Student Links

Hello Students – See below some great website links to help you with homework and projects or just interesting ways to boost your brain power. Also below are links to competitions and fun activities. Enjoy!

 

enviro

Askaboutireland.ie – learning zone for primary school students of all levels from ENFO. Lots of information on the Environment, Geography as well as all our favourite subjects.

Green Schools – Green-Schools, known internationally as Eco-Schools, is an international environmental education programme, environmental management system and award scheme that promotes and acknowledges long-term, whole school action for the environment.

Solar System – a website where you can learn all about the solar system.

Shore Thing – games and exciting activities from the RNLI. See how fit you have to be to become a lifeguard, launch a lifeboat to rescue people in trouble and much more.

Astronomy for Kids – is a fun way to explore Space, the planets and moons.

Earthview – is a website that allows you to see the Earth from all the different satellites that are orbiting our planet. Just select any one of the hundreds of satellites and enjoy the view


sci

PrimaryScience.ie – this website shows how important science is to our everyday lives and more importantly how much fun it can be!

Planet-Science.com – provides lots of interesting science resources for primary school pupils.


comps

Texaco Art Competition – This is the website of the nationwide Texaco annual art competition. Watch this space for details.


eng

Storybird.com – create, share and read art-inspired stories.

MeeGenius.com – ebooks for kids. Click on a book to select it. Click Read to hear the book read out loud to you or Click Personalize to change the names of the characters in the story. Click Bookshelf to select another book.

Starfall.com – A free website to teach children to read with phonics. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books.


maths

Xtramath.com – a free web program that teaches addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts.

MangaHigh.com – A free games-based maths resource.


art

I am an artist – an interactive website with videos, factsheets, weblinks and interactive games on a wide range of visual arts topics.

Texaco Art Competition – This is the website of the nationwide Texaco annual art competition. Watch this space for details.


irish

Foclóir.ie – Search for your Irish-English and English-Irish translations.


fun

FunBrain.com – has lots of fun educational games to play.

Learning Games – This website has any number of crosswords in any subject.

BBC School Games – This link to the BBC schools website has a huge selection of educational games across a variety of subject areas for the following age groups: 4-7; 7-11; 11-16.

Science Games – This is an amazing link to science based games.

Chess for Kids – This site has all you ever need to know about the game of chess

Top Marks – is an excellent educational website that can help you with research for your class projects or your homework.


music

SFSKids – fun and games with music. Interactive activities and guides to writing and making music. Includes various starting tunes, notes and a drag and drop notes activity.


gen

Scoilnet.ie – Scoilnet is the Department of Education and Skills (DES) official portal for Irish education.

Click on the link below to see even more suggested websites. Thank you to Mr Byrne for compiling this list

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