St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Well done to February’s All Star Attenders listed below. Another really good month for school attendance. Keep up the good work.

We kicked off our new school year with a good start on attendance. Despite the usual coughs, colds and sniffles we made a big effort to get in to school and had an extra special bonus prize this month. Any child in everyday for the last 2 weeks of January got to go to the “School Cinema”. We had the hall set up with a giant projector screen and watched Gnome Alone in the morning, complete with popcorn. We also had several classes beat their attendance from January last year and will be kicking off the prizes for those classes with pizza parties this week. Keep up the good work on attendance and well done to all our superhero attenders for January.

The hairdressers/barbers/beauticians in Aistear in senior infants pic.twitter.com/VQtYl0YvwZ

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 5, 2019

We dont mind getting our hands wet! Hairdressers in aistear. pic.twitter.com/GzIAwfc1K4

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 5, 2019

Well done to the winners of our litter and waste poster competition. Our green schools committee had a lot of tough decisions to make in choosing the winners from each class. Well done everyone!! pic.twitter.com/LmQvVFQCGu

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 30, 2019

Senior infants had great fun inventing games on yard today for PE. We got to choose which games we wanted to participate in. Keeping fit can be so much fun! pic.twitter.com/nbKr3AGl8y

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 23, 2019

Inspired by our visit from ‘Sam’ the puppet today, Senior Infants decided that we would like to learn more about how to use puppets.  Our friend in 5th class has kindly offered to pay us a few more visits to help us out.  We are looking forward to introducing our own puppets to ‘Sam’ over the coming weeks and we hope to create a puppet show for other classes to show off our skills.

This afternoon senior infants were visited by ‘Sam’ the puppet. We had a great laugh speaking with him and listening to his interesting stories. Many thanks to our friend in 5th class for introducing him to us. We look forward to learning how to create a puppet show of our own pic.twitter.com/XFN4CdKKen

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 21, 2019

We had a great and busy start to the new year in 5th class! We started by sharing some of our New Year’s resolutions with each other. They included lots of different ideas including doing more exercise, reading more and trying to be on time to school every day. We’ve displayed our resolutions in our room to keep us motivated!

On Tuesday we had a visit from the Department of the Environment to learn all about climate change and biodiversity and our role in both. We learned that biodiversity relates to the variety of plant and animal life in our world and we discussed the important role we all play in ensuring that plant and animal life in our local area is protected. We suggested practical ways that we can help to ensure that plants and animals are not disturbed by our actions and also how to reduce climate change. Simple changes, like using reusable drinking bottles and putting our sandwiches in lunchboxes instead of tinfoil, can have really positive impacts. We are going to make a real effort to put these simple changes into practice. If everyone gets involved, real changes can be made!

Exploring hedgerows that help to support biodiversity. 

We’re learning all about World War 1 in History and as part of our Drama lesson we created some freeze frames that we felt represented a variety of people affected by the war. These included nurses working in the trenches, children saying goodbye to relatives who were going to fight in Europe, soldiers fighting on the battlefields and soldiers being captured by the enemy. We discussed the reasons the war started and escalated and life in the trenches. We hope to learn more over the coming weeks and are reading a new novel ‘The Butterfly Lion’ by Michael Morpurgo which also includes some information on the war.

Working to create freeze frames.

Today one of our classmates in senior infants brought in a pepper plant they grew at home. They taught us all about peppers. We opened the pepper, tasted it and we all got some seeds to take home to grow our own pepper plants. What a fun day we had! pic.twitter.com/zF7GssdgTY

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 11, 2019

With a busy month of play practice for Christmas concerts children did really well getting to school and preparing for one of the best days in the school calendar. Well done to all our All Stars for December and keep it going into the new year. Happy Christmas everyone.

Today in senior infants we did secret Santa! We put all of our names in a bowl. We then picked a name of out of the bowl before making some toys/games for the person we picked. We had great fun in junk art! Finally we wrapped our presents and teacher gave them out to us. pic.twitter.com/jtWCbgTd5C

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 19, 2018