by admin | Feb 23, 2016 | Book Reviews
“Let’s See Ireland” is both written and illustrated by Sarah Bowie. I really enjoyed this book. I read it with my Granny and then again with my mom. She helped me with some of the hard words like Glendalough! This book is about a girl called Molly who...
by admin | Feb 22, 2016 | 1st/2nd, AEN, Infants, Oral Work
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. Its aim is to encourage oral language, especially sentence structure. The focus is also on the concept of heavy/light. The teacher can start with the question at the...
by admin | Feb 22, 2016 | Teaching News
Voting for the election of teachers to the Teaching Council opened today, Monday, 22 February and will close at noon on Wednesday, 9 March. The election is to fill the places of 16 teachers on the 37-member Teaching Council, whose current term of office comes to an...
by admin | Feb 21, 2016 | 1st/2nd, AEN, Infants, Oral Work
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. Categorisation is an important skill for younger/SEN pupils to develop. This resource aims to develop categorisation skills as well as to encourage oral language. This...
by admin | Feb 21, 2016 | AEN, Infants, Number
This resource is aimed at pupils in infant classes or SEN pupils. Its purpose is to assess the ability of the pupil to correctly count objects, in this case, lawnmowers. The focus is on counting of numbers in the range 1-10. Laminate all of the pages in the resource....
by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Misc
The Social Democrats party was established in July 2015 by independent TDs Stephen Donnelly, Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall. All three share joint leadership of the party until after the General Election. The party is running fourteen candidates in the...
by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Interviews
Jan O’ Sullivan is the Labour Party TD for Limerick City. She was first elected to the Dáil in 1998 in a bye-election to fill the seat vacated by the death of Jim Kemmy. She has since been re-elected in three General Elections. She was appointed Minister For...
by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Interviews
Charlie Mc Conalogue is from a farming background in Gleneely in Co. Donegal. He was educated at Carndonagh Community School before going on to study at UCD where he studied Economics, Politics & History. Charlie first ran for political office in 2009, where he...
by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Interviews
Jonathan O’Brien is the Sinn Féin TD for Cork North Central. In 2011, he topped the poll in Cork North Central to become the first Sinn Féin TD in Cork in over 80 years. Before that, Jonathan was a member of Cork City Council since 2000. He is the party’s...
by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Interviews
The Green Party in Ireland doesn’t currently have any TDs., although they had six seats in the previous Dáil. They have sixteen councillors on the island of Ireland working at local government level and one MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) in Northern...
by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Elections
With the General Election imminent, the following is a list of online election resources that teachers may find helpful when explaining the workings of the democratic system in Ireland: How the Dáil Is Elected Guide To Ireland’s PR Electoral System Guide to the...
by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Teaching News
With the General Election less than a week away, it’s time to focus our minds on who to vote for, and, as teachers, which party/grouping/independent best meets the needs of Education for the next five years. While a recent opinion poll on The Journal website...
by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Elections
Between Tuesday and Friday this week a poll was taken on this website to ascertain the party voting intentions of teachers in the forthcoming General Election. This poll was anonymous and simply asked teachers which party they intended to give their No. 1 vote to....
by admin | Feb 16, 2016 | Teaching News
The General Election is just over a week away, so perhaps it’s time to get a snapshot of the voting intentions of primary teachers at this stage of the campaign. This (very unscientific!) poll is anonymous and simply asks which party you intend to give your No....
by admin | Feb 16, 2016 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, History, Oral Work
For any class doing some work on the Titanic for History or English, these flashcards would be great for a Titanic display. They contain most of the relevant vocabulary associated with the sinking of the Titanic. (.pdf file 171 KB) Download File… RegisterThis...
