Primary School Resources

Literacy / Numeracy
The major publishers of schoolbooks - including Edco (edco.ie), Gill Education (gillexplore.ie) and CJ Fallon (cjfallon.ie) - are making their online education resources for primary and secondary students available free of charge, including ebooks, podcasts, games and puzzles.

'School on TV'
RTÉ plans to broadcast an hour of "school on TV" to support children and their parents at home from March 30th between 11am and 12pm, aimed at first to sixth class pupils. It will be available on catch-up on RTE Player, while worksheets will be available at on RTE.ie/learn

Khan Academy Non-profit site that provides free video tutorials in maths and reading.

Storyberries.com A free, online collection of easy-to-read and beautifully illustrated stories, comics and poems for children. You can select stories by theme.

handwritingpractice.net This site allows you to create custom handwriting practice worksheets.

Over the Moon English resources (GillExplore.ie) Gill Education has provided Over the Moon English resources for Junior Infants to Second Class children on their site GillExplore.ie

Gaeilge:

Cúla4 (cula4.com)
This free Irish app from TG4 is aimed at two groups: Cúla4 na nÓg is aimed at under-sixes, while Cúla4 is aimed at older children. As well as TV shows, there are games and creativity sections.

Selection of primary resources
Ciara Reilly is a former primary teacher and now a lecturer in education with expertise in ICT and digital education at Marino Institute of Education. She has compiled an outstanding bank of resources at padlet.com/ciarareillymarino/primarydistancelearning, including Irish resources.

Physical education:

Go Noodle (gonoodle.com) Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts and used widely by teachers. It provides a great opportunity for children to wake up their bodies, engage their minds and be their best.

Super Troopers (supertroopers.ie) Super Troopers offers a health homework programme that encourages children and their families to live happier and more active lifestyles.

Stem (science, tech, engineering and maths):

Scratch (scratch.mit.edu) Learn to program interactive games, stories and animations.

Maths, Gaeilge and reading lessons
Teacher Michael O’Connor is posting daily Maths, Gaeilge and reading lessons on YouTube for the children in his class, which might be useful to other 4th, 5th and 6th class children and their parents: youtube/bt4rFdbpGkY

Geography:

National Geographic Kids (kids.nationalgeographic.com) Learn about science, geography and history.

Nasa Kids’ Club (nasa.gov/kidsclub/) Child-friendly resource where children can learn about science and space.

History, Geography and Science (@RangOrlaith)
Órlaith Ní Fhoghlú is a third class teacher and she has put together activities and resources relating to the history, geography and science curriculum on padlet.com/orlaithnifhoghlu/wqeiqvodvbl4

Games/tests:

Kahoot.com Search from millions of existing games on any topic such as brain teasers, trivia of all sorts, news quizzes and science.

Sarah Webb’s writing games (@MoLI_Museum) Award-winning children’s writer Sarah Webb is posting fun writing games and story prompts over on Twitter.

Smartycatgames Games to help children learn Irish and French in a fun and exciting manner.