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.