St Peter’s Post #23

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Welcome to another edition of our online weekly newsletter – the St Peter’s Post! This week, we’ve been looking forward to the next few weeks – 2nd and 6th class are preparing for Communion and Confirmation and we’ve started recruiting for the choir for the Communion ceremony. We were also very busy on Twitter this week!

The main headlines from this week are:

  • We were sent the video marking our win at the Junior Spiders from the organisers during the week. If you haven’t seen it yet, we’d love you to watch it here.
  • Our new student council had their first meeting this week. Check it out here.
  • 2nd class have been busy preparing for their First Holy Communion this week. They made recordings of their prayers to help them practise. You can find them here and here.
  • 4th class recorded their Irish story ‘Mamó’ and described the process of recording it here.
  • Well done to Adam and Nathan O’B from Ms Mitchell’s class. Adam’s work was chosen as ‘Work of the Week’ this week and Nathan was student of the week. Keep up the great work!
  • Over the weekend, nine of our 5th and 6th class students took part in the Leinster finals of Mathletes (expect a post early on Monday morning) the boys were fantastic representatives of the school and we were really proud of them! Well done to them and thanks to all the families for coming along to support them – read the post about the preparations here.
  • Our ‘Wednesday for Parents’ this week focused on feeling good for Summer – you can read all about it here.
  • 2nd class podcasted their latest class novel here. It’ll make you want to read Zac Power!

In other news this week:

  • Mr Foley and Paddy took four of our 6th class to the Bray Wanderers game on Friday night.

 

  • Cyber coach has become really popular this week, with many classes using it in different ways – as they say on one of the videos – if you’re moving, you’re improving!
  • We cracked the Twitter treasure hunt for Digital Art Week 14!
  • Check out the ladybird house that Abi built:

 

      • Some of our staff took part in the Darkness Into Light events very early on Saturday morning – well done to Pieta House for all their amazing work.

 

 

    • Well done to Oisín, who won the Lucan Multi-Counties Boxing Tournament last week. He’s also agreed to write about it for the blog next week so we’re really looking forward to reading about it then!

 

   

    • 5th class started their new novel this week ‘A Little Piece of Ground’ and their new project using STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)

 

   

    • 2nd class had another great Roots of Empathy session this week. They were discussing Baby T’s visit from last week.

 

   

    • We were delighted to get news that we were successful in our application for the Creative Schools Award! You can see our project here.

 

   

    • We took part in the minute’s silence for the Famine on Friday. We learned more about the Famine using the sites here and here.

 

   

    • And finally, just a quick photo from the Mathletes finals:

 

     

As always, you can find all of our previous St Peter’s Posts here and now, on the website, we’ve included space for the St Peter’s Posts so that visitors to the website can keep up with all of our weekly news. You can access the latest St Peter’s Post at the bottom of the front page of the website or you can click on this link to see them all!

— Martina Sexton

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