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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Comórtas “Saol Faoi Shráid”
I previously wrote a blog post about “Saol Faoi Shráid” an animated children’s TV series created by Meangadh Fibín for TG4. The series is aimed at 3-6 year olds and follows the adventures of brother and sister duo, Glibín & Ribín, aliens from the centre of the earth.
A book based on the same series, “Saol Faoi Shráid – An Giotar Nua”, was launched at the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children in Galway last October. The book can be bought in a small and larger format read more…
Book Review: Rugby Flyer
This is the fourth book in the series. If you’ve read ‘Rugby Spirit’, ‘Rugby Warrior’ or ‘Rugby Rebel’ then I’m sure you will love this book as well. But rest assured you do not need to read the others to enjoy Rugby Flyer. Rugby Flyer is a book all about rugby.
In this series, this was the first one I read. If you don’t know the basics of rugby but still want to read it (like me) then I think you would still love it as I did. It’s just that in the match you might not understand what’s happening at all. This book isn’t about the matches but more about rivalry, characters, ghosts and Irish history. read more…
Cupcake Number Strips
This resource is aimed at pupils in infants/first classes or SEN pupils. Its purpose is to assess the ability of the pupil to correctly count objects, in this case, cupcakes. The focus is on numbers 6-15 so that the pupil has experience of bridging a ten when counting.
Laminate all of the pages in the resource. Cut out the ten number strips, the two blank answer strips and the yellow answer boxes. Place velcro in each of the answers boxes on the right of each number strip
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Pizza Vocabulary Matching
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or SEN pupils with speech and language difficulties. It assumes an ability to read. The pizza vocabulary would also need to be taught in advance. Its aim is to assess whether pupils can match the pizza-related words with the appropriate images.
Laminate all of the pages in the resource. Cut up the images into 12 separate cards. Cut up the pizza vocabulary on page 3.
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Station Signs
Lots of schools have recently been adopting Station Teaching as a methodology for the teaching of either literacy or numeracy. An example of types of stations for literacy stations in a classroom would be: spelling station; phonics station; creative writing station; grammar station; word puzzles station; reading station.
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Dolch Loop Cards 07
Dolch words are a list of 220 “service words” developed in the 1940s by William Dolch. They consist of a series of sets of words which are considered to be vocabulary which occurs most frequently in children’s reading material. Although some of the words in the lists can be sounded out phonetically, they really should be memorised as “sight words”.
These Loop Cards (sometimes called “Follow Me Cards) are based on Dolch Word List 7. They follow the format “I have …. / Who has ….” and they are aimed at helping pupils to memorise the Dolch list they are learning in a fun
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Rugby Vocabulary
It’s Six Nations season again and this resource consists of sixteen pages of flashcards with rugby vocabulary. There are three flashcards per page in an oval shape and in the green of Ireland! The pack also contains a display header.
The vocabulary could be used to teach the rudiments of the game or it could be used to write a match report on a rugby game.
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Toilet Signs
These signs are to be used as visual prompts as to when the class toilet is being used and when it is free. There are two signs here which are designed to be placed back to back and laminated. Pupils are encouraged to turn the sign to the “Toilet Busy” side when entering the toilet and back to the “Toilet Free” side when exiting the toilet.
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