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….

Seamus Heaney and the Teaching Connection

Sep 1, 2013 |

Carysfort CollegeThe passing of poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney on Friday will have had a certain resonance with a particular cohort of primary teachers in Ireland. Many younger teachers may be unaware of the fact that Heaney was involved in the education of undergraduate teachers as a lecturer of English in Carysfort College of Education in the 1970s and early 1980s. Those undergraduates, whose chosen academic subject was English, were lucky enough to have the emerging poet as one of their lecturers and I know that many of them will have fond memories of their time spent with him in Carysfort. read more…

Guest Post: Creating Authors With Booksmart

Sep 1, 2013 | ,

BooksmartWhat are the greatest aspirations you might have for your students in the various subject areas? From your maths class you might like a mathematician. From SESE, you might hope for a scientist, historian or geologist. From PE, an Olympian. From Visual Arts, a sculptor. And so on. But what might be your greatest aspiration for a student from your English class? Perhaps an author? read more…

Numeracy Toolkit

Aug 30, 2013 |

Numeracy ToolkitDonal Horgan from Áiseanna.com contacted me to let teachers know about a new maths product which he has just released. Áiseanna is the same company which developed the Maths Tracker CDs. This new product, Numeracy Toolkit, is a computer programme designed to improve numeracy skills in the number range 1-100. While the programme will be of particular benefit to pupils in the age range six to ten who are in the process of broadening their knowledge of number in this range, read more…

Fun 2 Write

Aug 29, 2013 |

Fun 2 WriteFun 2 Write is a website with free printables especially useful for the infant classroom. It includes alphabet tracing worksheets; number tracing worksheets for numbers 1-10; shape recognition and tracing worksheets; colour identification worksheets; big/small, tall/short etc. worksheets; number recognition and simple addition worksheets. read more…

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