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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Maths today in our wee woodland was an absolute vibe! #outdoorlearning

Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Wee follow up on my post from yesterday - would be very grateful if anyone able to comment with a picture or example of a PACE grid they’ve used in class 🙌

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Wee favour to ask: Looking at PACE grids currently (below is my attempt) and wondered if anyone might have one they fancied sharing?

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Time flies but up to episode 9 now with the Plan to Play podcast. This week, 10 ideas for history lessons that will get your class active, hands on and immersed in play! It’s on Apple, Spotify and Podbean

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Great wee play session in the morning. 20 minutes of collaborative building to act as a stimulus for our free writing (whilst I pull out the spelling groups) #playinupperprimary

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Had a pupil show my a cipher they had created at home yesterday. Invited them to create a wee challenge for the class and it was that good I ditched the maths and took them all outside to extend the learning - dreamland! #pupilvoice

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

These two wee games for time telling practice have a lot of legs! #playinupperprimary

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Superb results from a 20 min morning of collaborative play #playinupperprimary

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This was an absolute vibe today - whole class outside working together to build their city before creating their own bus timetables #playistheway

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The sustainable city now has a cycle path - and a half! Have loved teaching time through a global goal lens #sdg11 #playinupperprimary

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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Not posted a book for a while…thought I’d get going with this bit of genius “Ultra-Wild” by @stevemushin.bsky.social is a stunning, wildly creative not fiction text that explore how we may rewind our cities. It’s Science rich and dense, fascinating and wild. A book to pore over for kids.

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Couldn’t feel our hands but a great afternoon of maths in the forest! #playinupperprimary

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Mary Myatt @marymyatt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

From power points to proper texts While there’s a place for power points, pupils need more. And if we’re interested in providing them with content that’s more likely to stick, then we have some hefty backup from the research.

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

31 boxes of books to go through but result was worth it!

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Doesn’t get much better than this! This city is our sandbox for learning about time whilst exploring sustainable transport (SDG11)

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Day 3 of using this grid and the kids are loving it (almost as much as I am!) #playfullearning

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

NY resolution was to write more poetry - this one felt apt given Burns Night round the corner 🐶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Another quick tabletop game that can be played whole class whilst still offering challenge and pace 🙌 #playinupperprimary

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Better than a tuff tray? Near infinite uses for a transparent spinner and so easy to setup for your class #playinupperprimary

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A game show classic for Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. Lots of choice and differentiation and really simple to setup and adapt #playinupperprimary

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

New podcast episode uploaded 🙌 Available on Apple, Podbean and Spotify, Plan to Play is a to the point podcast that offers 6 playful activities around a specific curricular area. #playistheway

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Bus Timetables 🚌 This is one of those activities that has so many layers to it and opportunities for the kids to take it in novel directions. If you like the sound, I now have a wee podcast where you can get 10 mins worth of ideas for the classroom weekly #playinupperprimary

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Stunned at the amount of stars that are out tonight! 🌕⭐️

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Great wee game and a good moment to remind myself of effective questioning techniques

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

How would you count these pumpkins? The solutions my class proposed today were superb!

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Darrell Wakelam @darrellwakelam.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

My latest project 'Paper Plate Robin' is perfect for Christmas, but also an idea you could use all year round. The making video, photos, and instructions are the latest post on the 'news' link on the website www.darrellwakelam.com (Intellectual property of D. Wakelam) #edusky #UKEd #UKTeaching

A robin, made entirely from one paper plate, glued together and painted, by me.

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Adam Hill @adamhilledu.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Our home education pupils did a brilliant job of building and coding their VEX GO robot arms! They figured out how to control the movements using the two motors and also how to pick up and drop items using the electromagnet. #STEM #Edusky

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Whole class area and perimeter lesson, that saw 30 pupils work together to build a floor plan for a castle, before creating an artists impression on their devices - loved it! #outdoorlearning

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Once they know how, they’re drawings for models and structures will never look the same!

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Absolutely LOVED this cobbled together lesson (so often the good ones!) 🙌

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Managed to get a wee chalk pastel display up before the end of the day. Love working with them as you can make mistakes then easily hide it with another layer!

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Loved this finale to our outdoor angle/coding unit. Working in small groups to design a racetrack for our colourful bushcraft buddies, ensuring there were a range of 45, 90 and 135 degree angles present #playinupperprimary #outdoorlearning

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A how to for the greatest mini lesson you could ever deliver…honest ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This 3D model on PowerPoint was really useful for our first lesson exploring the skeletal system today

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

1:1 iPads arrived and we’ve jumped right in - this blackout poetry worked really well!

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Simple, flexible and purposeful whole class activity for developing mental agility 🙌

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Was just saying to someone: whoever scheduled Halloween and Bonfire night to land in a 7 day period, outwith a holiday, was clearly NOT a teacher - what a week! So many positives - but so very tired! 😴 this wee P6-P1 buddy activity was lovely today (both classes studying space!)

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

A space topic can only mean that it’s time to bring out the bike pump!

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Now that key bushcraft skills taught, changed up our outdoor sessions to free play with the equipment - this mini monster elevator utilising a pulley was awesome! #playinupperprimary

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

These outdoor Rangoli patterns were only meant to be a 5 minute break from our writing - blown away by their work in such a short space of time 🙌

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Getting back to Bushcraft, first revision session had the class constructing models of Angkor Wat as part of our Diwali week

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In all my time teaching with K’nex, never seen something quite as impressive created by a pupil 🙌 #playinupperprimary

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Connect 4 Multiplication I think someone must have done this before as it’s such a simple and versatile activity for your learners to pick up and play. An instant hit with the class #playinupperprimary

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Quite happy with how this turned out! When you need a wee session on times table revision but want to keep it fairly light - get outside and get some leaves! 🍁

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I doubt there is a better exercise you can do in a maths lesson than this one. The discussion is amazing. “I started by making the 5 on a dice” “I can see a triangular number” “I took the 3 on the left to make a 3x3 array” “I counted a line of 3 & two lines of 4” “It’s 5+6”

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

There’s still time to take advantage of the discount get your hands on a teaching book packed with ideas for your class and school! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Spelling Consolidation ✏️ A great one to play with your whole class or in smaller groups to revise previous weeks spelling pattern(s) #playinupperprimary

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Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This is a must for any upper primary class (or S1 class) exploring pattern and sequences. This square is amazing - everytime I think I've found all the patterns, another one appears!

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