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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Not a fan of pop music at all, but Never Be The Same Again by Mel C is a tune. Enjoy your day

Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

My first class at my current school school get their GCSE results today, good luck to all of them and I will happily take full credit for all of your success (despite teaching you when you were in Year 5!) #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Exciting life update: got a new electric toothbrush today, £55 quid off at Tesco! Only when you get a new one do you realise how crap the old one was. Been brushing for 2 hours, teeth looking like o just got back from Turkey

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Summer Holiday book haul so far, can’t go wrong with a 30p book sale at the local library for a few of them 🙂 #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Back to school adverts should be banned from TV until August 20th at the earliest #EduSkyPrimary #UKEd

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Told what I thought was a blinder of a joke in class the other day, about two of them sniggered. What do you call swallowing when you’re at Nando’s? Peri-peristalsis. Stupid kids #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I like to think that Dua Lipa did long jump and is named after the advice she got from her Italian coach

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Message to Tesco. It’s 5 weeks until the end of the school year and you haven’t *even* got your back to school section up yet. SHAME! SHAME ON YOU! Easter eggs were available in January, get your shit together… 😉 #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I love it when kids magpie words and phrases from ages ago in the term and it catches you by surprise. In our Mayan stories, lots of ‘zigzag trees’ in the jungle ‘sway in the warm cinnamon breeze.’ 10 points if you know that reference! #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The only way to arrange cakes in the staff room when it’s your birthday #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Please say a prayer for our school photocopier who is apparently addicted to heroin 💉 Stay strong, buddy #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

On a mission to get reports written by the start of half term! I will not spend the week writing them, even if there’s a fire! 17 down (ish)… woof 😮‍💨

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Discussing The Beatles in music today and asked the kids if they knew any of the members: Child: ‘Mr B, I’m not sure, but wasn’t Ringo Star in the Wu Tang Clan?’ Ermmmm… 😆 #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Tried making pancakes for the boy this morning. Looked at the recipe, eyeballed all the measurements, bollocksed it! Apparently the measurements are important. Twat.

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

One week into the Easter hols and I have ‘built’ 2 ikea wardrobes, 2 ikea chest of drawers and 2 ikea beds. If the furniture came with swear jars, I would be skint #flatpack #twatpack

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

New view and update: We are now at the ‘one person needs a piss so everyone needs a piss’ stage. Two hours after lights out, clockwork. Oh, it’s a radiator and chairs #UKEd #EduSkuPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It’s school residential tonight, which means sitting in the corridor until everyone is asleep. Here is my current view (it’s a wall) #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Lincolnshire Show is on the horizon and this year my Year 4s are entering with an Urban Garden made from recycled materials. Seeds planted this week and look at what the Site Manager made! All from pallets, legend! #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

What a week! I sometimes wonder if every job is as busy and as relentless as teaching; no matter how much you manage to get done there is always more to do 🤷🏼‍♂️ Time to recharge then back at it on Monday 👊🏼 #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Great day at Waterstones Lincoln. Took the nipper to a story telling session and then got a signed copy of Hunt for the Golden Scarab SIGNED by @mglnrd.bsky.social and a load of badges! The kids will love it! #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

SENCo: Morning Paul, did you remember? Me: Super 6 Football predictions? Yep, all sorted. SENCo: No, the EHCP meetings and annual reviews this morning Me: Shit… #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I sometimes wonder what I would do if Descriptosaurus didn’t exist. Fab resource for quality writing ideas #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

One of my fave things to do in class is ‘pick or flick poetry’. Grab a copy of The Works, choose a child and ask them to either pick a page number or flick the pages and say ‘stop’: read whatever poem you land on #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It’s hump day! (No, you grow up…) 3 down and 2 to go then it’s the gosh darn weekend! Hope everyone is having a fab week and smashing Term 3 #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Been wanting to get something off my chest for a while, so here it goes… Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack is the best book in the series, hands down. Thanks for reading #UKEd #EduSkyPrimsry #pitterypattery

