Victory in the Cup!!

Yesterday we had a match against our arch enemies O' Connell's. Our sir said it was like a local derby, a match between two teams from the same city - like Manchester United and Manchester City or Liverpool and Everton. Except this time it was Larriers against O' Connell's!!.

We played very good and I played left back and Willo, Haydo played in the center and ric played right.The defence did class and Deano, Leon played center-mid and Nato played left and Shayo played right and they played class.

Any time u would look at Deano he would be defending, running foward and just all over midfield! The same with Leon. Jordan and Taylor played up foward and sometimes Jordan helped out with the back and the midfield.

Willo and Haydo they were just BRILLIANT !!!!!! But iin the end we got 4 CLASS GOALS.... and that was enough to win - we are though to the next round of the cup - we want to make a little larrier's history 'cause it's our last year. C'mon the Larriers!!

By Corrie

First Match of the Season

Last week our school team went out to Edenmore to play our first football match of the new year. So it was going to be a different team to the one we had last year. It was going to be a bit different.
When we got to Edenmore, we were all getting ready for the match when Mr. Candon comes and tells us that he had forgotten the jerseys. We all laughed. So he had to get some jerseys off St. Malachy's, the team we were going to be playing against. The jerseys were tiny but we got them to fit us.It was very funny!!
The match started. The team was looking good and then we got off to a flyer when Jordan Lee put the ball into the back of the net. 1-0 to the Larriers. WHAT A START!!! Then a few minutes later Malachy's had a great chance their striker took around Sean in the goal and shot. He thought he had scored until Hayden ran back in and got the ball off the line! It was a let off for us.
So we got our act together and the ball came to Jordan. He passed it to me and I passed it to Shane Boyle. He took it around the keeper and scored 2-0 to the Larriers.
Then a minute later I got the ball in midfield and went on a run and scored 3-0 the Larriers.
The ref then blew the whistle for half time we were walking away with the game. The second half kicked off and we were up for it so we just played simple football just like United (something that Liverpool can't do) (Eh? Excuse me lads?? - The Sir) and we got another goal. Willo this time got through on goal and the keeper came out and he just dinked it over his head.
It was a cracker 4-0 to the Larriers, game over. The Larriers won their first game of the new season yeahhhhhhhhhhh.

By Dean, Corrie and Jordan.

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St. Patrick's Day and the Leprechaun's Gold!

I couldn't believe my eyes. There was a leprechaun picking shamrock in the field next to my house. Every body knows that the leprechaun will tell you where a pot of gold is hidden if you catch them and let them go. So all i had to do was catch this leprechaun and then I'd be rich!So here's how I trapped the leprechaun.
I changed into my army camouflage suit. I got a trapping gun like the Ghostbuster's gun and snuck closer to the leprechaun. But I realised the gun was dead. I needed new batteries. I had to run back to my house to get them. Luckily when I returned the leprechaun was still there.
I slid the new batteries in. I crept down onto my front and made my way over to him. I shot the catching net. I got him and he said 'If you let me go I will show you my pot of gold'.
I let him go and he gave me his pot of gold. I was rich. I gave loads of money to charity. Then I bought loads of stuff and built a secret leprechaun hut for all leprechauans to stay and play in.

By Paul

Lego Mindstorms (Part 7!)

When we were asked to design something from a building site, myself and Leon thought about a crane - there are lots of cranes on the sites around here, especially at Spencer Dock. There are usually cranes on every building site.
To build the crane we first needed to construct a solid base. We started to build the base of the crane then the arm. We used bricks for the base and beams for the arm. Then we put some beams across and carefully put string through the holes. This was attached to a pulley. We used string to lift stuff up.
We programmed the RCX box later on the whiteboard. We chose direction and times that the motor should move. We programmed the motor to go down for two seconds and then change, and move backwards for two seconds. It was tops!

By Eric

Base Jumping!!

In the late hours of a Friday night on December 12th 2003 a base jumper named as Dean Byrne surprisingly got inside the Barj building in Dubai. It is the tallest building in the world. All he had was a tiny parachute, so why was he going to risk his life for something so stupid as that.
He had been sitting up there for 2 hours thinking of what way to jump and what way to land. So he took one last sup of his water and he counted to three and just took one big huge leap out into the freezing cold air of Dubai.
His face was plastered to the wind.He took just 8 seconds to fall from the tallest building in the world to the ground.He had pulled his parachute at 4 seconds because he was going that fast. He landed on a construction site just underneath the building. WHAT A STUNT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Deano

Lego Mindstorms (Part 7!)

This week our sir asked us to create something that we would find on a building site. Myself and Jordan decided to build a forklift. At the start we didn't know where to begin! But then we remembered about pulleys and elastics. We started to try things out.
We built the two forks first and then attached them to the RCX box.We levelled the beams and put 4 big 8 hole beams. We built four of them and then we put them over the beam. We put the RCX box on, then it was level. We tried to see would it lift anything up?
We put a pencil on it and it lifted it up.Then we tried to put a rubber and a pencil on it and it lifted it up. We put four wheels on it and attached the jumped leads on to the RCX, we made it go along the floor backwards and forwards. It will help us lift things up on the building site like little pallets and other things.We our going to build a building site.
Then we could enter some competition. It is a really clever idea. Other boys are making a little cement mixer so if it needs to be moved anywhere the fork lifter will do it for us. We have a crane to lift up bricks an other things.

By William and Jordan

Lego Mindstorms (Part 7!)

This week each group was given a different task - we had to design something that you would find on a building site. Myself and Leandro decided to design a cement mixer. We knew from building fans that we could do it!
But we did not know how to make the mixer, so we used wheels.
While Leandro was building the base of the mixer, I was building the mixer.
In the picture above you see how Leandro connected his design to my design.
We have another picture of this but in the other picture, We have a light on it.
We also used two motors and an elastic to pull the wheels around.
It will be great building more lego. It will be awesome.

By Anthony and Leandro