Our Reaction Times!

Although light and heavy things fall to ground at the same speed (we studied Galileo's famous experiment from the Tower of Pisa!), becuase paper is very light, it can be subject to air resistance and air currents. We created reaction timers that we cut out and weighed down with a piece of 'blu-tac'. Check out our video and see how our paper reaction timers fall and who has the fastest reaction times! Can you guess who has the feastest reaction times?

By Pierce O' Leary

National Library Week

Here is a very short video we made of our meeting with Mary Kennedy to promote National Library Week. We met the RTE presenter in the Long Room of Trinity College where we posed, like pro's, to have our photographs taken!

By Cameron and Leon

Mary Kennedy and the Legendary Larriers!

 



RTE Presenter Mary Kennedy with three of the legendary Larriers!







RTE Presenter Mary Kennedy flicks through the Book of Kells with Cameron, Leon and David. Can you spot the Larrier who has read all the Harry Potter books?!
 

Just like many of our legendary Larriers, RTE presenter Mary Kennedy loves the magic of libraries. Yesterday the boys joined Mary in Trinity College to help launch National Library Week.
"Once you go through the doors of a library you are entering an Aladdin's cave of reading, learning and visual stimulation – and it's all free of charge.
I believe the library has an increasingly important part to play in the community, they are places where people can drop by and interact with others" the 'Nationwide' presenter said at the launch of Library Ireland Week.
Launching the week of events in the famous Long Room in Trinity College, Ms Kennedy said libraries were magical places for all age, and with libraries in the classroom, downstairs in the school and nearby, our Larriers couldn't agree more!



An Up and Down Day!

Four months ago I went to a new football team out in Edenmore. I had my first match in the AUL. I was playing left back. We tipped off and AB passed the ball to Dano. But Dano lost the ball. They passed it around while. Suddenly they played a through ball. Some player clipped me. I fell and the ball hit my foot and went into my own goal!! I shouted “just a start I need at a new club''. The game ended 11-0. I couldn't believe but that's what happens when you play a team of seventeen year olds from Italy. My manger didn't know there was an age group before the Italian team came over to Dublin.
Afterwards, I went to my ma's boyfriend's house to get something to eat because I had another match an hour later. So I went back to the AUL. We won 2-1 and it was much better –who likes lose 11-0!!
I went home and that night and I went to see 'War Horse'. It was good film and  I got butter popcorn, sweets and ice-cream. When we went back to my house I went to bed. 'What an up and down day' I said to myself before I crashed out!

By Leon Murphy

My Halloween

On the 25th of October, my friends and I were getting ready for Halloween. We were out all morning collecting tyres and getting wood. When we got all the tyres and wood we took them back to the dock near where we live.
Later it was getting dark so all of us went into our houses. The next morning Dylan knocked for me and shouted ''hurry all of our stuff is getting taken''. When he told me we both ran around and dragged the tyres from everyone who was taking them. Next of all,  to make up for the tyres we had lost, my friends and I went out looking for more tyres and wood. We all went up to the shop and got five trolleys. Follwing that, we went to a garage and the man in the garage gave us forty tyres.
A few days later it was Halloween. That morning my brother and I got up at 7:30am and went around to the dock. We brought our tyres and pallets from  the hiding place  in the dock. We set to work building the bonfire. soon it was Halloween night.  We had stacked a great bonfire. At eight 0`clock the Bonfire got lit. It was one of the best Bonfires I was ever at.

By John Hutch

Zombies on the Yard

One school morning there were four boys walking to school. They didn’t want to be late for school. When they got towards the school Mr. Candon was waiting outside. He said ‘Why are you all so late’. They said ‘we were getting our lunch’.
When Leon and the lads got up to class, they heard James  telling Cameron a scary story, which happened about thirty years ago in this school. It was about a class up up the roof  who were doing work on the flowers and the garden there. Mr. Bailey, who was the teacher, heard a noise from the lift shaft next to the roof so he went to check.  Nothing was there. Yet when he got back his class was gone!!
Back in the class, follwing James' story, Kian heard noise, it was a meteorite on the yard. All of a sudden the classes started to shake. Then zombies came out of the crater that the meteorite created in the yard. Miss O’Carroll went downstairs to onvestiagte but a zombie chased her on the corridor. Everyone decided to take action, we barracaded ourselves in the classroom and three amazing boys came up with a plan to kill the zombies. Remeber an ''ar-oo cha cha'' a day keeps the zombies away . So when a zombie came into the classroom, Ben did the ''ar-oo cha cha'' and it exploded. The news spread fast . Now all the zombies were falling like flies!! So when there was two zombies left Anthony eliminated one and Ade eliminated the other. When they were all gone, we lifted the roof off with cheers - but then we remembered we'd just saved our school!! A good or bad idea?!!

