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Learning to count is fun with this range of free educational games for Key Stage 1 children. Start with the simple counting games and progress to numbers up to 100. There are also matching and sequencing numbers activities.

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Free, interactive, learning to count games for 5 to 7 year olds involve numbers from 1 to 100.

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Audible UK | Free Audiobook with 30-Day Trial

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See audible.co.uk/FT for eligibility. Audible is home to the best podcasts, audiobooks, drama and documentaries with over 450k audiobooks and Original Podcasts to choose from.

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Welcome to Seomra Ranga, the Hub for Primary School Resources. For the overseas visitors "Seomra Ranga" means "classroom" in the Irish language.
Seomra Ranga has been successfully providing tried and tested resources for primary school classrooms since 2007. Since that time, the site has gradually built up a strong following amongst educators as a repository of quality teacher-created resources. The resources on the site, which support all areas of the curriculum, are arranged in accordance with the curricular provisions of the Irish primary school....

Please have a browse through the new site and support our work in developing new resources by becoming a Member. Individual and School Memberships are available.

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Seomra Ranga | The Primary Education Hub

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Welcome to Seomra Ranga, the Hub for Primary School Resources. For the overseas visitors "Seomra Ranga" means "classroom" in the Irish language. Seomra Ranga has been successfully providing tried and tested resources for primary school classrooms since 2007. Since that time, the site has gradually built up a strong following amongst educators as a repository of quality teacher-created resources.

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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TG4 Television | TG4 Player | Irish TV | Irish Language TV | Gaeilge | Súil Eile

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TG4 is the National Irish Language Public Service Broadcaster. The TG4 Player is a Global Hub of Irish language and Cultural Content, freely available for audiences worldwide. Music, Sport, Documentaries, Kids. Stream Irish TV now!

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Úsáideann snag.ie fianáin lena chinntiú go mbaineann tú an tairbhe is fearr as ár suíomh gréasáin. Chun tuilleadh a fháil amach faoi na fianáin sin, léigh ár mBeartas Príobháideachais. Tá faisnéis sa bheartas seo freisin ar an gcaoi le d'fhianáin a bhainistiú.

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The CAPP programme (Stay Safe) is a primary school based approach to the prevention of child abuse. The aim of the programme is to reduce vulnerability to child abuse and bullying through the provision of a personal safety education programme for children at primary school level, continuing professional development for teachers, training for Boards of Management and information sessions for parents.

The Stay Safe programme itself is a personal safety skills programme designed for use with primary school children from Junior Infants through to 6th class. The programme seeks to enhance children's self-protective skills by participation in lessons on safe and unsafe situations, bullying, inappropriate touch, secrets, telling and stranger danger.

The programme aims to give children the skills necessary to enable them to recognise and resist abuse/victimisation and teaches them that they should always tell (an adult that can help) about any situation which they find unsafe, upsetting, threatening, dangerous or abusive.

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The CAPP programme (Stay Safe) is a primary school based approach to the prevention of child abuse. The aim of the programme is to reduce vulnerability to child abuse and bullying through the provision of a personal safety education programme for children at primary school level, continuing professional development for teachers, training for Boards of Management and information sessions for parents.

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Talk to someone

Worried about something you have seen online or concerned about your child? Childline and the National Parents Council Primary offer free advice and support service.

Childline is a support service for young people up to the age of 18.There is a 24hr telephone, online and mobile phone texting service.

The National Parents Council Primary enables and empowers parents to be effective partners in their children's education.

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Webwise offer free information, advice and resources to help parents, teachers and students address internet safety issues.

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Our resources and awareness campaigns to help primary school children stay safe on our roads.

Teaching children road safety in an age-appropriate way is so important for their development. This helps shape their attitude to road safety and how they behave as they grow and progress through the various stages of being a road user.

We offer a range of resources which tailor road safety messages to help engage primary schools and primary school children (age 5-12)

Cycle Right (cycle training programme)

Cycle Right is run through a schools programme and also directly through one of many approved Cycle Right providers. Cycle Right can be contacted using an online form.

The Cycle Right programme is delivered over three stages. As they progress, every child gains the skills and knowledge to help them cycle safely on our roads.

