Dear Parents / Guardians,
We hope you and your family are all keeping well and safe. In this section our teachers have provided some additional resources to help continue your child's learning in the coming weeks. You can also check out our Kids Zone section for educational games and apps. Furthermore we have created a Blog page to keep a steady flow of new ideas, lessons, resources and information flowing to you over the coming weeks.
We hope you and your family are all keeping well and safe. In this section our teachers have provided some additional resources to help continue your child's learning in the coming weeks. You can also check out our Kids Zone section for educational games and apps. Furthermore we have created a Blog page to keep a steady flow of new ideas, lessons, resources and information flowing to you over the coming weeks.
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Let's Play Ireland
Let’s Play Ireland is a government-led initiative aimed at promoting play for all children living in Ireland during the COVID-19 emergency. Playing is central to children’s physical, mental, social and emotional health and wellbeing. Children learn through play while developing resilience, flexibility and understanding of their world. Play in families enriches childhood. All children and young people have a right to play. Click here for more information. |
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GAA Primary Challenges
The GAA has announced that it is providing a series of learning and physical activities for children in primary schools. The #GAAPrimary Challenges are designed to help teachers and parents to work on cross-curricular lesson plans with children to meet their learning needs. Gaelic games-themed lessons are across all curriculum subjects and are for children at every class level, based on the GAA Céim ar Aghaidh/Step Ahead resource. https://learning.gaa.ie/primary-school |
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Details on how to get free access to Folens Books: Parents and teachers can follow the steps below to get access:
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Details on how to get access to CJ Fallon Books:
http://my.cjfallon.ie, click 'Student Resources', then filter to the title you require, making sure 'Online Book' is selected under 'Resources'. |
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INTO: The INTO have a great page with tips and tricks for home learning: https://www.into.ie/2020/03/18/tips-and-tricks-home-learning/
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Twinkl is a website that has many resources for all Irish curricular subjects in their ROI section. Access for parents is currently free. To sign up
Go to www.twinkl.ie/offer and enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS |
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www.mathsweek.ie/2019/ In response to Covid-19 MathsWeek.ie have made their resources available for pupils that are at home during the school closures. These recreational maths activities are a great way to keep the brain sharp, learn and have fun. Among these they have a "Puzzle of the Day" every day as well as fun card games that all the family can enjoy.
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Visit www.helpmykidlearn.ie/ This excellent website has lots of interactive and age appropriate games. The website was developed as part of the National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among Children and Young People by the Department of Education and Skills.
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Scoilnet.ie has a wealth of resources aimed at teachers and parents alike. They have full lesson plans as well as printables and other digital resources.
Also check out their EdTV section which is like the RTE Guide for children's educational TV shows. |
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Starfall.com is an excellent resource to use with Junior Infants-3rd class for Literacy and Maths. While some of their resources and games require a paid membership, much of their website is free.
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Youtube can be an excellent resource for home learning if used correctly. Here are some recommended channels:
- https://www.youtube.com/user/StorylineOnline - This channel features celebrities reading children's books. This can be used in a similar way to how you would do shared reading with your child. Choose a suitable book for your child. Before you begin the video ask your child to predict what the story might be about. Discuss the book and what they think it may be about. Pause the video at various intervals and question the children on what happened etc. When the story is finished discuss with your child why they liked/didn't like it. Ask questions about the story. Perhaps get them to write a sequel, design an alternative cover, draw a picture of their favourite part etc.
- https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 - The Body Coach himself, Joe Wicks has dedicated videos for children's exercises. He is also posting full P.E. Lessons for children for the next few weeks so be sure to check his channel out.
- https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga - Cosmic Kids has a huge range of yoga videos for children in a variety of themes. They also have some excellent mindfulness activities to help calm and refocus them.
- https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDEducation - Ted-Ed has a huge library of Science, History, Geography and general knowledge based videos. It can be particularly useful for children from 2nd Class and up.
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfPyVJEBD7Di1YYjTdS2v8g While it is based on the American curriculum, many of
- https://www.youtube.com/user/watchfreeschool - From the solar system to historical figures to Why the Sky is Blue, FreeSchool has the answers to many of children's questions.
- https://www.youtube.com/user/LittleBabyBum - For Junior and Senior Infants, Little Baby Bum has many great videos for learning their nursery rhymes and in recent days they have begun posting new videos on phonics and number.
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www.teachyourmonstertoread.com Teach Your Monster to Read is an award-winning series of games that’s helped millions of children learn to read. Play for free on their website or download the app on your phone or tablet. (Phone app costs 99c)
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https://ncca.ie/en/primary/resources-for-parents The NCCA or National Council for Curriculum and Assessment has an excellent bank of information and resources for parents to help them support their children's learning.
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With schools closed, DabbledooMusic have launched a parents' program which they are giving away for free to parents for the first month.
Click the button below for the link. |
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Here is a list of some further online resources that our teachers use in the classroom. You might find a few things here to help pass the time over the next few weeks.
https://www.scoilnet.ie/scoilnet-services/world-book/
Access to a huge library of free children's ebooks
oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
Access to a huge bank of resources for all areas of the curriculum
www.primaryhomeworkhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths
Maths resources for home
primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/literacy
Literacy resources for home
www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/science/
Science resources for home
Access to a huge library of free children's ebooks
oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
Access to a huge bank of resources for all areas of the curriculum
www.primaryhomeworkhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths
Maths resources for home
primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/literacy
Literacy resources for home
www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/science/
Science resources for home