Book Review: Let’s See Ireland
“Let’s See Ireland” is both written and illustrated by Sarah Bowie. I really enjoyed this book. I read it with my Granny and then again with my mom. She helped me with some of the hard words like Glendalough!
This book is about a girl called Molly who travels around Ireland with her Mom and Dad. Molly thinks that she left her cat read more…
Is It Heavy Or Light?
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. Its aim is to encourage oral language, especially sentence structure. The focus is also on the concept of heavy/light. The teacher can start with the question at the top of each card: “Is It Heavy or Light?” This could be followed up with questions like “How Do You Know?” Questioning will encourage inference and deduction from the context.
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Teaching Council Elections 2016
Voting for the election of teachers to the Teaching Council opened today, Monday, 22 February and will close at noon on Wednesday, 9 March. The election is to fill the places of 16 teachers on the 37-member Teaching Council, whose current term of office comes to an end in March 2016. read more…
Heavy & Light Sorting
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. Categorisation is an important skill for younger/SEN pupils to develop. This resource aims to develop categorisation skills as well as to encourage oral language. This sorting activity focuses on the concept of the difference between heavy and light.
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Lawnmower Number Strips
This resource is aimed at pupils in infant classes or SEN pupils. Its purpose is to assess the ability of the pupil to correctly count objects, in this case, lawnmowers. The focus is on counting of numbers in the range 1-10.
Laminate all of the pages in the resource. Cut out the ten number strips,
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Interview With the Social Democrats
The Social Democrats party was established in July 2015 by independent TDs Stephen Donnelly, Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall. All three share joint leadership of the party until after the General Election. The party is running fourteen candidates in the forthcoming General Election.
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Interview With Jan O’ Sullivan – Labour Party
Jan O’ Sullivan is the Labour Party TD for Limerick City. She was first elected to the Dáil in 1998 in a bye-election to fill the seat vacated by the death of Jim Kemmy. She has since been re-elected in three General Elections. She was appointed Minister For Education and Skills in July 2014. read more…
Interview With Charlie Mc Conalogue – Fianna Fáil
Charlie Mc Conalogue is from a farming background in Gleneely in Co. Donegal. He was educated at Carndonagh Community School before going on to study at UCD where he studied Economics, Politics & History.
Charlie first ran for political office in 2009, where he was elected as a Donegal County Councillor. In 2011, Charlie was elected a TD for Donegal North East at the first time of asking. He is currently Fianna Fáil’s spokesperson on Education. read more…
Interview With Jonathan O’ Brien – Sinn Féin
Jonathan O’Brien is the Sinn Féin TD for Cork North Central. In 2011, he topped the poll in Cork North Central to become the first Sinn Féin TD in Cork in over 80 years. Before that, Jonathan was a member of Cork City Council since 2000. He is the party’s Education Spokesperson. read more…
Interview with the Green Party
The Green Party in Ireland doesn’t currently have any TDs., although they had six seats in the previous Dáil. They have sixteen councillors on the island of Ireland working at local government level and one MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) in Northern Ireland. They say that removing barriers to education, at all levels, is one of their key policies. read more…