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

So far in 2025, I have mostly been loading and unloading the dishwasher. All the fun of the fair! #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy New Year folks, let’s hope for a cracking 2025. And remember… never the hootenany #peepshow #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Noticed recently that I’m getting way too excited about ‘verbing the noun’. For example, washing the washing while drinking a drink (current life status) which I think makes me pretty sad. Merry Christmas? #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Talk about a plot twist! WOW! None of us saw that one coming. The amount of ‘whats!?!?’ and questions we had were massive. 40 pages to go and we can’t wait for the end #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Lots of my class are off sick this week, but rumour has it there is a Doctor in Lapland who has a very busy waiting room, if you know what I mean… 🫠 #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Good evening folks, it’s the last week of a looooooong term but it’s Christmas so apparently that’s good! Stupidly decided to leave an independent write for this week, and it’s not even Christmas themed, what an idiot! Have a good one folks, go and smash it 🙌🏻 #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Had quite the Tuesday! A couple of our writers got to the second stage of the BBC 500 Words competition (well done kiddos) and then got stuck on the bus on the way back from swimming for 3 hours! Hoping that everyone is ok if it was an accident #EduSkyPrimary #UKEd

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Good morning everyone, we have two weeks left which means we are officially allowed to say the C word: Christmas!Don’t say the other one in class or your Christmas present will be your P45! Have a good week everyone, let’s get after it #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Child in my class taught us this genius way of remembering your 12’s today. Blues count up from 1 (just miss 5 and 11) and the reds repeat your even numbers from 0 🤯 Very cool (excuse gross board in picture) #EduSkyPrimary #UKEd

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Statutory words for us this week in #ActiveSpelling complete with strategies that link to our orthography, the way to word looks, to get them to stick. #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Good morning everyone. It’s Monday which means it’s time to get after it and smash the week. Christingle service this morning which always makes me think of an Emmerdale character that never was. Have a good one, folks #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It’s Friday folks! What a slog that week was, two late parents evenings takes it toll in your late 30’s! However, it’s the weekend, get yourself a beer and try and switch off for a bit (impossible, but we can try!) #EduSkyPrimary #UKEd

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Today I discovered that I find novels written in the first person bloody hard to read aloud! Great book and the kids like it but there’s so many chapters left! It can only get better? #crapteacher #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Morning #EduSkyPrimary It’s a new week and the last one before December aka Christmas. Busy week in the East Mids: Parents Evening, independent write and more times tables. Let’s ’ave it! Have a good one wherever you are 🙌🏻

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Child: Mr B, are you coming to the school disco tonight? Me: Not tonight I’m afraid, I’m busy. Child: Good! (smiles the goes home) Savage #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

For those of you on break duty today, we salute you 🌨️🫡 #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Good morning folks. It’s a cold Monday morning but it’s a new week with new opportunities ahead. This week, we are shared writing for our Norman Foster biographies and finishing My Other Life by Polly Hon Yen in Guided Reading. Let’s get after it! Have a good one 🙌🏻 #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Showcasing outstanding writing on display outside of each classroom. This was by one of my Year 4’s from our writing about the short film The Lucky Dip #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

This week in #Activespelling we are exploring the auto prefix. We learned today that autobiography means ‘self life write’ when you look at the etymology. Makes sense! Want to find out more about Active Spelling? Get in touch!!! #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Had a great morning working with a school on all things #ActiveEnglish If you are interested in an impactful approach for grammar into writing that is research lead, get in touch! 🙂 #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

On a Teams call with parents about our upcoming residential: ‘… and children don’t need to bring any snacks to the farm with them, the last thing we want is a mouse sneaking in to their room and eating their wotsits.’ Of all the foods to choose… 🤦🏻‍♂️ #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

This week, we have been working hard on our sentences in #ActiveEnglish to build some quality sentences for our shared writes. Want to know about Active English? Get in touch! #EduSkyPrimary #UKTeaching Any guesses for what we are writing about?

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

How about this #ActiveEnglish sentence crafted by a child today. Ignore the punctuation (it was just a draft) but the creativity is fab! Their stem sentence was ‘Varjak saw…’ Top work #EduSkyPrimary

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Paul B @paulgb60m.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

This week in #ActiveSpelling we have been exploring words that have the ‘ou’ letter string. Most used phrase: if you can spell mountain, you can spell fountain! #EduSkyPrimary

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