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Why not support SPHE learning at home with the help of MediaWise?
SPHE stands for Social, Personal and Health Education and has been a compulsory subject in Irish primary school since 1999. One aspect of SPHE is media education.
With children spending more time online as part of distance learning, they are increasingly being exposed to different forms of media, i.e. advertising and their influences.
MediaWise is a free Irish educational programme that provides lessons for pupils from Junior Infants to 6th class. It aims to enable children to understand what media is, how advertising works and how media and advertising can influence how we feel; how we think and eventually what we buy.
To access the programme click HERE.
During the school closure period, why not take some time for SPHE and raise your own and your child’s awareness and understanding of media and its impact on our daily lives, our thoughts and our personal behaviour.
It is understood tonight that sources within government believe that the Minister for Education Mr Joe McHugh will make a recommendation to the present caretaker Cabinet, tomorrow morning, to cancel this year’s Leaving Certificate examinations.
With this recommendation, also will come a memo outlining possible alternatives to these exams being cancelled.
The memo to be revealed is the product of detailed consideration taken into account over a number of weeks by the Department of Education.
The Department of Education together with second level teacher trade unions, school management bodies and others, have today continued with discussions over how best to assess students.
Alternatives debated could include a review of previous Junior Certificate results; Mock Examination results: Profiles within the school of previous attainments; Teachers and School Principals professional judgment or all of the previous stated, in an effort to produce some kind of estimate of each attending students.
Taoiseach Mr Leo Varadkar had already stated that the issue of the Leaving Certificate examinations is one that his caretaker Government wishes to bring to a final conclusion this week, adding that it was important to make sure that an alternative to same was identified and put in place.
Visit Thurles and Tipperary from the 1930’s onwards & enjoy Photographs and Folklore.
Dúchas.ie is a project that aims to digitise the National Folklore Collection of Ireland.
The overall project consists of three main sections:
(A). The Schools’ Collection (Visit HERE).
(B). The Photographic Collection (Visit HERE).
(C). The Main Manuscript Collection (Visit HERE).
The Schools’ Collection includes approximately 740,000 pages of folklore compiled by pupils from 5,000 primary schools, between 1937 and 1939. Folklore compiled by Tipperary pupils can be viewed HERE.
You can even access records of folklore from pupils who attended local Thurles schools, including the Thurles CBS, (Visit HERE) and Thurles Presentation Convent, (Visit HERE).
The Photographic Collection comprises 80,000 photographs, all mostly taken between 1935 and 1970.
The main Manuscript Collection provides access to records of Ireland’s oral tradition and material culture, the majority of which was collected from 1935 onwards.
Not all of the precious manuscripts held in this great collection have been transcribed, but Dúchas.ie are inviting users of the site to transcribe, on a voluntary basis, stories that were collected as part of the Schools’ Collection. If you would like to volunteer then please visit HERE.
May The Fourth Be With You!
Tomorrow, Monday May 4th, is ‘Star Wars Day’ and the internet is teeming with fun activities and offers to keep fans, young and old, fully entertained.
Lego.com are gearing up for the big day with Star Wars games and fun through their kidzone, same available HERE.
Lego.com is also launching new Lego Star Wars products and offering great deals on their existing Lego Star Wars toys and collectibles. Indeed, Lego.com is now offering a free mystery gift for purchases made over €15, if you pay with PayPal and use the promo code IEPP.
The official online home of Star Wars is unmistakeably www.starwars.com and it has lots of fun family activities for May 4th, click HERE.
Why not explore some Star Wars themed cooking and make some banana and pineapple Fruit TIE fighters?
Take a behind the scenes look at the links between science and Star Wars by watching episodes of the series Science and Star Wars.
Why not ponder some probing Star Wars questions with the aid of the StarWars.com discussion cards? For example, If Darth Vader scares everyone, what scares Darth Vader?
Even the youngest Star Wars fans can enjoy some colouring fun with the help of a free Star Wars Activity pack available HERE.
Whatever way you choose to celebrate Star Wars day, do stay safe and remember, ‘May the fourth be with you!’
If during the current period of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, you’ve ever thought to yourself “I’d love to do a course on…”, then www.futurelearn.com maybe the website for you.
FutureLearn offer free access to courses from leading universities from around the world including our own Trinity College, Dublin.
It costs nothing to sign up. After you join, you can complete hundreds of free short courses and even explore courses with academic accreditation and to degree level. Courses cover everything from fashion to healthcare, history to flight mechanics, law to social media marketing campaigns.
Future Learn for Schools
A new dimension to Future Learn has been the development of Future Learn Schools. Visit HERE.
Future Learn Schools offers pupils, aged 13 years plus, free access to hundreds of online educational courses to expand their learning.
These include courses on writing fiction; ecology; wildlife conservation; everyday chemistry and computer programming.
Future learn is accessible on desktop, tablet and mobile.
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