Classics for Children

Classics for Children

This week’s RTE Guide is giving away a free Classics for Children CD with each copy purchased. The CD contains 22 classic tunes which are suitable for use in the primary school classroom. Composers such as Debussy, Saint Saens, Kodaly, Bizet, Strauss and Haydn...

The Dreaming Tree

Back home in Brazil, Roberto loved playing football. Now he lives in Ireland, and he’d really like to have a game with the boys in the park, but he’s too shy.  When his granny reminds him of the Brazilian story of the dreaming tree, he doesn’t see how a story can help...

Whose Feet?

A fun colourful lift the flap book series which will help children identify whose ears, nose and feet belong to which animal. This book by Jeanette Rowe is aimed at younger pupils. There are also companion books, “Whose Nose?” and “Whose Ears?”...

What Are Friends For?

Jefferson the big brown bear and Figgy Twosocks the little red fox are friends. They play together in the sunny green woods, they share the sky and the hills and the trees and they help each other. They know that that’s what friends are for. But when Figgy plays a...

Glossary of Mathematical Terms

The following is a glossary of mathematical terms. The glossary is designed to inform students/parents/teachers of the vocabulary and meaning of terms in mathematics that students may have encountered in primary school and will encounter when they transfer to...