We are very excited to be doing drama this month in third class. We are scriptwriters and enjoying creating our own dialogues – the dramatics of it all. Today was our very first day making up our own short plays. We performed them for each other in our groups AND, just like in Hollywood, we performed a few takes!
“Show me your very best freeze frame… And, Action” – Miss Farren
Have a look at our very best freeze frame!
Yay!
Well done to some of the Junior Infant boys who know know all their 42 Jolly Phonics sounds! Their blending of 3 letter words is coming along quite nicely also!
6th Class were really proud to present their class sketch before the Christmas performance of Jack and the Beanstalk.
We spent many weeks plotting and planning a funny sketch, and we wrote the whole play ourselves! We wanted to include some funny in-jokes from our time in 6th Class so far (here’s why we put in a reference to the Budget!) and we also wanted to include some funny characters and well-known figures!
Have a listen to the play, we hope you enjoyed it! We loved every second of planning, writing and performing it.
With such characters, how could it be any more entertaining?!
On December 17th, the students of St. Peter’s continued a now annual tradition of performing a Roald Dahl Revolting Rhyme musical. Having performed The Three Pigs, Cinderella, Snow White and Goldilocks in the past few years, it was now time for Jack and the Beanstalk.
3rd to 6th Class treated us to an amazing evening’s entertainment. We performed the show twice to packed audiences and we got a great reaction! Well done to everyone for their superb effort. We hope you enjoy looking back on the evening through our blogpost below!
Snaps from the side of the stage!
Highlights from the show!
Jack’s mother was fed up with him!
All the fun at the local market.. poor Daisy was for sale!
Everything was…going…going…going…going…GONE!
Jack met a fellow called the Beanseller!
Jack sold old Daisy for a BEAN!
Here comes Red Riding Hood, a cheeky miss!
Jack went home to fill his Mam in on his trade!
She was NOT happy!
Jack was kicked out to the garden!
While he slept, the beanstalk grew!
Great worth lay at the top of the beanstalk!
However, there was great danger there too!
Jack ran back down the beanstalk to fill in his Mam!
Those giants had GREAT BIG HONKERS!
6th Class embraced the festive spirit in December and planned a Secret Santa in class. The gifts were thoughtful, personalised, homemade and delivered with the best of fun, laughter and friendship. What more could you want? We also had a lovely lunch of ‘Christmas sandwiches’ – delicious! What a lovely way to finish off a term with so many great highlights. Just do a search for ‘6th Class’ above to catch up with everything we’ve been getting up to!
Well done guys! Have a luck at some of our snaps from the Christmas half day!
This December, 2nd class were busier than Santa’s elves making and sewing Christmas decorations for their families. They made Christmas logs, sewed Christmas decorations and stockings. Some of us even used our Christmas logs in the middle of the table during Christmas dinner. Check out our Animoto of all our decorations on the last day before the holidays.
We got a special Tweet from Buzz!
Do you know what I’d love? I wish 2nd class in @StPetersBray would send me a podcast. Páidí has been telling me about their singing. *sigh*
— Summer Reading (@SummerBuzz) December 8, 2014
Your wish is our command, Buzz! We made a podcast about our book recommendations for Páidí and we even sang a song or two!
Check out our Animoto below to see us reading to Páidí too!
On November 27th, 6th Class visited Leinster House as the final part of our #budget15 project.
As you all know, earlier in the school year 6th Class presented local Junior Minister Simon Harris with a budget we had prepared. We divided up into ministerial roles and the department of finance ‘officials’ in class set to work to prepare a document suitable to present to Minister Harris. After weeks of work, when our project was done, Minister Harris came into our class and we presented him with out work. He really liked it!
To reward us for our work, Minister Harris invited us into Leinster House to see Dáil and Seanad Éireann at work! It was an amazing day. Check out our tweets!
6th Class are on their way to Leinster House! Thanks to Melanie, Audrey and Sharon for coming with us. A very exciting day ahead.
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 27, 2014
We visited Trinity College in the morning, and we also went on a walking tour of Dublin!
Having a walking tour of Trinity! #6thClassTrip pic.twitter.com/et4r3Efzpn
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 27, 2014
We walked up to see the Daniel O’Connell statue! #6thClassTrip
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 27, 2014
Here we are outside Leinster House!
In we go! #LeinsterHouse #6thClassTrip pic.twitter.com/UrVGC7hXAg
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 27, 2014
We couldn’t take many pictures, as we weren’t allowed to take pictures inside the building. Here is a great picture of Melanie, Sharon and Audrey who came with us! Thanks to them for giving up their day to help Ms. Brennan to mind us.
Melanie, Sharon and Audrey beside the Countess Markievicz statue! #LeinsterHouse #6thClassTrip pic.twitter.com/tMFAbdfJW3
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 27, 2014
It was amazing to see the Dáil and Seanad at work. We also loved seeing the inside of Leinster House and we heard all about it’s fascinating history.
