The 3D printer visit

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The 3D Printer Visit

In Kilteirnan national school a teacher named Brid Fenlon called in a favour from a friend. On Friday the 18th a man named Noel Murphy came with a 3D printer to Kiltiernan NS. You might not know what a 3D printer is. Alright then let me explain. We all know a printer works *cough* hopefully *cough* I might as well explain it to you anyway. Now when you use your printer if you have a printer, it’s most likely an inkjet printer. The way an inkjet printer works is it uses extremely small drops of ink to create an image. The ink dots are really, really, really small, smaller than the diameter of a strand of human hair, which just so happens to be 70 microns. The dots are also positioned very, very, very, very, very precisely. Okay that’s the explanation on printing period. Now let’s explain the 3D printing shall we? So you put on a USB key what you want the 3D printer to create and the 3D printer will take the material you choose, preferably plastic, and heats it up to fuse the material layer by layer by layer for hours and hours and hours to build you a three dimensional object. When Noel Murphy brought in the printer he called us all into the class room to explain how a 3D printer works. Then he passed around an elephant he made using the 3D printer. It had holes in it so it wasn’t really a whole elephant. It was more of a… Swiss elephant. Then he called us all into the halla and told us that we were going to make a whistle that we could keep. So we sat on the benches waiting for our aisle to be called to come in, so we could take turns getting to see the 3D printer IN ACTION. By the second lunch time (which was a few hours later) the whistle was done printing. It was yellow and plastic. The first kid that got to try out blowing the whistle was Daniel, the youngest kid in the school. And it worked perfectly. It was really cool. After that we all went back to our class rooms, Noel Murphy took the 3D printer and all of his figurines back and that was that. If you ask me it was real nice of Noel Murphy to bring in a 3D printer. I really enjoyed his visit and I hope that everyone else in Kiltiernan NS did too.

 

BY: Erin

Noel Murphy vist

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Noel Murphy vist

On the 18th of November our school received a visit from Noel Murphy who works with Intel. He brought in a 3D printer. Intel is a huge electronics company. He explained how the 3D printer works. It is just like a normal printer but it prints layer by layer until finally it has printed the object. Noel printed us a whistle which just took over 2 hours and 30 minutes to print. He explained that you can print multiple objects with different materials such as chocolate, plastic or glass. He also said you can use websites to design your objects. At the end when the whistle was ready we had an assembly. Daniel blew the whistle as hard as he could and it worked. The 3D printer was so cool.

By Diarmuid

5th class

Science experiments

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Science experiments

In my group there was Erin, Sean and I. Our experiment was making carbon dioxide. It took a long time to figure out the best measurements. Here is how to do it. To do this experiment we used clay, 2 bendy drinking straws, scissors, a tall glass, food coloring, plastic bottle, vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. To start the experiment we gently put the straws together making sure that the small part was on top. First we put water and food colouring in the glass. After that we put 2 tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda in the bottle. Then we put the clay on the short bit of the straw. Last we put the vinegar in the bottle and put on the straw making sure the other end was in the glass.  The science is when you mix the vinegar with the bicarbonate of soda, it will react and make the gas (carbon dioxide). The gas builds up and is pushed along the straw into the water so that’s how the bubbles are made. Other groups did different experiments.

Meadbh

6th class

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Blog: Halloween Dress-Up

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Halloween Dress-Up

On Friday the 28th of October Kiltiernan NS staged our annual Halloween dress up. We all came in, in the morning with costumes in hand, hope in our hearts and in some cases painted faces. The festivities kicked off at 1 o’clock, after big break. We couldn’t wait any longer! The hall was packed to the brim with parents, teachers and students. This year we had so many great costumes the judges couldn’t just pick a boy and a girl for best costume. In some cases the whole class won! There were  lots of original costumes. In my class alone there was a zombie couple, An unpleasant couple (the twits), a fast food chain, a dinosaur an aul’ farmer, and a president elect (then candidate) , and yes I was the president to be. Sigh…

There were also ghost busters, ‘cereal’ killers, witches, wizards, singers, doctors, draculas, clowns, book and movie characters, football players and many more.

Kiltiernan pulled it out of the bag again. Everyone had a really great day.

By Ross, 6th Class

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Coffee Morning/ Galway Hospice

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Galway Hospice/Coffee Morning

 

 

On Tuesday the 20th of September, we raised funds for the Galway Hospice by hosting a Coffee Morning in Kiltiernan National School. Family’s brought in baked goods for the occasion and the parents council brewed the coffee and tea. During the day, the Parents Council came into the classrooms with treats for the children of the school. We raised a total of 1045 euro because of the money and all funds were donated to the hospice. We even managed to bring coffee and tea over to the Lagan workers to help raise a little bit more money.

Galway Hospice foundation is a voluntarily organisation. It was established on November 23 1986 when some local doctors and nurses came together to help with hospice services around Galway. Thanks to them they made Galway city a better place. For more information about the Galway hospice follow this link GalwayHospice.ie to their home website.

