Science Week 2012
Science Week Ireland takes place from Sunday November 11th to Sunday November 18th. It is an exciting and innovative annual event which first took place in 1996. It has grown to a programme of over 500 events scheduled across the country. It aims to make science more interesting and accessible to children and adults alike. It highlights science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) as being hugely relevant to us all in our everyday lives read more…
Samhain 2012
This is a single A4 sized page with a calendar for Samhain 2012. It is suitable for sticking to the teacher’s desk, to the classroom wall or to the staffroom noticeboard.
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PE Games App
There are very few PE apps on the market suitable for the primary school teacher. However, today I saw a recommendation from Mr. Robbo on Twitter for the PE Games app which I downloaded. The app is full of lesson plans for games for the PE class. The lesson plans for the games are organised into different categories: chasing games, co-operative games, major games, reaction games, relay games, and general games. There’s also some handy tips and tricks for how to form teams for some of the games. read more…
Bullyproof
Photo courtesy RTE website
Bullyproof, the latest programme from RTÉ Education, could hardly be broadcast at a more appropriate time. The three-part series commences this Tuesday night at 10.15pm. After recent deaths of teenagers due to apparent cyber-bullying, this programme, features clinical psychologist David Coleman read more…
Scratch Book Competition Winners
Many thanks to all of the teachers who entered our competition for a copy of the Limited Edition “Scratch From Scratch” by Seamus O’ Neill and Stephen Howell. It was a great success. Many thanks to Seamus and Stephen for sponsoring the prizes. Most people found the questions quite easy, but just to confirm, the answers were: read more…
Dublin by Numbers
I got an email today from Mary Mulvihill from Ingenious Ireland letting me know about free maths activity trails that she has on her site. Called “Dublin by Numbers“, the trails are suitable for primary school pupils. The various activities in the trails range from simple to fairly complex, and teachers can pick and choose, to put together their own trail around St Stephen’s Green and Merrion Square, tailoring the activities to their students’ ability. The activities may include counting, measuring and calculating amongst other skills. read more…
Scratch Book Competition
Many of you will have read about the recent publication of the “Scratch From Scratch” book by Seamus O’ Neill and Stephen Howell. I’m very grateful that they have given me five copies of the book as prizes for another Seomra Ranga competition.
This is a limited edition run of the publication, so it’s a prize well worth having, especially if your school is teaching Scratch. Seamus and Stephen say that the book has been written to be accessible to young and old, read more…
Twitter in the Classroom
I recently gave a talk to some teachers about using Twitter in the classroom and as a source of CPD (Continuing Professional Development) for the teacher. This is the presentation I put together for the talk. Some of it may be self-explanatory, but some points were for further elaboration. However, for what it’s worth, I said that I would share the presentation which you can view in the embedded Slideshare below.
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RDS Seeks STEM Facilitators
The RDS is calling for Expressions of Interest from primary school teachers wishing to join a pilot group of teachers who will help to develop and deliver a new teacher education programme in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). This pilot professional development programme will place a strong emphasis on innovative, hands-on inquiry based approaches to teaching and learning science and maths at primary-level. read more…
Maths Week Homework Passes
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