Winter Snowglobes

Reindeer

On Thursday the 4th of December, our class drew and painted reindeer. First we drew the reindeer by the help of our fingers and hands. Then we outlined the shape of the reindeer in a black oil pastel. After that we painted the reindeer using red for the nose , brown for the body and green for the back round. We also came up with some creative ideas of what to add on to the reindeer.

By Megan.

 National

The Republic of Ireland''s captain Robbie Keane has been named as a top player in the United States.

He was selected as the Major League scorer's most valuable player after captaining the Los Angeles Galaxy team  to the final. The thirty-four year old agreed to a multi-year contract extension with Galaxy in March and now hopes to lead them to glory in Sunday's major cup soccer final where they take on New England Revolution.

International 

NASA has successfully launched its new Orion spacecraft into orbit at the second attempt after high wind and rocket problems delayed the first launch bid.

Sport 

On Wednesday Man.City took on Sunderland and it finished 4-1 to Man.City with Pablo Zabaleta , Kun Aguero, Yaya Toure, and Jovetic to secure the three points to leave them 2nd in the Premier League.

By: Adam White.

Our Science Experiment

Today, we did Pneumatic experiments. Pneumatics is all about air pressure.

In our experiment, we wanted to see if a plastic bag filled with air could lift  a pile of books. We pierced a plastic bag with a straw then placed the books on top. After that we blew into the straw.

This resulted in the filled bag pushing the book up and lifting the heavy books.

By: Paschal Walsh

Our News Report

NATIONAL;
A seven year old boy broke his right leg while he was bouncing on a unstable trampoline at home and has been awarded €35,000 euro damages in a circuit civil court action against Smyth's toys.

INTERNATIONAL;
Siberian air passengers had to get out and push the plane the were about to go on in temperatures of -52 degrees Celsius after it's chassis froze, Russian prosecutors said this morning.

SPORT;
Arsenal played Borussia Dortmund  on Wednesday night. Yaya Sonogo scored a brilliant goal at the 2nd minute and Sanchez scored to make it 2-0 for Arsenal.

by Sam Mcilrath

News Report

 Sport
                                                                                                                                                           Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge is out from playing until after Christmas with an ankle injury.                                                                                                                                                                                      National                                                                                                    
The government have decided to reduce the water charges. They now hope that people will agree to pay and the demonstrations will stop.                                                                                                                                                
 International                                                                                            
A woman is looking for status on her lawsuit against apple as she wants to be able to send i messages on a non-apple device. The service allows users to send message through apples's network and does not work on other phones such as Android or Windows phones.

Cross Country

On Thursday the 20th  of November 16 pupils from the school took part in the cross country event in Renmore. The sixth class boys team won. Phelim McCann came second and Christy Brennan came seventh. Niamh Niland came first in her race and Adam White came forth in his race.  

                             

By; Sam O'Neill and Dara Sheeran.

Green Hat Thinking

We used Green Hat Thinking to look at alternatives and tried to think of all the different things the paint spot could represent.

The Runty Pig Pop - Ups

For our Art class we constructed pop-up pigs to tie in with our English story, The Runty Pig, which is an extract from Charlotte's Web, By: E.B. White.

Paper Helicopters

Paper Helicopters

On Tuesday we conducted an investigation on Energy and Forces and investigated gravity.

In this activity we explored how some things fall and how varying the size of the

rotor blades, the shape of the rotor blades and the weight of a paper helicopter affects

the way a helicopter spins.

History Artefacts

World War One Artefacts
On Wednesday Peter Monaghan brought in his Great Grandfather's bayonet that he swapped with a German soldier at the end of World War 1 in 1918.
Peter told us that his Great Grandfather, Private Patrick Ryan had fought in World War 1 and at one point was involved in a serious explosion in which his friend was killed.  Private Ryan survived the war and was given medals for his service and a medal for meritorious service.
Bayonets were designed to be attached to the barrel of a rifle to be used in close combat.

The bayonet has a metal scabbard and leather holder or Frog.

The symbol of an eagle's head is visible on the handle.

The British War Medal, 1914-18

Established on 26^th July 1919.
Also known as 'Squeak'.

The silver or bronze medal was awarded to officers and men of the British and Imperial Forces who either entered a theatre of war or entered service overseas between 5th August 1914 and 11th November 1918 inclusive. This was later extended to services in Russia, Siberia and some other areas in 1919 and 1920.