By Colman

6th Class

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Irish Dancing

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Irish dancing

We have an Irish dancing teacher called Louise. Every week from the start of the first term until the end of the second term, she takes our class every Wednesday from 9:20 to about 10:05. We are working on a dance but it is a combination of some other dances. First we all do the hop one two and some do one two three which are quite easy but at the start it was a bit difficult. Later all the girls come in as some of the boys just stand aside. Last of all Adam comes and does a dance with a brush. He does a tap dance and he holds the brush in his hand and pulls it. Then he puts one leg over the brush and repeats it with the second leg.  I think it is a very good dance.

By Luke

 

 

Mark’s Birthday

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MARK’S BIRTHDAY

On the 7th of October, we were all happy to wake up to a warm, sunny day to celebrate our good friend Mark’s Birthday. It was a special day and we wanted to let Mark know that we were thinking about him. We got a big yellow obstacle course bouncy castle, which had a huge slide at the end, and loads of places to climb. Our classrooms were let out one by one on to the bouncy castle until 1 o’clock, when the party started. Hannah, Meadbh, Tara and I were on face painting duty. We made a poster and put it on a tree near our workshop at the back of the yard. We weren’t getting too many customers, so we moved to the basketball court. Then our business took off and we painted the faces of almost all the people in the whole school, even Ms Fenlon! Meanwhile, the adults were stuffing their faces in the Halla before the kids found out about the tea, coffee and goodies that were in there. We found out after a while, and although the adults tried to keep us out, most of us managed to sneak in and take some brownies, cupcakes and biscuits. We also got goodie bags with crisps and sweets that were kindly given to us by the parents’ council. I think it was a really nice, happy way to celebrate Mark, and I think he would have loved to be there.

By Ava

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Science

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Science  Experiments 

This year Science Week 2016 ran from 14th to the 25th of November    .We have been celebrating science week by putting some experiments to the test. Everyone in fifth and sixth class were allocated into groups of three and then given an experiment.

In my group was Diarmuid, Grace and I .We got the experiment ‘Oily water bottle’ or ‘lava lamp’. We got to test our experiments the day before we showed them to the class. We were given the instructions and told to read them carefully .Next we got out all of are ingredients out that we needed to make the lava lamp. We got a 1-litre bottle and we also had a litre of vegetable oil .We then poured all of the oil into the bottle (forgetting we needed some for the following day!) next, we added a few drops of food colouring into the water and then we shook the bottle. As we, all thought we were very experienced scientists we forgot all about the instructions and ended up making something completely different to what it was meant to be.

The next day it was our last chance to do our experiment right. Therefore, we decided to read the instructions carefully and made a few changes. We used a smaller bottle and only used red food colouring and unfortunately, we had used all the vegetable oil so we decided to use olive oil, which according to Diarmuid’s mom is the same apart from a minor taste difference. The first thing we did using a funnel was poor some olive oil ¾ of the way. Then in a small plastic cup we mixed a bit of water with 5 drops of food colouring and then stirred until we got a vivid red colour. We then added it into the bottle. Do you know what happened? The oil and water wouldn’t mix because they are immiscible .Then to create a lava lamp we added a couple of rubex tablets and the water and oil started to fizz up making a lava lamp which lasted for about 5 or 6 minutes. We then presented our experiments to the class. I had lots of fun doing the experiments and I think that science week 2016 will go down as one of my favourites.

By Hannah

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Science week experiments

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Science week

As part of Science week we all did experiments in our classrooms. My group did a rainbow spinner. All we needed was cardboard, a battery pack, a motor, some wires and markers. First we cut out a circle of cardboard, next we coloured it, the seven colours of the rainbow. After that we attached some wires to a battery pack and hooked them up to a motor. Then we put our rainbow spinners on to the motors. They turned a bright white colour. We then thought they weren’t going fast enough so we hooked up three battery packs to each of our spinners. They went really fast! Then Sean wanted to make them cut paper, so he cut zig zags onto his circle. He called it a chainsaw. It only cut a bit of paper. Our science experiment was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed it.

          By Emma

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Science: Odd Ooze

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Blog for Science Experiment: Odd Ooze

 

 

Last week was science week. In the senior room, we got into groups for science projects. In my group was Tara, Paul and myself. Our project was called Odd Ooze. We needed corn flour, water and food colouring for this project. You had to mix all those ingredients together in a large bowl. Let’s say you punched the substance in the bowl really hard, it would feel like punching a wall. But if you put your hand in slowly it would feel like it is a liquid. The ooze is made up of tiny, solid particles of corn suspended in water. This type of mixture is called a colloid. It behaves very strangely. I enjoyed making this substance and experimenting on it. I hope I get to do this all over again next year.

 

Toby 5th Class

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