This week’s supermarket supplement is from Aldi with a weekly school lunch planner. My question is, which day provides the cheapest lunch? (To make it more higher order, make sure to think about how much of each product you’ll need. For example, will you eat all the apples on Monday or just one?) #ss
Today, Educate Together announced that the proposed new Educate Together school in Castlebar was not going to open because a suitable premises was not offered. The building that the church offered is a school that hasn’t been used in over 20 years, is inaccessible and is over 12km from Castlebar. Rather than providing a suitable temporary … Read more
It’s back to school time for many pupils and we wish you all the best for the upcoming school year. We are also thinking of the children who cannot access a school place this year due being unbaptised and hope that our supposedly secular republic makes sure that they start taking responsibility for all of its citizens soon.
There was much celebrating in Anseo.net’s house (at least from me) when the Department of Education finally allowed schools to stop using paper-based roll books and go completely digital. My school has been wasting time doing the roll books twice – once online and once in the books – and it will be a fantastic timesaver … Read more
From Lidl’s Fuel for School supplement. What sort of maths questions can you think of? 1. Which bread is the best value? (Don’t just look at price) 2. Estimate how much it would cost to make a sandwich for everyone in the class. Which bread would be the cheapest option. 3. Graph the class’ favourite … Read more
I’ve been following the recent discussions about unbaptised children accessing primary education over the last number of weeks. In order to enrol in a Catholic school, often one has to produce a Baptismal Certificate. If a child hasn’t been baptised, schools must enrol the child anyway unless they are oversubscribed. Once a school is oversubscribed, they can enforce … Read more
As many teachers know, parents can log into their child’s ClassDojo account and see how they are getting on. This is a useful tool for both teachers and parents as it can be a good way of having the same message going home. ClassDojo also allows teachers to send messages home using a tool called … Read more
Hello there and welcome to the Primary Teaching Bloggers Ireland first ever blog hop! You may have noticed an influx of Irish primary school teachers filling up your Facebook news feeds of late. Well, we’ve decided to get together and help one another to share our ideas and resources and to help you easily find … Read more