly way with good posters and a nice quiz. The family zone on the same website is quite good for tips.

http://www.sparky.org/#/Sparky/Activities – this one has some nice printables for activities, including a checklist for fire safety at home. There’s also a section on fire engines for any kids who has particular interest in the work of fire fighters. Just to note that this is an American site (as are some of the others) and that it lists the emergency number as 911 instead of the Irish 999 or 112.

http://www.firesafekids.org/index.html – not to play favourites but this is a great one! Plenty of activities for  lots of age groups and a ‘secret game’ that can only be unlocked when you answer questions about fire safety correctly.

http://www.usfa.fema.gov/kids/flash.shtm a lovely mix of activities for older children

http://www.askafirefighter.com/ – a really cool one to answer specific questions about the work of a fire fighter!

At the time of writing this post, I couldn’t find a stand-out Irish fire safety site, but this one has been launched since. Thanks to @NiamhDhubhghail for pointing it out to us!

For the treatment of burns and scalds, the HSE.ie give good advice here!

Any recommendations for good sites? We’d love to share even more of them!

Yesterday in St Peter’s, we had a visit from the dental nurse, Mary Byrne.

She spoke to 3rd and 5th classes in the library about the importance of good dental hygiene..

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