by admin | Apr 17, 2014 | Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., has announced that all primary schools who currently operate a school book rental scheme will be able to benefit from the €15 million School Book Rental Scheme Fund which he secured as part of Budget 2014. Last...
by admin | Apr 16, 2014 | Teaching News, Technology
The inaugural Tech Week takes place from Sunday April 27th to Saturday May 3rd. It is a festival of technology that will give pupils, parents and the public hands on opportunities (both in and out of the school setting) to learn about 3rd-level and career options in...
by admin | Apr 10, 2014 | Teaching News
The Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST) have organised a conference entitled “Literacy Teaching and Learning – Bringing It All Together” on Saturday June 7th. With Keynote Speakers Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin, the conference will...
by admin | Apr 10, 2014 | Teaching News, Technology
The week after the Easter break (April 28th to May 2nd) sees the arrival of our 4th annual Digital Art Week. This gives primary school children around Ireland the opportunity to share their digital art with other children around the country and complete some fun...
by admin | Apr 7, 2014 | Teaching News
RTE’s Fair City teen star Niamh Quirke is supporting Childline’s campaign ‘Stay Silent So Children Can Be Heard’, in a bid to encourage the nation to hold a sponsored silence on Friday May 2nd to help Childline make the leap from a traditional phone listening service...
by admin | Apr 4, 2014 | Teaching News
Buzzing with Books, a conference to celebrate children’s engagement with literature, will take place on May 22nd and 23rd in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. The conference promises to be of particular benefit and interest for primary school teachers, as a...
by admin | Feb 21, 2014 | Teaching News
The Computer in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) is gearing up for its eagerly anticipated annual conference next weekend. The theme of this year’s conference is “Spark The Imagination” and attendees will be spoiled for choice with forty presentations, eight...
by admin | Feb 15, 2014 | Guest Post, Teaching News, Technology
CLiC News (Computer Learning in Communities) is a project run out of Dublin Institute of Technology’s School of Media which aims to bring the very latest news to primary school children, written and produced with the needs and interests of that audience in mind. The...
by admin | Feb 13, 2014 | Teaching News
The first ever Teachmeet Primary East will be an opportunity for inspirational educators to meet and share good practice, practical ideas and personal insights into primary education. A Teachmeet is an organised (but informal) meeting where participants are offered a...
by admin | Feb 2, 2014 | Teaching News
MATHletes Challenge 2014 is an online and in-person maths competition which uses the Khan Academy website to give thousands of students across Ireland the chance to compete with each other, and improve their maths abilities. It includes a Student Challenge and a...
by admin | Jan 29, 2014 | Teaching News
Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI), in association with Scoilnet Maps, have announced a competition for primary schools called “Map My School”. Aimed at senior classes in primary schools (4th-6th classes), the Map My School competition sets out to bring map...
by admin | Jan 29, 2014 | Teaching News
The Irish Primary PE Association (IPPEA) will hold its annual conference on Saturday March 1st in Carlingford Adventure Centre. The theme of this year’s conference is “Out and About” and a variety of workshops are planned for the day to get participants moving. A...
by admin | Jan 9, 2014 | Teaching News
The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) has said that the new Book Rental Scheme, as proposed by Minister for Education and Skills Ruairí Quinn, is penalising schools that have struggled and made sacrifices to set up book rental schemes in the past. The...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, plans to shortly amend legislation to give extra powers to the Teaching Council to deal with what is referred to as “poor and under-performing teachers”. At present, a teacher has to be deemed “unfit to...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | Teaching News
Two teachers or five SNAs – that could be one of the choices facing principals in the future if proposals by Public Spending Minister, Brendan Howlin ever come to fruition. It seems that the minister has plans to devolve funding to schools themselves and allow...
