On Tuesday our teacher gave us a picture by Paul Klee. It was called “Woman in a Native Costume”. We had until Friday to colour it in. Then we went on to the internet to look at the real painting. The real one had four colours – brown, orange, yellow and white. Most people, when they were colouring the picture, used lots of colours.
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There we were doing our Mental Maths on Tuesday morning when there was a knock on the door. A Postman was outside the door holding a large blue decorated box. The Postman came into the classroom and said, “Special Delivery!”. The whole class started screaming at the Postman because we knew he had our Trans-Atlantic Treat Box from @superkiddos, our American friends on Twitter.
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What is the Xperience Engineering Challenge? Xperience Engineering is a program run by Engineers Ireland for primary schools. The project is divided into 2 categories, 3rd/4th Class and 5th/6th Class. The top 20 projects from each of the categories will be chosen to represent their school at the Xperience Engineering National Final in the Helix in Dublin in June. This years theme is
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What is an Oyster? The action of the waves moves the device up and down. This action activates the pistons causing high pressured water to be pumped to the shore, through an under water pipeline. Onshore hydro-electric generators convert this high pressure water into electricity. By Shauna, Seán M, Aoife, Carla, Sophie
What is a Pelamis? This Pelamis is a huge “sea snake” in the water. It generates power in the hinged joints that connect its cylindrical tube sections. As the wave move the joints up and down, and side to side, hydraulical rams drive an electrical generator. The electricity is carried to shore via a sub sea cable. In a Pelamis the pistons move
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We started a Reading Buddies programme in our class. We decided to call it Reading Pals because we liked that name better! We have our Reading Pals Time at 11am every day. Mrs. Timoney comes in to help us. In our Reading Pals sessions we read nice books, we share our books and we praise each other. We have fun reading with our partners
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Our visit to Strandhill On Monday the 21st of March our class went to Strandhill as part of our Steps Xperience Engineering Project. While in Strandhill we took advantage of the big waves and took a few pictures. To get a close up picture of the waves we had to do stepping stones across a foot deep pool of water. Unfortunately a
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Miss Hynes asked the class to bring in things like toilet rolls, plastic bottles and straws to construct a model of a wave energy generator. The choices were a Pelamis or an Oyster. Most people made a Pelamis. When everyone had finished making their Oyster or Pelamis, they left them to dry at the back of
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Micheál O’ Halloran is a mechanical engineer. He came into our classroom and spoke to us about the engineering that is involved in things like Avatar and Grey’s Anatomy. He told us all about the different engineers that are involved in making a rollercoaster. He explained to us how a Pelamis works. We learned that there is a motor and a generator inside
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We built an Oyster. It is the same shape as a suitcase. It is a wave energy generator. The top of it moves forwards and backwards in the waves. We hooked up the motor and it finally worked.