By Ade Benjamin

My 'Class' Trip to France

On the 26th of March 2012 my class and I went to France. The first thing I did was go to school at 7:50 am. I saw all of my friends standing on the steps outside the school. They all gave their mothers a hug and took their suitcases. We waved at them all. I imagined that Lee was going to be very excited. I was excited but not excited as Lee.
A while later we got on a bus to the airport .We had to check in our luggage. The man who was working at the metal detectors explained to all of us “You have to take off every bit of metal on you “. A while later we were in France. The second day we went to a lovely school. We got croissants. They were lovely. Next we went to play football with the French kids. They were very good. Later on we went back to the hostel. We got hot chocolate.
That night Jonathan, Pierce, Lee and I were in our bunk beds. All of a sudden Pierce was watching 'Rocky' on his PSP. Lee wanted it turned off but Pierce turned the volume up. Lee was screaming. Pierce was laughing “ha ha ha’’. This was one of my great memories that I really love from my time in France.

By Scott Rooney

My New Team

When I heard the news from my manager I was sad. He told me that my team was scrapped. I didn’t know what to do. Luckily, there was a tournament and there were scouts and other coaches.
I ended up getting awarded player of the tournament. Before I was about to leave a man approached me and said he was from Home Farm. He asked me for my parents phone number. A week had gone by since my team got scrapped.
Suddenly I got a call, it was from a manager from Malachys called Steo. He asked me if I wanted to come out and try the team. I said ‘ok’. I knew two of my friends, Tyrek and Leon, had already joined the team . So that was a little comforting. As I stepped onto Malachys pitch in Springdale Road I recognised a few people like Steo Furlong, Dano and Jimbo.
After we had a little training session. A manager named Deafy said I will play my first match next week. Soon that day came when I had to prove my spot on the team. I was nervous and excited. But my nerves paid off . I got man of the match and a hat-trick.
By Conor Darcy

The Seed

The jar contained a very large seed. Other than its size there was nothing out of the ordinary about this seed at all. The label of the jar however warned this seed should NEVER, NEVER be planted. I was in my house I went out to the back garden. I had the jar in my hand I decided to plant it. But where was I going to plant this seed? I was standing there for fifteen minutes, and then it came to me. I could plant it in the college where I mostly go. Nobody goes there. I walked down to the college all by myself. There was a patch of grass. Suddenly I put it down and planted it. I did this on my own. I was not going to tell anybody. After I planted it I went home. At that moment I looked up, it started to thunder and lightning. Suddenly I started to sweat and people were taking off their tops and shorts. After that the paint from the cars started to peel, tyres stared to melt. The heat was incredible. It came to me! I knew the weather changed because since I have planted the seed all these strange things started to happen.
At first I thought it was a joke because nothing was happening. Then all of a sudden the weather started to change even more. I really wanted it to stop. I was so scared. I was really scared of people homes and land getting flooded. It was raining now, it continued for a week. People were really afraid of what was going to happen. It was on the news bout farms flooding and people knew their food would start to run out.
The next day I went down where I planted the seed. I knew I had to stop what was happening. So I tried to pull the seed up. Suddenly I started to pull the seed up. But it was too strong to pull. After that I went home to get something strong. Out my back yard I spotted my Dad’s shovel. I got it and walked up to the college, and went over to the seed. I started to dig. Finally I got it out. All of a sudden the weather changed. So I walked home, I was happy and so were all the people. I hope they never know it was me who planted the seed!!

By Cameron O‘Brien.