by admin | Oct 14, 2012 | Hallowe'en, Resources Websites
Scoilnet have a selection of more than fifty themepages that cover many different curricular areas such as Italy, the Titanic, Ancient Egypt, Music in the classroom and many others. However, at this time of the year teachers will be very interested to visit the...
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 19, 2012 | Resources Websites
I just happened across the Help My Kid Learn website during the week and wondered how it came about. It seems that as part of the national literacy and numeracy strategy, the Department of Education and Skills (DES) asked the National Adult Literacy Agency to...
by admin | Jul 1, 2012 | Resources Websites
The Literacy Shed is a new website that has been online only a couple of weeks but it is getting great reviews from many in the online education community and is building up a large following. The reason is that it is providing great inspiration, ideas and...
by admin | May 15, 2012 | Resources Websites
Topicbox is an English-based website which has been around for six years, slightly longer than Seomra Ranga. However, I only recently became aware of the site through Twitter. The site provides links to free resources on the internet across a wide variety of...
by admin | May 6, 2012 | Resources Websites
Last week saw the launch of Seas Suas, a new and exciting website of special interest to primary teachers. Put together by Simon Lewis of Anseo and Nigel Lane of The Inside Lane, the website brings the writings of pupils from their own school blogs to a larger...
by admin | Apr 19, 2012 | Resources Websites
Ever think about doing some cooking with your pupils? Saucepan Kids is a new website that could give teachers lots of ideas for simple recipes that could easily be used for cooking lessons in school. The aim of the site is to get kids more involved in all aspects of...
by admin | Apr 11, 2012 | Apps, Resources Websites, Technology
Through the Zite magazine app on my iPad, I came across Teaching Appz, a new website with recommendations of mobile apps for teachers and schools. This website comes from the same website stable as Teaching News and Teaching Ideas. The site gives a short review of...
by admin | Apr 2, 2012 | Resources Websites
With the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic coinciding with the return to school after the Easter break, teachers may be planning to do some Titanic-related activities in the classroom at the beginning of the new term. A great place to start is the Scoilnet...
by admin | Feb 17, 2012 | Resources Websites
Next Wednesday, February 22nd marks the beginning of Lent 2012 and, as usual, the Trócaire charity has produced some great classroom resources to coincide with the season of Lent. Uganda is the focus of the resources this year and there are separate resources for...
by admin | Feb 17, 2012 | Resources Websites, Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., has joined Engineers Ireland in encouraging students, schools and parents to get involved in Engineers Week 2012, which will be taking place across Ireland between the 27th February and 4th March 2012. The...
by admin | Feb 16, 2012 | Resources Websites
A nice new addition to the bank of resources on the Scoilnet website is a collection of short books “as Gaeilge”. They are aimed at younger pupils in the primary school, perhaps for pupils as far as Rang III. In terms of content and presentation, the books...
by admin | Jan 31, 2012 | Guest Post, Resources Websites, Technology
This review is by a junior infant teacher, teaching in an urban primary school who wishes to remain anonymous. Spraoi Ville is a fantastic new interactive website for teaching Gaeilge in primary schools that is built in line with the national curriculum. The website...
by admin | Jan 28, 2012 | Guest Post, Resources Websites, Teaching News
Discover Primary Science and Maths is a flagship project run by the Discover Science & Engineering (DSE) awareness programme. The programme aims to develop creativity in our children, show them how important science is to our everyday lives and more importantly...
by admin | Jan 11, 2012 | 5th/6th, Gaeilge, Resources Websites
I’ve previously written a blog post about the Logainm Website, which is the national database for the placenames of Ireland. It’s an invaluable resource for research on the placenames of your locality or the locality of your school. The team at Logainm...
