Dates For Your Diary 2024/25

Dates For Your Diary 2024/25

The Dates For Your Diary resource is back again for its 12th consecutive year. So many teachers make use of this list while they are making plans for seasonal and related activities in the classroom during the school year. Huge thanks again to Ciara Reilly...
Book Review – Pony Camp Chaos

Book Review – Pony Camp Chaos

Grace and Aaron’s granda run a pony camp at Rowen Tree stables. Pony Camp is very competitive, with two teams competing to get the most points to win the trophy. The teams are Flying Leaps and The Gallopers, both teams play tricks on each other. Leah tries to make the...
5 Virtual Tours for the Classroom

5 Virtual Tours for the Classroom

Tours are a great way of enhancing an educational experience for pupils, but it is not always realistic or viable to bring pupils out of the classroom setting and visit a venue in person. This is where the value of technology comes into its own, allowing pupils to...
Book Review – The Tower Ghost

Book Review – The Tower Ghost

In ‘The Tower Ghost,’ set in 1963 at Sycamore Hill Boarding School in Donegal, three schoolgirls, Clare, Rose, and Molly, dive into a mystery to find out who is the ghostly girl seen in the school’s old tower. My sister always told me “If a book has a map at the...
Book Review – A Blooming Great Day

Book Review – A Blooming Great Day

Our class were delighted to be asked to review the picture book ‘A Blooming Great Day’ by Úna Woods. What made the book so special, was the fact it’s setting is around Dublin city centre, which is exactly where our school is located! The book is about a young girl...
Book Review – Puffling and the Egg

Book Review – Puffling and the Egg

This is a wonderful, engaging book with fabulous illustrations about a puffling who finds an egg and looks to find its nest; it meets some challenges such as the windy weather along the way to fulfil its quest. On its journey, it meets a variety of both land and sea...