News Mag Media - Deputy Principals Conference Sponsor
- Published: 10 November 2020
News Mag Media are publishers of curriculum-linked monthly children's news magazines. We've been publishing The Primary Planet since 2011, which is aimed at 4th - 6th class pupils. We publish News Flash for our younger readers (2nd - 4th class pupils).
We also, in conjunction with COGG, publish an Irish-language news magazine called Eipic. This is aimed at the senior end of gaelscoileanna and primary schools in Gaeltacht areas, as well as the JC cycle in mainstream secondary schools. Each issue of The Primary Planet and News Flash come with an online Teachers Resource Pack and planning document. Our website provides further reading, quizzes, maths challenges, cloze tests, comprehension exercises and more, that run in tandem with each monthly issue.
The Primary Planet and News Flash Children’s are monthly curriculum-linked news magazines. They are topical and current with something for everyone. This makes them suitable for both avid and reluctant readers.
Folens - Deputy Principals Conference Sponsor
- Published: 10 November 2020
We are the leading Educational Publisher in Ireland and our team is dedicated to better learning. We specialise in producing high-quality, engaging print and digital content, that helps teachers be more effective and saves them valuable time.
For over 60 years we have been listening, understanding and adapting to the changing needs of teachers and students. Our team is dedicated to better learning, which is why every book we produce comes with a range of digital content including interactive resources, lesson plans, videos and much more. Together these books and digital resources form a complete programme. Each programme supports the teacher in delivering the curriculum in the classroom and helps make learning fun for children and students. We are also the leading supplier of literacy and numeracy resources including internationally renowned series PM Literacy, Engage Literacy, Collins Big Cat and many more. For more information or to contact your local Folens Rep, please go to Folens.ie.
Barnardos Online Safety - Deputy Principals Conference Sponsor
- Published: 10 November 2020
‘With children spending increasing amounts of time online, we believe it is more important than ever to help empower children to stay safe and resilient online. Created in consultation with children, our interactive virtual Online Safety Workshops are delivered live using Zoom with our experienced trainer at home and the students and teacher in class. Each workshop is 45 minutes long and with the support of Google, we can provide 4 x workshops per school for €50.
Our workshops are child-led, discussion based and focus on a positive approach to online safety. We do this by asking children to be STARs online – 4 simple rules to help them how to stay safe online. For more information on how to book our workshops, please email onlinesafety@barnardos.ie. Look out for our video lessons for teachers as well which are coming soon, as well as our free webinars for parents that you can sign up for on our website – www.barnardos.ie/osp’
To keep everyone safe, Barnardos can now offer online workshops as well
as face to face workshops about online safety for primary schools.
Online Safey Webinar for Parents
Barnardos online safety webinars for parents are based on current research and best practice to promote online safety for children. We believe that open communication between children and adults and regular conversations about a child’s online use are key to helping children stay safe online.
SEAI - Deputy Principals Conference Sponsor
- Published: 10 November 2020
SEAI provide curriculum linked resources to help you to teach about energy and climate as part of SESE from Junior Infants to 6th class. There are free Interactive White Board lessons available online with an accompanying teacher’s guide.
Other resources available include Guzzler’s Big Book, The Energy File with lots of step by step experiments and activities as well as posters to help promote energy and climate awareness. Climate SOS is a new reader available to schools aimed at senior primary students.
Free teacher and pupil workshops are available on the topic of energy and climate change. An experienced facilitator can visit your school in person or virtually and carry out a fun, hands on workshop. Full details of all SEAI resources are available at www.seai.ie/schools
Contact us at schools@seai.ie
Primary Teacher Workshop
Tools to teach energy in the classroom
Book a free workshop and learn how to use the Primary Science resources in the classroom. This one hour workshop will give you all the tools you need to teach energy and sustainability in the SESE curriculum.
We will explain the key features of the resources including interactive whiteboard use, inquiry based science approaches and the spiral nature of the programme.
SEAI Primary Resources and supports - https://www.seai.ie/community-energy/schools/primary-school/
Aladdin - Deputy Principals Conference Sponsor
- Published: 10 November 2020
Aladdin Schools continues to support schools during this challenging time and we have worked hard to develop features in Start and Connect that will make school life easier and safer for staff and students.
The latest feature released to all schools has been the Covid-19 Pathway Report template which allows schools to easily collate this report which is required by the HSE for contact tracing.
Aladdin Connect contains many contactless features which make school life safer including Return to School declaration mandated by the HSE, Attendance notes and Absence reasons which parents can send seamlessly from the Aladdin app as well as the ability to grant permissions and select parent teacher meeting slots. The Homework feature also allows teachers to set homework which can be completed and returned from the student to the teacher through the app. All of these features eliminate the need for notes to be coming in and out of the school.
Aladdin Connect transforms the way staff and parents communicate, taking speed, efficiency and security to a whole new level.
New technology can be daunting – but not with Aladdin, join over 2 out of 3 primary schools across Ireland who use Start on a daily basis.
