Gonna throw this on here for a bit. www.justgiving.com/page/david-r... I need a miracle to lose a little timber and gain some lung capacity in a matter of weeks. Failing that, you’d be donating to a very worthwhile cause anyway.

Was a big old build, but recaptures my ‘yoot’. #Lego #MarioKart #Mario

Had such a good reading summer it’s over two pictures this year! Not a mediocre one amongst them. Some were kindle so won’t make it onto the trollies, but all will be discussed on the first day back with the class. #MGFictionAddiction #EduSkyPrimary

When it’s term time, I rarely have a spare second to do anything which isn’t work-related. Summer holidays, and it’s having a chance to read, golf, run, oh and draw…apparently. #SummerHols #DaveDiscovers #EduSkyPrimary

Seriously, four days on residential outside day and night and nothing, get back to the school building and I’ve been bitten twice!!! #Residential #CreamCrackered #EduSkyPrimary

Another year comes and goes, and I can finally tick Oliver Twist off the old school show bucket list. For such a small cohort they did really, really well. #OliverTwist #Year6 #EduSkyPrimary

Destitute, alone, and without a friend… We came, we saw, we sweated, but on reflection (now it’s all over) it was a great show to be part of.

I don’t know if people are putting their ticket requests in bottles and throwing them in the ocean, but sales are slow. Apparently I’ve been told tonight that we still have to do this shizzle, so I might as well promote it. #Stranded #StaPlayers #whydoidothistomyself

Fagin’s Den done and a good lining up for the streets of London side. I might just get this done, although I’ve still got a full-size coffin to make too - there’s a line I never thought I’d say. #OliverTwist #Year6 #EduSkyPrimary

Happy Father’s Day to those that celebrate. Go tackle that grass, or fire up that BBQ, or consistently hand out cash like you’re an atm to your children…no? Just me then. #FathersDay

As an English lead, I think this still remains the best part of my role bar none. #Books #RecommendedReads #EduSkyPrimary

Report writing INSET day today, but I thought I’d make a start on the set instead. Reports will be done in my own time later. A few hours to start one side of the rails. Fagin’s Den is underway. #OliverTwist #EduSkyPrimary

Really can’t call how this is going to go, but it’s an excuse to post this finely tuned athletic specimen with Connor Benn’s Mallorca-loving dad. #EubankJrBenn

Final Easter Hols read - ‘After’ by Padraig Kenny. If ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘I-Robot’ had little book babies, this is what would pop out. Sublime storytelling. I just hoovered it up.

Ssecond up from the Easter Hols reads was @hickesy.bsky.social second offering from Shadowhall. This ups the ante from book one and includes a creepy returning childhood friend - I know many who will want it from the trolley

Back in class tomorrow so time to put my Easter Hols reads on the trolley. First up Jennifer Killick’s ‘Serial Chillers - The Witch In The Woods’, when you have a class so insanely hooked by the Crater Lake and Dreadwood collections, this is going to be another hit. Loved it.

Traditional fish paella at the Mother’s on Good Friday.

Beats an Easter egg actually. Nothing says our Lord died for our sins like a British Bulldog Funko Pop. #WWF

Had just the nicest break being deflowered in Ireland.

My first time ever in Ireland, having the best few days. Love the way the lady in the bookshop in Lahinch (Lehinch depending which sign you look at) tells me to help myself to the world book day books for free when she heard I was a teacher. Don’t get that in England. #Ireland #EduSkyPrimary

Do I own a million mugs for coffee? Yes. Is one of my favourite mugs one with books on it? Yes. Are those books all adult ones? Yes. Have I just found the most perfect MG mug? Yes. Is it purchased and shipping to me in 3-6 working days? Hell yeah!! #EduSkyPrimary #Books #Coffee

That was a lovely Mother’s Day lunch with the biggest cheese portion on a cheese board I’ve ever been served. For perspective, that’s a main meal-sized plate. #mothersday2025 #fatty #ilovecheese

Why do I just know the twerp who was the driving force behind attaching bottle lids to bottles in the name of recycling, was also privy to the team meeting where they chose to stick wrapping paper shut with sticky labels. #genuis

Back to it this week. #FreeWriting #EduSkyPrimary

Running gear laid out for the morning. Friend’s birthday curry tonight. I mean what could possibly go wrong!? I’m not exactly coming for you #WinterRun I’m more tiptoeing towards you in the hope you don’t notice me and I can just survive my way round.

