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TV programmes with a learning focus 06 - 13 April
RTÉ Two Mon-Fri, 11:00 - 12:00
RTÉ and Macalla Teo, with support from Mary Immaculate College, have collaborated to introduce a cross-platform teaching initiative for primary school pupils across the country.
Each morning on RTÉ Home School Hub, bilingual teachers will present three short class segments aimed at 1st and 2nd class, 3rd and 4th class and 5th and 6th class. The TV programme will keep the pupils watching and learning for the hour and then redirect them to fun content and project work that will be housed on rte.ie/learn and RTÉ Player.
Pupils can share their awesome content with the Múinteoirs here.
Ireland on Call
RTÉ One Tuesday and Thursday, 19:00 - 19:30
RTÉ’s new live television show presented by Katie Hannon and Brendan Courtney will guide viewers through the coronavirus crisis. From interviews with the experts to the first hand experiences of frontline workers, to those providing essential services the programme will showcase the combined national effort to get us through this unprecedented time.
Shakespeare On RTÉ - The Schedule
RTÉ Two Weekends
Over the coming weeks, RTÉ will screen a series of classic BBC productions of plays by William Shakespeare, aimed at students - the productions will be available post-broadcast on RTÉ Player.
Schedule:
Hamlet 11/04/20 RTÉ2, 11.25 am
The Tempest 12/04/20 RTÉ2, 10.50 am
King Lear 18/04/20 RTÉ2, 10.35 am
A Midsummer Nights Dream - 19/04/20 RTÉ2, 10.35 am
As You Like It - 25/04/20 RTÉ2, 9.45 am
Much Ado About Nothing - 26/04/20 RTÉ2, 10.10 am
Julius Ceasar - 02/05/20 RTÉ2, 10.20 am
Romeo and Juliet – 03/05/20 RTÉ2, Time TBC
National Treasures
RTÉ Two Wednesday 19:00 - 19.30
The roadshow reaches its final stop in Galway, where finds include a woman's voting slip from 1918 and a piece of the first aeroplane to cross the Atlantic.
Home Activities:
1. Explore the 100 objects collection and navigate through the 5th & 6th Class Lesson Plans or Post-Primary Lesson Plans here.
2. Encourage students to become active ‘researchers’ or ‘oral historians’ who collect and reflect on stories and history about their locality and the experiences or memories of living people within these localities. Students can record their project work on www.scoilnet.ie/threads
Earth from Space
RTE Two Saturday, 20:00 - 21:00
Cameras in space tell stories of life on our planet from a brand new perspective, to reveal new discoveries and explore Earth's most remote habitats. In the first episode, satellites follow an elephant family which is struggling through a drought, reveal previously unknown penguin colonies, and discover mysterious ice rings that could put seal pups in danger.
Home Activities:
Begin your space adventure using the space themes and space resources highlighted by the in-house Scoilnet team as follows:
1. Rockets
2. Planets
3. Space Crafts
Lessons to Accompany Clips from Programmes.
Herstory, the Irish women's storytelling movement, in partnership with RTÉ, has announced the Herstory 20/20 Project - an ambitious storytelling platform devoted to uncovering forgotten but fascinating women's stories from history, mythology and contemporary culture.
Lesson plans are available in the form of a Herstory Treasure Hunt, with exercises that help children and young people to uncover lost heroines and awaken their own inner heroines or heroes. Plus, there’s a special exercise around the heroines of the Northern Irish Peace Process who will be honoured at the forthcoming 2020 Herstory Light Festival.
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra proudly presents Music In the Classroom, its hugely popular series of tailor-made concerts for primary and second level music students, live at the National Concert Hall.
RTÉ will be live-streaming one concert in each of the series (music for primary schools, music for Junior Cert & music for Leaving Cert) via RTÉ Culture
For Leaving Certificate students, Tom Redmond presents a step-by-step guide to Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, highlighting key themes and sections, with excerpts, and concluding with a full performance by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.
Scoilnet has collaborated with the RTÉ Archives to bring together a collection of resources that relate directly to the Irish Curriculum. The archives provide an array of primary sources which students can use to hone their skills such as working as a historian, analysing evidence and developing an understanding of change and continuity.
RTÉ has partnered with Junior Cycle for Teachers (JCT) to bring radio documentaries into the classrooms around Ireland. Targeted at 12-15yr olds, the aim of this partnership is to educate students in literacy skills - and encourage a critical ear to radio. Each radio documentary is accompanied by a worksheet to enable both students and teachers to analyse, discuss and utilise these radio documentaries.
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has partnered with RTÉ Learn to bring media into junior cycle classrooms. The teacher resource guide supports the delivery of the new Junior Cycle English and Science curricula. The materials are based around the successful TV programme ‘Tommy Bowe’s Body Check’ which was produced by Indiepics.
RTÉ Radio na Gaeltachta (2015) six part series that focused on various areas of the Higher Level Irish language exam - the oral exam, poetry, prose pieces and descriptions of the pictures.
Building Ireland was a TV series broadcast on RTÉ that explored how Ireland's great building and engineering achievements came to be, and their impact on the development of Irish towns and cities.
The makers of the series, Esras Films, have made 18 short video clips from the programmes available to Scoilnet and subject editors have developed curriculum-focused lessons around the clips.
