Welcome to Seomra Ranga, the Hub for Primary School Resources. For the overseas visitors “Seomra Ranga” means “classroom” in the Irish language.
Seomra Ranga has been successfully providing tried and tested resources for primary school classrooms since 2007. Since that time, the site has gradually built up a strong following amongst educators as a repository of quality teacher-created resources. The resources on the site, which support all areas of the curriculum, are arranged in accordance with the curricular provisions of the Irish primary school….
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Scrafitti Art
This Visual Arts lesson combines a “taking a line for a walk” lesson with wax crayons and paint. In a three-step lesson, pupils firstly create a wax crayon design. This is then completely covered in thick black paint. A pattern is then scratched out of the black paint to create an interesting mixed media piece of art.
Picasso Portraits
These two visual arts lessons are aimed to be integrated with a unit of work on the artist Pablo Picasso. The class should look at the life and artistic works of this Spanish artist, focusing especially on his Cubist style of paintings and the Rose and Blue Periods of his work. These lessons get pupils to paint a sample of both his Rose and Blue Periods.
Book Review – Lottie and the Stolen Pirate Ship
This is a magical adventure story for young kids to enjoy. The main plot is to trace or find the stolen pirate ship. The story begins by introducing the main characters Lottie, Mia, Finn and Biscuit the dog. Like all children, they enjoy playing together and allowing their imagination to run free along the shores of Branksea Island. Lottie and Finn explore an old shipwreck and engage in a game of pirates. read more…
Cláir Teilifíse
This resource is intended to support the theme of “An Teilifís” in the classroom. It has display resources for a variety of different television programmes as well as resources to support the development of oral language and written work on the theme of “An Teilifís”.There are 160 pages of resources in this pack.
Symmetrical Foldover Prints
This lesson can be used as part of the Print Strand of the Visual Arts curriculum. It can also be integrated with the theme of symmetry in maths as it shows in a very visual way this mathematical concept. It uses paint poured straight from the bottle so there is no need for paintbrushes for this one!
Colour Red Resource Pack
This Colour Red Resource Pack is intended to support a topic of work on the colour Red in junior classes. It contains 17 different files with over 200 pages of resource material. The pack contains resources for display in the classroom as well as lots of activities for pupils to complete to consolidate their concept of the colour red.
Symmetrical String Prints
This lesson can be used as part of the Print Strand of the Visual Arts curriculum. It can also be integrated with the theme of symmetry in maths as it shows in a very visual way this mathematical concept. It also uses a very common item to produce symmetrical prints which the pupils will find interesting and unusual.
Weave Silk Art
Have you ever tried doing some Digital Art with your pupils? I originally came across the Weave Silk website ten years ago when it was recommended on Twitter by the late, great Bianca Ní Ghrógáin, who was always a mine full of the greatest digital ideas. I’ve tried this digital art with my pupils before and they really enjoyed it. read more…
