by admin | Oct 13, 2012 | Teaching News
With the present focus on literacy and numeracy, it is timely that the Association of Teachers’/Education Centres of Ireland (ATECI) have organised a conference with a focus on Numeracy. The conference entitled ‘Does It All Add Up?’ takes place in...
by admin | Oct 10, 2012 | Technology
The first week of October saw us take part in our first “Signs of Autumn” Twitter Project. We had done a successful project on the Signs of Spring earlier in the year, so, through Twitter one night, Mary Jo Bell suggested to me that we should organise a...
by admin | Oct 5, 2012 | Guest Post
Teaching in Ireland in the 21st Century – a Road Map for Enhanced Professionalism Long before the Teaching Council was established in 2006, many in the education sector had called for regulation of the profession. They saw the establishment of a teaching council as a...
by admin | Oct 4, 2012 | Competitions
Many thanks to all of the teachers who entered our competition with Veritas for a copy of “Preparing for First Reconciliation – A Guide for Families” by Elaine Mahon. It was a great success. Many thanks to Veritas for sponsoring the prizes. Most people found the...
by admin | Oct 4, 2012 | Teaching News
Tomorrow, October 5th, is World Teachers’ Day. Held annually on October 5th since 1994, it was created by UNESCO to celebrate teachers worldwide. Its aim is to mobilise support for teachers and to ensure that the needs of future generations will continue to be...
by admin | Oct 2, 2012 | Technology
The Computer in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) started a conference format some years ago based on “Teachmeets” which were happening in other countries. The format is great because it is less intimidating, less formal and very relaxed. They consist of...
by admin | Oct 2, 2012 | Book Reviews
Secrets and Shadows by Brian Gallagher is set during World War Two. Barry Malone is a twelve year old boy from Liverpool, sent to Dublin by his mother after the Luftwaffe air-raid in 1941. There he meets Grace Ryan – an outgoing adventurous Dublin girl forced to...
by admin | Oct 2, 2012 | Technology
Because I’ve recently helped to develop our new school website, I’ve been having a look at a lots of other school websites and getting ideas from them. However, one thing that concerns me is that teachers/schools need to be a little more cautious about...
by admin | Oct 1, 2012 | Competitions
After the success of last week’s competition, Veritas have kindly decided to sponsor another one! They have given us five copies of another new addition to their catalogue, “Preparing for First Reconciliation – A Guide for Families”. Written...
by admin | Sep 30, 2012 | Resources Websites, Teaching News
The Tree Council of Ireland, supported by Tetra Pak, is delighted to launch Tree Day 2012 themed “If Trees Could Talk…”, which will take place on Thursday 11th October. Trees, especially old trees, have many intriguing tales to tell of times past. On Tree Day, schools...
by admin | Sep 30, 2012 | Technology, Technology
This is the fourth of David Ganly’s ICT in the Classroom eBulletins. David teaches in Donabate Community College and he says that the eBulletin started off as an idea he had to engage and encourage teachers in his school to use ICT in the classroom. After putting the...
by admin | Sep 30, 2012 | Book Reviews
“The Demon Notebook”, published by O’ Brien Press, is the first book written by author Erika McGann. The book is about five girls who want to be witches. They try to cast spells but they never work until one day, after using a Ouija board, one of the girls...
by admin | Sep 27, 2012 | Teaching News, Technology
I’ve come across a few articles on the internet in the past week or so about a new font devised specifically to help pupils with Dyslexia. The font, called Open Dyslexic, apparently uses a device in which the bottoms of characters are weighted. Curiously some...
by admin | Sep 27, 2012 | Free
This resource provides a chapter by chapter list of questions for the Jacqueline Wilson novel “Mark Spark in the Dark”, a novel about a boy who is scared of the dark, but when he thinks his Great Gran is in trouble, nothing is going to stop him coming to her...
by admin | Sep 27, 2012 | Competitions
Many thanks to all of the teachers who entered our competition with Veritas for a copy of “Prayer Assemblies for Primary Schools” by Maurice Harmon and Elaine Mahon. It was a great success. Many thanks to Veritas for sponsoring the prizes. Most people found the...
