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Fair Trade Day was on Saturday (9th May). Find out more about fair trade below. Why not try out a yummy fair trade recipe.

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Our interactive Irish programme Bua Na Cainte is now available to download to your laptop. Please follow the instructions below:
To access Bua na Cainte’s interactive programme at home, for a limited period, please follow the instructions below.

1. Go to www.edco.ie/bua

2. Select the file which suits your computer PC or MAC

3. Select the Class Level you require, and then click on it to start a download of the file.

4. Once the download has completed, click on the file to install and follow the on-screen instructions.

5. A Bua na Cainte icon will appear on your desktop. Once you select this icon a login page will open where you will need to enter the details included below.

Login: trial

Password: trial

A  video is available below demonstrating the different elements to the programme.

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Ready steady bake!

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Delicious, inspiring, easy-to-follow recipes from chefs and food experts using Fair Trade Certified™ products and ingredients.

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Solve each box and colour it the assigned colour to reveal the picture!

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Try challenge yourself a couple of times to see how quick you can be!

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Daily 10 - Mental Maths Challenge - Topmarks

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Daily 10 is a primary maths resource for teachers of Years 1 to 6. It asks ten random questions on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, ordering, partitioning, digit values and more. Ideal for use on a IWB and as a starter or plenary activity.

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Chan an t-amhrán.

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Chan an t-amhrán.

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Interactive wordsearch

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Vocabulary associated with school in Gaeilge.

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Archery Arithmetic - Multiplication

Choose which times tables to practise. Answer questions as quickly as possible and you will get more time to aim your arrow. Play on your own or against a partner. Who can score the most points in your class?
For more multiplication games click here.

Scan to open this game on a mobile device. Right-click to copy and paste it onto a homework sheet.

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Can you match the past and present tense verbs?

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Polar Pairs: Past and Present Tense Game

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Bring some fun to SPAG lessons with this interactive English game from Twinkl. Children click on the cards to try and find matching pairs of words written in the past and present tense. There are three differentiated levels of play ensuring that it can be used by a wide range of abilities.

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Estimate and measure some everyday household objects! Then calculate the difference in your estimated weight and the actual weight, maybe you were spot on!

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Can you fill in the missing information?

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Order the weights from lightest to heaviest!

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Reading Games and Guided Reading with Roy the Zebra

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Once the game has loaded click start on the introduction screen.

Sentences will appear but oops, they have no capital letters in them!

Drag and drop the looking glasses over the words to add the missing capital letters.

If you need to undo an answer at any time then click the flower in the bottom left corner.

The game will detect when all the words have been corrected and will automatically start marking the words with a tick or a cross.

To exit the game click the home icon in the top left of the game which will bring you back to this page.

Have fun playing the game.

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Capital letter punctuation games perfect for using on iPads, Android tablets and PCs, Macs plus interactive whiteboards at school or at home. The games are quick to download and come with a free lesson plan plus printable resources.

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Reading Games and Guided Reading with Roy the Zebra

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Once the punctuation game has loaded then read the instructions on the intro screen and click the start button.

A sentence will whizz in from the left, but it won't have its full stop. Grab the snail with your finger or your mouse and drag to where you think the full stop should be. To help you position the full stop a target will appear. When you drop the snail if it is at the end of a word then it will turn into a full stop - hey presto! If it isn't near a word then the snail will whizz back to the branch for you to have another go.

The game will detect when you have answered and then automatically mark the sentence for you. Don't worry if you have the answer wrong, you'll get another chance to put the snail and its full stop in the right place.

During the game keep an eye on the snail scoreboard and keep going with the full stops until all the sentences are done. Have fun playing it.

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Full stop punctuation games that are ideal for using on an iPad, Android tablet as-well-as interactive whiteboards or computers in the classroom, or at home. All the games are quick to download and come with a lesson plan and resources to help extend learning.

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Reading Games and Guided Reading with Roy the Zebra

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Reading games that teach question marks. Use Zed's reading game on your interactive whiteboard in the classrooom. Ideal for teaching question marks. Free online reading game comes with lesson plan and teaching resources.

