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….
Hallowe’en
This Hallowe’en Powerpoint presentation details some of the customs and traditions surrounding this celebration. It includes information on the origins of Hallowe’en, customs, games, food, dressing up and how the Irish took the Hallowe’en tradition to America. read more…
Scratch Book Competition
Many of you will have read about the recent publication of the “Scratch From Scratch” book by Seamus O’ Neill and Stephen Howell. I’m very grateful that they have given me five copies of the book as prizes for another Seomra Ranga competition.
This is a limited edition run of the publication, so it’s a prize well worth having, especially if your school is teaching Scratch. Seamus and Stephen say that the book has been written to be accessible to young and old, read more…
Twitter in the Classroom
I recently gave a talk to some teachers about using Twitter in the classroom and as a source of CPD (Continuing Professional Development) for the teacher. This is the presentation I put together for the talk. Some of it may be self-explanatory, but some points were for further elaboration. However, for what it’s worth, I said that I would share the presentation which you can view in the embedded Slideshare below.
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Hallowe’en Arts Project
Great Visual Arts Lesson Plan, the aim of which is to get pupils to design and create an inventive, distinctive and original Halloween costume that they can wear into school at Hallowe’en. The emphasis is on creativity, so pupils must create the costume and not simply buy a commercial one. The lesson plan gives detailed instructions on Strands and skills, and also gives pupils criteria to bear in mind read more…
RDS Seeks STEM Facilitators
The RDS is calling for Expressions of Interest from primary school teachers wishing to join a pilot group of teachers who will help to develop and deliver a new teacher education programme in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). This pilot professional development programme will place a strong emphasis on innovative, hands-on inquiry based approaches to teaching and learning science and maths at primary-level. read more…
Maths Week Homework Passes
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Irish Web Awards
The Irish Web Awards are being held in the Mansion House, Dublin on November 1st. I just found out today that Seomra Ranga had been nominated for an award in the “Best Education and Third Level Website” category ages ago, and I didn’t even know about it! The nominations were then whittled down to a Short List and whittled down further again to a list of Finalists. read more…
Maths Week Table Quiz
Eight rounds of six questions, a tie-break round and answers to all questions on 127 Powerpoint slides. All questions are roughly based on the primary school mathematics curriculum. I’ve attempted to provide a variety of questions from different strand areas. Hopefully, there is a mixture of easy enough questions and some to challenge the better able pupils. The aim really is that pupils should be able to get a good few correct with the harder ones there to sort out winners.
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