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….

School Self-Evaluation

Nov 23, 2012 |

School Self-Evaluation (SSE) is something that we are going to hear a lot more about over the coming years as the process of schools evaluating their own policies and practices will become a core part of the planning process of the school. The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn, recently launched new school self-evaluation guidelines to support schools to evaluate their own work and to set targets to improve teaching and learning. The aim is to help to achieve the targets set out in the Programme for Government and in the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategy, launched by the Minister last year. At the launch of the guidelines, the Minister said: read more…

Smarty Cat Games Competition Winners

Nov 22, 2012 |

Many thanks to all of the teachers and student teachers who entered our competition for some great Gaeilge resources sponsored by Smarty Cat Games. It was a great success and, in fact, was the most popular competition we have run on the site so far with 153 entries. Obviously, there is a great need for quality Gaeilge resources. Again, many thanks to Claire O’ Gorman, creator of the resources, for sponsoring the prize packs for this competition.  Most people found the questions quite easy, but just to confirm, the answers were: read more…

Smarty Cat Games Competition

Nov 19, 2012 |

Smarty Cat Games is a new Gaeilge resource which consists of ten games covering each of the ten themes of Curaclam na Gaeilge (Mé Féin, Sa Bhaile, Ar Scoil, Bia, Teilifís, Siopadóireacht, Caitheamh Aimsire, Éadaí, An Aimsir, Ócáidí Speisialta). The games are packaged as a suite of ten and come in an easy to store plastic transparent box. ‘Cluichí Gaeilge’ is all about making learning Irish fun, interactive and enjoyable for children!

Smarty Cat Games has given us four of the individual packs to give away as prizes for this competition. read more…

From Roscommon to Teaching in Melbourne, Australia

Nov 18, 2012 |

Image from Anzuk website

Someone recently sent me the link to this podcast interview with Enda Morris, an Irish primary school teacher from Roscommon now living and teaching in Melbourne, Australia. This article originally appeared in the Anzuk Teaching Agency Blog. It’s a fascinating insight into the life of a young Irish teacher and what motivated him to leave Ireland and seek teaching work in a country thousands of miles away. read more…

Edublog Awards 2012 Nominations

Nov 16, 2012 |

The Edublog Awards is a community based initiative started in 2004 in response to community concerns relating to how schools, districts and educational institutions were blocking access of learner and teacher blog sites for educational purposes. The purpose of the Edublog Awards is promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media. Nominations are open until November 26th under 19 different categories, after which time voting will commence. When thinking about nominations, I decided to choose blogs that I already follow via RSS feeds. Unfortunately, you can’t nominate yourself! I’ve nominated eleven blogs and these are the Seomra Ranga nominations: read more…

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