Values, Money & Me Website

Values, Money & Me Website

Experian, a global information services company, has this week launched a new website aimed at educating primary school children about managing money. Piloted by teachers and pupils of Our Lady Immaculate Senior National School in Darndale for the past six...
Trócaire Lenten Resources 2014

Trócaire Lenten Resources 2014

Next Wednesday, March 5th marks the beginning of Lent 2014 and, as usual, the Trócaire charity has produced some great classroom resources to coincide with the season of Lent. “Make Every Drop Count” is the theme of the resources this year and there are separate...
Playground Markings and Traditional Games

Playground Markings and Traditional Games

A booklet called “Playground Markings and Other Traditional Games” was developed by the Health Promotion Unit of the Health Service Executive (HSE) South in 2009. It quotes a French author who says that: “It should be noted that children at play are not playing about;...
Games Booklet

Games Booklet

The Get Ireland Active website was initially developed to promote the National Physical Activity Guidelines. The site has been further developed to become a one-stop shop for physical activity information. The aim of the website is to encourage people to become more...
Energy in Education

Energy in Education

The Energy in Education website is one of a range of supports developed by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) in collaboration with the Department of Education and Skills (DES) designed to help school boards of management, principals, teachers,...
Just Teach It Website

Just Teach It Website

Just Teach It is another website with downloadable resources for primary schools which I only recently came across. Based on the UK curriculum, the website says that it has over 1,000 resources which are arranged on the site according to theme, Early Years, KS1 and...