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….
Pangrams
Pangrams are sentences that contain all twenty-six letters of the alphabet at least once. A perfect pangram contains only twenty-six letters, which is quite difficult to achieve. Probably the best known pangram is the one used to illustrate type fonts: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. This is a handout with eighteen examples of pangrams found on the ‘net. I use these for handwriting practice.
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Back to School Programming on RTÉ
As hundreds of thousands of children and teenagers across the country prepare to make their way back through the school gates, RTÉ will this week explore the subject of education in Ireland in BACK TO SCHOOL, a week-long season of programmes and features across RTÉ Television, Radio and Online. These will be of special interest to teachers, parents, pupils and the wider education community as the theme of education is put in the spotlight by our national broadcaster. There are three television documentaries on consecutive nights, starting on Sunday night with the one which will be of most interest to primary teachers, Primary Pressures, a “fly-on-the-wall” documentary in a DEIS primary school. The following are the programmes to keep an eye out for this week: read more…
Guest Post: On Starting School
I came across this blog post last week and was touched by it. I tweeted the link to it and lots of teachers seemed to share it. I think the reason that it touched a chord with teachers was that we get so caught up in making preparations for the return to school, that we sometimes forget how much of a change it is for both the parent and the child, especially when the child is starting school for the first time. I think that it is also really interesting for teachers to see school from another perspective. It’s a great read! read more…
Word of the Day
Teachers all know how important it is to develop the oral and written language of pupils. This resource is a header to place in a prominent position in the classroom, under which can be recorded new or interesting words which are discovered during the day. These could be recorded in a copy or personal dictionary or the teacher could encourage pupils to use them in an oral sentence during the day.
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The Language of Maths
Teaching pupils about the language of maths is really important – especially for problem solving. This is a header, on three separate pages, for a maths display board which explains some maths terminology like this resource and this resource and this resource. (.pdf file 13KB) Download File…
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Bookmark 17
Printable bookmarks with the motto “Jump into a Good Book!” Bookmarks are a good incentive for reading for pleasure. There are two bookmarks per page. If you find that the bookmark is still too large, set your printer options to print two pages per page. (.pdf file 208KB) Download File…
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Meán Fómhair 2012
This is a single A4 sized page with a calendar for Meán 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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Follow Seomra Ranga
Seomra Ranga has been on the web since 2007 and has developed enormously since then from very simple beginnings. It now has many followers throughout the country and indeed from abroad. Content on the web site changes so regularly that it may be difficult for teachers to keep up to date with new resources and articles on the site. However, there are many ways in which visitors to the site can keep up to date with developments. Some of these are Social Media sites which are easy to follow, others you may not be familiar with? read more…
