by admin | Dec 9, 2025 | Book Reviews
Our Senior Infants absolutely loved reading this charming festive tale together. Flossie McFluff, the feisty forest fairy, is busy decorating her cosy woodland home for Christmas when disaster strikes. A fierce storm floods the animals’ burrows, leaving all her...
by admin | Dec 3, 2025 | Book Reviews
Milly Mc Carthy and the Christmas Calamity is the newest story in the Milly McCarty series. The main character is Milly. She lives with her mum, her dad, her two brothers called Ryan and Zack and her baby sister Izzy. Milly is the oldest. They live in a town called...
by admin | Nov 28, 2025 | Book Reviews
‘‘Twas the Match Before Christmas’ is a lovely read, with the classic Christmas poem updated to bring in a uniquely Irish perspective. The story is set on Christmas Eve, in Croke Park, with a lone security guard as witness to a magical game of Gaelic football. There...
by admin | Nov 27, 2025 | Christmas
This seasonal literacy resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes. It is a fun way to do a literacy activity at this time of year. The resource asks pupils to match the question part of the joke with its correct punchline. There are 12 different jokes for pupils to...
by admin | Nov 25, 2025 | Book Reviews
This is another offering from Leona Forde in the series of books about Emily Maureen McCarthy, better known to one and all as Milly. The Milly McCarthy novels are a firm favourite with my Rang 4 girls and to say they were excited to read this latest offering is an...