by admin | Mar 30, 2012 | Competitions
Thanks to all of the teachers and student teachers who entered our competition with O’Brien Press for a copy of “The O’Brien Book of Irish Fairy Tales and Legends” by Úna Leavy. It was a great success with 106 entries. Many thanks to O’Brien Press for sponsoring...
by admin | Mar 26, 2012 | Apps, Technology
Check out this article I wrote on Apps to Support Literacy in the Classroom for the March 2012 edition of InTouch, the INTO magazine for primary school teachers. The article mentions six different apps to support different aspects of literacy: Rory’s Story Cubes...
by admin | Mar 24, 2012 | Technology
I’ve written some other posts on this site about how we are experimenting using QR Codes in the classroom (Our School Community QR Codes, Animal Homes QR Codes, QR Codes in the Classroom). This week I decided to try to integrate our weekly spelling test for my...
by admin | Mar 23, 2012 | Competitions
Such was the success of last week’s competition, that we’re going to do another to celebrate the forthcoming Easter holidays! This time O’ Brien Press has kindly given us five copies of the new paperback edition of “The O’ Brien Book of...
by admin | Mar 22, 2012 | Guest Post
The Volunteer Projects (TVP) is a registered Irish charity, international Development NGO and volunteer-sending organisation that believes in ‘Development through Volunteerism’. We recruit and train volunteers for overseas work placements in Tanzania and Cambodia in a...
by admin | Mar 22, 2012 | Competitions
Thanks to all of the teachers and student teachers who entered our competition with O’Brien Press for a copy of “The Story of Ireland” by Brendan O’Brien. It was a great success with 121 entries. Many thanks to O’Brien Press for...
