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….
Dyslexic Font
I’ve come across a few articles on the internet in the past week or so about a new font devised specifically to help pupils with Dyslexia. The font, called Open Dyslexic, apparently uses a device in which the bottoms of characters are weighted. Curiously some dyslexic pupils’ visual processing cortexes rotate images that look slender, making characters appear backwards or upside down. By making the bottom look “heavier” the font reportedly reduces this kind of visual “bug” in the brains of people with this reading disability. read more…
Mark Spark in the Dark
This resource provides a chapter by chapter list of questions for the Jacqueline Wilson novel “Mark Spark in the Dark”, a novel about a boy who is scared of the dark, but when he thinks his Great Gran is in trouble, nothing is going to stop him coming to her rescue. These could be done orally, they could be used as comprehension questions or they could be used as a quiz at the end of reading the novel. A wordsearch based on the novel is also included. The novel is probably suitable for Rang I/II. read more…
Veritas Prayer Assemblies Book Competition Winners
Many thanks to all of the teachers who entered our competition with Veritas for a copy of “Prayer Assemblies for Primary Schools” by Maurice Harmon and Elaine Mahon. It was a great success. Many thanks to Veritas for sponsoring the prizes. Most people found the questions quite easy, but just to confirm, the answers were: read more…
Signs of Autumn Twitter Project
The days are gradually closing in and the autumn weather is making its presence felt. What better time then to do a Twitter Project. We did a Twitter project earlier in the year for the Signs of Spring and Mary Jo Bell suggested to me that we should do a similar one for the approach of autumn. So, over Twitter one night we decided to just go ahead and announce a “Signs of Autumn Twitter Project”. read more…
Deireadh Fómhair 2012
This is a single A4 sized page with a calendar for Deireadh Fómhair 2012. It is suitable for sticking to the teacher’s desk, to the classroom wall or to the staffroom noticeboard. (.pdf file 18.5KB) Download File…
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Mission V Seeks Funding for Project
MissionV is a not-for-profit organisation which promotes the development of 21st century skills through innovative online technologies. It is enhancing the Irish classroom by providing the digital tools for teachers and students to design and create their own, curriculum-based, interactive content – for powerful new learning experiences. During the school year 2011-12 they ran a pilot project in 20 primary schools, supported by the National Centre for Technology and Education (NCTE). read more…
Veritas Prayer Assemblies Book Competition
It’s time for another book competition! Thanks to the religious bookseller Veritas, we have five copies of their new publication “Prayer Assemblies for Primary Schools” to give away. Written by Maurice Harmon and Elaine Mahon, the book contains forty ready-to-use prayer assemblies based on themes from the academic and liturgical year. It can be used by principals, teachers, school chaplains or parish workers who visit schools or classrooms. Combining ease of use with creative ideas for prayer read more…
Blogging With Kidblog
Over the past few years I had read about other educators using Kidblog to get their pupils blogging. I didn’t delve into it too much as I had been teaching younger pupils for the past few years. However, now that I moved back up to 6th class, I decided to investigate this blogging platform and to see how I could use it in the classroom. read more…
