by admin | Dec 11, 2014 | Teaching News, Website
Table Quizzes are a great way for pupils to learn so many different skills. They help with listening skills, team work, and the reinforcement of the learning content of that particular table quiz. They are also great at particular times of the year and allow the...
by admin | Dec 11, 2014 | Teaching News
This January over 2,700 4th, 5th and 6th class students from across the country will be at the RDS Primary Science Fair (PSF) with their class projects that answer questions such as ‘Do cows have blue eyes?’ ‘Why don’t aeroplanes fall from the sky?’ and ‘What...
by admin | Dec 8, 2014 | Resources Websites
Fit4Skool is a new, innovative online resource to increase physical activity and healthy eating in school. It will support teachers in the delivery of the P.E. curriculum by incorporating fundamental movements and skills, warm-up games, stretches and assessments. The...
by admin | Dec 4, 2014 | Teaching News
It’s that time of year again when the educational blogosphere turns its attention to the international Edublog Awards which is now in its eleventh year. Apart from Seomra Ranga (which has been nominated in three different categories), Irish blogs feature in the...
by admin | Dec 3, 2014 | Teaching News, Website
Seomra Ranga has again this year been selected as a finalist in the international Edublog Awards in three different categories: Best Individual Blog, Best Teacher Blog and Best Ed Tech/Resource Sharing Blog. The Edublog Awards were set up to promote and celebrate the...
by admin | Nov 30, 2014 | Book Reviews
This was a great book. It was hilarious because it had lots of jokes. I thought the speech bubbles were very funny. The pictures were very detailed and colourful. This would be suitable for kids aged 6 to 10. I would give it 9 out of 10. By Naoise It was a good book...
by admin | Nov 27, 2014 | Apps
Last weekend, I presented at the inaugural Donegal Teachmeet, organised by four excellent local educators. This resource is the presentation I delivered on apps suitable for working with SEN pupils. The focus was on iPad apps as it is iPads that we have in our ASD...
by admin | Nov 20, 2014 | Apps
Fuaim-U and Fuaim-C are Irish phonics apps that follows a phonic programme for children learning to read and spell in Irish. They begin with basic CVC words and progress to longer words, multisyllabic words, words with aspiration and lenition, broad and slender words...
by admin | Nov 19, 2014 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Geography, Powerpoint
This Powerpoint presentation consists of an editable geography test based on the provinces and counties of Ireland. The teacher should place the animated discs on the desired province/county before running the presentation. The position of the animated discs can be...
by admin | Nov 19, 2014 | Teaching News
This is the eleventh year of the international Edublog Awards whose aim is to “promote and demonstrate the educational values” of learner and teacher blog sites for educational purposes. Nominations are now being sought for this year’s awards. Having won the...
by admin | Nov 16, 2014 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Oral Work, Powerpoint
This is an oral language activity in a Powerpoint Presentation that can be done with pupils probably in the middle/senior classes. A pupil stands with their back to the IWB screen while another pupil faces the screen and describes to the first pupil what the object on...
by admin | Nov 15, 2014 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Reading
Pelmanism is the name of the memory game which you play by turning up pairs of cards from a pack and trying to pick out matching pairs. It is named after the Pelman Institute which was set up for the study of memory in London in the 1930s. Hinkie Pinkies is an...
by admin | Nov 12, 2014 | Teaching News
Primary schools throughout Ireland are being encouraged to take part in Rapid Online’s Young Inventors 2014 Competition in a bid to find the country’s next big inventor. Any pupil who is bursting with ideas and enthusiasm is encouraged to enter the competition by...
by admin | Nov 10, 2014 | 5th/6th, Oral Work
Getting pupils debating, even at primary school age, has great benefits and advantages. Debating enhances cognitive and language abilities and encourages pupils to be more confident in expressing their viewpoint. It requires skills in research, formulating an...
by admin | Nov 10, 2014 | 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...
