Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
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June 14, 2011
6th Class were Runners-Up in the Xperience Enginnering Challenge
The Helix
On the 9th of June, Meadhbh Kenneally, Vita Gethin, Oisín Staunton, Seán Callaghan, Ms Hynes and Mrs Clarke went to the Helix in Dublin to present the Xperience Engineering Project. We left at 07:00 on a train and arrived in Connolly Station at 10:10. When we got to the Helix, we went to a speech made by the president of Engineers Ireland. After the speech we set up the project on a stand.
Half an our later, Ms Hynes and Mrs Clarke went down to the first floor and Vita and Seán went to a building challenge. They had to make a tower out of paper rolled up into tubes as high as they could, but a plastic cup had to sit in it without falling.
Meadhbh and Oisín waited at the stand to give the presentation to the judges. We were the 11th stand the judges looked at. When we had given the presentation, we went to lunch, and after that, we went to a science show. When the science show had finished, there was a presentation for all the schools that got through to the finals. Everyone got a silver certificate. After all the schools were given a certificate, the prizes for the building contest were given. The prizes were laptops. We didn’t win one. When the laptops were given, the grand prizes were given. The winner in our category was Harold’s Boys school.
After the prize giving was over, we packed up the project. We took a taxi to Mc Donald’s and had a meal. We then took the Luas back to the train station and got on a train back to Sligo. It was a great day.
By Oisín S, Seán C and Meadhbh K
June 14, 2011
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Delphi day 1!!
On day 1 we arrived at the school at 9:20 to get on the bus.
Before we got on the bus a lot of people were taking pictures.
We had a 2 and a half hour bus ride to get to Delphi, everyone was very excited.
When we arrived Maura was waiting for us she brought us to the conservatory where we ate our lunch and talked about what we would be doing and the rooms we would be in and who we would be staying with. We met an English school when we were there, there were 100 from their school in Delphi. After lunch we went back to our rooms and got ready for surfing.
At 2 o ‘clock we met in the hall to get on the bus to go to the beach, when we arrived at the beach we had to change into the wetsuits that were very WET & COLD. We got our surfboards and ran to the beach. Before we got into the water we learned how to surf on the sand. After that we did some warming up exercises which included running, push ups etc.. When we were all warmed up we got into the FREEZING cold sea. We were surfing for an hour. At the end most of us could surf pretty well. When we were finished we went back to the changing rooms and took off our wetsuits (They were quite hard to take off!). We went back to the centre and got ready for dinner. We had horrible spaghetti bolognaise for dinner but a lot of people said they were vegetarians so that they didn’t have to eat the meat! For dessert we had chocolate ice-cream which was REALLy nice.
Our night activity was a forest walk so after dinner we went to our rooms to get changed into our waterproofs and tracksuits. The forest walk was really long, boring and a bit wet. After we had supper which was bread and butter with jam. To drink we had tea. Some people were lucky enough to get toast.
After supper we had around two hours before we had to go to bed. In that time a few people got to know the English while others had showers or just relaxed. Our night guard’s name was Shelly and she was really nice!!!!
By Carla,, Emer H & Sophie
June 14, 2011
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The next morning we did kayaking. We did kayaking for two and a half hours. We played fun kayaking games. We played cops ‘n’ robbers game like ‘Sharks and Minnows’. We did pier jumping and played on our kayaks.
Afterwards we did team building. Some games were confusing! The first one was called ‘Spiders Web’. It was ropes all tied together which we had to crawl through without touching the rope. If one of the team-members touched the web we would have to start over.
Another game was when an instructor made a noise and we had to be blind-folded and try to find where the noise was coming from.
The next game was we had three planks of wood. We would have to find a way to get across the wood with-out touching the ground.
Another game was called ‘Towers of Hanoi’. We had three poles and five tyres. The first pole had all tyres. Each tyre had a number on them. The second pole had to have one of these tyres on it at all times. The third pole was the pole which we had to move all the tyres to, in their proper order. It was a very confusing game!
Near night-time we had to do a bog-walk (nightline.) It’s basically where we had to wear blindfolds and walk in mud. It was very muddy and fun! We walked into puddles of muck and one of the puddles was up to our necks! The person in front of you had to direct you where to walk! Overall we really enjoyed it!!! J J
By Sarah, Connell & Oisin L.
