by admin | Dec 22, 2016 | Book Reviews
The Story The book is set in Glensinna, a place inhabited by red foxes only. They have all heard about the legend of Sionnach the Great White fox which is said to have looked after the land in times of great danger and lived in the Valley of Gleann an tSionnaigh (the...
by admin | Dec 20, 2016 | Apps, Technology
Twitter purchased the live video streaming app Periscope for a sizeable sum in early 2015, before it had even been officially launched. Periscope, another social media application, allows users to tell their news via live streaming of video. In the past week, Twitter...
by admin | Dec 16, 2016 | Apps, Technology
Adobe Spark is a free web and iOS mobile app for the creation of images, animated videos and web pages. With little skill involved, the app allows the user to create professional-looking content that can be shared online or through social networks. The app is template...
by admin | Dec 15, 2016 | Teaching News
Music Generation Sligo, in collaboration with the Centre for Special Educational Needs Inclusion and Diversity (CSENID) in St. Angela’s College, Sligo, have developed a music resource for teachers working with pupils with ASD. Launched at a recent seminar in St....
by admin | Dec 11, 2016 | Teaching News, Technology
After the unexpected success of the Hallowe’en Twitter Project, where so many schools Tweeted about what they were doing in their classrooms on the theme of Hallowe’en, I immediately thought that such a Twitter project would be great to do at Christmas....
by admin | Dec 11, 2016 | Apps, Technology
Seesaw is an app for the development of student digital portfolios. It allows the teacher to set up “journals” for each of the pupils in the class. The pupil can then upload their work to their journal in the form of photos, videos, drawings, text, PDFs...
by admin | Nov 26, 2016 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Number
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior/middle classes or SEN pupils. Its aim is to help pupils who are beginning to learn addition tables. It could also be used as an assessment tool for addition tables. There are thirteen cards for pupils to Make 12. Laminate all...
by admin | Nov 26, 2016 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Data, Pegs
This peg maths resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils. It is based on the pupil’s ability to read a bar chart. It consists of a bar chart of “Favourite Ball Sports In Our Class”, followed by sixteen question cards based on the graph. The pupil...
by admin | Nov 26, 2016 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Measures, Pegs
This peg maths resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils. It is based on the pupil’s ability to read the calendar. It contains a one-month calendar for a November, followed by twelve question cards based on the calendar. The pupil reads the question...
by admin | Nov 20, 2016 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Reading, Writing
This literacy resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils. It is made up of cloze sentences with one word missing in the middle. The missing words are all verbs. The pack contains a base board, the missing words and sixteen sentence strips. The pupil...
by admin | Nov 20, 2016 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Number
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior/middle classes or SEN pupils. Its aim is to help pupils who are working on basic number to consolidate their skills in the area. There are eighteen number sentences which pupils have to sort out into ones that are greater...
by admin | Nov 20, 2016 | 1st/2nd, AEN, Number
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior/middle classes or SEN pupils. Its aim is to help pupils who are working on basic number to consolidate their skills in the area. There are eighteen number sentences which pupils have to sort out into ones that are greater...
by admin | Nov 19, 2016 | 1st/2nd, AEN, Infants, Pegs, Reading
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior/middle classes or SEN pupils. Its aim is to help pupils who are beginning to learn the colour words. There are eight cards, each with the word of one colour and four coloured circles as answer options. Laminate both pages in...
by admin | Nov 16, 2016 | Apps
Tá Aip nua spleodrach thaitneamhach ar fáil anois ar Sheinnteoir Cúla4. Cruthaíodh agus leagadh amach go speisialta í chun ábhar mealltach, spraíúil Gaeilge a chur ar fáil do dhaoine óga. Tá ábhar Cúla4 le fáil uirthi agus déantar an t-ábhar a nuashonrú gach lá. Tá...
by admin | Nov 16, 2016 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Powerpoint, Reading
This presentation explains what pangrams are (sentences using each of the 26 letters of the alphabet at least once); why they are important/interesting; who uses them; what a perfect pangram is; lots of examples of pangrams. At the end of the presentation, there is...
