POST-PRIMARY TEACHERS'
NEWSLETTER
No 14,  31 March 2010
Themepage on the Easter Rising

Scoilnet's resource finder contains a lot of useful links for History relating to the Easter Rising of 1916. Last week we put a number of these links and descriptions into a single themepage on the topic.
Scoilnet's Easter Rising themepage

Most popular last week:

  1. A la Gare
    French
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  2. Le corps
    French
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  3. Pilgrimage to Mecca
    Religious Ed
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  4. Videos on 1916 Rising
    History
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  5. Global Warming
    Geography
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  6. A Healthy Diet
    Home Economics
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  7. Completing Business Documents
    Business Studies
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  8. Child Labour
    Geography
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  9. Demand and Supply
    Economics
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Site of the week

Easter Rising 1916: Personalities and Perspectives
From the National Library, a virtual tour of manuscripts, books, newspapers, photographs and drawings, relating to the Easter Rising 1916. It also is a study of the main players of the Rising. Great resource to examine primary source material.
Scoilnet review
Ratoath teachers take honours in Berlin

Well done to Ursula Hynes and David Walsh from Ratoath College, Co. Meath VEC, who took 2nd place in the Microsoft European Innovative Teaching Awards. The Innovative Education Forum 2010 took place recently in Berlin where 250 teachers from 41 countries were competing in the innovative teaching competition. The Ratoath teachers led the MyStudyMate.ie project which features TY students presenting educational videos.
My Study.ie website
More about Microsoft Innovative Teachers

Focus on Classical Studies


Our resource finder has had some new additions in the past fortnight for both Junior and Senior Cycle Classical Studies. Here are three:
  Alexander the Great: Hunting for a New Past (Senior Cycle)
  Pompeii: Story from an Eruption (Junior Cycle)
  Roman v Greek Theatre (Junior Cycle)
Revise / test

Three quizzes plucked at random from our Quiz page. Scoilnet Quizzes are an extremely popular section of the site.
Young People and the Law CSPE
WB Yeats' Themes SC English
Money Matters Home Economics
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