Welcome to Seomra Ranga, the Hub for Primary School Resources. For the overseas visitors “Seomra Ranga” means “classroom” in the Irish language.
Seomra Ranga has been successfully providing tried and tested resources for primary school classrooms since 2007. Since that time, the site has gradually built up a strong following amongst educators as a repository of quality teacher-created resources. The resources on the site, which support all areas of the curriculum, are arranged in accordance with the curricular provisions of the Irish primary school….
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Poolbeg Press Competition
To mark the revamp of the Seomra Ranga website, we’ve teamed up with Poolbeg Press to bring you a great competition. Poolbeg has developed an impressive set of twenty fact book readers based around the theme of Irish myths and legends read more…
New Resources Preview
We’ve been busily working on the redevelopment of the site over the past few months. While that work was going on, I was curtailed from uploading new resources to the site. However, the resource creating never stopped read more…
Book Review: Sam Hannigan’s Woof Week
Sam Hannigan lives in Clobberstown with her half cracked but lovely Nanny Gigg and her horrible, mean older brother, Bruno. Sam loves Irish dancing and is amazing at it. She has a competition coming up and can’t wait for it. Her friend Ajay comes to practice with Sam. When they finish, Sam has an idea. read more…
Shop Complaints
This is the first in a new set of drama resources for the classroom. The 20 cards in the resource provide scenarios for role play/improvisation in the classroom. Each card provides a scenario for a customer making a complaint in a shop. read more…
Using Infant Books For Literacy Activities
In our SEN setting (an autism unit) we are constantly looking for inventive ways of helping pupils to learn and consolidate a basic sight vocabulary in order to allow them to access reading material.
We came across an online idea of using books designed for small babies for literacy activities read more…
UNICEF Sustainable Development Goals Resources
On 1 January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit — officially came into force. Over the next fifteen years, with these new Goals that universally apply to all read more…
Digital Age Of Consent Set At 13
After a period of public consultation which ended last December, the Cabinet last week decided that the so-called “Digital Age of Consent” in Ireland is to be set at age 13. Apparently, the decision follows a recommendation made earlier this month by the special rapporteur for child protection, Dr Geoffrey Shannon. read more…
INTO Leave App
The INTO have produced an app that will be useful for all teachers and principals to have. The app allows users to search for and find out information on their leave entitlements, whether that leave is a brief absence, extended leave or sick leave. read more…