Approximately 6.5 million British War Medals were issued. Approximately 6.4 million of these were the silver versions of this medal. Around 110,000 of a bronze version were issued mainly to Chinese, Maltese and Indian Labour Corps. The front (obv or obverse) of the medal depicts the head of George V.

The recipient's service number, rank, name and unit was impressed on the rim.

The Allied Victory Medal
Also known as 'Wilfred'

It was decided that each of the allies should each issue their own bronze victory medal with a similar design, similar equivalent wording and identical ribbon.

The British medal was designed by W. McMillan. The front depicts a winged classical figure representing victory.


Information about the medals was taken from the following website:
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/medals/ww1-campaign-medals.htm
Further details and information about these and other World War One medals and artefacts can be found there.

Jacqueline brought in a baseball bat from the 1960s or 1970s, tennis racket from the same time, coins (one from 1914) and a vinyl record again from the 1960s or 1970s.
 Fiona brought in an old casette player with a tape and earphones.  Finally Peter Murphy brought in one picture of one of a few diaries almost all were over a hundred years old.  Peter all so brought in a picture of a brass horse and cart which is around 30, 40 or 50 years old.

Written By: Peter Murphy

Erin brought in this 1950's vintage hair dryer.

Falling For Foreshortening

Foreshortening 

We used foreshortening  to make the hands and feet appear as though they are coming toward the viewer.

We traced around the hands and feet and then drew in the body and face.

News Report

International: 
A Spanish nurse who was the first person to catch Ebola outside Africa has left a Madrid hospital after recovering from the deadly virus. The nurse Ms.Romero was diagnosed with Ebola on the 6th  of October.

National:
 A couple whose baby boy died shortly after he was born at the Midlands regional hospital in Portlaoise  settled their legal action against the Health Service Executive.

Sport:
Champions League Results:
Man City 1-2 CSKA Moscow.
Chelsea 1-1 Maribor
Barcelona 2-0 Ajax
Bayern Munich 2-0 Roma
Sporting  CP 4-2 Shalke
PSG 1-0 Apoel
Shakhtar 5-0 Bate

By:  Peter Monaghan & Caoimhe Kennedy.

Sculpted Science: Turn Milk into Plastic!

 MAKING PLASTIC!

Have you ever heard that plastic can be made out of milk? If this sounds far-fetched, you may be surprised to learn that from the early 1900s until about 1945, milk was commonly used to make many different plastic ornaments. This included buttons, decorative buckles, beads and other jewellery, fountain pens, the backings for hand-held mirrors, and fancy comb and brush sets. Milk plastic (usually called casein plastic) was even used to make jewellery for Queen Mary of England! In this investigation we made our own casein plastic out of hot milk and vinegar.


All plastics are composed of molecules that repeat themselves in a chain, called a polymer. Polymers can be chains of either one type of molecule or different ones, which are linked together in a regular pattern. Also, in a polymer, a single repeat of the pattern of molecules is called a monomer, which can consist of just one type of molecule or include several different kinds.

Milk contains many molecules of a protein called casein. Each casein molecule is a monomer and a chain of casein monomers is a polymer. The polymer can be scooped up and moulded, which is why plastic made from milk is called casein plastic.

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International

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What we got up to this week!

Tree Planting

For science, our class planted an alder tree. We planted it in the garden in the car park. Isabelle was the pupil that planted the tree. Our class did this to enhance our school environment.

EU Coding Week

Last week was EU Coding Week. The 4th, 5th and 6th class pupils took part. These classes did Scratch to participate. Ireland was the country with the most groups doing coding in the EU. There were 205 different groups in Ireland that did coding.

Garda Cup

The 5th and 6th class boys participated in the Garda Cup in Gort. They won the shield final and in 5th class, Luke Martin scored six goals, Ben Lalor scored two goals and Sam O'Neill scored two goals and two points. They did very well.

By Caoimhe and Fiona.

Weakly news report

National
Budget of 2014 was announced, no major cutbacks and Irish families will be slightly better off.

International
59 Irish people helping in Liberia and Sierra Leon to fight against Ebola.

Sport
Ireland drew 1-1 with Germany in the European cup qualifier match on Wednesday evening.

