O’ Brien Press Book Competition

by admin on 17/06/2013

O'Brien Press Book HamperThe O’Brien Press, which has an extensive catalogue of children’s books as well as many books of general interest, recently launched its new website. It features a new layout which includes an easy navigation, author profiles, book extracts, reviews, previews and associated teaching resources.

To celebrate the launch of the new website, O’ Brien Press has kindly given visitors to Seomra Ranga a chance to win a great hamper of books for a school or class library.  [click to continue…]

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Blog Awards Ireland 2013

by admin on 15/06/2013

Blog Awards IrelandBlog Awards Ireland will bring together the Irish online community collaborating in a single event in October 2013 to celebrate blogging in Ireland. The event celebrates the best in Irish blogging by creating 31 categories which offer plenty of scope for bloggers. Nominations are now open for the 2013 event which will take place in the Osprey Hotel in Naas, Co. Kildare on Saturday 12th October 2013.  The closing date for nominating a blog is July 31st. [click to continue…]

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Teaching CouncilI wrote back in April on this website about Droichead, the proposed new pilot project for induction and probation of Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) developed by the Teaching Council. The proposed pilot project was due to take place in in the seven counties which traditionally attracted the highest number of NQTs (Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Kildare, Meath and Wexford). Across these counties, the Council proposed to involve approximately 200 primary and 100 post primary schools in the pilot project. [click to continue…]

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Smarty Cat Games Competition

by admin on 10/06/2013

Smarty Cat GamesSmarty Cat Games is a new Gaeilge resource which consists of ten games covering each of the ten themes of Curaclam na Gaeilge (Mé Féin, Sa Bhaile, Ar Scoil, Bia, Teilifís, Siopadóireacht, Caitheamh Aimsire, Éadaí, An Aimsir, Ócáidí Speisialta). The games are packaged as a suite of ten and come in an easy to store plastic transparent box. ‘Cluichí Gaeilge’ is all about making learning Irish fun, interactive and enjoyable for children! [click to continue…]

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Adam Up Website

by admin on 09/06/2013

Adam UpJust today I got a follow on Twitter from the Adam Up website crew. Having never heard of the website before, I decided to have a look at their website. Adam Up is the creation of James Summerfield and Samuel Kordan. It consists of a series of songs to help pupils to learn aspects of the mathematics curriculum [click to continue…]

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Seomra Ranga Named in 50 Must Read IT Blogs 2013

June 5, 2013

Seomra Ranga has been named by Ed Tech Magazine as one of their 50 Must Read K-12 IT Blogs for 2013. They remarked that these 50 blogs are deemed to be “must reads for the K-12 community” and acclaims them as “some of the best and brightest voices in education technology”. It continues:

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2014 Primary Science Fair

June 5, 2013

Are you looking for a unique way to integrate science and maths in your classroom? As the school year comes to an end, the people at the RDS Primary Science Fair are looking forward to what’s coming up next term. If you’ve ever thought about entering the RDS Primary Science Fair, now is the time you need to [...]

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Interview With Dr. Seán Rowland, President, Hibernia College (Part 2)

June 4, 2013

This is the second instalment of the interview conducted with Dr. Seán Rowland, President, Hibernia College. Seomra Ranga would like to thank Dr. Seán Rowland for unreservedly accepting the invitation to partake in the interview series on the website. He accepted the invitation without hesitation and did not request any subject area to be out [...]

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Interview With Dr.Seán Rowland, President, Hibernia College (Part 1)

May 27, 2013

Dr. Seán Rowland, was born in Castlebar, County Mayo. Having attended St. Patrick’s College in Dublin, he taught at primary school level for five years before travelling to the US to attend Boston College. Here he was awarded a Masters Degree in Curriculum, Instruction and Administration. He then pursued and completed his Ph.D. in Curriculum [...]

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Guest Post: Autistic and Proud

May 26, 2013

I just came across this blog, Autistic and Proud, in the past few months and have been eagerly reading all the articles since. In my opinion, the blog is unique in that it is written by Fionn Hamill, a twelve year old boy with Aspergers (“aspies” as he regularly refers to himself in a mildly [...]

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Voki

May 25, 2013

I introduced my gang to Voki yesterday. I hadn’t really used it before and thought that it was high time we tried it out to see what curricular possibilities it could have. Voki is a website that allows the pupil to create a customised avatar. There are many options to personalise the avatar that will [...]

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Safe Cross Code Dance

May 20, 2013

If you are teaching Road Safety lessons in SPHE, you might like to teach the Safe Cross Code song and dance. I think kids might enjoy this!

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Mystery Math Town App Competition

May 20, 2013

Mystery Math Town is a newly-released maths app for iPad from Art Gig Apps, the same company that released Shake a Phrase. Filled with great graphics and moody background music, this app will take pupils on an adventure through the houses of a Gothic-looking town where they will practise their maths skills on an almost incidental level. [...]

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The Circle Bookmarks

May 18, 2013

This is a handy, bookmark-sized, resource for pupils who are learning about the circle in maths. It explains the terminology radius, diameter, area, circumference, arc and sector. There are two bookmarks per page. If you find that the bookmarks are too large, set your printer preferences to print two to a page. (.pdf file 5.84KB)

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Averages Bookmarks

May 18, 2013

This is a handy, bookmark-sized, resource for pupils who are learning about averages. It explains the terminology mean, median, mode and range. There are two bookmarks per page. If you find that the bookmarks are too large, set your printer preferences to print two to a page. (.pdf file 5.84KB)

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