Oíche Nollag

Go raibh maith agat do Dolores Stewart don nasc seo. ‘Sé dán do chuid Máire Mhac an tSaoi atá oiriúnach don am seo den bhliain. Is féidir é a thaispeáint do na hardranganna go háirithe, ach mar sin féin, tá an dán léite as Gaeilge agus as Béarla. Bain taitneamh...
New Christmas Resources

New Christmas Resources

Lots of new Christmas resources have been added to the Christmas @ Seomra Ranga (www.christmas.seomraranga.com) website recently. These include Christmas bookmarks, some seasonal door signs, Advent Wreath flashcards, flashcards for “A Christmas Carol” by...
Seomra Ranga / Edware Competition

Seomra Ranga / Edware Competition

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...
Christmas @ Seomra Ranga

Christmas @ Seomra Ranga

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...
New Irish Geography Resources

New Irish Geography 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...
Seomra Ranga / Edware Competition

Seomra Ranga / Edware Competition

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...
Website Downtime

Website Downtime

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...
Hallowe’en Wordles

Hallowe’en Wordles

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>>>>>
New Hallowe’en Resources

New Hallowe’en Resources

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...

8 Year Olds With iPods in School

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?…...
2nd Birthday

2nd Birthday

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...
Water Safety Resources

Water Safety Resources

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...
17 Martin Street

17 Martin Street

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...
Anne Frank

Anne Frank

“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...