Trip to Imma

Our visit to the modern art gallery

Last Thursday, we visited the Irish museum of modern art. We went on the luas to Hueston station and then walked up to the museum. The luas cost us one euro fifty for a return ticket.
When we got there we were split into two groups and shown around by two guides.
We saw a lot of different types of modern art and sculptures. I loved the moving curtain. It was made of silk and a motor twirled it around. You could go inside and feel the breeze. I thought the sculpture with the crystals and the coals was the best. It was like a river flowing out of a box.
Afterwards, they gave us some art materials so that we could make our own sculptures. Mine looked like the world cup.
I really enjoyed this trip. It was brilliant. I’d go back there again.

By Killian McKenna.

Trip to Bull Island

Trip to Bull Island

Our trip to Bull Island

Yesterday our class went on a trip to the North Bull Island. Our whole class, Ms. Wrynne, Mr. Bailey and Niall went aswell. We were going there to find out about the wildlife there and about renewable energy.
We got the 130 bus at the North Strand clinic. It didn’t leave us right at the centre and we had to walk for about twenty minutes. When we got to the interpretive centre, Pat talked to us about the different habitats, wildlife and endangered species living on the island.
After the talk he got us to work on solar powered fans. This was deadly. Then we headed for the beach to have some fun.
We walked along the beach on our way back to catch the bus. We collected all sorts of things. Dion found a sword that made sounds. Robert found a builders hat and Brandon found a dead starfish. We found plenty of shells and stones too.
We had to run to catch the bus back to school. We all had a great time on the trip. I can’t wait for the next one!

By Dean Murray.

Our trip to the library

On our trip to the library we met a woman who helped us . She showed us all the different kinds of books like history , art , geography , science and so many more. She helped us find books for our projects on famous buildings in Dublin like the G.P.O, Trinity College, Connolly Station .
The second time we went up to the library we picked out our own books
and Miss Wrynne got a few flyers about Dublin zoo and tourist hot spots.
We got lots of French books to learn off for when we go to France.
When we were walking home we saw a frozen sheet of ice covering the canal, There were builders working on the canal cleaning it. In the library we had to be very quiet because other people were there reading the newspaper and fiction books .We all picked out our books and Miss Wrynne checked them out for us. We all picked brilliant books like "Twilight"(for Leroy) Tyler and Brendan got the "B F G", Dion got Georges marvellous medicine, Dylan s got "Ghosts for sale", and Robert got a great war book about trouble up the north.
At the end we all went home and read our books.

By Robert McCann & Tyler O'Reilly

Trip to the Hugh Lane gallery.

On Thursday the 21st of January, my class and I went on a trip to the art gallery. We went with two girls from the teachers college. A week before we went to the gallery the two girls were in our class and they helped us draw portraits. I drew one of Killian. On the day when we were going to the gallery it was raining, but we still walked up .When we got there we met our tour guide, her name was Olive. The first painting she showed us was a painting by Ciaran Lennon, he painted stuff on copper. One of them looked like a water fall and the other one looks like lava. Both of them were excellent. Then we went to see paintings of Francis Bacon’s family. When Francis Bacon was a child he had asthma. His dad had alot of animals so that was very bad for his asthma but finally when he was sixteen he moved out. He had about three houses they were all very nice. Then
We moved to see the studio. After that we saw a few more paintings but then it was time to go so we all said thank you to Olive and headed home. I really enjoyed it!
By Robert McCann.

Helicopters experiments

Tangrams

Our Snowmen

Christmas

Paper helicopters

Today our class made paper helicopters. We all had to cut out different shapes from a template and then we folded them along dotted lines to make the rotors. We used paper clips at the bottom as a weight. We all dropped the helicopters from a height and watched them as the rotor blades were spinning around as they fell.we all noticed that when we bent the rotor blades the other way round that the blades changed direction in thier spin.We all had races with our helicopters to see which one was the best. Brandon said the best one should be the helicopter that stays in the air the longest.