Handball in School
Register
This content is for members only
Parting Words to Pupils Leaving the School
It has become a tradition in our school in recent years to produce a commemorative Yearbook to present to the pupils in 6th class as they leave the school. The organisation, collection of material and printing of the book is all done by parents. It includes profiles of each pupil of the departing 6th Class, which they have filled out themselves, as well as lots of photographs of their journey through the school. A pupil usually designs the cover of the book. I was asked to pen a few words to be included in the book. At first, I really wasn’t sure what to write. I consulted my best friend, Google, looking for ideas. read more…
Seomra Ranga’s First Facebook Viral Post
The power of Facebook was clearly demonstrated to me last night. I came across this maxim on Twitter yesterday afternoon, shared by Toby Price: “Teachers Don’t Take Summers Off – They Do A Year’s Worth Of Work In Ten Months“. I liked the phrase so much and it made a lot of sense to me, so I created an image with the phrase on it and shared the image on the Seomra Ranga Facebook Page. read more…
25% Less
Register
This content is for members only
O’ Brien Press Book Competition
The O’Brien Press, which has an extensive catalogue of children’s books as well as many books of general interest, recently launched its new website. It features a new layout which includes an easy navigation, author profiles, book extracts, reviews, previews and associated teaching resources.
To celebrate the launch of the new website, O’ Brien Press has kindly given visitors to Seomra Ranga a chance to win a great hamper of books for a school or class library. read more…
Blog Awards Ireland 2013
Blog Awards Ireland will bring together the Irish online community collaborating in a single event in October 2013 to celebrate blogging in Ireland. The event celebrates the best in Irish blogging by creating 31 categories which offer plenty of scope for bloggers. Nominations are now open for the 2013 event which will take place in the Osprey Hotel in Naas, Co. Kildare on Saturday 12th October 2013. The closing date for nominating a blog is July 31st. read more…
Droichead Pilot Project Under A Cloud
I wrote back in April on this website about Droichead, the proposed new pilot project for induction and probation of Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) developed by the Teaching Council. The proposed pilot project was due to take place in in the seven counties which traditionally attracted the highest number of NQTs (Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Kildare, Meath and Wexford). Across these counties, the Council proposed to involve approximately 200 primary and 100 post primary schools in the pilot project. read more…
Smarty Cat Games Competition
Smarty Cat Games is a new Gaeilge resource which consists of ten games covering each of the ten themes of Curaclam na Gaeilge (Mé Féin, Sa Bhaile, Ar Scoil, Bia, Teilifís, Siopadóireacht, Caitheamh Aimsire, Éadaí, An Aimsir, Ócáidí Speisialta). The games are packaged as a suite of ten and come in an easy to store plastic transparent box. ‘Cluichí Gaeilge’ is all about making learning Irish fun, interactive and enjoyable for children! read more…
Adam Up Website
Just today I got a follow on Twitter from the Adam Up website crew. Having never heard of the website before, I decided to have a look at their website. Adam Up is the creation of James Summerfield and Samuel Kordan. It consists of a series of songs to help pupils to learn aspects of the mathematics curriculum read more…
Seomra Ranga Named in 50 Must Read IT Blogs 2013
Seomra Ranga has been named by Ed Tech Magazine as one of their 50 Must Read K-12 IT Blogs for 2013. They remarked that these 50 blogs are deemed to be “must reads for the K-12 community” and acclaims them as “some of the best and brightest voices in education technology”. It continues: read more…