SEED Schools Conference

SEED Schools Conference

Ireland’s first ever SEED (School Earth Education) conference on school gardens will be held in Marino Institute of Education from 10.00am to 4.15pm on Saturday 5th October 2013. School gardens are proving to be an important part of teaching an integrated range...
Protecting Primary Education

Protecting Primary Education

It’s rare on Seomra Ranga that I venture into the world of political comment as I believe that it’s not the purpose of the site and there are many other ways and other forums for people to express their views on how education is run in this country....
Little Bird’s Internet Security Adventure App

Little Bird’s Internet Security Adventure App

Little Bird’s Internet Security Adventure, is a free children’s book for iPad produced by AVG, the anti-virus software company. It is aimed at parents and teachers of young children. The book is designed to help adults initiate conversations about Internet safety in...
File Folder Fun Website

File Folder Fun Website

File Folder Fun is a great website full of lots of free resources (kinda like Seomra Ranga!) to download and print out. I hadn’t heard of it before and it was discovered by my colleague. We have just started to print out some games to use in our autism class,...
Cutting Activity 03

Cutting Activity 03

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 resource requires pupils to cut along the four...
Numbers Posters

Numbers Posters

This is a set of eleven posters with the names of the numbers zero to ten. They can be displayed as posters, but they are also designed so that they can be cut up for a matching activity. By printing two sets of these posters, you could do a matching activity where...
Cutting Activity 02

Cutting Activity 02

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 resource requires pupils to cut along the four...
Cutting Activity 01

Cutting Activity 01

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 resource requires pupils to simply cut along...
Soccer Ball Tokens

Soccer Ball Tokens

These are tokens with a soccer ball motif to be used in conjunction with Token Board 01 or Token Board 02. Some pupils with special needs, perhaps especially those with autism, will work better towards a goal when there is positive reinforcement in the form of tokens...
Robot Tokens

Robot Tokens

These are tokens with a robot motif to be used in conjunction with Token Board 01 or Token Board 02. Some pupils with special needs, perhaps especially those with autism, will work better towards a goal when there is positive reinforcement in the form of tokens earned...
Doll Tokens

Doll Tokens

These are tokens with a girl and doll motif to be used in conjunction with Token Board 01 or Token Board 02. Some pupils with special needs, perhaps especially those with autism, will work better towards a goal when there is positive reinforcement in the form of...
The Family Posters

The Family Posters

This is a set of fourteen posters with the names of different members of the family eg granny, uncle, cousins, brother etc. They can be displayed as posters, but they are also designed so that they can be cut up for a matching activity. By printing two sets of these...
At School Posters

At School Posters

This is a set of eighteen posters with the names of a selection of items found at school. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list of words pupils should know, just some of the common ones. They can be displayed as posters, but they are also designed so that they can...
Dathanna

Dathanna

San acmhainn seo tá dhá póstaeir déag. Is féidir iad a chrochadh ar an mballa nó is féidir iad a ghearradh suas chun cluiche meaitseáil a imirt. Bheadh sé seo an-oiriúnach chun ainmneacha na ndathanna a mhúineadh. (comhad .pdf 28KB) Íoslódáil an Comhad…...
Train Tokens

Train Tokens

These are tokens with a train motif to be used in conjunction with Token Board 01 or Token Board 02. Some pupils with special needs, perhaps especially those with autism, will work better towards a goal when there is positive reinforcement in the form of tokens earned...