Best Christmas Ever by William Mc Carthy

One cold Christmas morning… I heard something on the roof climbing down the chimney I snuck down the stairs I saw some fat fella in a bright red suit with a red hat and a white ball at the end. It was Santa Clause! He was putting two YZ 85 scramblers under the Christmas tree with the rest of my presents. He ate all the delicious Christmas cookies and drank an ice cold glass of Avonmore milk.  He took the orange carrot off the plate and he put in his pocket for Rudolph his reindeer with the very shiny nose . I ran up- stairs to wake my brother up. When he woke up, the two of us ran down stairs to see if he was still there. He was gone. The two of us took off our pj’s and put on some old clothes. Then we went back down stairs and opened the big front door very quietly then wheeled out our YZ 85s. The two YZ 85s started first kick!. The two of us went all over to look for Santa Cause. We looked up at the dark sky. There he was on his way back to the North pole. So then we knocked for my friend. My friend opened the door he was ready to come out on his KX 65. Just then he asked me for a race from Sheriffer up to the Sunset. I said yeah. He was winning at the start but when I got on a straight road my YZ 85 left him for dust. It was the best Christmas Ever.  

We are doing a project on the Rosie Hackett Bridge. We are going to be displaying our project in the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in the RDS on the 9th of January. Seán Harrington, the architect who designed the bridge came in to speak to us this morning.

We sat around a big table. We had lots of questions for him which he answered and explained through drawings. He told us how the bridge was going to support the Luas and about it’s design. We don’t want to tell you about that now though, because it will ruin the surprise of our project!

Seán was really helpful. He gave us lots of ideas for our project. He was really interesting and it was a very different morning for us! He told us a funny story about why he wanted to be an architect and I think its given some of us ideas about being an architect or a designer when we're older.

1913 Lockout by Josh Doran

James Larkin was involved in the 1913 lockout. He organised the strikes and set up unions. Workers went on strike because they were working for too long and they were not getting paid enough. 20,000 people went on strike. Factory owners brought in scabs to take their jobs. On the forth of December 2013,sixth class in St Laurence O’Tooles C.B.S went down to Merchant Road. We went down because it was the one hundred year anniversary of people being evicted from their homes. When we were there we saw a mural painted from a photograph that was taken that day. The artist was there and he told us about the mural. Joe from the East Wall History Society gave us the talk. Only two families from the road were not evicted because they were too sick. They were later evicted in the new year.

An Cuisneoir Mór

Lá Amháin , chuáigh mé go dtí an cuisneoir. D’fheach mé sa cuisneoir. Chonaic mé glasraí, uachtar reoite agus feoil. D’fheach se go hiontach. Dith mé glasrai, feoil agus uachtar reoite. Dol mé uisce agus ith mé uachtar reoite. Bhí mé lon.

Leon Grant

6th Class learn to Rap!!

Our Dublin history Walk

An Cluiche Mór

Here is a video of our 'End of Year' memories - there are photographs from our science experiments, sports activities, our 'Localise' project, classroom and Confirmation and yep, our trip to the Aran Islands - all good times and great memories. We're gonna miss our days as Larrier legends (and of course our 'ham sandwich' of a teacher!!)

The Class of 2013!

Our 'Localise' Project

Over the last couple of weeks we have been working with 'Localise' and volunteers from PWC. This is a project that runs over a couple of weeks and we decide to work with Localise and the volunteers from PWC to help somebody or some service in the community.
In other years our school has helped the Simon Community, Cystic Fibrosis Ireland and Temple Street Hospital. This year we decided to help the elderly in our community by helping raise money for the Lourdes Day Care Centre.
To see what the Day Care Centre needed we went on a visit to chat to the people who use the centre. We heard lots of stories from the great people in Lourdes Day Care Centre about school in their time, the games theyused to play and how the area has changed from they were young. It was a great day.
In the end we decided to raise money to provide new facilities in the centre. So next week we are going to host a day of MEGA-BINGO in the PWC offices with raffles, prizes and ultimate Bingo!
We hope you enjoy our video of our visit to the centre.

By Scott and Kian.

Why Our School Should Abolish Homework!

Imagine that all the schools in Ireland didn’t give any homework! We'd be able to do more sports, help people in our community and learn more skills. I think our teacher should stop giving us homework.
Firstly, I believe we should not get homework because we could become fitter with the extra time that we would have. We could be healthier and I’d have more time to cook healthy meals.
Secondly, in my opinion we should not get homework because with our extra time we could be helping the old folks with their shopping and go to the curry shop for chips for them. Time that is spent doing homework could be used to help the old people in our community.
Thirdly, I strongly suggest I don’t think we should get any homework because no homework would allow me to go up town with my ma and help her with the different jobs she has to do. I could be more helpful around the house if I had less homework to do.
Furthermore I don’t think we should get any homework because we could be in our club playing games instead of sitting down doing homework. Playing games is also important because we can learn skills that are as important as homework.
In conclusion, the best reason not to give homework is we can have an argument with Mark and Mr. O’Leary about no homework and we can just play out instead of doing any homework!!

By Josh Mangan