St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We have been learning about parables in school. Parables are simple stories used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. One of our favourite ones is  called “workers in the vineyard.” Click on the link below to read the parable. We home you enoy it as much as we did.

Welcome back to another year and to our monthly All Star Attenders’ Post. For those of you who are new, each month we make an effort to recognise all those students who have had 100 % attendance for the month. Each student with perfect attendance is given a stamp in their attendance booklet and can claim a prize each month or save their stamps for bigger prizes.

We also run a class competitions and if the class beats their attendance for the same month last year they win a prize. Some of the prizes last year included trips to The Mermaid Arts Theatre to see a show, Cinema Experience in the Classroom, Ice-cream and Smoothie making lessons and more.

Check out the list below for all students who had full attendance for the month of September.

On Thursday morning, there was great excitement in St. Peter’s when we heard that Martin O’Neill, manager of the Irish soccer team, would be visiting!

We were delighted to welcome him to St Peter’s, where he took part in a press conference and answered some of our questions. He had great advice about believing in ourselves and working hard to practise our football skills. Afterwards, 6th class and some of 5th demonstrated a drill for him and had the chance to shake his hand. Judging by the levels of excitement, it was a day not to be forgotten. A big thanks to Martin O’Neill, the FAI and the local Sports Promotion Unit as well as our press conference co-ordinator, Paddy Mullen. Here are some of the photos from the day…

Welcome back to last year’s Litter and Waste committee, who have moved onto the challenge of the Energy Green Flag. We’re delighted that every member of this dedicated group really wanted to stay on the committee and they’re looking forward to making big changes to our energy consumption in St. Peter’s.

So far, Carl and Lauren have been taking meter readings, we’ve discussed hot spots in the school for energy consumption and we’ve arranged to carry out our starting audits and interviews.

Watch this space!

Hi everyone!

It’s good to be back – we’re in 6th class this year and already, we’re taking on a lot more responsibility in our school. Our teacher this year is Ms Sexton, who was also our teacher in 2nd class – you can see how much we’ve changed here.

We’re looking forward to lots of exciting things in the year ahead. Here’s a selection of what we’ve been up to so far this year…

#6thclass are finishing off their attendance display today. Early finishers are stamping our poster! Hope all the leaves don’t blow off the tree in the storm! pic.twitter.com/4IOI1DWMrN

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

We continued our work on colour in #6thclass with a study of Mondrian’s work! pic.twitter.com/nl6mLD5dDf

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 14, 2018

On wet days, we make. #6thclass #makerspace pic.twitter.com/EKw6o82mBR

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 6, 2018

Some of our colour work in #6thclass as we learn about primary, secondary, warm, cool and complimentary colours. Looking forward to putting together a display of them when the work is completed! pic.twitter.com/NHsPnEtFfZ

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 7, 2018

#6thclass have a new teacher read-aloud novel – we’ve started the ‘Arthur Quinn’ series by @alanearly and we’re loving it so far! You’re never too old to be read to! pic.twitter.com/XEc2UjWyOO

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 5, 2018

These boys from #6thclass harvested potatoes with @FestinaLenteIrl this morning! pic.twitter.com/M5dy5dFW7f

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 17, 2018

Our favourite Roald Dahl books in #6thclass #classreads #roalddahlday pic.twitter.com/vMjcd1DUgh

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) September 13, 2018

We look forward to updating you on all of our adventures this year!

In aistear this fortnight senior infants have been focusing on the theme of ‘myself’ through participating in ‘talent show’ themed work in all subjects.  We had a talent showcase performance this afternoon where, for the first time, the whole class got to perform their special talents to the rest of the class who were the audience.  We were treated to an amazing show!  Have a look at some moments from the talent show below.

The girls doing jigs and reels

Other talents included  a mini karate lesson, football skills and a roaring lion.  What an enjoyable afternoon!

Next fortnight we will be working on the theme of ‘the hospital’.

We are delighted to welcome our new Litter and Waste Committee to the Green schools team in Peter’s.

We are excited to keep up the great work of the former committee who are now focusing on Energy for our next flag.

We especially welcome our two youngest members  who are in senior infants and who have been heavily involved so far in litter picking and looking after junior infant waste management.

We are looking forward to a fun year ahead with Green Schools!

We’ve had a busy week in First Class so far this year!

We took pictures on our first day. We can’t wait to look back on these at the end of the year to see how much we have grown.

First Class are very good at jigsaws!

We made minions in art. First class are definitely one in a “minion!” 🙂

Our first litter pick of the year with this enthusiastic bunch! So much litter had accumulated over the summer but we are delighted to be on top of it again. Great to see the compost developing also! pic.twitter.com/9pwdiAM1lk

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 5, 2018

Senior infants showing what they can do during literacy stations! Great start to the new school year pic.twitter.com/uA2QT0zfHo

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 3, 2018