by admin | Jan 6, 2014 | AEN, Infants
This resource is geared towards pupils in junior classes and SEN pupils to assist with visual discrimination and oral language skills. Pupils are asked to work out which picture is different in each row and in what way it is different. The page could be laminated to...
by admin | Jan 6, 2014 | AEN, Infants
This resource is geared towards pupils in junior classes and SEN pupils to assist with visual discrimination and oral language skills. Pupils are asked to work out which picture is different in each row and in what way it is different. The page could be laminated to...
by admin | Jan 6, 2014 | AEN, Infants, Reading
This resource is geared towards younger pupils and SEN pupils. It is to be used to reinforce alphabetical order. Page 1 has a complete set of the capital letters of the alphabet. The following eight pages have an alphabet grid with many of the letters missing. The...
by admin | Jan 6, 2014 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Science
This link is an interactive guide to the structure of both the inner and outer human eye. If you hover over any of the various “i” information buttons on the diagram, the name of that part of the eye appears and an explanation about it appears at the...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, plans to shortly amend legislation to give extra powers to the Teaching Council to deal with what is referred to as “poor and under-performing teachers”. At present, a teacher has to be deemed “unfit to...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | Teaching News
Two teachers or five SNAs – that could be one of the choices facing principals in the future if proposals by Public Spending Minister, Brendan Howlin ever come to fruition. It seems that the minister has plans to devolve funding to schools themselves and allow...
by admin | Jan 2, 2014 | Teaching News
Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act 2011 will finally come into effect on January 28th this year. After many delays, Minister Ruairí Quinn finally signed the commencement order for this part of the Act on November 1st 2013, meaning that Section 30 is legally...
by admin | Dec 31, 2013 | Website
As we come to the end of another calendar year and say goodbye to 2013, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of the visitors and supporters of the Seomra Ranga website a Happy New Year and wish you all the best for 2014. Many thanks for your constant...
by admin | Dec 28, 2013 | Teaching News
Now into its seventh year, Seomra Ranga has attempted to keep teachers up to date throughout the year with issues pertaining to the world of education in Ireland, with a special emphasis on primary education. The following is a month-by-month summary of some of the...
by admin | Dec 28, 2013 | Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, has announced an allocation of €15 million towards the next phase of the Prefab Replacement Scheme for 2014. It is estimated that over 2,600 pupils in primary and second level schools around the country will move...
by admin | Dec 17, 2013 | 1st/2nd, AEN, Infants, Reading
These sentence builder activities are great for infant pupils as well as pupils with learning difficulties or special educational needs. They help to develop vocabulary, sentence structure and left to right orientation. They feature “Where is the ____” questions to...
by admin | Dec 16, 2013 | AEN, Early Maths, Infants, Number
This resource is geared towards younger pupils and SEN pupils. It is to be used to reinforce number order for numbers 1-10. Page 1 has a complete set of the numbers 1-10. The following six pages have a number grid with some of the numbers missing. The last page has a...
by admin | Dec 11, 2013 | History, Video
With the funeral of the world-famous Nelson Mandela taking place this weekend, I’ve just come across this four part animated video on the Life and Times of Nelson Mandela, created by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. It is suitable for senior classes and it deals...
by admin | Dec 11, 2013 | AEN, Early Maths, Infants, Number
This resource is geared towards younger pupils and SEN pupils. It is to be used to reinforce number order for numbers 1-5. Page 1 has a complete set of the numbers 1-5. The following five pages have a number grid with some of the numbers missing. The last page has a...
by admin | Dec 11, 2013 | 1st/2nd, AEN, Infants, Reading
This resource is geared towards younger pupils and SEN pupils. It is to be used to reinforce alphabetical order. Page 1 has a complete set of the letters of the alphabet. The following seven pages have an alphabet grid with many of the letters missing. The last page...
