by admin | Aug 14, 2017 | Early Maths, Infants
The resource is to help younger pupils to consolidate the concept of colour by getting them to sort according to four colours using these mats. There are three groups of sorting mats in this resource: * Six mats where pupils have to sort by colour only * Six mats...
by admin | Aug 12, 2017 | 1st/2nd, Class Novel, Infants, Resource Packs
This resource Pack contains 14 different resources with 100 pages of activities based on the picture book “Tom Crean’s Rabbit”. It’s suitable for work with probably a 1st/2nd class. “Tom Crean’s Rabbit” by Meredith Hooper and Bert Kitchen tells...
by admin | Aug 11, 2017 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, English, Writing
This resource contains a set of nine posters for the classroom wall to explain the main types of Writing Genres that pupils should have experience of. It contains posters for seven main writing genres: Narrative, Recount, Procedural, Report, Explanation, Persuasive...
by admin | Aug 10, 2017 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, Bingo, Infants, PE
This resource combines a PE lesson with a traditional game of bingo, but it is really active and is played in teams. The resource contains four sets of four games to play during a PE lesson. It is suggested that, in order to make this resource last in a PE setting,...
by admin | Aug 10, 2017 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Scríbhneoireacht
Sa chomhad seo tá foclóir ag baint leis an Tuath. Tá an foclóir go léir ar aon bhileog amháin. Bheadh sé oiriúnach do dhaltaí a bhéas ag déanamh scríbhneoireacht cruthaitheach sa seomra ranga faoi turas faoin tuath. Tá cóip lán daite agus tá cóip atá dubh/bán, cibé...
by admin | Aug 10, 2017 | Competitions
To mark the revamp of the Seomra Ranga website, we’ve teamed up with Poolbeg Press to bring you a great competition. Poolbeg has developed an impressive set of twenty fact book readers based around the theme of Irish myths and legends. They call the series...
by admin | Aug 10, 2017 | Website
We’ve been busily working on the redevelopment of the site over the past few months. While that work was going on, I was curtailed from uploading new resources to the site. However, the resource creating never stopped and there are lots of new resources coming...
by admin | Aug 9, 2017 | Book Reviews
Sam Hannigan lives in Clobberstown with her half cracked but lovely Nanny Gigg and her horrible, mean older brother, Bruno. Sam loves Irish dancing and is amazing at it. She has a competition coming up and can’t wait for it. Her friend Ajay comes to practice with Sam....
by admin | Aug 9, 2017 | Free
This is the first in a new set of drama resources for the classroom. The 20 cards in the resource provide scenarios for role play/improvisation in the classroom. Each card provides a scenario for a customer making a complaint in a shop. The role play could involve...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Teaching News
In our SEN setting (an autism unit) we are constantly looking for inventive ways of helping pupils to learn and consolidate a basic sight vocabulary in order to allow them to access reading material. We came across an online idea of using books designed for small...
by admin | Aug 3, 2017 | Resources Websites
On 1 January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit — officially came into force. Over the next fifteen years, with these new Goals that...
by admin | Aug 3, 2017 | Technology
After a period of public consultation which ended last December, the Cabinet last week decided that the so-called “Digital Age of Consent” in Ireland is to be set at age 13. Apparently, the decision follows a recommendation made earlier this month by the...
by admin | Jul 15, 2017 | Apps
The INTO have produced an app that will be useful for all teachers and principals to have. The app allows users to search for and find out information on their leave entitlements, whether that leave is a brief absence, extended leave or sick leave. Under the...
by admin | Jul 10, 2017 | Teaching News
I came across this lovely idea on a visit to a local park today – it had a “Free Wee Library”. Almost like a bird house, it has a slate roof and a door with a window. Inside, it contains books for children and adults which have been supplied by the...
by admin | Jul 9, 2017 | Resources, Website
While we have been busy in the background for the past few months working on the revamp of the website, I’ve also been busily creating lots of new resources for the site. One area which I identified as needing some new resources was the area of drama. This is...
