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I used Playful Classroom’s FREE 10 Day Stem Challenge with my class for the last 3 weeks (I give them 2/3 a week and they upload their results to Seesaw – they absolutely love them and the parents have found them fantastic too). I was delighted when she agreed to write a guest blogpost for […]
I don’t know about you but I’ve definitely been listening to more podcasts and watching more Netflix since school closures so I wanted to share some of my favourites here and I’ll continue to add to them as I watch/listen to more. I always find it so tricky to find things so I thought it […]
I just wanted to put a blogpost together about this Webinar that I joined at the end of April. The webinar was all about Literacy and focussed on different ways that parents could support their children at home. I found the webinar really fascinating and learned a lot myself. The ideas were really practical, hands […]
This is a guest blogpost from Karen Riordan, an experienced primary school teacher who is trained in Reading Recovery. She noticed a lot of people are struggling with homeschooling and teachers are looking for new ideas so decided to put together a YouTube video with some tips for spelling and then agreed to put the key […]
Huge thanks to Alan Hally who runs ‘Magic of Education’ on Instagram for this guest blogpost on play and learning. Some really lovely ideas to share with parents. The schools have been closed for almost 2 months now. It is hard to believe! 7 weeks ago, I thought that we would be back after the […]
I’ve had a lot of messages from 6th class teachers over the last few weeks wondering what to do to mark the end of primary school for 6th class if schools remain closed until September. Below are some suggestions given by teachers so hopefully they’ll give you some ideas for your own school. Another really […]
This blogpost is written by Múinteoir Niamh Infants as part of a series of guest blogposts where teachers share their experience, thoughts and ideas for teaching during school closures. If you’d like to share your experience please email niamh@irishprimaryteacher.ie That Thursday that we got the news that every school was closing was such a blur. […]
This day 6 years ago I set up Irish Primary Teacher. I’m writing this blogpost as a reflection and think back over that time. It’s something I try to do regularly as a teacher and I try to do it every year on IPT’s birthday. So here it is; Starting IPT I was teaching in […]
The next post in the ‘What’s working well for me’ series is from Claire who runs the instagram page ‘Seeds of Education’. Hi, I’m Claire, a primary school teacher living in Donegal. I’m an NQT, currently subbing in a multi-grade setting where I teach 2nd, 3rd and 4th class. In such unfortunate, unprecedented times, it’s […]
I think we’ll all admit, Schooling from Home is HARD (for students, parents and teachers alike). For obvious reasons, Speech and Drama teachers don’t usually teach remotely as giving feedback on vocal technique, facial expression, posture and body language becomes both difficult to judge and difficult to relay when you’re teaching from behind a screen. […]