by admin | Sep 24, 2023 | Autumn
This resource contains a 25-page seasonal booklet aimed at the development of fine motor skills in younger pupils. Pupils have to trace the Autumn leaves and then colour them. It gives pupils lots of opportunities to practise fine motor and colouring skills. There are...
by admin | Sep 23, 2023 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts
It’s funny how sometimes the easiest Visual Arts lesson turns out to be the most effective! Each time I did this lesson with whatever age group I was teaching, it was invariably one of the most popular lessons. It’s also interesting to get the pupils to give their...
by admin | Sep 23, 2023 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts
This Visual Arts lesson combines a “taking a line for a walk” lesson with wax crayons and paint. In a three-step lesson, pupils firstly create a wax crayon design. This is then completely covered in thick black paint. A pattern is then scratched out of the black paint...
by admin | Sep 22, 2023 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts
These two visual arts lessons are aimed to be integrated with a unit of work on the artist Pablo Picasso. The class should look at the life and artistic works of this Spanish artist, focusing especially on his Cubist style of paintings and the Rose and Blue Periods of...
by admin | Sep 22, 2023 | Book Reviews
This is a magical adventure story for young kids to enjoy. The main plot is to trace or find the stolen pirate ship. The story begins by introducing the main characters Lottie, Mia, Finn and Biscuit the dog. Like all children, they enjoy playing together and allowing...
by admin | Sep 20, 2023 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Labhairt, Scríbhneoireacht
This resource is intended to support the theme of “An Teilifís” in the classroom. It has display resources for a variety of different television programmes as well as resources to support the development of oral language and written work on the theme of...
by admin | Sep 20, 2023 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Visual Arts
This lesson can be used as part of the Print Strand of the Visual Arts curriculum. It can also be integrated with the theme of symmetry in maths as it shows in a very visual way this mathematical concept. It uses paint poured straight from the bottle so there is no...
by admin | Sep 19, 2023 | 1st/2nd, AEN, English, Infants, Resource Packs
This Colour Red Resource Pack is intended to support a topic of work on the colour Red in junior classes. It contains 17 different files with over 200 pages of resource material. The pack contains resources for display in the classroom as well as lots of activities...
by admin | Sep 15, 2023 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts
This lesson can be used as part of the Print Strand of the Visual Arts curriculum. It can also be integrated with the theme of symmetry in maths as it shows in a very visual way this mathematical concept. It also uses a very common item to produce symmetrical prints...
by admin | Sep 15, 2023 | Technology
Have you ever tried doing some Digital Art with your pupils? I originally came across the Weave Silk website ten years ago when it was recommended on Twitter by the late, great Bianca Ní Ghrógáin, who was always a mine full of the greatest digital ideas. I’ve...
by admin | Sep 15, 2023 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Powerpoint, Reading
This PPTX resource is aimed at pupils in first to third classes or SEN pupils. Its purpose is to assist with the understanding of both sentence structure, comprehension and reading for meaning. These sentences are made up of six words. There are 25 different sentences...
by admin | Sep 14, 2023 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Visual Arts
This is a really simple and easy art lesson to do, yet it is one which pupils of any age will enjoy. It focuses on the pattern of the shoes that they are wearing in school and trying to recreate that pattern onto a shoe print. A class full of these shoe prints makes...
by admin | Sep 14, 2023 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Visual Arts
If you are not using that salad spinner at the back of the kitchen press any more, bring it in to school to make a great piece of visual art. All you need to create this effective piece of art is the salad spinner, paper plates and paint, it’s that easy. This visual...
by admin | Sep 13, 2023 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts
This Visual Arts resource contains two simple, yet effective, line drawings, creating a pattern which can be coloured using any art medium that you wish, eg. crayons, markers, colouring pencils or paint. They mimic rays coming out from quarter suns. The focus of both...
by admin | Sep 13, 2023 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Foghraíocht, Léitheoireacht, Litriú, Scríbhneoireacht
This phonics display resource consists of posters drawing pupils’ attention to word patterns in Gaeilge to help with spelling and written work. Twelve different phonics patterns are included in the resource. Each pattern has two posters, one with a large image and a...