Stage One (8 hours) is based at an off-road location, e.g. a school or similar. Children get practical bicycle and road skills training as well as theoretical and Rules of the Road instruction.

Stage Two (3 hours) allows children take a more active role in making safer cycling decisions under the active assistance of an instructor.

Stage Three (3 hours) lets children take the lead role on a cycle journey, i.e., planning the route, deciding on road positioning and interacting with traffic. The instructor takes an accompanying role, assessing and giving feedback.

The programme is produced and supported by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, the Road Safety Authority and Cycling Ireland with input from central and local agencies, and other groups.

Be Safe! (for children aged 5-12)

Be Safe! is designed to promote safety among primary school children focusing on the key messages of road, fire and water safety. The road safety section covers:

walking

cycling

public transport.

We have a resource pack that is full of activities and learning modules for different primary school age groups. Each module builds on previous lessons to help children become more safety aware and more responsible citizens.
Order Be Safe! for your school or home.
If you would like to get this resource pack, you can access and download it through our virtual learning environment.

The pack was developed as part of the Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) module 'Myself', which addresses safety and protection, personal safety, safety issues and making decisions.

Let's Go! (road safety guidelines for primary and secondary schools)

Let's Go! is a resource developed for teachers and school personnel who organise school events for children involving the use of public roads. It contains practical and helpful road safety guidelines covering various modes of transport, including:

walking

cycling

travelling by car

travelling by bus

travelling by public transport

Order Let's Go! for your school

Seatbelt Sheriff and Hi-Glo Silver

Seatbelt Sheriff (for first class)

Our Seatbelt Sheriff programme is aimed at children in first class. Children become seatbelt sheriffs by taking a pledge to always wear their safety belt and make sure that everyone else in the car is buckled up. Each child gets a sheriff's badge and a certificate which give them the power to instruct passengers and drivers to 'buckle up' in any vehicle in which they are travelling.

Hi-Glo Silver (for second class)

Our Hi-Glo Silver programme is aimed at children in second class. Hi-Glo Silver helps Seatbelt Sheriff with his road safety duties. This special horse encourages children and parents to always wear high-visibility jackets or belts when out playing, walking, or cycling.

Seatbelt Sheriff and Hi-Glo Silver poster competitions

Every year, children from first and second classes across Ireland compete to create fun, colourful posters about the Seatbelt Sheriff's and Hi-Glo Silver's road safety messages. There are significant cash prizes and class trips for winning entries across both competitions.

Safe Cross Code (for third class)

Our Safe Cross Code programme is aimed at children in third class. It focuses on the six steps every child should remember to safely cross any road. To help them remember these safety steps, we have a catchy song and special dance to learn, a fun game to play and some famous TV ads to watch.

Safe Cross Code

We have brought the Safe Cross Code to life through a series of fun games, dances and tv ads:

1,2,3, Safe Cross,

4,5,6, Safe Cross,

1,2,3,4,5,6, Safe Cross Code

six, keep watching,

that's the Safe Cross Code!!!!!

Going to School (a guide for parents and guardians)

Going to School is a handy guide with helpful tips for parents and guardians on how to get their children to school safely. It's available in both English and Irish and you can download and view it from the links below:

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Road safety education for primary school children

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Road safety education for primary school children from the RSA. Cycle right, Seatbelt Sheriff, Hi Glo Silver, Let's Go!, Safe Cross Code, Going to School.

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You're aware of your positive and negative thoughts. You practice meditation, yoga or other peaceful exercises. You try to stay pleasant in general. But there's one more thing you can add to your list of spiritual activities... Coloring! Coloring is meditative, creative and fun. It's the perfect escape when you want to turn your brain off and live in the now. We have an assortment of gorgeous Mindfulness Coloring Pages for you to choose from. Patterns, nature, animals... And they're all free. Just pick one, print and zen out with your colored pencils. Download them all.

Mindfulness Coloring Pages

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Mindfulness Coloring Pages - Best Coloring Pages For Kids

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You're aware of your positive and negative thoughts. You practice meditation, yoga or other peaceful exercises. You try to stay pleasant in general. But there's one more thing you can add to your list of spiritual activities... Coloring! Coloring is meditative, creative and fun. It's the perfect escape when you want to turn your brain [...]

