RDS Primary Science Fair Entries Open

RDS Primary Science Fair Entries Open

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RDS Primary Science Fair LogoAs the new school term begins the RDS Foundation has announced its call for entries for the 2014 RDS Primary Science Fair. The Fair is a great way to integrate science and maths in the classroom, as the focus of the Fair is on the development of pupils’ scientific skills through the investigation of a question or problem. Feedback to the organisers from teachers who have been involved in the Fair is that pupils can also develop their literacy, oral language and numeracy skills through the process of their scientific investigation. read more…

Seamus Heaney and the Teaching Connection

Seamus Heaney and the Teaching Connection

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Carysfort CollegeThe passing of poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney on Friday will have had a certain resonance with a particular cohort of primary teachers in Ireland. Many younger teachers may be unaware of the fact that Heaney was involved in the education of undergraduate teachers as a lecturer of English in Carysfort College of Education in the 1970s and early 1980s. Those undergraduates, whose chosen academic subject was English, were lucky enough to have the emerging poet as one of their lecturers and I know that many of them will have fond memories of their time spent with him in Carysfort. read more…