Paper Plate Character

This is a fun visual arts lesson and the results are always interesting as the pupils can really express their imaginations. They look really well when displayed together. (.doc file 33.5) Download File… RegisterThis content is for members only Already a member?...

Symmetrical Butterfly

This is quite an easy visual arts lesson to do and the results are always interesting. Pupils of all ages can do this visual arts lesson and all pupils will experience success as there is little or no skill involved. This lesson can also be integrated with symmetry in...

Symmetrical Tree

This is quite an easy visual arts lesson to do and the results are always interesting. Pupils of all ages can do this visual arts lesson and all pupils will experience success as there is little or no skill involved. This lesson can also be integrated with symmetry in...

Symmetrical Bumble Bee

This is quite an easy visual arts lesson to do and the results are always interesting. Pupils of all ages can do this visual arts lesson and all pupils will experience success as there is little or no skill involved. This lesson can also be integrated with symmetry in...

Easter Card

Pupils like making seasonally themed cards. This Easter card has a hen on the cover. (.doc file 35KB) Download File… RegisterThis content is for members only Already a member? Log in...

Easter Silhouette 02

Seasonally religious picture representing the hanging of Jesus and the two robbers at Easter time. (.doc file 35KB) Download File… RegisterThis content is for members only Already a member? Log in...

Bubble Painting

Pupils of all ages enjoy this visual arts activity, but most especially pupils in junior classes. It is an easy lesson to do and each picture will turn out differently. (.doc file 30KB) Download File… RegisterThis content is for members only Already a member?...

Paint and Salt Picture

This is quite an easy visual arts lesson to do. The paint is squeezed straight from the bottle onto card and table salt is poured onto the wet paint until dry. (.doc file 33KB) Download File… RegisterThis content is for members only Already a member? Log in...

The Guns of Easter

It is 1916 and Europe is at war. From the poverty of the Dublin slums twelve-year-old Jimmy Conway sees it all as glorious, and loves the British Army for which his father is fighting. But when war comes to his own streets Jimmy’s loyalties are divided. The...

The Good Liar

Asked to recount his wartime experiences, the old painter Marcel looks back on a childhood touched by war but almost oblivious to its importance. Living in a small village in Occupied France during the Second World War, the child Marcel and his two older brothers René...

The Gods and their Machines

Chamus’s nightmare begins when he survives a massacre. Suicide-bombers from neighbouring Bartokhrin are terrorising his country, Altima. How do you fight someone who isn’t afraid of death? Across the border, Riadni is no ordinary Bartokhrin girl; she...

A Girl Called Blue

Larch Hill is the only home Blue knows. She arrived there just a few days old, wrapped in a blue blanket. Her one hope is to find her mother or father and have a family of her own. Fostered out several times, Blue finds it difficult to fit in. Is there no one out...

Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe)

Beverley, a bit of a snob, cooks up a plot to visit the island off the coast. She manages to convince the somewhat cautious Elizabeth and her slob of a brother, Gerard, to come along. A surprise companion is Kevin, the cool guy who works in the local shop. This motley...

Fields of Home

This is the final book in the famine trilogy. For Eily, Michael and Peggy the memory of the famine is still strong. But Mary-Brigid, Eily’s first child, has the future to look forward to. What kind of future is it? Ireland is in turmoil, with evictions,...

Féile Fever

Danny Wilde and his teammates are finding the Under-14s Division tough going. They’ve lost one of their best goal-scorers to injury and it looks like they’ll have no chance of winning the County Féile! Could Todd, the new Australian kid, be the answer to their...