The Famine

The famine started in 1845. the mustake ireland made was then depended on one food witch was patato.they depended on patato because the could grow in small spaces they could grow any time a year and they could fill you.then a new diesease attacked ireland

Apple Crumble

On Friday our class made apple crumble in cooking. The first thing we did was go into the kitchen to eat and Mr Candon got the fry he wanted.
We cut the apples to make make the crumble.
We made the crumble with margarine, brown sugar and dough. Then we put it in the oven to cook. We waited for a half an hour for the crumble to cook so we went into a room with Ger. We learned how to set up a table. This Friday we are going to have our parents over to Fáilte Ireland to cook dinner for them. We will be cooking white chicken with a white sauce and garlic bread. For dessert we will be having apple crumble again.

By Leon O'Brien

Cheesy Garlic Bread

Pizza

First we got our dough and rolled it. We needed flour so the dough wouldn't stick to the rolling pin or the table. When we had all of our dough in a circle we put tomato sauce on the surface of the dough. Next we put our toppings on it, we had a choice of onion, tomatoes, mushrooms, ham, chicken, pineapple , cheese and anchovies. We put the pizza in the oven and waited for it to go brown and crispy.

By Paul 'The Big Chill' F.

Fairy Cakes

We have recently started cooking classes with Fáilte Ireland. The chefs that are teaching us how to cook are Chef Caroline and Geraldine. It is really great up there. We each got a new uniform with cool steel capped boots. And a really cool chef's jacket, just like the cooks on tv.
Last week we made fairy cakes - we used butter, caster sugar, 2 eggs, raising flour and milk - and when we put them in the oven we got to choose toppings. We chose milk chocolate icing and white chocolate buttons. Very tasty!!
Next week we are going to make pizza!!

By Leandro

The Lord Mayor's Cup - The Final

When we got to The Lord Mayor's Cup Final we were against St.Gabriels. Outside we won the football,the peno's and we lost the racing. The people that competed for our school in the racing are my teacher Barry O Leary, and my friends Dean, Jordan, Shane, Alex, Taylor and William.
Inside it was basketball. The only one to score in the match was me. Back at the climbing wall I was on the same side that I lost on in the Semi-Finals. The people from my school that were competing are Andy (the sna) me, Alex, Shane D, Shane R and Leon. I slipped again on the wall and lost to a girl.
We all sat down and waited for the man with the results. We waited outside for the man with the results. He came out and announced that WE WON!!!!!! We got a trophy, gold medals and a picture with the lord mayor. Larriers Rule!!!!!!

By Anthony
Artwork also by Anthony!! (Very cool!)

Lord Mayor's Cup - The Semi-Final

When we heard about the Lord Mayor's Cup we were very excited. It sounded like it was fun and it was. When we won the first round we went through to the Semi-Final. When we got to the Semi-Finals we were against St.Vincents.
It was a draw in the football, we won the peno's and then the racing. Inside we were playing basketball. Paul from our school got the first basket in. Then one of the Vincent's players scored. Then I scored. We won 2-1 in the basketball.
Then we did wall climbing. I was against someone slow but he ended up winning because there was a part of the wall I couldn't reach. We all sat down (All the schools sat down) and waited for the results. The man came in with his whistle around his neck and his clipboard. We Did It!!!!!! We made it to the finals. Larriers Rule!!!!!!

By Anthony

Legominds Roboshow Slideshow

The Legominds Roboshow Slideshow! Check it out!!

Legominds Roboshow

Check out our snaps (thanks Ian!) from our trip to the Legominds Roboshow!

'Handsomest' larriers or wha??!! yisser massif!!

11th Annual Lego Minds Roboshow

Yesterday myself, William, Dean and Alex went to the 11th annual Lego Minds Roboshow.We went with Breda.

We designed a building site based on what we see at Spencer Dock. The things we designed, built and brought were a crane, a cement mixer, a forklift, security hut and a fan.

It was great to go and see what other kids were doing around the county too.

There was a lot off great things there like some other schools had the new Lego.

One off them that I saw was a robot that can kick a ball and a swing like baseball bat.

We were there for most off the day so that was good for us!! It wasn't competing, it was just a place were we could see other people doing different things so that was cool too.

By Leon

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

Lego Mindstorms! (Part 6)

This is how we built a fan. We built the base and we supported the motor with 2x4 and 1x2 bricks. After that we built the blades with 1x8 plates and we added a small blade with small 1x4 plates. Then we put a motor onto the RCX box. Next we got 2 pulley wheels and a blue band and a 1 stud axle to attach to the blade. We had a great time.
We could make a fan with 1 axle but we made one with 2 axles. It went faster than the one with one motor.
Last week we knew we could make a car with one motor and we put one motor in it. Corrie and Eric made a trailer for it so it could pull the RCX box. But we made another car with 2 axles. We decided to try this with our fan - we actually put three motors in it at one stage - the blades went super fast!!

By William and Corrie