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….
List of Class Novels – 5th & 6th Class
Teachers are always seeking advice and recommendations for novels suitable for particular class standards. There are many lists out there, but few are lists recommended by practising classroom teachers. So, in an attempt to compile a list of novels suitable for use in Irish classrooms, at the end of August, 2015 I asked teachers to complete a short form through the website, based on their classroom experience. read more…
Alphabetical Order Ladder 02
This resource is aimed at giving pupils practice of ordering words by alphabetical order. It has a transport 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. Place velcro on the rear of each card as well as in the five spaces
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Peg Place Value 02
This resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils. It is based on reinforcing the concept of place value of 100s, 10s, 1s. The pack contains 16 cards – on the left hand side of each card is a three digit number, with one digit underlined and highlighted in red. The pupil has to decide whether the underlined digit is a hundred, a ten or a unit and place a clothes peg on the appropriate number on the right hand side of the card.
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Peg Place Value 01
This resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils. It is based on reinforcing the concept of place value of hundreds, tens, units. The pack contains 16 cards – on the left hand side of each card is a three digit number, with one digit underlined and highlighted in red. The pupil has to decide whether the underlined digit is a hundred, a ten or a unit and place a clothes peg on the appropriate word on the right hand side of the card.
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Say It Think It 02
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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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…
