My Email From Space by Karl

For homework we were asked to write an essay/email from space. Here is my finished draft

send too: Benbreswithablowback@gmail.com                                            
subject: Space Adventure
                                                                          Day 1 31/1/16
Hi Ben,
Karl here. I'm sending this email to you from Apollo 64, Yasa space craft module. We floated past
the moon and saw the U.S.A flag implanted on the moon. We went to The Red Planet also known as Mars,
one of the terestrial planets (The Rocky Planets). Adam and I played volleyball on Mars. We did a few back flips on the moon. That was our 1st day in space

                                                                          DAY 2 1/1/16
The next day we flew to Jupiter. Because its a gas planet you couldn't stand on it, but with our special designed space suits we could. The rocket could land but we were still tethered to the rocket just in case anything happened to us we wouldn't get lost. After that we flew back to the moon because Luke left his phone on the top of the Irish flag we implanted in the ground. Luke flew us back but the rocket fuel was nearly gone so we took Luke's phone and headed back to the space camp on Mars.
                                        
                                                                          DAY 3 2/2/16
On the next day we flew to Mercury. It was so hot  we heated up a hot a zip close bag and put a rock inside it. As quick as possible we got off Mercury and went to Venus. It wasn't as hot but it was still hot. We stayed there for about a half an hour longer than Mercury but we did the same thing with the zip close bag and the rock.

                                                                          DAY 4 3/2/16
After Venus we ventured far down into the solor system to Saturn. Since it's rings are made from dust and asteroids, the whole crew jumped from asteroid to asteroid to get around. After that we had a party at the camp celebrating that we had survived four successful days in space, which kind of scared me a bit because at any time in those four days, Jake,Adam Luke,Jack or myself could have died.
              
                                                                          DAY 5 4/2/16 
We woke up.We knew it was our last day in space. We gathered our stuff and hopped on the rocket. We flew to Neptune. We collected a rock and flew back to the moon. We took a photo and played some game. We decided to stay and go back to Earth the next day which is tomorrow.

 Yours Sincerely,

  Karl Radford
 
                          

TRASH: by Andy Mulligan

 

These past few weeks our class have been reading a book called "Trash". The book was written by Andy Mulligan. The book is about three boys, Raphael, Gardo and Rat / Jun Jun. The boys by mistake come across a very important find. A bag that contains lots of money and very important stuff. The boys are puzzled when the police come along and ask about the bag. But the boys say that they know nothing about it. When the police find out that the boys are up to something they hunt the boys across the whole city.

  The items in the bag are part of an investigation that involves stolen money. The boys are ahead of the police and look for clues. To lose the police the boy want to go to a different island to live away from the police. In this book Andy Mulligan really tells us about how the kids live in the Philippines. The poor kids in the Philippines live in trash. They kids collect trash and sell it for a living. It is sad to know how the kids live in poverty in places like the Philippines. 

We drew alternate covers for Trash and will enter a competition.  'One of the most exiting and original novels of the year' - Daily Mail, 'A brilliant book' - John Boyne, author of The Boy in the striped Pyjamas. 

The reason why we are reading this book is because it is part of the one book one community project. We do this every year. The whole community comes together and reads a book. And this year we are reading Trash. 

 

By Adam 

The Fruits off the Holy Spirt

The Fruits of the Holy Spirit . are Love, Joy,Kindness ,Patience ,Self-control ,Goodness ,Peace, Gentleness and Trustfulness.
Love : Love is when you give someone a hug or a kiss when they are feeling down about something bad.

Joy  :  Joy is when your happy and in a good mood with others.

Kindness : Kindness is when you give up your seat for a old lady or man on the bus.

Patience : Patience is when your waiting for something and respecting others

Self-control : Self-control is when you behave when others are not behaving in a good way and not getting involved .

Goodness : Goodness is when you let others join in with you and your friends.

Peace: Peace is when we all live in harmony and when you settle arguments without fighting.

Gentleness : Gentleness is when you don't play to rough with your younger siblings.

Trustfulness : Trustfulness is when your friend tells you a secret and you keep it to yourself.

That is all of the fruits off the holy spirit.


By Lee Franzoni and Justin Anene.

The Solar System

Last week we learned all about the Solar System. The Solar System is made up of all the planets that orbit our Sun. The Sun contains around 98% of all the material in our solar system. Scientists believe that the Solar System evolved from a giant cloud of dust and gas. The outer planets are largely made of gas and water, while the inner planets are made up almost entirely of rock and dust.Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are the names of the planets in our solar system .

by ,Patrick G

Inis Óirr Part 1

Miss Sunderland here. I'm having a serious case of FOMO that I couldn't go to the Aran Islands with the boys this year. Mark and Mr McIntyre have been keeping me up to date with how the boys are getting on. They look like they're having a ball. Here's a few snaps so far, including photographic evidence that the boys are going to heaven! Local legend has it that if you fit through the window in the old church you're guaranteed a spot up there. What I wanna know is where is the picture of Mark??? ;)

Congratulations Dane!

A huge congratulations to Dane McKenna who won the Art and Hobby Shop's Easter competition!

Each boy in the school was given a foam Easter egg to decorate. Dane chose to make his into a minion. His creative design was chosen not only as the best in the school but in the whole competition. 

It's currently on display in the Art and Hobby Shop in the Jervis Shopping Centre.

A big thanks to Ms Murphy for organising the completion entries  for us. 

Our Ceremony of Light

As part of our preparation for our Confirmation the boys had their Ceremony of Light in the church tonight.

All of the boys turned up at the church with a candle in hand and their sponsor or someone from home. 

Brandon did a great job reading the first reading and Nathan, Cian and Dane read the prayers of the faithful wonderfully.

Near the end of the ceremony all of the boys and girls were invited up onto the altar. The adults with them then lit their candles and passed them on to the boys in a symbol of passing on their faith.

We are all really looking forward to the big day now on June 13th!

Here are a few snaps from tonight 

It's all Greek!

We are doing a project at the moment all about Greece. We are learning all about the countries geography and it's ancient history.

Did you know Greece is one and a half times the size of Ireland? It has a population of 10 million.

We are learning all about Ancient Greek gods such as Ares, Apollo and Zeus. Here's a picture of us researching information for our projects.

Letter from the USA!

Today we received letters from out penpals in Toledo, Ohio! 

We wrote to them in February and we were very excited to see their replies today. 

We are going to write back tomorrow and tell them all about our Confirmation and Aran Islands trip that we have coming up. 

The Larriers are Victorious!!

It's official, the Larriers have brought home the glory!! The boys in 6th class have won the table quiz for the One Book One Community project.
Before we get into some more showboating let us tell you a bit more about the project.
One Book One Community is an innative run by the home school liason teachers in the North Inner City. Pupils in 6th class and in first year from 19 schools all read the same book as well as parents in the community too. This project has been taking place for over 5 years now and is a great success. This year we all read the book 'The Blue Horse' by Marita Conlon McKenna. The book explores themes such as predjudice and a sense of home and belonging and is told through the story of Kaite Connors, a 12 year old traveller. It proved to be a very popular novel and we were even lucky enough to have the author Marita speak at the opening and closing ceremonies.
Back to the good news ........ The brainbox team comprising of Dane, Ben, Adam and Callum narrowly beat off the competition to take home the trophy for the Larriers. This is the first time we have won at the quiz and the trophy will be proudly displayed in our reception area.