St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Fantastic work!

Well done to this great boy who knows all his 42 jolly phonics sounds. Keep up the good work Junior Infants!

We’ve been working on our Geography projects in 2nd class over the last couple of weeks and here’s a little update on how we’ve been getting on.

First, we broke up into groups and chose a question related to Bray. One group answered the question ‘What makes Bray a good place for children to live in?’ Another group chose ‘Where would you find water in Bray?’ and a third group answered the question ‘How do people travel to and around Bray?’

We worked in our groups to design posters to illustrate the answers to our questions after a lot of discussions. We really enjoyed working together and Ms Sexton was really impressed with our teamwork.

Serious teamwork in 2nd class during our Geography lesson! pic.twitter.com/JJfDpdlyAC

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 6, 2015

Yesterday, we started building our 3D models of our posters. We found inspiration in the work from students in St Patrick’s college Drumcondra and a tweet that we saw from @SusanJPike.

Year 10 sustainable cities #CGSgeographers pic.twitter.com/9u44UbKtg1 — CGS Geography (@CGS_Geography) December 15, 2014

We brought in milk cartons, plastic containers and cardboard over the last two weeks to help us build our models and we realised as we were building yesterday what else we need to find to bring in. As we’re using papier mache next week, some of us asked if we could papier mache parts of our models. Jerry had made his own model during the week at home so that helped to point us in the right direction and he was happy to share his expertise.

Here are some pictures of our progress so far. Next week, we’re hoping to finish our models and to podcast what we’ve learned. We’ll update you on how we get on!

6th had a brilliant week this week. Some highlights include…

Our ‘Road to Irish Independence’ podcast that we recorded! We just love learning about Irish History!

Speaking of which, check out the lovely picture Johnny drew!

Johnny drew a great picture to go with his 1916 essay! pic.twitter.com/5yOp8hAEKx

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 16, 2015

Aaron G and Andy were joint Student of the Week winners! Top job lads!

Joint winners of Student of the Week! Well done lads, great effort all week. pic.twitter.com/0ZjbIF7Npa

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 16, 2015

Our Art lesson this week was inspired by the work of the American artist Jasper Johns!

6th Class Art Class! 16/1/15 #JasperJohns #art https://t.co/JhkccA4wyT

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 16, 2015

We set our new SAF goals!

Self-assessment folder time in 6th. New goals for Term 2 have been set!

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 15, 2015

We’re up to page 90 in our latest novel, ‘Goodnight Mr. Tom’.

Are any other class groups reading Goodnight Mr. Tom? 6th would love to hear from you! #edchatie

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 15, 2015

We had GAA training and we also had our latest Bray Drugs Awareness session with Clay and Martina.

We have GAA training now and the C&M will complete the second Bray Drugs Awareness session with us later!

— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 15, 2015

We chatted with student teachers from Marino about our use of Twitter!

@StPetersBray PG Groups @MarinoInstitute are so impressed that you tweet your learning through the day! #pg2015

— Anne McMorrough (@annemmcm) January 14, 2015

We got our December certs!

For now, well done to those in 6th who had full attendance AND full homework in December! Top job! #schoolspirit pic.twitter.com/LbC2feBPK6

— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) January 12, 2015

It’s all go in 6th!

Well done to Caoilynn and Caithlin. The girls won our positivity week art competition and are delighted with their Frozen prizes!

Caoilynn’s quote for positivity week was “Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… Get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss

Caithlin’s quote which inspired her art was “You have brings in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss. Caithlin’s character is on stilts! They feel on top of the world!

Great work girls!

Senior Infants have been busy building with blocks, Lego and straws. The boys and girls are very creative and have designed some really interesting things!

Tristan and Gary used colourful Lego blocks to create their own house and Brooke used lots of straws to make her own climbing frame.

Well done! We can’t wait to see what you will build next!

Lovely and neat!

Well done to this great girl who did excellent work on her letter “a.” She traced over them really neatly and did  some of her own “a’s”  on the bottom line. Then she drew some pictures of things beginning with “a.” Fantastic!!!

