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….
Signs of Autumn 2014 Twitter Project Review
The Signs of Autumn 2014 Twitter Project took place last week and many schools across the country took part. There were also contributions from a school in Canada and another in Australia. Because it is spring in Australia, it was interesting to compare the seasons in different parts of the world.
83 schools and teachers took part in the project, posting more than 400 Tweets over the course of the week. There was a great variety of stories, observations, images, photographs, videos all recording the arrival of Autumn 2014. read more…
Maths Week Homework Vouchers
These Maths Week Homework Vouchers would make great prizes to accompany Maths Week Table Quizzes on this site and most pupils would love to get their hands on one. There are four vouchers on an A4 page in this resource.
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Maths Week 2014
Maths Week Ireland 2014 takes place from 11th – 19th October this year. Maths Week Ireland promotes awareness, appreciation and understanding of maths through a huge variety of events and activities. It is a great opportunity for schools to place an added emphasis on the importance of maths and how it affects our daily lives. It also gives an opportunity to have some fun with maths by engaging in maths games, puzzles, board games, maths art and maths online activities. read more…
Hallowe’en Sentence Builder 01
These sentence builder activities are great for infant pupils as well as pupils with learning difficulties or special educational needs. They help to develop vocabulary, sentence structure and left to right orientation. They feature six word sentences with a Hallowe’en theme. All sentences begin with “The witch has a ….”.
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Is It Big Or Small?
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. Its aim is to encourage oral language, especially sentence structure. The focus is also on the concept of big/small. The teacher can start with the question at the top of each card: “Is It Big Or Small?” This could be followed up with questions like “How Do You Know?” Questioning will encourage inference and deduction from the context.
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Number Puzzle 06
This resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils at the beginning of work on skip counting. It is based on skip counting of even numbers 22-40 in a fun way. The resource features images on a school bus theme.
Laminate all of the pages in the resource and cut each one up into ten separate strips. Laminate another piece of A4 card. Adhere a long strip of velcro to the laminated card at the top and the bottom.
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What is She/He Doing? 03
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. Its aim is to encourage oral language, especially verbs, and sentence structure. The focus can also be on the pronouns he, she and they. The teacher can start with the question at the top of each card: “What is/are he/she/they doing?” This could be followed up with questions like “Where are they?” and “How do you know?” This type of question encourages inference and deduction from the context.
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Autumn Cutting 03
Getting younger pupils used to handling a scissors and cutting lines or patterns is a useful activity for fine motor skills. Pupils with special educational needs may also need some extra practice with this activity. This seasonal resource requires pupils to cut out the autumn-themed images and stick them into a copy.
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