Any suggestions of what Granny can say to a Nursery Class on Ireland

[Pinotmum]

My mum, who is Irish, has been asked to address ds's nursery class about Ireland during Geography week. She hasn't lived there for about 45 years and doesn't remember much Irish. Can any of the Irish mumsnetters give her a few tips to fill 5 minutes - perhaps some irish words they could learn and a few easy facts e.g what age you would go to school if you lived there. The nursery teacher seems desperate as no-one from anywhere else in the world is volunteering Thanks in advance - poor Granny is almost 70 yo.

tell the children things about other children - they can relate that way

maybe some sports they do, favourite meals and foods, picture of the flag, some irish phrases, money ( or is it all euros now?!)

kids start at 4 but its increasing to 5 with more children attending a playschool of some sort or montesorri before "big" school

the day starts at 9.30 and finshes at 2 and at 10/11 it ends at 3.30.

schools dont really do "sports" more local clubs that take care of that.
although swimming is part of the class later on.

the river shannon is the longest river, 3 lakes allen ree and derg. v popular holiday trip is to cruise on the shannon and there are so many pitstops from start to finsh

the sugar loaf mountain beside dublin is - in the shope of a sugar loaf quite distintive

dublin is on the river liffey and synomous with the Celts.

newgrange is interesting but may go over their heads.

the atlantic ocean is on the west coast , very diff to the irish sea.

norman forts are doted round the coadtline like lighthouse they were lookouts for the enemy!

all euros hana!

kids here start school at 4/5 with junior infants, senior infants, 1st class, 2nd class and so on til 6th class.

they have to do irish in school and most schools still do religion classes as standard, those would be very striking differances.

we play hurling (camogie for women) which is the fastest sport in the world and played with no protection for the most part, helmets are optional. (the boys will think thats brilliant, the thought of running really fast hitting things with wooden sticks without helmets )

we also play gaelic football which is like soccar but you can use your hands and you can score by hitting or kicking the ball over the net as well as kicking it into the net. over gets less points but is easier (this is the scoring system for hurling too)

emmmmm...... how am i doing so far?!

kids like looking at pictures, can you print some off from the internet, and then glue them on card, that way they can be passed around

kids like looking at pictures, can you print some off from the internet, and then glue them on card, that way they can be passed around

do the kids still learn the irish mythology as 'history' like we didin primary? if so that would be a cool thing to tell them and some of the faerie tales and cuchulainn stories

Mnay, many thanks. I have to speak to the Nursery Teacher today and give her the thumbs up or down . Lots of really good ideas here and I am sure I can put soemthing together for my mum to do. Thanks again!!