Our Pulse and Heartbeat

Last week in school we learned about active pulse, resting pulse and the heart! It was great! First we took our pulse sitting down, on our wrist or neck or behind the knee, with two fingers. Then we ran on the spot for 1 min and my active pulse was going very fast! My resting pulse was 44 beats per second and my active pulse was 105. I felt great but my legs were sleepy!

We learnt about the heart, and the way system of blood vessels, arteries, veins and capillaries is over 60,000 miles long! That’s long enough to go around the world more than twice! And the adult pumps about 5 quarters of blood each minute-approximately 2,000 gallons of blood each day-throughout the body. You can see us in the photos taking our resting pulse, then exercising and counting our active pulse after!

By Jake

Daniel O' Connell

By Karl

By Jordan D.

Daniel O' Connell was born in Co Kerry in 1775. He came from a Catholic family that was very wealthy so they managed to keep their land by giving the government money even in spite of the penal laws.

While he was over in France studying to be a lawyer he saw much bloodshed during the French Revolution and that was what turned Daniel O Connell against violence. O' Connell was a clever lawyer and a fine speaker. His aim was to abolish the penal laws.

When he got home to Ireland there was a election in Co. Clare to be come a member of parliament which is now in London because The Act of Union. He told all the members of the parliament that the penal laws were unfair and that is why the penal laws were abolished. All thanks to Daniel O Connell.

We created posters of Daniel O' Connell as 'The Liberator' to remind us of the story!

By Leon Bannerman.

The Act of Union

After the 1798 rebellion many people in Britain were afraid that Ireland might rebel again and get support from other countries. The best way to prevent this England felt was to unite the two countries under the one parliament . This parliament would meet at Westminister in London and the Irish Parliament would be dissolved.Lots of lands lords and people did not like this because they would lose land and power. On January 1st, 1801, the first day of the Act of Union kicked in. It lasted until 1922.
There were lots of ways that the act of union affected Ireland
1. Laws from Ireland were passed on to the parliament in Westminister in London
2. There was free trade between the two counties
3. Ireland sent 100 MP's to the parliament but there was almost 600 MP's altogether

But really Ireland wasn’t happy – they lost too much influence. We created 'Comic Strips' to tell the story in class, you can see them above!

By Jordan D.

By Nathan and Jordan.

Every eye has a blind spot

While we were studying the eye, we did another experiement which showed how everybody has a blind spot in their eye. We held up a piece of paper in front of us and there was a circle and a cross on the sheet. You had to look at the cross while shuting your right eye. You bring the page slowly to your eye and the closer it gets you can't see the circle. I didnt get it at first but a few seconds later it began to work. It was weird! I never knew you could do that before until my teacher showed me. My blind spot is in my left eye.

By Nato Barrett

Which is your dominant eye?

Today I studied the eye and studied about the dominant eye. The dominant eye means that one eye is stronger than the other. To do this you must line a pen or some object up with a vertical ine, with your two eyes open. When I closed my left eye, the pen stayed in the same place.But when I closed my right eye it went completly off track so my right eye is my dominant eye.

When I opened my eyes I could only see the pen and all the background.This is me in the photograph you can see what I am doing.

By Luke

Our trip to the Young Scientist Awards

On the 15th of January I went to the RDS to see the Young Scientist Awards. We went to the see robots wars first of all. We saw two of the robots fighting together in a big cage with bulletproof windows. The names of the two of them were Pressure and Saint.
Later we went around to the exhibition stands and there were lots of good stands with projects. We saw a project with a lie detector and one about the play station that could make you more aggressive the more you play it. I thought they were good projects. My favourite was the lie detector because if you lie to someone it can pick up the lie, and the lie detector will tell you if what the person says it is true or false. It might be good to have in my class!

By Killian D’Arcy

Our Reaction Times

We studied reaction times today. First we cut out the reaction timer strip, we folded it down the centre vertical line and glued the two sides together. We made a small hole near the bottomand put a paper clip with blu-tack on oit to act as a weight. Luke held the timer up in the air and dropped it, I had to try catch it at the fastest time I could get. My times were
0.19
0.18
0.12
0.10
Luke’s times were
0.25
0.40
0.40
0.40
I think I have better reaction times than Luke!!

By Hayden.

Egyptian Art. Working with plaster.

Tutankhamun by Taylor Creane

An Egyptian Chariot from a Pyramid Wall by Alex Fay

An Egyptian Family from a Pyramid Wall by Jordan Doody

Drawing our characters

Magno by Leon Bannerman

Batman by Jordan Doody

The Crazy Clown by Killian D'Arcy

To draw our characters we talked about the different characters and heroes that appear in the stories we read and the films we watch. We talked about waht we liked best in each character and used this to design and create our own characters for our english lessons and our art.

By Killian, Jordan and Leon.