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….

Teachers Pay Teachers Website
Teachers Pay Teachers is a website which I only recently became aware of. As the website itself says it is an “open marketplace for educators to buy, sell, and share their original resources”. There is a huge amount of resources on the site across all curricular areas and suitable for all age groups. You can search the site in many different ways to find what you are looking for, and even come across stuff that you were not looking for! read more…
Dear Zoo – How Many?
This resource is based on the picture book “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell. It features animal characters from the story. Pupils are presented with a grid of 20, containing sets of four different animals from the story. They have to count and record how many of each animal they find in the grid. There are twelve worksheets in this pack. Worksheets 1-6 ask pupils to count single animals in the grid. Worksheets 7-12 ask pupils to count combinations of 1, 2, or 3 animals in the grid.
Dear Zoo Word Picture Match 02
This resource is based on the picture book “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell. It features animal characters from the story. The resource is geared towards pupils in junior classes and SEN pupils to assist with vocabulary development and oral language skills. Pupils are asked to draw lines to match the correct phrase to each of the animals from the story.
“Wagon Wheel” as Gaeilge
Seo na focail agus an fís-scannán don amhrán “Wagon Wheel”, curtha le chéile ag na múinteoirí agus na scoláirí ar chúrsa samhraidh i gColáiste Lurgan, i gConamara. B’fhéidir go bhfuil an fonn ar eolas ag na daltaí sna hardranganna. Mar sin, b’fhéidir go dtaitneoidh sé leis na daltaí agus beidh suim acu chun é a fhoghlaim. Bheadh sé an-oiriúnach do Sheachtain na Gaeilge freisin. Is féidir na focail a híoslódáil thíos. Fís-scannáin eile ar TG Lurgan ar YouTube.
Dear Zoo Word-Picture Match
This resource is based on the picture book “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell. It features animal characters from the story. The resource is geared towards pupils in junior classes and SEN pupils to assist with vocabulary development and oral language skills. Pupils are asked to match the correct phrase to each of the animals from the story.
Dear Zoo Odd One Out Words Pack
This resource is based on the picture book “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell. It features words of animal characters from the story. The resource is geared towards pupils in junior classes and SEN pupils to assist with visual discrimination, word identification and oral language skills. Pupils are asked to work out which word is different in each row and say in why it is different. There are six odd-one-out sets in the pack. The pages could be laminated to be re-used again and again.
Dear Zoo Maths Sentence Builders: Frogs
This resource is based on the picture book “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell. This maths sentence builder activity, featuring frogs from the story, is suitable for younger pupils and special needs pupils who are starting on early number activities. It teaches left to right orientation, number recognition and addition. It deals with the addition of the numbers 0 to 3.
Dear Zoo Odd One Out Pack
This resource is based on the picture book “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell. It features animal characters from the story. The resource is geared towards pupils in junior classes and SEN pupils to assist with visual discrimination and oral language skills. Pupils are asked to work out which picture is different in each row and say in what way it is different. There are six odd-one-out sets in the pack. The pages could be laminated to be re-used again and again.

