St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We’re learning about volcanoes in 2nd class at the moment. As part of our artwork this month, we learned about paint and colour. We watched videos of volcanoes erupting and picked out the colours that we noticed in the video. We picked red, orange, yellow and a bit of brown to use. We tried a new technique to portray a volcanic eruption called straw painting. We watered down the paint, poured some on the page and blew through a straw to make the paint move all over the page. It was REALLY messy but the effect was really cool. We learned that the page gets very wet from the paint so you have to be careful not to tear it with the straw. We made the volcano part from brown wrapping paper, which we scrunched up to make it look rocky and then we chose to paint it or leave it plain. Our volcanoes are up outside our classroom door. Check them out in our Animoto!

The Student Council met today after school! Here is the latest podcast. Don’t miss it!

6th Class are really enjoying their latest book, ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl. This is our second  podcast and we are delighted with how it came out. Sam and Robert presented and they did a great job!

Lots happened in the story since we spoke last, don’t miss this podcast! Warning: It contains major spoilers!

6th Class sketched famous sites in Dublin to celebrate Culture Night. Last Friday night, famous sites and buildings all over Ireland opened up to the public for viewing. We chatted about famous places we think we would like to visit in Dublin, and we decided to draw them. We hope you like our work!

Senior Infants

We are the new Senior Infant class in St Peter’s! There are 8 boys and 3 girls and our teacher is Ms V. Brennan.

Five things we love in our class:

• Our reading corner
• Our play­ area and games
• Our bright and colourful classroom.
• Story­time and singing.
• Art, Gaeilge, and P.E.

Three things we are looking forward to this year:

• Learning lots of new things.
• G.A.A
• Christmas in St. Peter’s.

Our Favourite T.V Shows:

• Spongebob Squarepants
• Peppa Pig
• The Simpsons
• Barbie in the Dreamhouse.

Our Favourite Movies:

• Lego Movie
• Muppets Most Wanted
• Rio 2

Our Class Mascot:

• Marty the Monkey – He is purple, cuddly and fluffy. He helps Ms. Brennan to teach us Gaeilge!

Our Fruits of the Week:

• Ask us about our fruit of the week. Each week, we will try a new fruit in class. This week we tried oranges – delicious!

Our Favourite Songs:

• One Direction songs
• Here Comes the Sun – Glee version

Favourite things about St. Peters:

• Our lovely, happy classroom
• Yard time.
• The colourful corridor.
• Our new friends
• Our new teacher (of course!)

Best Memories in St. Peter’s so far:

• Our first day.
• Gaelic
• Art lessons!

Welcome to 3rd class! Our teacher is Ms Farren and there are 20 boys and girls in our class this year!

Five things we love in our class:

• It’s colourful
• It’s a lot of fun
• It’s FULL of books
• We love the computers
• Our new teacher!

• cross country
• bike day
• getting to know the new people in our class and school

• The Simpsons
• Adventure time
• Spongebob

• The Lego Movie
• Frozen
• The Little Rascals

• One Direction
• Little Mix
• The Rubber Bandits

6th Class 2014-2015

Name of Class: 6^th Class

Teacher: Ms. C Brennan

Five things we love in our class:

1. Football
2. Art
3. Maths
4. History
5. Technology

Three things we are looking forward to this year:

1. Confirmation
2. Primary Science Fair
3. Our visit to Leinster House in October!

Our favourite TV shows:

1. Top Gear
2. The Simpsons
3. Family Guy
4. Anything on Sky Sports
5. Anything on TLC

Our favourite movies:

1. The Simpsons Movie
2. Despicable Me 1 & 2
3. Frozen
4. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
5. Popper’s Penguins

Our favourite musicians:

1. Rihanna
2. Jessi J
3. Garth Brooks
4. Ed Sheeran
5. Imagine Dragons
6. Sam Smith

Favourite time of year in St. Peter’s:

1. Halloween decoration time!
2. The school play
3. School Tour Day
4. Pancake Tuesday
5. Mini-World Cup
6. Christmas holidays
7. Teachers v. Students

Favourite thing about St. Peter’s:

1. It’s a colourful, happy place
2. The sports teams are brilliant!
3. Running with Paddy
4. The staff are really nice
5. Gaelic with Tommy
6. The after-school clubs are deadly!

Best memory in St. Peter’s so far:

1. Roald Dahl Day!
2. Our first day!
3. Snow days!
4. Intel Mini-Science Fair
5. The Eircom Junior Spider presentation!
6. Matheletes and being so successful!
7. Cross-country events
8. Our first GAA tournament

Recently we were delighted to receive a new set of books for each class from 1st to 6th as part of a competition run by Prim-Ed Publishing. Read the release for Prim-Ed below…

St. Peter’s Primary School wins New Wave English in practice workbooks for the entire school.

Recently, Prim-Ed Publishing ran an online competition that offered the chance to win workbooks for an entire school.The competition was open to Principals, teachers, parents and pupils and all were invited to submit a review of one of Prim-Ed’s workbooks.