By Adam Fitzgerald and Sam O'Neill

Weekly News report

International News:
The Islamic state was on the verge of taking the Syrian border town of kobone last night despite being bombed by American Air-force .
Ebola virus has spread to USA and Spain.
Great Britain are to build a new nuclear power station.

National News
Breifne O'Brien has been jailed for seven years for tricking his friends and associates out of 8 and a half million Euro.

Sport
Ger Cunnighan is the new Dublin Hurling Manager .

Environmental Study of our School yard

In our Science class this week we looked around are school yard and saw all the different habitats and came up with some improvements that we could make for are school.

Here are some things we came up with.

  1. We could set up another birdhouse outside our classroom to feed the birds during the winter and also observe the birds that visit our school yard.

   

  2. We could weekly send out two of our class to collect all the the rubbish outside.

  3.We are going to plant a new tree in our school yard this year.

  4.Avoid walking on the flower beds and vegetable garden.

The News

                                                               National News

           The Taoiseach Enda Kerry launches the ''Blue Star'' initiative for primary schools; it                                              develops awareness of the European Union.

                   A man,Brendan Megraw who disappeared at the time of 'The Troubles' in the                                     North in 1978, his remains were found recently in a bog in Co.Meath 

                                    Unemployment is falling in Ireland, it is now 11.1%

                                                              Local

                 Over 200 people demonstrated in Galway city against the new water charges this week.

                   
                         Turloughemore Hurling club have been thrown out of the County                                                           championship for playing an illegal player
                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                        Sport

                                                   Liverpool lost to Basel 0:1
By Jacqueline.

Our Historical Cycle Trip

On Wednesday, October 1st 2014 the fifth class pupils, Mrs Kelleher, Ms Kelly, and parents Geraldine Bonner and Eileen Murphy of Killeeneen N.S. cycled around Clarenbridge, Craughwell and Athenry parishes. We first went Geo-cashing around the parish and we found one Geo-cash, beside the monument near the Lynch's house in Lavally, in very bad condition with a loom band inside. 

We then cycled to Lisduff and left our bikes in Lisduff Turlough and walked to the site of a hedge school called Scoil Cois Claí' and a corner where Anthony Raftery use to sit, play his fiddle and recite poetry.

Also in Lisduff Turlough we visited an old Mass Rock, Ms Kelly explained to us it's importance during Penal Times in Ireland.

When we returned to school we were all extremely tired but it was well worth it as we had a wonderful day!

By Michael and Adam

Cross Country

On Tuesday 23rd of September 51 pupils from 3rd to 6th class went to Renmore to compete in the Galway East Cross Country competition. All the students ran very well with fifteen students qualifing for the County Final. It will be held next Tuesday 30th of September in Renmore again.

Our Weekly News

 

International

USA and Great Britian are bombing certain targets in Iraq and Syria to stop the Islamic State.

National

The ploughing championship was on this week in Laois and they have their biggest crowds ever.

Local

Clarinbridge camogie Junior A won the county final at St. Brendan's pitch in Loughrea.

 Sport

Kerry won their 37 All-Ireland football title by Donegal by 3 points.

Killeeneen Back To School Run

Last night Killeeneen N.S hosted a road race for people all over the contry.
We held a 1km run,a 2.5km walk and 5km run.The 1km race was held first the 5km and the
2.5 went after at the same time. The 5km and the 2.5km  were a great sucsess with over 200 people participating.  The 1km enteries were mostely for the younger runners,the 2.5km was for the mums or dads who wanted to walk with their children. The 5km entries were mostley eleite runners, but if you put yourself to the challenge you could enter too.  

After every race you got a lovley  gold meadel with killeeneen in the centre. There were also goddies for the kids when they fineshed their race such as popcorn, chocolate bars and tasty lollypops. The cause of this wonderful race is for killeneen school. We are trying to build an extenchion onto our amazing school. Throughout the last couple of  weeks killeeneen children have been raising sponsorship and giving it in for our exellent road race. When everybody was finished their events we all went into the G.P room for yummy cakes and sandwiches that the mums and dads had made. 

There are also prizes to be won for the race such as the family event  to win it there has to be a child entering in the1km race and an aduld entering in the 5km race. The next prize can be won if you are first man or woman home in 5km run. There are also more prizes to be won but this time they can be won by luck because in asembley your name could be pulled out of a box next week. All  the results are to be announced next week.  Kileeneen had a great night at the road race and thanks to all for coming!!!

