Ipads

At St. Patrick's NS, iPads are used in Junior Infants through Second Class to develop skills in creativity, literacy, and problem-solving. This guide helps parents support iPad learning at home with recommended apps, each accompanied by a YouTube link for guidance. These resources make it easy to create a safe, educational, and fun iPad experience that reinforces classroom learning. 

ScratchJr is a free, beginner-friendly coding app designed for young children (ages 5-7). It uses a block-based interface, allowing users to create interactive stories, games, and animations by snapping together code blocks. ScratchJr promotes creativity, problem-solving, and computational thinking in a fun, visual way without needing prior coding experience…

Introduction to Scratch Jr

Puppet Pals is a creative storytelling app where users can animate characters and settings to make their own short films. By dragging and dropping characters, recording voiceovers, and moving elements in real-time, it encourages creativity and narrative skills, making it engaging for young learners to develop storytelling techniques.

Particularly useful for Irish comhrà practice.

Puppet Pals - Master Class

Toontastic is a storytelling app that allows children to create animated cartoons by drawing characters, recording voiceovers, and moving elements in a 3D digital space. It guides users through a structured storytelling process, promoting creativity, narrative development, and communication skills, making it an interactive way to explore storytelling and animation.

Toontastic 3D Tutorial

Other Games we use here at St Patricks NS on the ipads to support the children's learning: