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5 activities - just one chalk grid! #playinupperprimary

Magical scenes as the class created their own outdoor theatre yesterday, before performing small group improvisations around single word prompts #playfullearning 🍂

First full display of the year up - all about the kids leading their learning and helping direct the flow of the curriculum 🙌 #pupilvoice

What a glorious start to the year ☀️ a whole morning spent outside playing maths games #playinupperprimary

Good to go for the start of the term - our non fiction section of the library displayed in Global Goals sections as decided by the kids 🌍

All other non fiction books sorted into 'topics' and in 'pull and peruse' boxes below. #globalgoals #lfs

So it doesn’t have much of a name but hopefully this helps explain it!

Started the in-service day with a staff House Sport event! An awesome group, everyone giving it a whirl 🙌 #backtoit

Number Shuttles 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏿

This has gone down well in every class I’ve taught, from P3 to S3 football training.

3 (or four) players and three cones. Shout a number and they have to run to create it. For example: 8 = 3 + 3 + 2

#playfullearning

2,3,4 or 5 - outdoor mental agility

4 players: chalk lines, a cone & tennis ball. Each player assigned a number (2,3,4 or 5). A calculation is called out & the correct answer must balance the cone on their head, the tennis ball is passed to the back & then looped to the front.

Water Cycle Outdoor Game 💧

Sponges, buckets and water. Whilst the weather is good (…forgetting the wind today!) this is a fun plenary or mid lesson activity to help consolidate some of the vocab and steps in the water cycle. #playfullearning

Outdoor Science Game 🥼🌍

Forgot to post one of these yesterday 🙈 but this is a great game to compliment any lessons around climate action and greenhouse gases. Can mark out areas with chalk, cones or rope. #playfullearning

Sorry - have just popped these ones together using PowerPoint (was hoping the videos would be followable but maybe not - will try and fix it!)

Roll and Catch - Outdoor Maths

Some chalk lines and a bag of tennis balls is all you need for this paired activity that develops a number of skills at once.

You can even take a whiteboard and pen out and use the scoring for data handling #playfullearning

Day 2 of Mental Agility Games Outside

All you need is a chalk line and groups of 3 or 4 to get going with this challenging times table activity.

#playfullearning

2 new stories 🙌

Both revolve around the theme of Al but take different approaches. Bounce uses all sorts of writing types: script, text chat, newspaper, poem - with Al bots against Humans in sport.

Byte is a comedy where the President has to negotiate with an Al bot that has shut the country down.

They’re some pretty stark and worrying stats. Schools can (and do) work to tackle the trend but once again, it’s a broad societal issue that will require a real change in arenas outside the classroom.

Address sexist views of ‘sizeable minority’ of Scottish boys, say researchers A third of boys agree that a girl wearing revealing clothing is ‘asking for trouble’, finds survey involving thousands of Scottish secondary students

Address sexist views of ‘sizeable minority’ of Scottish boys, say ‪@uofglasgow.bsky.social‬ researchers

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Mental Agility Games Outside

A week and a bit until some of us are back in Scotland, so going to post a whole class game everyday - I always get my guys outside on the first day back and this is a really accessible game that can be differentiated in a second!

#playfullearning

Oh my goodness that feels so late to me 🤣 we go back in two weeks time (a week into August) - which I’m guessing would feel really early for you!

Playful Mathematics For children 3 to 7

And if you are interested particularly in being playful mathematically- I have written this (award winning) book just for you!: uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/pl...
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It’s the halfway point of the holidays in Scotland and still plenty of time to do a bit of laid back reading 📖

If you fancy getting playful with your class next session, there’s 100 ideas waiting to be shared: bloomsbury.com/uk/100-ideas-f…

#playfullearning #playinupperprimary

A morning spent trying something new!

Spelling lesson around the ‘y’ suffix sorted for next term 👍

Tried to setup a wee promo post for the book…the dogs had different ideas 🙄🙈

If you fancy some holiday reading though, might I tentatively suggest something about teaching through play? #playfullearning

One of the 3D astronaut sculptures created by the Year 6 pupils from Greenfield Primary School. These have been built from scrap cardboard and paper straws,covered with a layer of papier mache and then painted.

One of the 3D astronaut sculptures created by the Year 6 pupils from Greenfield Primary School. These have been built from scrap cardboard and paper straws,covered with a layer of papier mache and then painted.

One of the 3D astronaut sculptures created by the Year 6 pupils from Greenfield Primary School. These have been built from scrap cardboard and paper straws,covered with a layer of papier mache and then painted.

One of the 3D astronaut sculptures created by the Year 6 pupils from Greenfield Primary School. These have been built from scrap cardboard and paper straws,covered with a layer of papier mache and then painted.

Here’s just a few of the fabulously imaginative astronaut sculptures created this week by the Year 6 pupils from Greenfield Primary. They made giant leaps. 😬😁👍
darrellwakelam.com #edusky

Excited to see where the class take this morning starter 🙌 #playinupperprimary

It’s been some journey but the kids vision of a Global Goals non fiction library is starting to take shape 🙌

Awesome! 🙌 let me know how you get on

Whole class skip counting game

Can take outside or play inside (on a rainy day like today!) and easily adapt for age and stage #playinupperprimary

Just putting some maths games together for tomorrow for playing on our concrete area.

Core maths skills focus but largely multiplication and times table recall as we head towards end of term #playinupperprimary