Online Platforms
WIDE OPEN SCHOOL
CSM powered site with an amazing range of activities - very child-friendly!
IXL
Subscription model platform with curriculum-linked resources from Jr.Infants to Sixth Year.
TWINKL
Full of printables for everything and FREE from next month. Use code: IRLTWINKLHELPS
CREATE WITH CODE
Take this free course with Unity and create your own simple video game.
NEXT VISTA
Learn something new from this amazing site full of student-created videos. You can also make your own and submit to one of their regular contests!
MINECRAFT
Create new worlds while ours is on hold! Also now available as Gaeilge.
INTERLAND
An awesome game from Google resource to teach kids about online safety
SCRATCH
Learn to code and create things online with Scratch
SCIENCE FOR KIDS
The name says it all!
BRITANNICA KIDS
An encyclopaedia of all things everything!
CANVA
Amazing free platform to make professional quality posters, cards, presentations and social media posts. Endless fun!
FREE RICE
Play a range of games by helping others.
met Éireann
Weather the crisis with these free resources!
CÚLA4
Full of great Irish language resources for kids.
THAT QUIZ
Free quiz website for Maths, English, Science & Geography.
SOCRATIVE
Fabulous interactive app and platform for creating and delivering quizzes and assessments!
BBC i-REPORTER
Media Literacy & Fake News challenge!
READING EGGS
Spelling site for kids aged up to 7/8 - free trail for parents and available as an app also.
PREZI
Do a research project and then present it in a much funkier and interactive way using free presentation platform Prezi. Hours of fun getting just like you want it to look!
GOOGLE SLIDES
Create FREE online collaborative presentations - also linked with Google Images and YouTube for interactive presentations!
ZOOM
Online video conferencing tool: now with restrictions lifted for Ireland! For more, click here.
REAL pYTHON
Four free coding courses (usually paid). Click here
TEACH FROM HOME
A site to help you teach from home using Google' suite of free apps
MS HOME SCHOOL
Access Microsoft's DREAMSPACE platform for free home lessons 3x a week1