June 14, 2011
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Delphi Day 3
The Great Adventure
We woke up and took everything out of the room and put them in the sports hall. Next we had breakfast we had cereal, tea and toast. Soon we headed for the zip wire .We climbed up a ladder joining to a pole. On top of the pole there was a wobbly platform and a very nice man who helped us with our harness .We jumped off the platform it was fun but scary. As we were sliding down the zip wire we had too drop our rope so the instructor could catch it. The black leaver was attached to the rope which we had to pull down with two hands to lower our self to the ground. We took off our harness and the next person brought it up to the platform. It was great fun!!
Next we walked to the archery range. It was very close. There the instructor taught us about archery. Everyone had a few practice shots. It was quite hard! We played a game where we had to think of famous people and places to aim for there five colours: yellow, blue, red black and white. The two teams got a person to date and a place to go to. It was really fun! After we headed back to lunch in the adventure centre
We first got into our pjs and went down for lunch we got chips, fish fingers and soup. After we went up to the conservatory and talked to our friends for a while. We were sad to be leaving already. Our journey home was about 3 hours long we watched a movie on the way home called Shrek. We arrived home at half 4. We were all really tired.
On Thursday everyone was too tired to come into school. On Friday only about 7 people came in. It was the best school tour ever we hope to go back. Everyone had the best time!!
By Louise, Caoimhe and Aoife!!
June 14, 2011
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6th Class have been involved in planning and designing a mural for our school bike shed.
Karen Webster:
On the 5th of May 2011 an artist called Karen Webster came into our classroom and talked to us about the sea. She then told us about a mural we were planning to do and that we would be having different sessions with her. She said we would be painting the mural on the bike shed, around the back of the school within a few weeks. We were all very excited! After she talked to us about it, she got us to draw and paint some ideas that she would scan onto the mural!
Why?
We chose to do the mural on the sea because Karen thought that the sea is very important in our eco-system. The sea is also very close to us (Strandhill beach). We love the sea and find it a very interesting place. Karen told us some facts about the sea, for eg:
- 70% of the world is made up of ocean/sea.
- There is over 500 types of seaweed.
Karen encouraged us a lot and she got us very interested in the ocean!!
What we did?
We drew our creations on water paper and then painted them. We used special pens so that the ink would run so it made the outsides darker. Then the paint ran over them and so the creations would come alive! Karen then gave us fact sheets so we would know a bit about what we were painting.
How we designed it?
We designed it by using the paintings we painted in previous sessions to use in the mural. The next week she told us how she was planning to put it up onto the wall of the bike shed. She also gave us the plan that we had decided on, and told us to colour it in so we would have the colours already organized for when we were painting the mural!
Painting:
This week we are painting the Mural. We have already drawn the grid and animals. Tomorrow we are going to start painting it with colour and detail. Karen will come in and help us to not make mistakes like running paint or painting over something! We are painting from Monday to Thursday and there are 4 groups and we each get a half an hour working on it.
By Luke, Brian & Claire McV
June 14, 2011
We are learning about World War II. Life during WW2 was very tough because food was very scarce. Food was scarce because supplies usually came to Ireland and Great Britain by ship and many supply ships were sunk by German U-boats, which were submarines. Because food was scarce it was rationed. This meant that you could only buy a certain amount of rationed food per week. Everyone had a ration book with coupons. You gave the ration book to the shopkeeper and then you got your food for the week. Foods that were rationed were eggs, bacon, lard, butter, tea, sugar, and coffee.
In Ireland during WW2 it was called “The Emergency”. Éamon de Valera, was the Taoiseach at the time and he made Ireland stay neutral during the war. That meant that Ireland was not on any side during the war. Two places in Dublin were bombed by German planes during the war. They were the Phoenix Park and the North Strand. The president’s house, Áras an Uachtaráin, was damaged in the bombing. 38 people were killed and 70 homes were destroyed. Germany apologised after the war and paid for the damages. Belfast was also bombed twice during the war.
Some children had to be evacuated from cities to the countryside because bombs were being dropped constantly in cities to destroy supply factories that made weapons for the war. Children were only allowed to bring whatever they could carry and their favourite toy. They also had to bring their gas mask. Sometimes children’s gas masks were called “Mickey Mouse Gas Masks” to encourage them to wear it. Mrs Breen brought in a gas mask from WW2 and we tried it on. It smelled very strongly of rubber. You put it on like a swimming hat. It was meant to be tight so that gas would not get in. You couldn’t take it off to get a drink.
To end the war the USA dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanesen cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the first and last time such a bomb had been used. The first bomb was called “Little Boy” and when it blew up it gave out a mushroom cloud. It killed 138,661 people in the first five days.
