by admin | Mar 23, 2015 | AEN, Aistear, 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 | Mar 18, 2015 | AEN, Pegs
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or SEN pupils at the beginning of literacy work on letter recognition. Laminate all of the pages in the resource and cut up into twenty-six separate cards. Pupils should firstly look at the lower case letter at the...
by admin | Mar 18, 2015 | AEN, Pegs
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or SEN pupils at the beginning of literacy work on letter recognition. Laminate all of the pages in the resource and cut up into twenty-six separate cards. Pupils should firstly look at the capital letter at the top...
by admin | Mar 15, 2015 | AEN, Pegs
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior/middle classes or SEN pupils who are beginning to learn the names of various body parts. Laminate all of the pages in the resource and cut up into twenty-four separate cards. Pupils should try to recognise the body part in...
by admin | Mar 15, 2015 | Technology, Writing
If you run a class Twitter account, this resource may be of interest to you. It consists of three Twitter speech bubbles on an A4 page. The page could be printed out numerous times to allow pupils to compose Tweets and to display them in the classroom. This could give...
by admin | Mar 15, 2015 | AEN
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. Its aim is to encourage oral language, especially verbs, and sentence structure. The focus can also be on the pronouns he, she and they. The teacher can start with the...
by admin | Mar 12, 2015 | Technology
Although later than usual due to unforeseen circumstances, it’s time for our Signs of Spring Twitter Project 2015. This will be our 4th year of this event and it gives teachers and pupils a chance to look about and observe the signs of Spring in their...
by admin | Mar 10, 2015 | Teaching News
An inaugural Science Day for Primary Teachers will be run in parallel with the Irish Science Teachers’ Association (ISTA) Annual Conference for Second Level Science Teachers on Saturday 28th March 2015. The ISTA is a voluntary organisation run for teachers by...
by admin | Mar 6, 2015 | Resources Websites
I’m always delighted to learn of new resources websites or sites that I hadn’t heard of before – and this is especially true when such a site is to assist with the teaching of Gaeilge in schools. So when a substitute teacher in our school informed me...
by admin | Feb 9, 2015 | 1st/2nd, Infants, Number, Valentine's Day
This resource consists of the numbers 1 to 20 on red hearts to tie in with a Valentine theme in the classroom. They could be used for a display in the classroom. Alternatively, they could be used to get pupils to order them on the ground; play a “missing”...
by admin | Feb 8, 2015 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, Measures
This resource aims to assist pupils learning about timetables and time in maths. It consists of four different train timetables, each stopping at six stations. The timetables vary in difficulty – one has hourly intervals while the others have a variety of half...
by admin | Feb 8, 2015 | AEN, Infants, Valentine's Day
Getting younger pupils used to handling a scissors and cutting lines or patterns is a useful activity for fine motor skills. Pupils with special educational needs may also need some extra practice with this activity. This seasonal resource requires pupils to cut out...
by admin | Feb 7, 2015 | Technology
As it’s now February, anticipation in educational technology circles in Ireland is building towards the annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) which will be held on Saturday February 28th. The theme of this year’s...
by admin | Feb 6, 2015 | AEN, Infants, Valentine's Day
Getting younger pupils used to handling a scissors and cutting lines or patterns is a useful activity for fine motor skills. Pupils with special educational needs may also need some extra practice with this activity. This seasonal resource requires pupils to cut out...
by admin | Feb 6, 2015 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Number, Pegs
This resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils at the beginning of work on hundreds, tens and units. Laminate all of the pages in the resource and cut up into twenty separate cards. Pupils should work out the number that is represented on the...
