Ampville – The Electric City
The Ampville website has been created by the ESB and the Curriculum Development Unit of Mary Immaculate College to teach pupils about Electricity and how to stay safe around electricity. Available in English and Gaeilge, the site includes games, experiments, quizzes, lessons and links to interesting educational websites. read more…
Explorers Education Programme
The Explorers Education Programme is a free Marine Education Programme, which is funded by the Marine Institute. The Programme, which was been in existence since 2006, aims to integrate marine themes as closely as possible with lessons already taught in primary schools through the Social, Environmental and Scientific Education (SESE) curriculum and other cross curricular subjects. read more…
Confirmation Congratulations
This is a simple dove-themed poster wishing pupils congratulations on their Confirmation.
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Dear Zoo App
We’re doing some work based on the book “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell at the moment. We found lots of great resources on the internet based on the book and I’ve also created some more which are available on this website.
However, almost by accident, I found that the book was available as an app on the iTunes App Store. It has all the magic of the book itself, but it also has the interactive aspect where the pupil can touch the cage, basket etc. to reveal the hidden animal. read more…
Sound Touch App
Sound Touch is a very popular app among our pupils at the moment. Its aim is to develop speech and language in young children and those with speech and language difficulties. It helps with noun identification and categorisation of objects.
The app is divided into six different categories, each containing twelve different cartoon images of objects. the categories are animals; wild animals; wild birds; vehicles; musical instruments; household. read more…
Cosc ar Bhulaíocht
Poster to display in the school or classroom to show that bullying will not be tolerated.
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Dear Zoo Before and After Numbers
This resource is based on the picture book “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell. It features animal characters from the story. There are eight pairs of pages, each pair representing one of the animals mentioned in the story. The first page in each pair deals with numbers 1-10 and the second page deals with numbers 10-20. Pupils are asked to write the numbers before and after the animal that is already numbered.
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Lined Page #88
A4 portrait-aligned lined page with a decorative snake border suitable for presenting written material, perhaps especially for work on the zoo or wild animals. (.pdf file 28.6 KB) Download File…
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Lined Page #87
A4 portrait-aligned lined page with a decorative giraffe border suitable for presenting written material, perhaps especially for work on the zoo or wild animals.
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PaperZip Website
PaperZip is another website I’ve only recently come across that offers free downloadable classroom resources. Launched in 2011 and based in Scotland, the website offers resources in a range of curricular areas such as literacy, numeracy, geography, science and history. It also has some seasonal and themed resources. On first glance, resources seem to be of a good quality and are downloadable in Zip format. Within the Zip file, the resources are in PDF format. read more…