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Twinkl       All Classes - Huge variety of activity sheets in all subject areas 
Twinkl are offering all parents and teachers a One Month FREE Ultimate Membership to Twinkl.ie. This will allow parents and teachers unlimited access to every single resource for every single curriculum subject from junior infants to sixth class.
 
www.twinkl.ie/offer
Notes: Setting this up is really easy to do - go to www.twinkl.ie/offer and enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS. This code will only work for new memberships.
 
 
World Book    All Classes
The World Book is a resource offered by the PDST. It’s like a virtual encyclopedia except a lot more interactive.
 https://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/products?ed=all&gr=Welcome%21 
 
 Literacy / English Resources 

EPIC    All Levels 
Epic! is an online library which offers over 35000 resources including “Read to Me” books, audiobooks, student tracking, reading level linkage with Accelerated Reader and other reading levelling schemes. It also offers high interest texts such as National Geographic Kids and Guinness Book of Records. It is suitable for children from ages 4-12.

 https://www.pdst.ie/DistanceLearning/SourcesofInformation#epic 



Vooks    All class levels
Vooks is committed to being a resource for families to keep kids reading at home.  Vooks can also be a welcome distraction for parents, allowing them to enjoy time with their kids, watching and discussing books together. There are take-home lesson plans that can be shared with parents and guardians - built to provide children with 20 minutes a day of read aloud time and activities.
 
https://www.vooks.com/ 
 
Notes: Free one month, sign up required
 
 
Oxford Owl Ebook Reader Library     Junior Classes
 
Oxford Owl has an ebook library with over 250 books in it and offers free access to teachers and parents once you create an account at www.oxfordowl.co.uk They also have some vocabulary and comprehension activities for most of the books. 
 
www.oxfordowl.co.uk

 
Writing Legends    Junior Classes
As part of their Assistance for Schools response to Coronavirus they are providing Writing Legends free of charge through to July 31, 2020. Writing Legends is a comprehensive writing program, containing hundreds of activities for students in grades 3 to 6. The regular price is $11.50 (USD) per student. 
 https://www.writinglegends.com/
 
www.sorchaj.com    Infants to Fifth Class
This site covers phonics, dolch, Jolly Phonics including tricky word lists and practice reading sentences following the Spellbound order of words and more.
 www.sorchaj.com
 
Literacy / Gaeilge Resources

Duolingo         Gaeilge2nd - 6th Class
Duolingo can be used for learning any language including Gaeilge. They can use Duolingo on phones, tablets, computers.
https://schools.duolingo.com/

 



Maths Resources

Multiplication.com 
3rd Class up
Loads of games to practice Multiplication.
 https://www.multiplication.com 


Science Resources

Scholastic Learn at Home
(Free)Day to day projects (USA based) for children Infants to Sixth Class. 
 https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

 
Science Foundation Ireland    Infants to 6th Class
Any science experiment you could ever think of is nicely organised into lots of different sections. Much of the equipment you can find at home but well worth exploring to try and do a science experiment every few days.
 https://www.sfi.ie/engagement/discover-primary-science-and-maths/activities-search/


Geography Resources

Ask About Ireland    Infants to 6th Class
An oldie but a goodie. This web site covers both History and Geography from infants to 6th class including some great project ideas. There’s probably enough here to cover the entire curriculum.
 http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/
 


Scoilnet Geography     Infants to 6th Class
 
Teachers working with Scoilnet have produced a number of subject-based themed pages. Each theme page presents a set of links and resources on a particular topic. This page contains a number of resources on different Geography topics. Many of them also tie in to Educate Together’s Learn Together Curriculum.
 https://www.scoilnet.ie/primary/theme-pages/geography/ 


History Resources

Ask About Ireland    Infants to 6th Class
 http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 PE Resources and Exercise at Home

GoNoodle     All class levels
 
GoNoodle is a really easy and good way to get kids moving. Popsico… Pop pop sico! 
 
https://www.gonoodle.com/
 
Notes: Free


Download your schoolbooks


The Educational Company of Ireland
In an effort to provide a solution to make it as easy as possible for every student, teacher and parent to access our Primary, Junior and Leaving Cert e-books, we have created three free accounts which you can use to access everything you need to keep you going over the coming weeks.


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Bua na Cainte Irish programme video lessons are now available at www.edco.ie/bua. Both username and password is "trial".
Dropbox app is needed on laptop before you download



CJ Fallon
https://www.cjfallon.ie/           and follow instructions on screen



​Folens
To lend a helping hand to schools and parents over the coming weeks we are giving access to all our digital resources on FolensOnline.ie.  
Parents and teachers can follow the steps below to get access:
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  1. Go to FolensOnline.ie and click register
  2. Select Teacher
  3. Fill in a username, email and password
  4. For Roll Number use the code:  Prim20