Teachers from www.ficheall.ie have been in touch to share these great ideas:
- The Ficheall Challenge – challenge the students in your school to teach someone new in their household. It could be a brother or sister, mother or father. To help with this, one of the talented and tech savvy teachers in the Ficheall network has created videos demonstrating the mini-games approach to teaching chess which the Ficheall website details and which are explained at the chess summer courses. These are available on the Ficheall_ie Twitter account here (you don’t need a Twitter account to view) and also on the Ficheall.ie YouTube channel here.
- Moves for Life is running an art competition – design your own chess set from junk materials in the house. All you have to do is make the set, and send a photo of it into mfl@movesforlife.ie. See www.movesforlife.ie for more details. All sets will be displayed on their facebook page so just photograph the set if you don’t want your child’s photo online.
- Chessossity (chess lessons, puzzles) is free for the next two months and they’re running a puzzle-solving championship until May 31st. It starts next Monday 30th March. For more information see this link http://movesforlife.ie/uncategorized/online-chess-for-kids-spring-2020-program/ and then go to www.chessossity.com to register.
- Chessbud Ireland YouTube Channel – International Master Mark Quinn is planning to upload a new video each week for Irish primary school students who already know the basics of chess and are keen to learn new tactics and strategies. He has created three playlists for students to choose from: Beginner’s Mind (for students who understand the pieces and checkmate), Challengers and Masters. . Where possible Mark will feature the tactics of Irish chess players. He is planning to upload weekly lessons for free during school closures.
- ChessKid.com are offering free gold membership for the next two months. Lessons, puzzles and online games. Use this link to get free gold membership – https://www.chesskid.com/promo/brainblox.