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….
CESI Conference Revisited
It’s been almost a month since the great Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) annual conference in Galway. It was a whirlwind of tips, ideas, links and resources from the workshops, presentations, keynote addresses and the excellent TeachMeet on the previous night. I’m only now getting around to looking back at some of the ideas I picked up over the weekend. read more…
Book Review: Rugby Rebel
Book title: Rugby Rebel
Main characters: Eoin, Brian, Dylan, Mr Finn, Kevin Barry, Mr Carey,Rory
Author: Gerard Siggins
Setting: Castlerock
When Eoin and Dylan go to a rugby camp at school, they notice that their phones have gone missing. When they are searching the room they heard a phone ring coming from under the bed. read more…
Peg Match the Letters 03
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or SEN pupils at the beginning of literacy work on letter recognition. Laminate all of the pages in the resource and cut up into twenty-six separate cards. Pupils should firstly look at the upper case letter at the top of the card. They should then try to identify its match at the bottom of the card from the four options. They should then place a clothes peg on the correct answer.
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Restaurant 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 foods that make up the different courses in a restaurant meal. It would also be suitable for a class working on a restaurant Aistear theme.
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Peg Match the Letters 02
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or SEN pupils at the beginning of literacy work on letter recognition. Laminate all of the pages in the resource and cut up into twenty-six separate cards. Pupils should firstly look at the lower case letter at the top of the card. They should then try to identify its matching upper case letter at the bottom of the card from the four options. They should then place a clothes peg on the correct answer.
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Peg Match the Letters 01
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or SEN pupils at the beginning of literacy work on letter recognition. Laminate all of the pages in the resource and cut up into twenty-six separate cards. Pupils should firstly look at the capital letter at the top of the card. They should then try to identify its matching lower case letter at the bottom of the card from the four options. They should then place a clothes peg on the correct answer.
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Peg Body Parts
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior/middle classes or SEN pupils who are beginning to learn the names of various body parts. Laminate all of the pages in the resource and cut up into twenty-four separate cards. Pupils should try to recognise the body part in the image on the left of the card and, if they are able to read, to match it to the word on the right of the card by using a clothes peg.
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Twitter Wall
If you run a class Twitter account, this resource may be of interest to you. It consists of three Twitter speech bubbles on an A4 page. The page could be printed out numerous times to allow pupils to compose Tweets and to display them in the classroom. This could give pupils practice in composing a story using the 140 character restriction.
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