Welcome to our catch up post about the 1st and 2nd class Christmas play – ‘Stable Manners’. Stable Manners tells the story of three animals, Bessie (played by Adem), Cecil (played by Maddy) and Chuck (played by Cian), who are arguing over who will get to have Neddy’s stall in the stable (alas, poor Neddy!). They wait impatiently for the decision from the innkeeper (Liam) and his assistant, Heimi (Emanuele), but they get a shock when two unexpected visitors show up – Mary and Joseph, played by Naoise and Thomas. Throw in two robbers, Grabber and Snatcher, played by Ava and Nathan, a host of rapping angels (played by Tristan, Jamie, Patrick and Dylan H) and the stable fills up very quickly!

The shepherds (Summer, Amalia and Jodie) soon turn up with their sheep (Leon and Luke) and the Star (Lana) leads the three Wise Men (Arpit, Benjamin and Tadhg) and their camels (Jerry and James) to the stable. A wise owl (Dylan L) and a cast of narrators (Josh, Des, Adam, Ruairi, James, Seán, Craig, Ava, Jack, James M, Anthony and Alec) acted and sang their way through the story for a huge crowd of family and friends, who were very impressed with all the hard work that the children put in.

Check out some of our Vines and photos from the evening.

Welcome to the first All Star Attenders Post of the New Year. At the end of every month children with full attendance for the month receive a certificate and have their name put on the Wall of Fame. The class with the greatest attendance each month also receive a class prize and all students with full attendance get named “All Star Attenders”.

So far our winners have been;
September: Ms. Fry’s 2nd Class (Trip to a show in the Mermaid Arts Theatre)
October: Ms. Shimmin’s 3rd Class (Home Cinema Experience)
November: Ms Keating’s 4th Class (Home Cinema Experience)

 
This winning class for best attendance in December was Ms. Shimmin’s 3rd Class. This is the second time this year that 3rd Class have been the best class for attendance.
Check back each month to see who has won the class prize for best attendance and check if your name has made the All Star Attenders List.

Well done to 3rd Class and to the following “All Star Attenders” from each class for December;
Junior Infants
Joey Chumakson
Heidi Clucas Keogh
Taylor Coakley
Oliver Duraj
Lauren Hipwell
Noah Johnston
Max Murray
Jake Thomas

Senior Infants
Carl Barry
Daniel Byrne
Chloe Farrell
Tobias Farrell
Jodie Fitzpatrick
Cameron Martin McAteer
Cian McDermott
Lauren O’Brien
Cian Petty
Aysha Simpson Murray
Elif Standage
1st Class
Ellie Byrne
Damiano Carabaich
Carla Cheevers
Haylie Treacy
Oisin Troy

2nd Class
Karl Ashe
Josh Coen Troy
Amalia Elin Gall
Craig Hipwell
Alec Kealy
Dylan Lawless
Tadhg McDonald Hemp
Jack Roche
James Simpson Murray

3rd Class
Tristan Byrne
Tadhg Cahill
Emanuel Carabaich
Nathan Douglas
Madeleine Farrell
Callum O’Sullivan O’Carroll

4th Class
Caoilynn Ashe
Brooke Carey
Casey Crinnion
Caithlin Farrell
Dylan Fitzpatrick
Rowan McFarland Bolger
Dylan Moloney
Amber O’Sullivan O’Carroll
Codie Sweeney Kearney
Dean Thomas

5th Class
Patrick Braganciuc
Stephen Brien
Aoife Dolan
Lex Farrell
Dylan Hempenstall
Leanne Kealy
Finn O’Neill

6th Class
Jack Barsoum
Robyn Brauner
Alex Coffey
Luke Connolly
Jordan Farrell
Jack Jin
Ryan McCormack
Stephen Mooney
Alannah O’Brien
Calvin O’Callaghan

MR. FOLEY’S CLASS
Adam Hackman
Arturas Ratkevicius

Lauren in Junior Infants did great work tracing over her letters with her pencil today. She even wrote her name herself! Keep it up Lauren!

Wow Lauren!

Well done Michael!

Michael in Junior Infants made a car park with lego today. It even had space for a helicopter! Well done Michael, so imaginative!

A very well planned car park!