Country Fact File
Template for researching information on a country. Pupils have to find out neighbouring countries, surrounding oceans/seas, mountains, rivers etc. Source: Talitha Horan (.doc file 50KB) Download File…
Explorers Loop Cards
Loop Cards (the game featuring “I have …. / Who has ….?” sets of cards) featuring the great explorers throughout history: Robert Scott, Edmund Hillery, Marco Polo, St. Brendan and others. Source: Talitha Horan (.doc file 45.5KB) Download File…
Women in History
Quiz consisting of 38 questions about women in history who made a difference, including Countess Markievicz, Pocahontas, Anne Frank, Florence Nightingale, Rosa Parks and others. This could also be used as a Webquest. Source: Talitha Horan (.doc file 68KB) Download File…
Recession Vocabulary
In a recent survey conducted by iReach Market Research and reported by RTÉ, it was found that 90% of children were using recession vocabulary. Words like recession, unemployment, credit crunch and redundancy have entered the conversational vocabulary of children. This resource is not aimed at focussing on the “doom and gloom”, but facing the reality…
Logainm Primary Resource

I’ve previously written a blog post about the
First Communion Prayer Booklet
This short booklet has all they prayers pupils will need to learn for First Penance and First Communion. It may need to be re-formatted to suit the needs of individual teachers/schools. Source: Hazel O’ Connell (.doc file 93KB) Download File…
Nathanna Cainte 03
Bunaithe ar an téacsleabhar “Bun go Barr 4″, tá samplaí de nathanna cainte a bheidh úsáideach i rith an lae sa seomra ranga. Foinse: Anaithnid (comhad .ppt 1.58MB) Íoslódáil an Comhad…
Acmhainní le hAghaidh Teagasc na Gaeilge
Teachers are always looking for new resources for the teaching of Gaeilge in the classroom, given the lack of appropriate and practical resources available. Interactive resources for the teaching of Gaeilge are even more scarce. So, I was delighted to have been made aware of the development of more Gaeilge interactive resources on the
World Currencies
Flashcards of the names of a selection of currencies around the world. Each flashcard contains the name of the currency, its sign or abbreviation and the name of the country in which it is used. (.pdf file 980KB) Download File…
Talking QR Codes

I’ve previously written on this blog about QR Codes and I’ve also recently written an article for InTouch Magazine on Qr Codes in the Classroom. However, I’ve just read an interesting article by Danny Nicholson on the Whiteboard Blog about a new concept in QR Codes: Talking QR Codes from the QR Voice website. Put simply, you type in a text message of no more than 100 characters in length on the website, which then creates a QR Code. You can then save the QR Code as an image to put on a blog/website or print out the code and display it on a noticeboard. read more…