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.

The Story of Miley Cyrus, the Late, Late and Me

About three weeks ago RTE came into the school to interview our school guitar group.
It was for a Stephen Gately tribute which they were making. When the people from RTE came in we were all excited. we went into the 'Parents Room', talked a bit, then went to work. We were playing The Climb by Miley Cyrus on our guitars. We took about five shoots and we were finished.

Two weeks later our guitar teacher, Ms. Larkin, got a phone call from RTE saying that Miley Cyrus had heard us playing The Climb and that she was so impressed that she gave us tickets to the Late Late show when she is on it tomorrow night. When we heard we were so excited. Can't wait, it's on Friday!!

By Jordan. D

Ps. We did say JD is the new Bono!

Winning in Croke Park

I woke up nervous and then my mates knocked for me. So I got up, dressed and got my breakfast and off the way we went to Croker. So when we got there, we had to wait till our match was on. So we were looking at another match.
Before the match was on we had to go down the dressing rooms to get dressed and get warm before the match kicked off. When we were warm enough we went out to the pitch to get the match started.
The ref blew the whistle and the game kicked off! Shane kicked the ball over the bar for the first point and we were winning by my point until they came back. It went to extra time and the rest is history!

By Killian D.

Ps. Check me out, celebrating in style!!

Winning in Croke Park

I was nervous at first but when I walked onto the pitch, it felt like I was king of the world or something. Even if we didn’t win I still would have been happy for just playing in Croker. So when we won, it was the best moment in my life, people cheering us on. It was great to see all my mates happy and Ms. Harte and Mr Brennan and especially for the school.

The goal I scored was lovely - from the half way – I’m not even messin’!! That goal finished it because Nato scored 1 minute before me. That meant we were in the lead by six points. We won, it was great, the first team from our school in 56 years to win at Croke Park!

By Jake

Ps. Check out the celebration above - world class from a world class player - well done Jake! - Mr. O' L.!