St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Hi everyone! We’ve been very busy since our last blog post!

We had a fabulous time celebrating Halloween!

We’d the best time with the rest of the school at the disco! A big thank you to our PA who put so much time & effort into it! #4thClass 🎃 pic.twitter.com/DqeOgsgVlV

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 27, 2017

The Hocus Pocus cinema is open in #4thClass! The excitement! 🎃🎬 We earned this reward for working so hard this midterm!

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 27, 2017

We LOVE Halloween in #4thClass! Do you like our costumes?! pic.twitter.com/qp0tOO9sMH

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 27, 2017

We’ve been doing some very interactive and fun music lessons!

Another active and fun Music lesson for #4thClass using @DabbledooMusic! We love using ‘the wheel’ to compose! 🎼 pic.twitter.com/hAHcPRWvuH

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 26, 2017

We celebrated Maths Week with some active learning in the yard!

We’d a great session with Mathletics4Schools today. We combined our Athletics strand work in PE with the Measures strand in Maths! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/j7xhxOnuZU

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 26, 2017

We’ve been learning about the Celts in History.

Yesterday we did a 45 minute project board. Working together we made boards about the Celts, our current History topic! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/FiHqW2HGYD

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 25, 2017

We’ve been looking at some of the books that are out at the moment – they would make for excellent Christmas presents!

We love our teacher read aloud book at the moment. It’s a super story. We are learning about Ireland’s Eye and Howth! @Gill_Books #4thClass pic.twitter.com/LmADrmkYil

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 25, 2017

We’ve been learning abut Fire Safety.

Can we get dressed in the @DubFireBrigade uniform in 60 seconds? We are learning about this important work. #4thClass pic.twitter.com/vl7E3hBq0z

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 25, 2017

We had a great day doing the ‘Dragons’ Den’ with Salesforce.

Congratulations to the winning team, the designers of the ‘Butler App’. #STEAM @SalesforceOrg #4thClass pic.twitter.com/lH7qJztIZm

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 25, 2017

We had a great day with @SalesforceOrg this week, thanks to Brian and Emmet for visiting #4thClass to do a Dragons’ Den competition. pic.twitter.com/nElT1xW9Y1

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 25, 2017

We have been coding lots!

Woooo! The latest #4thClass student to complete another #hourofcode activity! We love our coding club on Thursday afternoons. pic.twitter.com/Ol0Trjisty

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 19, 2017

We had a brilliant day out in Bray Emmets too.

We are having a wonderful afternoon @BrayEmmets for our @cnmbwicklow #4thClass games! #GAA #activeschools pic.twitter.com/btfR37smuu

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 11, 2017

We are doing work on sustainability and care for the environment.

We recorded a podcast and made a storyboard all about ‘The Coffee Cup Debate’. What cup choice leads to improved sustainability? #4thClass pic.twitter.com/j01LsiKXQm

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 11, 2017

Everyone in #4thClass is enjoying taking part in this @DCU_IoE project this term! #sustainability https://t.co/qcAHNbzTRJ #edchatie pic.twitter.com/Y4hZCLd1tZ

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 11, 2017

We have a new Student of the Week every week!

So proud of Liam, our #4thClass Student of the Week. His reading, spelling, kindness and hard work paid off. Enjoy your homework pass!

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2017

We’ve been as crafty as ever!

We have completed our Friday routines. Our tests and self-assessments are done! We displayed our Picasso Witches! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/Xu5Xsrij6d

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2017

We are listening to scary music on @RTELyricFM and designing Witches, inspired by our @roald_dahl book! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/DEriXpBUtI

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 5, 2017

We have been reading a lot too.

We are watching The Witches on DVD and comparing it to the text in the book. We use our comprehension strategies. #4thClass #literacy

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 6, 2017

From writing workshop to reading workshop! Expression, fluency and amazing entertainment. #4thClass #literacy https://t.co/wVWSZkp6I4

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 4, 2017

We have been doing some wonderful Recount writing.

