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 | Geography, Technology
I’ve written previous blog posts about QR Codes in the Classroom and Talking QR Codes, and talked about how they are becoming more prominent both in our daily lives and in an educational context. I recently used QR Codes with my 1st Class pupils to teach a...
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 | Feb 14, 2012 | Technology
With the approach of the beginning of February and the beginning of Spring with the celebration of Lá Fhéile Bríde, I decided to organise a Twitter Project to gather information, observations and photographs on the signs of Spring 2012. Given that this was the first...
by admin | Feb 13, 2012 | Teaching News
Last Tuesday, the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD and Minister of State for European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton TD launched a new pilot programme for primary schools which focuses on the EU, called the Blue Star Programme. The idea of the Programme is to foster better...
by admin | Feb 12, 2012 | Teaching News
The Inspectorate recently published “School Self-Evaluation: Draft Guidelines for Primary Schools”. The Guidelines are intended to support schools to engage in robust self-evaluation of teaching and learning. Its purpose is to allow schools to take the...
