The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., has today announced free home access to the online edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica for all school-going children. Britannica Online School Edition is a unique and comprehensive resource designed for all levels of learning. It has four age-specific learning areas (“Primary Britannica” for primary schools) which contain various engaging teaching and learning materials, all designed to
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Numerosity is a new maths app for iPad just released in the iTunes App Store from the Thoughtbox company. Its purpose is to reinforce learning in the four main mathematical operations operations. A pupil in Rang VI has done a review of the app and these are his thoughts: My teacher asked my to do a review on this new maths game he found
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On October 23rd, 5th class made a photostory movie. First Ms. Clarke made a short photostory about Chinese New Year to show us how make a movie. On photostory you get pictures and put them on your computer and use them in your movie. You can type sentences onto the picture, change the style, writing, colour, the section that the writing is in and put
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On Thursday October 25th, 6th class recorded some Hallowe’en Carols. These are Christmas Carols with Hallowe’eny lyrics. We recorded our three best songs. We used an app on the iPad called Hokusai to record the songs. Then we exported the file to Dropbox and imported it into Audacity where we converted it into an .MP3 file. Some of the songs were really funny. We
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On the 19th of October 2012, 6th Class had a cake sale in the school hall to raise money for the Mission V Fund IT campaign . Last week our teacher told us that we were going to have a cake sale next Friday. All of the class were really exited. People could bring in buns to sell to all of the pupils in
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In 6th class we made some poems with a twist for National Poetry Day last Thursday. In poems with a twist, the first three lines are full of expectation and the last line is a let-down! We used Audacity to record the podcast and then we made it into an MP3 file. They were really fun to make. Listen to the Podcast HERE (2mins 55secs)
During the week we were doing a project on Twitter about signs of Autumn. There was a lot of schools from all over the world involved. Schools from Canada, America and Ireland were tweeting as well. We had to find signs of Autumn and take pictures of them. We had to tweet as much as possible. Eimear and Maedhbh took pictures of signs of
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We launched our new website on Wednesday the 19th of September. Parents and children sat in the hall waiting while Mr. Quinn was getting ready to show us the new website. We counted down from ten to one to unveil the website. He showed us how to access the website and look around. The new website is very different from the old one and
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Since last week, 6th class have started a new blog for the teacher and all the class pupils. Our teacher Mr. Quinn had unveiled it to us on Monday 17th of September. He gave us our own blogs for us to post in school or after school at home. Mr Quinn has started to give us homework to do on the blog at home. All
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MissionV is a not-for-profit organisation which promotes the development of 21st century skills through innovative online technologies. It is enhancing the Irish classroom by providing the digital tools for teachers and students to design and create their own, curriculum-based, interactive content – for powerful new learning experiences. During the school year 2011-12 they ran a pilot project in 20 primary schools, supported by the
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