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….
Techy Tips for Teachers
I came across this presentation through the Teachers With Apps website in the last few days, which I follow through RSS feed using the Feeddler App on the iPad. It gives some useful tips and ideas for technologies that could easily be used in the classroom. It is entitled ’25 “Techy” Tips for Not So “Techy” Teachers’ and includes suggestions to use Wordle, Twitter, Delicious, Glogster and Animoto. It also suggests other technology resources which I hadn’t heard of before read more…
Winter Resources
Now that Hallowe’en is over and we’re into the month of November, it’s time to start looking at “Winter” as a theme in the classroom and there are plenty of “wintry” resources on Seomra Ranga to help with the planning of seasonal lessons. There is a set of
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OLLY an Veain Bheag Bhán App
It’s so difficult to find any Gaeilge apps on the market, so to find two new apps released within days of each other is remarkable. TG4 have been busy developing apps for younger children with the release this time last year of the first Cúla Caint app and the release this week of Cúla Caint 2. Now comes the release of another app for younger children called “OLLY an Veain Bheag Bhán”. This app is based on a popular animation series on TG4 for younger children featuring the adventures of a friendly, helpful little van with lots of his friends and his driver Stan. read more…
Cúla Caint 2 App
After the success of the first Cúla Caint App, TG4 have just released the second version of the app, Cúla Caint 2. The app, aimed at younger pupils, is in the same format as the first and provides lots of fun Irish language words. The vocabulary is presented in five groups: Bia, Dathanna, Uimhreacha, Éadaí agus an Aibitír. It includes the written and the spoken version of each word accompanied by clear images of the word. read more…
Science Week 2012
Science Week Ireland takes place from Sunday November 11th to Sunday November 18th. It is an exciting and innovative annual event which first took place in 1996. It has grown to a programme of over 500 events scheduled across the country. It aims to make science more interesting and accessible to children and adults alike. It highlights science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) as being hugely relevant to us all in our everyday lives read more…
Samhain 2012
This is a single A4 sized page with a calendar for Samhain 2012. It is suitable for sticking to the teacher’s desk, to the classroom wall or to the staffroom noticeboard.
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PE Games App
There are very few PE apps on the market suitable for the primary school teacher. However, today I saw a recommendation from Mr. Robbo on Twitter for the PE Games app which I downloaded. The app is full of lesson plans for games for the PE class. The lesson plans for the games are organised into different categories: chasing games, co-operative games, major games, reaction games, relay games, and general games. There’s also some handy tips and tricks for how to form teams for some of the games. read more…
Bullyproof
Photo courtesy RTE website
Bullyproof, the latest programme from RTÉ Education, could hardly be broadcast at a more appropriate time. The three-part series commences this Tuesday night at 10.15pm. After recent deaths of teenagers due to apparent cyber-bullying, this programme, features clinical psychologist David Coleman read more…
