Today 3rd class hosted a friendly chess tournament against Corpus Christi Primary School, Moyross and Le Chéile NS. The boys and girls from all three schools were excellent. Congratulations to the winning team from Corpus Christi and to our individual chess champions from each school♟️💙 #Chess

We were delighted to team with BeaumontBNS for a chess tournament in the sun last week. Well done to both schools for all their efforts ♟️

Great to have a Ficheall summer course full to capacity in Burt, Co. Donegal. Donegal Education Support Centre

We are very grateful to Denis Reilly for his excellent facilitation of the Chess Summer Course. Ficheall.ie

♟️ 🟢♟️Teachers enjoying the summer course ‘Chess for Social Skills’. This is an extremely hands on and teacher centred course. The Ficheall Ficheall.ie network promotes chess in primary schools for the social & cognitive benefits of pupils ♟️🟢♟️

♟️ 🟢♟️Teachers enjoying the summer course ‘Chess for Social Skills’. This is an extremely hands on and teacher centred course. The Ficheall Ficheall.ie network promotes chess in primary schools for the social & cognitive benefits of pupils ♟️🟢♟️

Lots of fun, new skills learnt in a relaxed atmosphere! Each day has just flown, empowering teachers to inspire pupils to develop a life-long enjoyment of an ancient game within the face-to-face Summer course “Chess for Social & Cognitive Skills – Ficheall Network”. Ficheall.ie

♟️ At the end of an excellent week of Chess for Cognitive & Social Skills ⁦Limerick Education Support Ctr⁩ with tutor Noel O’Connell. ♟️ #SummerCourses ⁦Ficheall.ie⁩ ⁦ESCI⁩ ⁦Department of Education⁩

Summer course week one is coming to an end and the participants from the Chess course with @ficheall_ie had a great week! If you've attended one of our summer courses this week share photos with us! We hope you've enjoyed your week 🙂 #summercoursesforteachers #EPVDays

♟️⬜️Teachers who took part in the 'Chess for Social & Cognitive Skills' Summer Course this week ♟️🟩 Well done to all👏 Ficheall.ie ESCI Department of Education

Photos from the Chess for Social and Cognitive Skills summer course in West Cork facilitated by Eamon Lenihan

Primary Teachers enjoying the Ficheall summer course last week in Galway. It is great to see the Galway Primary School Chess community continue to grow.👏♟️ Ficheall.ie ♟️

Last week was Week 1 of our Summer Course programme. One of the courses that took place last week was the Ficheall.ie Chess for Social and Cognitive Skills course in Ballyhass NS.

A fantastic piece from Niamh Donnelly about the rising popularity of chess in Ireland. Chess is cool! ♟️ 👌 👏

Mark and I will be commenting on round 5 today at 15:30. Please join us. Any teachers who are members of Ficheall.ie, we'd love to have you there as well.

IM Mark Quinn and I will be starting our commentary at 15:30 for the penultimate round. We'll be joined later by 9-time Irish Champion, Stephen Brady. Irish Chess Union Ficheall.ie

Another successful Chess for Social and Cognitive Skills Summer Course in Castlebar this week. 👏 ♟️ Mayo Education Support Centre

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♟️♟️♟️ Congratulations to Jennifer Tedstone, a tutor for the Donegal Education Support Centre and a primary teacher Scoil Íosagáin Buncrana Buncrana, who recently appeared in the Irish Times newspaper on the benefits of teaching chess to young people ♟️♟️♟️

It’s Friday and time for games after a great start to the school year. Enjoy the weekend everyone ☀️🥰 Ficheall.ie