St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

So we come to the final video in our Healthy Ireland Health and Wellbeing Programme on mindfulness. It is safe to say that the videos have been a great success and we are delighted to see the photos and videos you have sent your teachers.

We hope you enjoyed the series and remember you can continue to access these sessions here on our school blog and continue your mindfulness journey over the summer months.

Wishing you all a happy, safe and peaceful summer!

Namaste 🙂

This year, as we can’t be in school, we are asking all students to take part in the Mini World Cup at home. All you need to do is to record yourself scoring as many penalties as you can in 30 seconds and send them to the school mobile phone through WhatsApp. Your score will be added to others on your team from different classes. Don’t worry if you haven’t a ball or goal, we show you in the video below how to do it without them. PLUS WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST SHOWING PADDY HOW IT’S DONE! Get your videos into us before Saturday night – and best of luck!

Today we are encouraging as many students as possible to get down to the beach and see what you can find. To enter the competition, please send in a photo with 4 unusual stones or 4 sea shells. Ms. O’Brien and Ms. Travers have already made it down and are showing what they found below. Always remember to be safe at the beach and don’t go alone! Good luck everyone.

Welcome to our virtual Junior Infants open day! We’re so happy that you’re here!

We recommend that you use a tablet/computer so that you can make the screen as large as possible. Make the picture full screen so that you can interact with the links.

There are a number of links in the picture to let your child explore their classroom. Here’s a list of them:

• Mr Kinsella’s Bitmoji (sitting on the chair) links to a video introducing himself.
• Mr Vance’s Bitmoji links to his video.
• The school crest links to the Infant Education section of our website.
• Each of the books on the bookshelf links to Mr Vance reading them from our recent Bedtime Reading series on the blog.
• The number line links to number songs on Youtube.
• The laptop screen goes to the homepage of the blog.
• Paddy’s bitmoji on the whiteboard links to Paddy’s PE lessons. Paddy is our Project Worker in the school and organises lots of great sports events in the school!
• Mr Kinsella’s map bitmoji on the board links to a a tour of the school and Mr Kinsella’s skipping bitmoji links to a tour of the yard.
• The Mojo character on the board links to information about Class Dojo
• Finally, the Lego box on the floor links to a video explaining Aistear and showing your child all the fun they will have learning through play in St. Peter’s!

Welcome to the 2nd video in our yoga and mindfulness series for senior classes. If you haven’t done already, why not check out video 1 to get you started.

Remember you can rewatch and practice each video as often as you like.

Namaste 🙂

Here is video 3 of 4 from our yoga and mindfulness series. We have been delighted to see and hear how well you have all being doing in each class so far and are delighted to see many parents join in with the sessions. Keep up the good work!

Namaste 🙂

Today is Talented Tuesday and the competition is to send in photos of you showing off your various talents and also how you relax afterwards.
Ms. Roche’s talent is baking and she likes to unwind afterwards with a good book.
Ms. Cronin loves running and has a full cabinet of medals. She spends her down time painting.
Paddy’s passion is Gaelic football and he loves reading when he gets the time.
We look forward to seeing your photos and good luck in the competition.

Hi everyone, A huge thanks to everyone who entered into the first draw to win a prize by posting a video or photo for the first two challenges. Check out most of your photos and videos by clicking on the link below.  

The winners of the competition are :

Challenge 3- Nevaeh Murphy and Amalia Gall

Challenge 4- Grace Carton and Martin Kenna.

To claim your prize you will have to leave a comment after this post saying which of the prizes in the photo below you would like. Congratulations to everyone who got involved and remember to keep posting as there is a good chance you will win the next challenge. Also if you enter 7 out of 8 challenges you will be allowed to participate in the obstacle course when we return to school.

We know many of you have been following our Health and Wellbeing Programme concentrating on body and mind thanks to Healthy Ireland and Bray Area Partnership.

Having produced a series of yoga and mindfulness videos for the junior classes, our Wellbeing Facilitator, Yvonne Doyle, has put together a series for senior classes too. Yvonne is a yoga and meditation tutor and has experience in delivering these types of activities in schools around Wicklow.

We will put up 2 this week and next for you to try out and let us know how you got on.

Namaste 🙂