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Can you find different objects inside/outside that are lighter or heavier than you!

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Capital Letters and Full Stops Worksheet

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Capital Letters and Full Stops Worksheet

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Add the correct punctuation (full stops, capital letters and commas) to this party invitation.

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Watch out for missing punctuation and incorrect spellings

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Answer these questions orally or into your copy book.

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I know lots of you are missing your grandparents and older relatives and friends who currently need to cocoon. Have you discovered a cool way of staying in touch? Why not draw a picture representing this.  The National Safeguarding Office of the HSE are running a Children’s Art Competition ‘Keeping connected in times of Covid 19’ in conjunction with  European Day of Solidarity between Generations during the month of May. The closing date for the competition is May 29th.

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I know lots of you are missing your grandparents and older relatives and friends who currently need to cocoon. Have you discovered a cool way of staying in touch? Why not draw a picture representing this.  The National Safeguarding Office of the HSE are running a Children’s Art Competition ‘Keeping connected in times of Covid 19’ in conjunction with  European Day of Solidarity between Generations during the month of May. The closing date for the competition is May 29th.

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Can you put in the weight of the parcels so that they can be sent off!

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Mostly Postie

Mostly Postie is a mobile-friendly scale reading game.

Learning Objectives:
Y1:To begin to measure mass / weight.
Y2:To choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g) temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels.
Y3: To measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml).

Drag the parcel onto the scales.
Read the scales to find the mass of the object.
Type the mass on the keypad.
Press 'check' - if you're correct the post van will deliver your post.

Make it trickier, you can enter half kg as ½kg or 500g.

Have fun!

HAVING TROUBLE LOADING? Please try this version.

This game is © copyright 2018, J.Barrett, ictgames.com All Rights Reserved.

Made using the and libraries.

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Mostly Postie is a mobile-friendly scale reading game. Learning Objectives: Y1:To begin to measure mass / weight. Y2:To choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g) temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels.

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Why not post your creations to our class padlet.

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Can you find different ways to make up the weights shown.

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Persuade a supermarket to stock fair trade products. What are the benefits for everyone involved?

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As Helen mentioned above, lots of us are missing our grandparents of older relatives that we cannot see at the moment. Here are some activities that might help you keep in touch. You could write a poem for them. Below is just an example, you might want to chose Aunt/Uncle/Godmother.

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Helen & Deirdre's class had some fun with kahoot this week so why not join us in our fair trade quiz. The link is https://kahoot.it/challenge/03123883?challenge-id=3b51cbcb-79e6-4530-a8a5-a76ac0e0ab3e_1588850325510 and the password is 03123883. You do not need the kahoot app to play.

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We think it’s important to look back at everything you’ve achieved over the previous few days and be proud of yourself.  Engaging in a weekly reflection can pinpoint learning for you and can set you up for new goals for next week. It allows us to think about what we did and how we might have felt about it. So once a week the children should include in their copies a weekly reflection including:
●The day and the date.
●How they are feeling and why.
●Two things they have learned over the past few days.
● Did you manage to focus on this weeks goal you set yourself?
●One thing you were grateful for this week.
●One thing they found hard this week.
● Their favourite part of the week and why.
● One thing they would like to learn/focus on next week.  We invite the children to upload this reflection via Aladdin either as a document or a pdf/photo. Please refer to Andrea’s Aladdin post for assistance.

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So what have you been up to? Did you make something really cool? Or perhaps you did some baking? Or gardening? Or maybe you wrote a short story or poem? Well your class wants to see it! So please go to the link below and add it. I have included a video below showing you exactly what to do so no excuses :-)

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Archery Arithmetic - Multiplication

Choose which times tables to practise. Answer questions as quickly as possible and you will get more time to aim your arrow. Play on your own or against a partner. Who can score the most points in your class?
For more multiplication games click here.

Scan to open this game on a mobile device. Right-click to copy and paste it onto a homework sheet.