by admin | Apr 15, 2024 | Book Reviews
This is a wonderful, engaging book with fabulous illustrations about a puffling who finds an egg and looks to find its nest; it meets some challenges such as the windy weather along the way to fulfil its quest. On its journey, it meets a variety of both land and sea...
by admin | Apr 8, 2024 | Resources Websites
I Am An Artist is a website set up many years ago to support primary teachers in the delivery of the Visual Arts curriculum in the classroom. The website is certainly worth a visit for teachers to gain a better insight and overview of the Visual Arts curriculum and to...
by admin | Mar 26, 2024 | Teaching News
A nationwide campaign has been launched to get Irish primary schools involved in the “Our Shoes” Appeal. The campaign aims to get pupils to collect their pre-loved shoes/boots/runners and donate them to needy children in townships in South Africa. The mission of the...
by admin | Mar 25, 2024 | Book Reviews
“In Between Worlds” by Nicola Pierce is a book set during the famine in Ireland. Maggie is the main character, and she tells the story as an old woman living in Australia. She is from a village in Cork and she travelled to a workhouse and then to Australia. Most of...
by admin | Feb 29, 2024 | Book Reviews
We were delighted in our class to be given the chance to review such a beautiful book. “Tread Softly, Classic Irish Poems for Children” gathers some of Ireland’s most cherished poems in this anthology. Beautiful illustrations by Erin Brown bring these poems to life....
by admin | Feb 29, 2024 | Book Reviews
Having read Paddy Donnelly’s book “Fox and Son Tailers” and loving it, the Junior room in Castleplunkett NS jumped at the opportunity to read and review “The Golden Hare” for Seomra Ranga, and we were not disappointed! Meara and her Granddad head out on a quest in...
