St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

What answer can you never answer yes to?

There are two part to Paddy’s P.E. today so make sure to click on the two images below and don’t forget to leave a comment.

Please click on the book to hear tonight’s story. I hope you enjoy it.  Don’t forget to leave a comment or answer some or all of the questions I ask.

What is full of holes but still holds water?

I hope that you and your families are keeping well at this very strange and difficult time.  We miss your children and as I type this I can hear you all saying “please take them back then” in my ear!!!

We have organised for non-perishable food for your children (eg. Pasta, rice, tinned food, cereal etc) to be delivered directly to your home in place of the school meals. You should get about 3 weeks woth of food at the end of this week or at the start of next week. We hope that this food helps you out this very unusual time.

If you do not want this food, you can opt out by sending Paddy a WhatsApp message on the school phone at 089 7007016. Please make sure to save this number into your contacts to ensure you receive school messages.

On a separate note, each night of the week I will continue read a bedtime story to the children at 7pm on the school blog. Keep an eye on the blog for other posts including art activities, Paddy’s P.E. and the riddle of the day.

We look forward to welcoming everyone back in the school as soon this health emergency passes, but until then we hope that you all keep safe.

Kind regards,

Scott

I hope you enjoy tonight’s story which is told in a slightly different way than the other stories. Don’t forget to leave a message.

A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains, what is it?

For your Friday art lesson this week, we’re learning all about lines! We’ve a number of activities that you can try out at home, that don’t need too many materials. You can choose to do all of them or just a few depending on what inspires you. Please send us pictures of some of your work through your teacher on Dojo and we’ll feature some of them next week in our Virtual Gallery!

Line is one of the elements of Visual Arts – a line is basically a dot that has gone for a walk so for your warm up, we’d like you to take your pencil for a walk! You can colour it in afterwards if you want to, but first, just relax your hand and see where your pencil ends up.

There are lots of different types of lines. Here are a few:

Credit: https://menloparkart.wordpress.com/grade-1/

• Can you draw these types of lines?
• Choose three and create a picture using them. Would you like to make it more challenging? Ask someone else to choose three for you!

• To warm up, you took your pencil for a walk. It can be tricky to draw something in one go- choose an animal to draw without lifting your pencil! Here are some examples:

• Lots of artists are famous for their use of lines but Mondrian is particularly famous. You might have studied his work in class before but if you’d like a refresher, you can read about him here. Maybe you could create some artwork inspired by Mondrian’s work – he used primary col0urs (blue, red and yellow), straight lines and lots of white space.

Some work on Mondrian by one of our junior classes…

And by some of our seniors!

Finally, you could try this activity! It uses curved and straight lines to create an optical illusion. It works really well with different coloured markers, but it also looks great in black and white.

Here’s one of our past pupils with his amazing work a few years ago!

We’re looking forward to seeing all of your beautiful artwork!

Finally, here are a few directed drawing exercises (where instructions are given) to help you practise your drawing!

From the book ‘Draw Crazy Dinosaurs using numbers and letters’

Click on the book below to hear tonight’s story. I tried to pick a story that both everyone could enjoy tonight. Don’t forget to leave a comment so I know people are watching.

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?