St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

In 4th Class for Maths this month we have been learning about Time. We made a life size clock to help our understanding of time on an analogue clock!

In Art we drew self – portraits with a twist this year as we designed our own masks!

This week we had our long-awaited Bike Day! We took part in activities out in the yard and talked about bike safety. Thanks to Paddy for organising!

We have had a great start to the new year in Ms. Kane’s class. We are happy to be back and were so excited to see our friends again! It’s been a busy month, filled with lots of new learning and some of our favourite, familiar activities!

One of the most exciting things we’ve done is baking! Ms. Kelly has the best recipes and it wasn’t long before we were making lots of new treats! So far, we’ve made flapjacks, cookies and fairy cakes. Baking allows us to practise Maths skills like estimating and measuring in a practical way. We’ve also completed some procedural writing and are keeping record of all of the recipes we’ve made so far. We’re happy to report that our families, teachers and friends have been very impressed with anything they’ve tried!

We’ve also been busy carrying out some STEM challenges and investigations! Our first challenge involved working in groups to build towers that would be able to hold a paper cup. Sounds easy? We could only use 20 paper straws and some Sellotape to construct the tower! It was amazing to see the different designs and how each team worked together to plan, build and review their tower. We’re glad to report that each of the towers held the cup successfully! STEM activities give us an opportunity to develop our problem solving, prediction and reasoning skills in a fun way!

We have also celebrated International Dot Day, Roald Dahl Day and the European Week of Sport! It’s definitely been a busy start to the year!

Lastly, we also went on our first trip of the year to Bray beach! It’s a favourite spot of ours and we were so lucky to get such good weather! We felt like we were on holidays and even treated ourselves to an ice cream to celebrate a very successful month back at school!

Wow, its hard to believe we’re back to school a month already, September always flies!

We have had a busy first few weeks getting settled and getting down to some 3rd class business 😎

Here are some of 3rd on their first day…

We started into the month getting to know each other and finding out different facts about ourselves.. And our teacher!

Our Science focus for the month was The Human Body 🦴🧠 we learned about the different organs and ‘Skelly’ dropped in to show us his!! We labeled our own skeletons organs and even played Who Wants to be a Millionaire (human body style 😎) Then we made our own skeletons from match sticks!

We also learned all about teeth and why it’s so important to look after them and to brush properly! We looked at the different parts of a tooth and different teeth we have in our mouth!

Finally we measured out the sugar that’s in drinks we have and saw just how much sugar was actually in then – we were quite shocked 😲

For European Sports Week we practiced different sports in the hall 🏀⚽🎾

Finally, we spent a lot of time learning how to write a letter! 3rd did a great job learning how to include different features of a letter and then picked someone famous to write to. Some of the lucky letter ‘receivers’ were Ronaldo, Ariana Grande, Adam Sandler, Justin Bieber, Mo Salah and many more 🤩📝

To celebrate European week of sport, all classes took part in a sporting challenge. Below are some of the photos from the Junior Infants challenge.

We were delighted to welcome in our new Junior Infants this year who have settled in really well. Despite being unable to have our traditional open day in June we are delighted with how well everyone has adapted to their new surroundings.

We are busy “working” every day with free play and Aistear. The topic this month is homes, where we are learning all about different houses, rooms and families.

We also try to fit in some fun physical activities in the hall or in the yard outside while the weather is fine. This is good for healthy mind and body.

Most importantly, we are learning that although we are different and unique, we are also similar and that as a class we all fit together!

2nd class were so excited to return to school! they have created some fantastic art work by drawing self-portraits, designing their own masks and writing about their goals for this year!

2nd really enjoyed practising their cursive handwriting using whiteboards, writing with pencil and markers! We created symmetrical names which turned out to be our very own name monsters.

We also are trying to enjoy the September sunshine by getting outside for our SESE! Working in pairs we had to search for things in our yard that stimulated our senses.

The new senior infants have settled in very well to their new classroom this week. School is a little bit different this year as we are all trying our very best to prevent the spread of COVID19.

We are using hand sanitizer everyday, trying our best to keep apart from our friends, following the arrows on the floor and our teachers are wearing masks all the time. (There are big smiles behind the masks!)

We talked all about how we can keep our distance from children who are not in our group 👩🏼‍🏫👨🏾‍🏫.

We got some new mats for our desks that will help us to keep the germs away! Here they are on the yellow table.

Here are some photos of our first day of senior infants!📸

We have had so much fun this week doing our activities and getting to see our friends again. It’s good to be back!👧🏾🤴🏼

Welcome back to the new school year! This month, we’re starting with 6th class, who are showcasing some of the work they’ve been doing in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) so far.

We started by reminding ourselves of some of the great work we did with Ms Kane last year in 5th class! We read ‘Rosie Revere, Engineer’ which talks about the importance of perservering and we discussed how a setback shouldn’t stop us from trying again.

Our first STEM challenge of the year seemed easy! In our pairs within our pods, we had to build a tower with just two pieces of A4 paper. We were allowed to use a glue stick and a scissors to cut and stick the paper (not turn them into the foundations of the building as some groups tried!)

After twenty minutes, our towers had to stand by themselves for at least ten seconds. We measured the ones that could do this and found that Kayleigh and Callum’s tower was the tallest at 85 cm. This project taught us a lot about perseverance and not giving up easily!

Welcome back to school everyone. We’re all delighted to have everyone back in school after being off for so long. A very special welcome to the Junior Infants and their parents. I hope everyone has a fantastic year.