Our Birthdays 03

Our Birthdays 03

Teachers, especially in junior classes or special classes, like to display the months in which pupils’ birthdays occur, and for good reasons. This is a way of getting pupils to memorise the months of the year, especially the month in which their own birthday occurs....
Book Review – Colm “Gooch” Cooper

Book Review – Colm “Gooch” Cooper

This book is an inspiring, exhilarating, thrilling and uplifting read. It documents the journey of a young boy with a big dream. Colm Cooper was a freckle faced six year old when he attended his first Gaelic Football training session for Dr. Crokes in Killarney. It...
Figures of Speech Resource Pack

Figures of Speech Resource Pack

Figures of speech are commonly used literary devices which can be seen in creative writing and poetry. Sometimes they can be confusing for pupils as they are usually not meant to be taken literally. This pack contains nine files with 187 pages of posters. Included in...
Dolch Loop Cards Resource Pack

Dolch Loop Cards Resource Pack

Dolch words are a list of 220 “service words” developed in the 1940s by William Dolch. They consist of a series of sets of words which are considered to be vocabulary which occurs most frequently in children’s reading material. There are eleven sets in this pack with...
Book Review – A Dublin Fairytale

Book Review – A Dublin Fairytale

Nicola Colton has put a Dublin spin on the well known fairytale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Fiona is the little girl in this story with a sick Granny. Fiona must go to the Moore Street market. She must buy the ingredients her Granny needs to make ‘a special witches...