I made a little booklet for a student in my ASD class who was making his first holy communion. Just insert photographs of your church and details of time and date. A social story about what you might expect when you go into your local church on the day you make your First Holy Communion. It covers when, where, going into the church, sitting in pews, listening, singing songs and going up for the Eucharist. SOCIAL STORIES are valuable tools for teaching social interaction skills in an exacting way to people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. They are particularly effective for those individuals with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Thanks.

Sample letter written by a student studying for the OCG exams. Letter NO.2 OCG Letter Sample Looking for Money Support Litreach Samplacha - ag lorg tacaíocht airgeadais The Marking System Letter Layout: 5 marks Subject of the Letter: 10 marks Accuracy: 10 marks ((Grammar/Syntax 5; Spelling 5) Style: 5 marks Total:30 marks By learning off your address, recipient address, adding in the subject and your send off – that’s at least 10 marks guaranteed! That’s a third of the marks before you even write your paragraphs :) I have translated the letter into English also and provided further information on the Letter part of the Written exam. Three hours are given for the Written Test. There are 100 marks going to the Test as a whole and from that, 30 marks to the Letter. That is equivalent to saying that about a third of the total marks for the Written Test go to the Letter. Therefore, it is recommended to give about a third of the time to the Letter, i.e. an hour. At least 380-400 words must be written. On the Written Test, in Section A, Practical Writing, Question 1 or Question 2, Candidates are asked to write a letter. The Letter should be at least 380 words. It is a formal letter from a school address and is written by the Candidate in the role of teacher or Principal. The content of the letter always relates to school affairs and the school community. The letter should be 380–400 words. On the Written Test the Candidate will have to choose a letter from two objectives taken from the following four objectives: • to give thanks • ask for money • make a complaint • support a cause It’s recommended that the letter be written as recommended in the supporting exam material - you need to buy the book from Marino if you don’t have/get an electronic copy.

Sample letter written by a student studying for the OCG exams. The Marking System Letter Layout: 5 marks Subject of the Letter: 10 marks Accuracy: 10 marks ((Grammar/Syntax 5; Spelling 5) Style: 5 marks Total:30 marks By learning off your address, recipient address, adding in the subject and your send off – that’s at least 10 marks guaranteed! That’s a third of the marks before you even write your paragraphs :) I have translated the letter into English also and provided further information on the Letter part of the Written exam. Three hours are given for the Written Test. There are 100 marks going to the Test as a whole and from that, 30 marks to the Letter. That is equivalent to saying that about a third of the total marks for the Written Test go to the Letter. Therefore, it is recommended to give about a third of the time to the Letter, i.e. an hour. At least 380-400 words must be written. On the Written Test, in Section A, Practical Writing, Question 1 or Question 2, Candidates are asked to write a letter. The Letter should be at least 380 words. It is a formal letter from a school address and is written by the Candidate in the role of teacher or Principal. The content of the letter always relates to school affairs and the school community. The letter should be 380–400 words. On the Written Test the Candidate will have to choose a letter from two objectives taken from the following four objectives: • to give thanks • ask for money • make a complaint • support a cause It’s recommended that the letter be written as recommended in the supporting material from the college - you need to buy the book from Marino if you don’t have/get an electronic copy.

A great little song to help children learn and recall their doubles. Add actions to the song using fingers. Helps children recall doubles for life! Print and enlarge to A3, laminate and display while learning doubles. The more confident they become at recalling their doubles, they love when you speed up the song. Enjoy this resource for free and please leave a review :-) Check out my other items… Senior Infants 1st Class 2nd Class Year 1 Year 2

Laminate this resource, pop it into a wipe pocket or poly-pocket and use it time and time again! Addition - Number Bonds to 10 Roll the dice twice to generate the two ‘parts’. Add them together to find the ‘whole’. This is a fun early finisher activity or fun to play with a partner.

UK British National Curriculum Key Stage 1 Maths Target Cards Differentiated Cards See picture attached for suggested use - target buckets - early finisher activities focusing on target Quick and easy way to track and assess targets with 8 smiley faces to tick/date when evidence of working on target/meeting target has been achieved. EDITABLE WORD DOC EXAMPLES OF TARGETS Card 1 To count forwards to 5. To recognise and order numbers 1-5. To count objects accurately 1-5. To write numbers 1-5. Card 2 To count forwards to 10. To recognise and order numbers 1-10. To count objects accurately 1-10. To write numbers 1-10. Card 3 To count forwards to 20. To recognise numbers to 20. To write numbers to 1-20. To know number bonds to 10. Card 4 To count backwards from 10 to 0. To count backwards from 20 to 0. To recognise a circle, triangle, rectangle, square and pentagon. To know number bonds to 20. Card 5 To count backwards from 20 to 0. To recognise odd and even numbers to 10. To know number bonds to 20. To write numbers to 20. Card 6 To know number bonds to 20. To know how many sides 2D (a circle, triangle, rectangle, square and pentagon.) shapes have. To know odd and even numbers to 20.

A multi-activity approach to learning number bonds to 10. Can be differentiated to learn number bonds to 20 by rolling two dices and adding them together to find a whole number to work with. Children will learn to recall number bonds to 10 quickly and in a variety of ways numbers on the dice - important for children to visualise for mental maths making number sentences with the whole number they have just rolled completing a part, part, whole model for the number sentence that they just made filling in the tens frame drawing it on the number line Laminate this resource, pop it into a wipe pocket or a poly pocket and use it time and time again!

Laminate this resource and use it time and time again! Subtraction - Number Bonds to 10 Roll the dice to generate one part to subtract from the whole number to find the missing part. *Check your answer by adding the two parts together; your answer should be the same as the whole number.

English in Practice Long Term / Working Document Plan for 5th Class New revised edition - created Jan 2025. Word Document This working document includes a table of the English Grammar Skill Focus for the week including: Definition and some examples of sample posters/anchor charts that your pupils could include in their journals; Spelling/Phonics Focus; Punctuation Focus; Word Study Focus; Grammar Overview. Really useful document if you use English in Practice for Homework - you can see complete overview and can explain the homework at a quick glance. Thanks :) Please check out my other items - Irish teacher trained in UK National Curriculum who completed the OCG/SCG exams with Marino for Irish language requirement condition with the Teacher Council trained in UK National Curriculum.

Sample document for studying for the Aistrúcháin Ceisteanna - English and you write the Irish - FREE. Please review :)

I made this -ough words spellings phonics riddle. WALT – Examine and use ‘ough’ words (‘ough’ have many different sounds /ow/, /oo/, /oa/, /off/, and /uff/.) This is a free resource so please leave some feedback. Thanks :)

I made this resource while studying for the Irish language requirement OCG oral language exam - picture section a few years ago. Unfortunately, I cannot find the complete version but this has pictures 1-9 explained explicitly with English translations and it’s free. It’s FREE so please leave some feedback. Thanks