St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Check out the gingerbread men 5th class decorated. Which is your favourite one?

Huge congrations to Heidi Clucas for winning the overall Bray Drugs Task Force’s art competition. As a result of this, Heidi’s art work above will be printed onto bookmarks for every child in the Bray area. Congratulations also to Naoise Sweeney McMaster and Kurina Mason for winning a prize in their age category. Well done girls!!

3rd Class have been up to lots over the last few weeks and have been kept very busy!

We celebrated Anti – Bullying month this and are now all feel very confident that we would recognise what bullying is, what we’d do if we saw it happening to others and how to deal with it if it ever happened to us.

In maths we learned to tell the time – we spend a while exploring clocks and the hands and talking about how many seconds are in 1 minute, how many minutes in an hour, hours in a day etc. We soon got the hang of how the ‘to’ side and ‘past’ side with lots of practice, including making a human clock!

We also celebrated Science week during November. This was a great week as we explored different STEM experiments that tied in with our theme of Space. We built our own rockets that had to meet criteria such as reaching a certain height and having to stand for a length of time, 3rd did an excellent job building those.

We also launched our own rockets. This was super exciting – we mixed vinegar and baking soda together in a bottle, this created a reaction that forced the bottle to shoot up in the air, just like a real rockets

Finally, we completed lots of Space based art including floating astronauts and created our own planets. We had a brilliant month, roll on the fun of December!!

Each student has been given a packet of gingerbread men today. Your task is to design and decorate one of these and send a photo of it to you teacher on Class Dojo or to the school ‘s Whatsapp. There are a few gingerbread men in the packet, so if you make a mistake you can try again. The more creative the better. There will be a small prize for each class winner.
Entries will need to be in by next Monday and will be posted on the blog. The best of luck everyone!!

November has been Anti-Bullying month in St. Peter’s. Each week for the month Junior Infants have been engaging in activities to learn more about what bullying is and what we can do if we or someone we know is being bullied. We looked at different bullying scenarios and how people might feel in different situations.

Luckily this isn’t a problem for us in Junior Infants who have been working really hard on getting along, sharing and being a team since the start of the year. We added some team work skills into our lessons like Cross the Arctic. Working together as a team we got really good at crossing the hall on two mats without touching the ground.

We power-hosed, sanded and oiled Jodie’s swing in her garden to make it look like new again.