We have displayed our latest writing work and project work. We also maxed out a new Champ on @GoNoodle! What a super day! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/X9FTRHBB3e

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 4, 2017

We give each other feedback. We help each other to improve. We write for an audience. We are proud to share our writing. #4thClass

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 4, 2017

Our very first sharing session for our writing workshop in #4thClass. We are authors. We are working on Recount writing. @PDSTLiteracy pic.twitter.com/JN7j86k1Oc

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) October 4, 2017

We’re doing great work in Drama.

Conscience Alley during Drama Class. We have also worked on Mime this month! #4thClass pic.twitter.com/P2biPdFto5

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) September 29, 2017

Phew! What will November bring?

On Wednesday, the senior boys set off for what was to be a fantastic day of football in the Emmets blitz.  They encountered some tough competition in their three matches.

Team photo after a successful day in Emmets.

First up they took on Kilcoole and were unlucky to fall short by 2 points.  Following this, the boys dug deep to show superb character in coming back and winning their final two games.  The defence were super solid with great communication and team work on show.  Some fantastic scores by Des, Dylan F, Dean T and Nathan greatly helped the boys on their way.  Well done Peters!!!

We would like to say a huge thanks to everybody in all classes who volunteer to pick litter on the yard during break and lunch time.  Thanks to these efforts, there is seldom a scrap of litter floating about.  It is getting more and more difficult to find litter to pick:)

This September we began keeping a school garden.  With help from Stephen we prepared our raised beds.  He helped us sow some strawberries.

Our potatoes and strawberries in the raised beds.

We throw our weeds into the compost bin. We were told to keep some green mixed in with our fruit.

We look forward to adding more fruit, vegetables and maybe even herbs to the garden over the coming months.

Well done to our poster and slogan competition winners Tadhg, Jerrry and Aaron.

Well done also to Elif, Chloe Fitzpatrick and AJ.  Well done to everybody for getting involved, it was so hard to choose the winners!

Finally, we are in the process of planning our Green Schools Action day which will take place on the 10th of November.  We have lots of fun activities planned for all classes.

Welcome back to the first All Star Attenders blog post of the new school year. For those new to the school, as you probably know, we work really hard on improving attendance here in the school every year, aiming to have children in school as much as possible. Every month classes compete against each other for best attendance, with the winning class receiving an awesome prize. We also acknowledge the great efforts of individual pupils who have perfect attendance each month in our All Star Attenders post. Teachers also reward students individually for attendance throughout the year and we run individual prizes on different months throughout the year – such as our cinema month, pencil case week and Easter egg award. Stay tuned for news of our next exciting competition…

So here are the winners for this month. The overall class winners for September with best attendance were……Ms. Wemyss 1st Class. Ms. Wemyss class chose to have a “Pizza Party” which took place on Friday. The class enjoyed Four Star Pizza and treats as well as a mini disco. If you’re in Ms. Wemyss class you can check this out on her Class Dojo. Well done to 1st Class. Great to see them win it this year after coming so close so many times last year!

Check back every month for class winners, attendance competitions and a list of our All Star Attenders. Well done to all of our attendance heroes this month whose names can be found below:

5th class are currently getting ukulele lessons of the ukulele master that is Frankie! We are loving our Wednesday morning lessons with him!! We will be doing a concert for the school at  the end of the month to show the boys and girls what we have learnt.

ukulele

Too precious for life on Earth Jodie. Heaven is now your playground. We hope you liked the balloons and smiles that we sent to you. Thinking of you today and always xxx

We were learning all about Patterns this week, so we decided to brighten up our yard with some colourful chalk drawings #SeniorInfants

On October 3rd our St Peter’s runners had a great time competing at the cross-country event in Avondale.

Everyone ran well and behaved excellently!

Thanks to Paddy for training and preparing us all so well!

Smiles all around for their first day in Senior Infants last month.

We started learning about Autumn in September, we all put on our hi-visabilty jackets and off we went for a walk around the green. The children saw the changing colours of the trees, we found conkers, acorns and many more items. The children are really enjoying learning about Autumn, we are are learning about hedgehogs, hibernation and bears this week.