by admin | Dec 5, 2009 | Resources, Website
Many thanks to all Seomra Ranga users who took the trouble to upload a resource to the website during the month of November for the Seomra Ranga / Edware Competition. Many new resources have been added to the site as a result of the competition. Some people added many...
by admin | Nov 29, 2009 | Resources, Seasonal, Website
The Christmas season is upon us again and the Christmas @ Seomra Ranga website, which was launched last year, is up and running again. It’s full of resources for the Christmas season in the classroom: religious resources, signs and posters, music and visual arts...
by admin | Nov 21, 2009 | Resources
A set of new flashcard resources on the physical geography of Ireland has just been added to the Seomra Ranga website. The resources are all in .pdf format and are in full colour similar to the example above of the mountains of Ireland resource. The following is a...
by admin | Nov 1, 2009 | Resources, Teaching News, Website
Seomra Ranga is delighted to team up with Edware Interactive Learning (http://www.edware.ie), an Irish company, to bring you a competition on the website for the month of November. Edware is sponsoring prizes of their hugely successful geography software programmes...
by admin | Nov 1, 2009 | Technology, Website
Working with IT can be frustrating sometimes! Just when everything is running along smoothly, a glitch hits the system when least expected. This is what happened to the Seomra Ranga website last week. And as Murphy’s Law would have it, the glitch happened when I...
by admin | Oct 15, 2009 | Resources, Seasonal, Technology
Check out the new Hallowe’en Wordles that have been added to the site today. They are based on Hallowe’en, Hallowe’en Food, Hallowe’en Creatures and Oíche Shamhna. Enjoy! View these resources HERE>>>>>
by admin | Oct 9, 2009 | Resources, Seasonal
A number of new Hallowe’en resources have been added to the Seomra Ranga website today. They include a set of flashcards of spooky Hallowe’en vocabulary; two new Hallowe’en themed door signs; a Hallowe’en themed writing frame; two new large and...
by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Technology, Video
What happens when you give a class of eight year olds an iPod each in school? I found out about this video through Twitter from @simonlewis. It’s amazing what educational uses iPods could be put to in a classroom. Could this ever happen in Ireland?…...
by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Website
Seomra Ranga recently celebrated its 2nd birthday. Those two years have flown by. When starting out, I never expected that the site would be so successful. September is usually a busy month for the site for obvious reasons with teachers preparing for the new school...
by admin | Sep 21, 2009 | Resources, Seasonal
Seomra Ranga is pleased to announce that it has received permission from Irish Water Safety (IWS) to include their powerpoint classroom resources on the site for teachers to download freely. These resources should be of great benefit to primary school teachers to use...
by admin | Sep 20, 2009 | Book Reviews
Published in 2008, “17 Martin Street” is a novel by Marilyn Taylor, the same author that wrote the very successful book “Faraway Home”, with which many teachers will be familiar. Having thoroughly enjoyed “Faraway Home” and used the...
by admin | Sep 14, 2009 | Book Reviews
“Anne Frank” is a picture book written by Josephine Poole and illustrated by Angela Barrett. Rather than being a picture book version of the original diary, this book tells a third hand account of the life of Anne Frank. The language used in the re-telling...
by admin | Sep 10, 2009 | Website
Lots more visitors have been visiting the site and downloading some of the free resources available on the site and in the last couple of days, the number of visitors to the site has exceeded the 300,000 mark. The site has been busy in the last couple of weeks with...
by admin | Sep 8, 2009 | Resources
Lots of new resources have been added to the site to enhance the Sacred Space area of the classroom. Firstly, there are labels for some of the items that may be found in the space: bible, cross, crucifix, prayer book, rosary beads etc. There are also some prayers in...
by admin | Sep 7, 2009 | Book Reviews, Resources
“Tom Crean’s Rabbit” by Meredith Hooper and Bert Kitchen tells a true story from Scott’s last voyage to Antarctica in 1910 on the ship called “Terra Nova”. The story is based on diaries kept by the men on the ship. The storyline is...