Weekly News

Sport:
Manchester City played Bayern Munich in the Champions League group stage and it finished 1-0 to Bayern Munich.
Jerome Boateng scored a crucial goal against his former club to secure the three points.

International:
Scotland have voted no to forming an independent state, so they will stay within Great Britain. 55% said no and 45% said yes.
There was a plane crash in Florida in America and four Irish people were injured.


National:
There was a Latvian man murdered in Carlow.  Two men were arrested.
Two baby elephants were born in Dublin Zoo.
Nurses protest outside Galway Hospital with placards due to over crowding in hospital wards.

Local:
The Clarinbridge U16 hurlers won the county final last Sunday.

Is it a liquid or a solid?

This is our science project and what we first did was got our ingredients and put them in a bowl.The ingredients we included were cornflour, water, a wooden spoon, a bowl and green food colouring.

We poured half a box of cornflour into a bowl.Then gradually poured water over the bowl and mixed until it looked and felt like custard.Then when you ran your fingers through it, it acted like a liquid.  But when you punched it , it became hard and behaved like a solid.  The cornflour particles are suspended in the water, so it flows like a liquid, but when you apply a force to it, the particles are locked together, acting like a solid.  As soon as the force stops, the slime goes back to behaving like a liquid.

National and International News Report

SPORTS NEWS:England bet Switzerland 2-0  also Austria drew 1-1 all with Sweden.  Manchester United may have suffered a difficult time on the pitch during the David Moyes  era, but the club have reported a record annual revenue of £443.2m and a £23.9m profit for 2013/2014

APPLE PRODUCTS:Apple has unveiled it's new and updated products at a special event in California.  It released two phones,the I Phone and the I Phone 6 and the I Phone 6 plus.  Apple also unveiled it's new smart watch.  As expected all products are very expensive.

WORLD NEWS:EU hold off on Russian sanctions over it's military war against UK.  The Bombeair airport have up to 400 jobs available. 

IRISH LOCAL NEWS: Irish waters confirms possible data breach.

5th Class 2014 - 2015

                                                                5th class  2014 - 2015

Map My School

We have entered the 'Map My School' competition organised by Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI). We put a lot of time and effort into our map in measuring our school building and grounds, drawing our map to scale, creating a key and decorating our map. 20% of the votes awarded to each map come from a public vote. You can view our map in detail and vote for it here. http://mapmyschool.osi.ie/portfolio/killeeneen-national-school/

Girls Football Mini Sevens

Girls Football Mini Sevens

We went to Claregalway GAA club on Thursday the 27^th of March 2014. Our  first match was against Claregalway but we sadly lost. Our second match was against Clarinbridge and we beat them by six points. Our third match was against Carnmore -we beat them and the score was 1 goal and 3 points to no score. We also played a challenge match against Carnmore. Our top scorers were Niamh and Karla.Our captains were Tara, Lauren and Karla. It turned out to be a great day and we came 2^nd in our group.

By Rose, Niamh and Summer.

Spelling Bee

Spelling Bee

Back in February 5^th and 6^th class went down to the hall to see who would represent our school in the 2014 Easons/RTÉ County Galway spelling bee. There were easy, medium and hard spellings. It was tough but finally Ellie Greally was crowned Killeeneen N.S 2014  Spelling Bee champion. In second place was Ultan Sheeran followed by Alice McMahon from our class. Unfortunately Alice was knocked out by the word noncompliance.

A report on Ellie's County Final Spelling Bee can be found here. 

By Aoife Helena and Alice

Khan Academy

Khan Academy is on Saturday morning and is from 9:30 to 11:00. You are on computers for 40 minutes and then you get a 10 minute break. In Khan Academy you have your own computer and you can decide what maths topic you want to do like time and more. The is also another class at 11:30. There are three teachers and they help you if there is a problem with your computer.

By: Rose, Sophia and Alice.

Khan Academy is a website. We do it on Saturday for an hour and a half. It is really helpful for our maths and other subjects like science and physics. There are three really nice teachers there to help us and one guy used to work in Killeeneen National School. We can watch a short video if we are stuck on a maths question. We have a short 5 minute break. There is a daily challenge where you can earn points and badges. We can do it at home as well.

