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….
Mouth Exercises
This resource consists of a schedule for doing mouth exercises with a class or a group of children. Just like we exercise the body, it is also important to exercise the mouth and mouth muscles in order to help our speech and sounds.
Laminate all of the pages of the resource. The page with the blank white boxes is the base for the schedule. Choose five of the seven exercises to be placed onto the base board using Velcro in any order
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History Timelines
The purpose of this resource is to visually help pupils understand change and progression over time. There are four headers in this resource: First, Next, Then and Now. There are also bars to connect the four headers.
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Book Review: The Moon Spun Round
“The Moon Spun Round – W. B. Yeats For Children” is a new illustrated book from the O’Brien Press. It features poems, folk tales, childhood writing and some information on W. B. Yeats and his family.
Having been born and raised in the “Yeats County” of Sligo and having grown up learning and performing the poems and plays of W.B. Yeats, I looked forward to reading and reviewing this book.
Deriving its name from the Yeats poem “The Cat and the Moon”, this hardback book is edited by Dr. Noreen Doody read more…
Instagram for Your Class or School
Instagram is a mobile photo and video sharing app and social networking platform that allows users to upload photos and videos to share with friends and followers either privately or publicly. It also allows you to edit the photos and to use filters to create some cool effects.
While perhaps not as popular as some of the other social media platforms, it is still very popular. Like other social media platforms, read more…
Sentence Strips 14
This resource is aimed at pupils in first to third classes or SEN pupils. Its purpose is to assist with the understanding of both sentence structure and reading for meaning. These sentences are made up of six words.
Laminate all of the pages in the resource. Cut out the five sentence strips and the corresponding words, which are colour co-ordinated to assist with matching. Place velcro in each of the boxes on the sentence strips and on the rear of the individual words.
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Spelling Strips 5 – 01
This resource is aimed at pupils in first to third classes or SEN pupils on the road to learning to spell. These spelling strips are made up of words of five letters. There are twelve spellings in the set.
There are a number of ways to use the resource. There is a set of strips with the spelling outline and a set of strips with blank spaces.
Laminate all of the pages in the resource. Cut out the twelve spelling strips
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Space Week 2016
Space Week, Ireland’s newest national STEM week in parallel with World Space Week, takes place from October 3rd to 8th. It is a special week to focus on the wonders and realities of the Universe around us.
Participating in Space Week with your class means you will use the powers of creativity, critical thinking, science, technology, engineering and maths to help shape your understanding of life on Earth and our place in Space. read more…
Resources For “George Speaks” Novel
“George Speaks”, a novel by Dick King Smith (author of “The Sheep Pig” and “The Hodgeheg”), is about a baby called George, sister to Laura and son to Mum and Dad. However, George is no ordinary small baby. He does all the usual baby things like sleep a lot, drink milk, wear nappies – however George, very early in life, discovers he can speak. He first divulges the secret to his sister Laura, and later to his parents.
The story of the novel, told in eight chapters, concerns the first year of George’s life
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