The winner, Patrick Kinsella, a teacher at St Peter’s Primary School in Bray, entered the competition with his review of‘New wave mental maths’.

“We are delighted to present St Peter’s Primary School with their prize of our brand new workbook ‘New Wave English in Practice’. Patrick’s review of ‘New Wave Mental Maths’highlighted the objective of the workbook; to improve children’s grasping of mathematical concepts at an individual level. We were delighted to have so many entries to the competition and the feedback has proved that our workbookshave been successful in assisting teachers gain better results”, said Seamus McGuinness, MD of Prim-Ed Publishing.

Prim-Ed is an educational publishing company and has been producing a leading range of teacher resources for every area of the curriculum, including popular workbooks in Maths, Spelling and Handwriting, for over 20 years. Prim-Ed regularly have online competitions and promotions, offering great savings to schools and parents on a wide range of resources including books, posters, stickers, workbooks and software. Our slogan and corporate statement from the outset has been ‘by teachers for teachers’. 

Prim-Ed Publishing would like to congratulate St. Peter’s Primary School on their recent win of two Eircom Junior Spider Awards.  Their website and blog is a superb example of how schools are using anexciting variety and range of new technologies in the classroom to enhance the curriculum. 

Patrick Kinsella’s 5* review of New wave mental maths.

1st and 5th Class with their new books.

“We use New wave mental maths in each class in our school everyday and have seen an improvement in the children’s grasping of mathematical concepts. It’s a great way to keep the children actively engaging in the different strands throughout the year. We can’t wait to try out New wave English in practice.” 

Welcome to 2nd class! Our teacher is Ms Sexton. There are 13 people in our class.

Here’s some of our class on our first day!

Five things we love in our class:

• We love our teacher and our classmates
• We love Nugget, who lives in our classroom
• We love doing Art, PE (especially football) and Science!
• We love Roots of Empathy!
• We love Lego! (check out our classroom door!)

Three things we’re looking forward to doing this year are:

• Welcoming Baby M into our classroom every month for Roots of Empathy!
• We’re looking forward to baking with our teacher.
• We’re looking forward to finally getting to take part in the famous Christmas play!

We love to read and our favourite books are:

• Rhyming books, especially the funny ones by Julia Donaldson – this week, we’re reading Tyrannosaurus Drip!
• Roald Dahl books – we’re really looking forward to reading Esio Trot
• Books with beautiful illustrations – we tweeted Summer Buzz about ‘The man who walked between the towers’ last week!

Our favourite TV shows are:

• Mickey Mouse programmes (Lana)
• Disney channel (Ava)
• Football matches (Arpit)
• Peppa Pig (Tristan – who might have been trying to make us giggle!)
• Friends (Maddy)
• Victorious (Jerry)
• Spongebob (Nathan)

Our favourite movies are:

• Anything with Robin Williams in it (Nathan)
• ParaNorman (Ava)
• House of Magic (Lana)
• Hop (Arpit)
• High School Musical (Jodie)
• Planet of the Apes (Tristan)
• Bruce Almighty (Maddy)

Our favourite musicians are:

• One Direction (Ava, Lana, Nathan)
• Rihanna (Jodie)
• Katy Perry (Nathan)
• John and Edward (Jerry)
• Lady Gaga (Lana)
• Bruno Mars (Tristan)
• Nicki Minaj (Des)

Favourite time of year in St Peter’s:

We’ve heard a lot about Christmas and Christmas plays so we think that might be our favourite!

Favourite thing about St Peter’s:

• Hot cocoa
• After-school clubs
• Football in the yard
• The teachers and the principal
• There’s loads to do
• Homework club!
• We like what we learn about in class

Best memory in St Peter’s so far:

• My first day when I made loads of new friends (Ava)
• When we made volcano art (Lana)
• When we made our Lego people for our door (Nathan)
• Reading in the library with our friends (Tristan)
• When we played with the musical instruments (Adam)
• When Baby M came in for Roots of Empathy (Maddy)
• Everyday! (Arpit)

Hi! We’re in Mr. Kinsella’s 5th Class.

Our Class photo!

1. Five things we love in our class: Ms. Flanagan coming into our class, P.E., That we have Mr. Kinsella, Our top secret art, GAA with Tommy, No homework on a Friday, New friends who started this year!

2. Three things we are looking forward to this year: Buddy System with 1^st class, Roots of Empathy, School Trips.

3. Our favourite TV shows: Swamp people, Bear Grylls, Big Bang Theory, I’m a celebrity get me outta here.

4. Our favourite movies: The Lego Movie, One Direction Movie, Ms. Doubtfire.

5. Our favourite musicians: Justin Bieber, Elvis, The Dubliners.

6. Favourite time of year in St. Peter’s: School Tour/Christmas Concert.

7. Favourite thing about St. Peter’s: Teachers, Yard, Breakfast Club, Cocoa, After School Clubs

8. Best memory in St. Peter’s so far: Starting life in St. Peter’s!