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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Say It Think It 01
This resource is aimed at pupils with poor social skills who need practice in knowing the difference between thinking something and saying it aloud.. This resource aims to develop categorisation skills as well as to encourage oral language and discussion on the topic.
Pages 1-4 should be laminated. The small squares on pages 3-4 should then be cut out. Velcro should be attached to the squares on pages 1-2 and at the back of all cut out squares
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Library Ireland Week
Next Monday, November 16th, marks the beginning of Library Ireland Week. The theme of the week this year is “A Library Holds a World of Ideas” – that libraries and books are a portal into a world of ideas and opportunities: a world of imagination and creativity, of study and travel, of new opportunities in all areas of life.
The week is an opportunity for teachers to focus on the positive benefits of libraries, be it the school library, read more…
#Rang1916
Like many good ideas nowadays that have their genesis on social media, this idea began with a conversation on Twitter. Ciara Brennan (@PrimEdTeacher), a teacher in St. Peter’s Primary School, Bray, Co. Wicklow, was suggesting a common hashtag for schools to share all of the class work they were doing in connection with the centenary of the 1916 Rising.
Ciara suggested using #Rang1916 for this purpose. read more…
Hot/Cold Food Sorting
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. Categorisation is an important skill for younger/SEN pupils to develop. This resource aims to develop categorisation skills as well as to encourage oral language. This sorting activity focuses on hot and cold food/drink. It would also be suitable for a class working on a restaurant Aistear theme.
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Alphabetical Order Ladder 01
This resource is aimed at giving pupils practice of ordering words by alphabetical order. It has a fruit and vegetable theme. There are four different sets of words to place in order, based only on the first letter of the word.
Laminate all pages in the resource. Leave page 1 intact and cut up the words on pages 2-5 into cards.
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Book Review: The Midnight Carnival
I recently read “The Midnight Carnival” by Erica Mc Gann. It is a very detailed book about six teenage girls, all of whom study the art of witchcraft. The girls’ names were Grace, Jenny, Delilah, Adie, Una and Rachel. The story is mainly about the girls going to this new carnival in town and not knowing what they were getting themselves into. The carnival was very creepy. At the carnival the rides were all rusty and rickety. Something strange was going on there.
It turned out that an evil sorceress, Murdrina, gave the carnival a straw doll. The doll looked normal until you went near her; then it looked like a bunch of wriggling worms. read more…
Peg Months of the Year
This peg maths resource is aimed at pupils in junior/middle classes or SEN pupils. It’s focus is on the consolidation of the order of the months of the year. It consists of 24 question cards. The pupil looks at the months on the left of each card (or a teacher/SNA may read it to them) – one month is missing, identified by the question mark. There are three possible answers on the right of the card. The pupil then places a clothes peg on the month that they think is missing from the sequence on the left.
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Peg Analogue-Digital Matching: O’Clock
This resource is aimed at junior/middle pupils or SEN pupils at the beginning of work on digital/analogue time. It is based on reinforcing the concept of “o’clock”. Laminate all of the pages in the resource and cut up into 12 separate cards. Pupils should read the time on the clock on the left side of each card and place a peg on the correct answer on the right side of the card, thereby matching the analogue time with the digital time.
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