By: Mia, Summer and Aileen

Camógie training

Camógie started back on the 26th of February after school from 3:15 to 4:15. Our coaches Ms. Kelly and Ms. Cooney are working hard to prepare us for Mini 7s in March. We also did camógie training from September to Hallowe’en, multiple times every week both during school and after school. By: Aoife and Lauren.

Olympic Handball Final 25/2/14

We got to the county final stage in handball when another school dropped out. Ten of us went - Anna, Niamh, Helena, Alice, Tomó, Sophia, Conal, Christopher, Robin Pfeiffer and Luke S. Our first match was against Baile Nua. Unfortunately we lost 2-1. In our second match we hammered GMA 5-2. Niamh scored two goals and Tomó and Luke scored one each, Our man-marking tactic worked superbly. In our last match against Clarinbridge, we had to win or we were out. Sadly we lost 2-0. We had a great day out and hopefully next year Ms. Cooney will enter an U-13 team as well as an U-12 team. By: Anna (Man-marker), Helena (Defender) and Robin (Goalie).

Olympic Handball Tournament 13/2/2014

At half past nine, we boarded the bus and drove to Mervue. When we arrived at the court, Clarinbridge Team Two were playing Craughwell. Then it was our turn to play. At first we weren’t playing well as we were down one nil, but we went on to win three-one with Tomó scoring twice and Alice scoring once. The next match we played was against Galway Educate Together. We were down two nil but again we came back to win three-two. There was great passing by Christopher and great goals by Conal and Michael. The next match we drew against a team we don’t know (Braon didn’t write the names of the teams). We had plenty of shots but were unlucky. Tomó would have got man of the match but unfortunately got injured. Otherwise it was generally great play by Killeeneen. The next match was against Galway Educate Together Team Two which we unfortunately lost three-one. There was great goalkeeping by Sophia and a super goal by Niamh. There was fantastic play by the whole team and good sportsmanship. The next game was against Clarinbridge Team 2. We drew one-one with Tomó and Owen Lyons scoring. The next two matches we lost then we drew two-two and then we lost three nil to Clarinbridge. Match Reports

By Braon, Cathal and Ethan.

Green Schools Committee

We have had one Green Schools meeting. We all decided to go to the turlough every month to see the birds and to look at the bug hotel. The first day we went to the turlough we saw lots of birds. The second day at the turlough we saw no birds. The birds we saw were the blackbird, swallows, ducks, swans, willy wagtails, golden plovers, geese and lots more. On the second day the water was so high that we could not even go into the turlough. Next time we go back we hope will we see lots more birds then before and hopefully it won’t be flooded like last time.

by Luke.S & Rachel.

Class Representatives

Our Christmas Concert

Every Friday since September we practiced The Evolution of Dance. There were lots of different stages to the dance so it took a while, but fortunately Christina was very patient. Luckily, we got the hang of it pretty quickly.

Two months before the concert (October), we started rehearsing the cup song by itself and the singing by itself. It took a while to practice as we had to get the co-ordination correct. It took ages to perfect it.

There were lots of different scenes in our play and everyone had to have a part. This is the order of which they were in:

• Pope Francis
• The visitors to Ireland as part of The Gathering
• Clare win the Liam McCarthy Cup,
• Galway win the O’Duffy Cup,
• The Healthy Eating Policy and
• One Direction.

It was very hard going but we got there in the end.

We spent all day practicing down at the hall on the 17^th of December. We had to wait a while for our turn as the other classes went first. We were lucky as we got extra time to rehearse because the younger classes went home early. We were also a bit unlucky as we had to help setting up the hall. The entire concert lasted around 5 hours. It was our turn next. First we did the drama, then the cup song and finally the dance. It was all over pretty quickly. We had great fun. It was just a shame we had school the next day.

By Ethan and Robin

Our trip to the Turlough

On a cold day in December, we hoped weather would stay dry for our journey to the turlough. After lunch we met Susan, the bird watcher from An Taisce in our classroom. She told us about the fascinating birds in the Rahasane Turlough. After the discussion we walked to the turlough. Once we got to our destination, Susan took out her telescope and showed us the birds flying over the water. We lined up to have our own view. We were sad to see lots of rubbish in the bushes. Once everyone had their go we sadly started walking back to the school. On the way back we saw a big oak tree. Finally we reached the school and we took off our dirty wellies. It was the best day ever and everyone enjoyed it.

By Adam and Phelim