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Your Headspace Mindfulness & Meditation Experts

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We want children to be healthy & happy now & for the rest of their lives. Teach meditation for kids with Headspace, using easy exercises designed for young minds.

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Welcome to IXL's year 2 maths page. Practise maths online with unlimited questions in more than 200 year 2 maths skills.

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Popular maths games from across the web and tons of new games added constantly. Play Now.

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A programme that grows with your children

Our flagship programme, Jolly Phonics, teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics, which is widely recognised as the most effective way to teach children to read and write in English. That was over 25 years ago. Since then our immense progress has been studied in numerous research projects, the results of which led to phonics becoming central to the UK curriculum. Today we are now used in over 100 countries worldwide. As the leading synthetic phonics publisher, and the most experienced, we offer a 7-year school programme that teaches not only phonics, but spelling, punctuation and grammar too.

Jolly Phonics validated by the DfE as a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme!
Trusted by teachers and loved by children, we're delighted to announce that Jolly Phonics has been validated by the Department for Education as a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme. This means that the programme meets the 16 essential core criteria required by the DfE.
Since its 30-year anniversary in 2017, Jolly Learning and its flagship, multi-sensory SSP programme, Jolly Phonics, has continued to cement its position as the leading programme in teaching children to read and write from an early age.
Emma Ince is the Deputy Head Teacher at Tudor Primary School in Suffolk, England. She has overseen the school's progression in literacy by using the Jolly Phonics programme over the last 8 years. In this short video, she discusses the ways they use the programme and the success they have had.
With its fresh and vibrant redesign, Jolly Phonics' complete range of new and improved SSP resources continue to evolve to meet the needs of pupils and teachers, whilst delivering exceptional results for all children, both in today's classroom and for the future.

How Jolly Phonics works

Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive programme, based on the proven, fun and muliti-sensory synthetic phonics method that gets children reading and writing from an early age. This means that we teach letter sounds as opposed to the alphabet. These 42 letter sounds are phonic building blocks that children, with the right tools, use to decode the English language. When reading a word, they recognise the letters and blend together the respective sounds; when writing a word they identify the sounds and write down the corresponding letters. These skills are called blending and segmenting. These are two of the five skills that children need to master phonics:
You can view videos for each of the five key skills by clicking on the buttons below.
Alongside these skills children are also introduced to the main alternative spelling of vowels. These five skills form the foundation that children build on with each year of grammar teaching.

Jolly Phonics works - proven results!
Rush Green Primary School in Essex, England, turned to Jolly Phonics to improve literacy levels across the school. After seeing great progress in their children's abilities, they have since extended their teaching with the Grammar programme through the years.
There has been much research all over the world on Jolly Phonics, which can be viewed here. The research shows that the progress made by children using Jolly Phonics far exceeds that of children not taught using a synthetic phonics approach. It is effective across the ability range, with boys doing just as well as girls, while those with English as their second language can do as well as children who have it as their first.

"Jolly Phonics is amazing for the children to learn letter sounds and help pronounce words to take them onto the next stage of their speech and language."

Jolly Phonics continues for the next 6 years

The programme continues throughout the school years, by extending the earlier phonics teaching with further spelling, grammar and punctuation concepts. Each year of teaching provides continuous revision and consolidation of topics taught in previous years. Children are also taught the core concepts of grammar and punctuation, starting with simple age-appropriate definitions, which are gradually built on with each year of teaching. The teaching continues to be multi-sensory with actions and colour coding (fitting with Montessori) for parts of speech to help children develop their understanding of how language works. The systematic programme means children are given the tools that they need to independently write what they want clearly and with expression.

With spelling, punctuation and grammar (or SPaG) now more prominent in curricula around the world we have been extending our literacy programme to go up to age 11 (Year 6/P7 in the UK). Our programme has been at the forefront of this teaching and meets the aims of both the UK National Curriculum and the US Common Core State Standards.

"The systematic teaching of spelling, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary is evident in the students daily writing. They are able to recognise and use parts of grammar in their reading and writing."
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Programme progression

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Jolly Phonics and Grammar is a 7-year programme that takes children beyond phonics and integrates spelling, grammar and punctuation.