by admin | Jan 24, 2013 | Guest Post
My Role as Ombudsman for Children In December 2003, following an open and innovative recruitment process in which children and young people played a significant role, I was appointed Ireland’s first Ombudsman for Children by President Mary Mc Aleese. In December 2009,...
by admin | Jan 23, 2013 | Competitions
Many thanks to all of the teachers who entered our competition with The Book Shed for prizes of Usborne books. It was a great success. Many thanks to Luci Grimes from The Book Shed for sponsoring the prizes. Most people found the questions quite easy, but just to...
by admin | Jan 14, 2013 | Competitions
The Book Shed have given us five great books as prizes for the first competition on the site for the new year. The Book Shed specialises in Usborne books which are of a high quality. The Book Shed also organise school book fairs and sponsored reads to help schools get...
by admin | Jan 13, 2013 | Bibliography, Book Reviews
“Rabhlaí Rabhlaí” is a collection of 31 traditional poems and rhymes “as Gaeilge”, a copy of which should be in every primary school in the country. It is especially suitable to be used in junior classes. Pupils in these classes will...
by admin | Jan 13, 2013 | Teaching News
For those teachers whose renewal of registration with the Teaching Council is due in January 2013, the good news is that the registration fee has been reduced from €90 to €65, a reduction of €25 or 28%. This fee reduction only applies to those registrations which fall...
by admin | Jan 7, 2013 | Teaching News, Website
Popular UK educational website Teaching News has selected Seomra Ranga as the first in its new series for the new year of “Brilliant Blogger of the Week”. Naturally, I’m delighted and honoured to be selected as the inaugural recipient of this weekly...
