by admin | Sep 10, 2017 | Competitions
We’ve teamed up again with Poolbeg Press to bring you another great competition. Poolbeg has published three great historical children’s novels set around a significant period in Irish history: The Easter Rising, The War of Independence and the Civil War. The...
by admin | Sep 10, 2017 | Free
This new Days of the Week is a free resource. It features the names of the days of the week in colourful red or yellow striped callout borders. It also includes a header “Days of the Week” in a blue striped callout border. The borders are from Whimsy Clips...
by admin | Sep 10, 2017 | Miscellaneous
This set of classroom/school motivation posters is designed to create a positive atmosphere in the classroom/school and to motivate pupils to achieve and to be the best that they can be. There are two headers included in the resource: “In This Class” or “In This...
by admin | Sep 9, 2017 | Teaching News
President Michael D. Higgins today launched a new website that is being provided for children interested in learning more about their Head of State. The Children’s Section of www.president.ie is a new interactive website providing information about the role and work...
by admin | Sep 7, 2017 | 3rd/4th, AEN, Number
This resource pack is to help pupils consolidate their knowledge of skip counting facts of 3s, 6s and 9s. Skip counting is normally taught as the pre-cursor to the teaching of multiplication. This resource can either be used either as a teaching tool or as an...
by admin | Sep 7, 2017 | 1st/2nd, AEN, Infants, Oral Work
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. This resource also aims to encourage the development of oral language skills as well as listening skills. It focuses on the processing of information and the...
by admin | Sep 7, 2017 | Teaching News
The Call for Entries for the RDS Primary Science Fair 2018 is now open and will close on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. The RDS Primary Science Fair is a non-competitive exhibition which showcases primary school STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and maths)...
by admin | Sep 6, 2017 | 3rd/4th, AEN, Number
This resource pack is to help pupils consolidate their knowledge of skip counting facts of 2s, 4s and 8s. Skip counting is normally taught as the pre-cursor to the teaching of multiplication. This resource can either be used either as a teaching tool or as an...
by admin | Sep 6, 2017 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Drama-
This is the sixth in our new set of drama resources for the classroom. The 60 cards in the resource provide scenarios for role play/improvisation in the classroom. This drama game is played by three pupils at a time – one is a Listener and the other two are Speakers....
by admin | Sep 5, 2017 | Book Reviews
Tá ceithre leabhar le Isabel Thomas sa tsraith seo, foilsithe ag “An Gúm” – “Gaiscí Snámha agus Tumadóireachta”, “Gaiscí Gleacaíochta”, “Gaiscí Nirt agus Troda” agus “Gaiscí Lúthchleasaíochta”. Is leabhair fhíricí iad...
by admin | Sep 3, 2017 | Misc
This junior table quiz, with questions based on a Polar Regions theme, comprises six rounds of six questions, a tie-break round and answers to all questions on 115 Powerpoint slides. Hopefully, there is a mixture of easy enough questions and some to challenge the...
by admin | Sep 3, 2017 | 3rd/4th, Class Novel, Resource Packs
This resource Pack contains 15 different resources with 54 pages of activities based on the novel “The Giggler Treatment” by Roddy Doyle. It’s suitable for work with probably a 3rd/4th class, although I created and used these worksheets for work with pupils in our SEN...
by admin | Aug 30, 2017 | Miscellaneous
This set of classroom/school motivation posters is designed to create a positive atmosphere in the classroom/school and to motivate pupils to achieve and to be the best that they can be. There are two headers included in the resource: “In This Classroom We...
by admin | Aug 29, 2017 | 1st/2nd, Reading
Dolch words are a list of 220 “service words” developed in the 1940s by William Dolch. They consist of a series of sets of words which are considered to be vocabulary which occurs most frequently in children’s reading material. Although some of the words in the lists...
by admin | Aug 29, 2017 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Drama-
This is the fifth in our new set of drama resources for the classroom. The 20 cards in the resource provide scenarios for role play/improvisation in the classroom. Talking in Gobbledygook means speaking in a made-up language which is often characterised by use of...
