Playground games is a 22 page booklet consisting of 20 different playground games. You may know some of the games, you have played some of them when you were little! For example, we have “duck, duck, goose”, “Oranges and lemons” but we also have less known games like “I sent a letter” and Jamaican … Read more
The Big Book of Energizers
September is always full of energy and optimism for teachers, parents and children! After a few weeks (even days, sometimes), it may feel like you never had the summer holidays – you are tired, the children are listless and unmotivated and they are finding it hard to keep the class on task.
We all have had those days when the kids are hyped up and it is very hard to get them back down again, step in Jenny Mosley! I love Jenny Mosley and everything that she does. This “Big book of Calmers” does not disappoint. It contains over 120 individual activities for the teacher to use … Read more
The Golden Rules have been part of many classrooms all over Ireland. Jenny Mosley has developed resource after resource to help promote positive behaviour and self esteem in primary level children. I’ve been reviewing a number of Positive Press’ products on this site. We have always been huge fans of Jenny and her work in … Read more
When I first saw this book, a feeling of dread came over me. Art and crafts brings me back to how art used to be taught in primary schools – lots of paper plates, templates and 30 identical pieces of work stuck to a wall – no creativity or individuality. Had the author called this … Read more
When it comes to educational software, Irish teachers can generally rely on other countries such as the UK, USA and Australia for most subject areas. However, the one exception is Gaeilge. While there have been some valiant attempts to make decent Irish language software, there are many problems. Firstly, there’s the problem of the very … Read more
I really liked this book! It does what it says it should do! It comes in a Big Book format with really child-friendly and colourful pictures, notation and words with teacher instructions on the same page. You have the option of teaching the song as a group, using the CD or if your children can … Read more
For those of you who have any experience of working with children with autism, you will know that every child you work with is unique. Many people with autism are unable to verbalise what they want and a system called PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) was developed to communicate. In my school, we teach children … Read more
Here we have some fun and stimulating clapping games for children from 1st Class upwards. The original “Clapping games” comes in Big book format, which is useful as your visual stimulus. The second in this series is in a smaller publication, called “More clapping games” The books are laid out in a clear way for … Read more
ICTs in the Primary School is a book published by the Dublin West Education Centre and written by Robbie O’Leary and John O’Mahoney, two very well known primary school teachers in Tallaght, Dublin. With a huge buzz around technology in the classroom, this book is well timed in its publication. The book itself comes in … Read more