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….
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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Materials Matching
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior/middle classes or SEN pupils with speech and language difficulties. It assumes an ability to read. The materials vocabulary would also need to be taught in advance. Its aim is to assess whether pupils can match the materials-related words with the appropriate images. It links with SESE Science.
Laminate all of the pages in the resource. Cut up the images into 12 separate cards. Cut up the materials words on page 3.
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Alphabetical Order Ladder 05
This resource is aimed at giving pupils practice of ordering words by alphabetical order. The vocabulary used are in groups eg. colours, numbers, rooms in the house etc. There are six different sets of words to place in order, with seven words in each set.
Laminate all pages in the resource. Leave page 1 intact and cut up the words on pages 2-7 into cards. Place velcro on the rear of each card as well as in the seven spaces on the ladder. Pupils must then place the words in alphabetical order on the ladder
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Materials Bingo
Educational bingo games are a great way for pupils to learn so many different skills. They help with listening skills, visual discrimination, group work, turn taking and the reinforcement of the learning content of that particular bingo game.
This bingo game focuses on the theme of “Materials” in SESE Science and it features images like glass, metal, stone, leather, material etc. It is aimed at a group of six pupils, so it would be useful for Station Teaching
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