We saw @SimonHarrisTD working in the Seanad. They were talking about flooding and coastlines! We liked that because it is important to Bray.
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 27, 2014
Minister Harris and Stephanie prepared packs for us to remember the day. #LeinsterHouse #6thClassTrip pic.twitter.com/xckoqxu7sQ
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 27, 2014
Thanks to the ushers who gave us a great tour of #LeinsterHouse. Special thanks to Dave, our guide! @OireachtasNews #6thClassTrip
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 27, 2014
It was a really great day. Thanks again to Minister Simon Harris for the invitation! The day was definitely a highlight of the year so far, and 6th Class deserve great credit for how well they behaved and represented St. Peter’s on the day out.
Thank you so much to Stephanie and @SimonHarrisTD for looking after us today! #6thClassTrip #LeinsterHouse
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 27, 2014
Here’s to our next big project!
Today 6th Class helped 3rd, 4th and Ms. Keating’s class to work on their coding to celebrate #hourofcode week! We used activities on this site!
Caoilynn and Sadbh are problem solving on http://t.co/1cUFopfusR! #Frozen #hourofcode pic.twitter.com/RzNu72n4yV
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014
Coding snowflakes! #hourofcode #Frozen pic.twitter.com/hnzq569B68
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014
Using Elsa and Anna animations to teach coding in 3rd and 6th Class! #hourofcode #frozen https://t.co/eBCGdA5aCq via @vine
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014
Brooke and Taylor hard at work! #hourofcode https://t.co/UpR8VG7nQp via @vine
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014
Well done Aaron! You’re the first to solve all of the challenges! #hourofcode pic.twitter.com/sATg52tDWt
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014
Ms. Keating’s Class and 6th Class hard at work for #hourofcode https://t.co/V2p4qc1olJ via @vine
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014
Well done to Sam and Chris! Super teamwork for #hourofcode #schoolspirit pic.twitter.com/N6A11XzpNh
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014
Well done 4th Class! You’re all doing so well! #hourofcode https://t.co/vaGgYmv4Zq via @vine
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014
Robert and Finn figuring out the problems! #hourofcode https://t.co/EYMOSClKTa via @vine
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014
Arturas is so proud of his #hourofcode work! https://t.co/XI5ZaPs9h5 via @vine
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 9, 2014
Well done to everyone for all of their hard work! Thanks to 6th Class for helping our younger students to enjoy the coding process!
The St. Peter’s Primary Student Council ran a very successful Crazy Sock Day on November 28th. This was a fundraising effort that the Student Council wanted to hold in the run up to Christmas. We wanted our students to help those in need in Christmas. We ran the Crazy Sock Day by asking everyone to wear in socks into school that were big, colourful, funny and even homemade! Everyone who took part donated a euro from their pocket money, with all money going to Concern. It was a great day. People arrived in with all sorts of socks! Even the teachers got involved. Have a look at all of our tweets from the day!
Wow! Our #studentcouncil are very proud to say that #sockday made €101.30! We are so proud! #christmascheer
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 28, 2014
Here are some crazy socks from #sockday! pic.twitter.com/MkV9SqCFuL
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 28, 2014
Even more #crazysockday socks! #schoolspirit #studentcouncil pic.twitter.com/gM8OOLP3L3
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 28, 2014
Thank you, thank you, thank you! The #studentcouncil are so proud that they can help @concern now! #sockday pic.twitter.com/HGFak2Vu8a
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 28, 2014
We raised loads of money, €116 to be exact! We decided to spend our money on Concern Gifts for those in need. This is what we bought.
Concern were so pleased with the Student Council and sent us lovely messages.
Thanks to @Concern for the brilliant tweet and lovely comment they left on our blog! #christmascheer #sockday! pic.twitter.com/79YgsSahtB
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 28, 2014
@StPetersBray You guys have made our day in here! #sockday
#SockItToMe
— Concern Worldwide (@Concern) November 28, 2014
@rang3petns @StPetersBray. We were so pleased. Your sock money will help other children in the poorest countries in the world. #sockday
— Concern Worldwide (@Concern) November 28, 2014
Have a look at what we bought!
We spent €116 on @Concern gifts. We bought a piglet, a school pack, training for a health worker, sport equipment… (1) #crazysockday
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) December 2, 2014
… school fees for a child, a water filter and a mini farmyard. We are very proud of ourselves. #studentcouncil #crazysockday @Concern
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) December 2, 2014
Here is our order. Thank you for sharing your pocket money with the #studentcouncil and @Concern @concernactive pic.twitter.com/PdTGC9CECH
— St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) December 2, 2014
Thanks to everyone who took part, and Merry Christmas from the Student Council!
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s Junior Infants, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s Senior Infants, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 1st class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 2nd class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 3rd class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 4th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 5th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 6th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by Ms Kane’s class, click here.
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