Cracked out a slightly longer #freewrite today whilst the class did theirs. Loved hearing some drawing from the work we’re doing on spooky atmospheres in other English lessons.

Had limited time for today’s free write, and no one shared at the end of it, which was unusual. Even so, this week’s effort. #EduSkyPrimary #FreeWrite

Four year anniversary of what critics called ‘the most outstanding television debut in the history of moving pictures’ by critics I mean my mum. #Lorraine

Didn’t think we’d get a #FreeWrite in this first week back, but then timings changed last minute today, so we squeezed it in! Start the year as we mean to go on. #EduSkyPrimary

Annual post this time for the #bestof2024. What with golf, West Ham and fundraisers, it’s been a lot of balls apparently. I usually mention weight loss for the year ahead, but my fat thumbs won’t even let me type that this year.

An enjoyable 90mins playing although the ending is a bit “anyone’s guess”. Think I prefer the cleverness of the ‘Exit Room’ brand ones but this was still good. #Cluedo #EscapeRoom

One from the short Cambridge break haul just completed. ‘Spooksmiths Investigate The Cinderman’ by @alatkinson.bsky.social. A good adventure read with notes of Davy Jone’s heart issues. Into the Christmas gifts next. #EduSkyPrimary

I can almost hear my TBR mound weeping from the other room. Ah well ‘Tis Christmas. #Books #ChristmasDay #EduSkyPrimary

Me thinks my kids may have not been paying too much attention when purchasing our Christmas card this year. #Christmas2024

So the final #Freewriting of the term. Had to be something Christmassy. I went for a certain ‘anapestic tetrameter’ (get me!) from a rather famous ditty. Might illustrate this one if I get time. #EduSkyPrimary

Penultimate #FreeWrite of the term. Thought we’d go for a setting this time although it’s morphed into a story opener. #EduSkyPrimary

I always forget to take many photos on the annual #CocktailsandCanapes night so this is all I’ve got (and after people had already visited the canapés!) One year I’ll get more. But a perfect start to the Christmas season with some much missed company.

Struggled a bit today with the creative juices - suppose that’s the stark reminder of how the class feel at times. #EduSkyPrimary #FreeWriting

You know you’re a teacher when you’re scrolling through Black Friday deals and the one that makes you go ‘Ooooo’ is 100 laminating pouches for £9.99. 125 microns no less! #EduPrimary #EduSkyPrimary #BlackFriday

A very short #FreeWrite for me today, just the 15 mins. First time making available (for any pupils who might want to use it) a written (rather than picture) stimulus. #EduSky #EduSkyPrimary

Bit later posting than usual, I imagine my hoards of followers have been refreshing their time lines all day waiting to see this. So, without further ado, this week’s #FreeWriting first person narrative for me this week. #EduSkyPrimary

Seeing the rumours that #Ofsted are moving to a colour-based system. Finally I come into my own, because it doesn’t matter what they dapple down on the old reports, it’s coming out green to me! #Colourblind

Marginally quicker than last week which makes me sad that I already know that run of pace drops is coming to an end next week. That was hard today. #TeacherRunClub #FatnotFit

Managed to blast out a bit more during the #FreeWrite this morning. A quick 20 minute splurge. Got some great ones from the pupils too (which I suppose is the point). #EduSkyPrimary #EduPrimary

Having a really good reading run at the moment. Loved ‘Forest of Forbidden Magic’ by Eve Wersocki Morris - full of folklore and magic. ‘Mallory Vale and the Curse of Maggoty Skull’ by Martin Howard was quick-witted dripping with sarcasm. And ‘Stitch’ by Padraig Kenny has a Paddington-style innocence

Was it worth the large amount of #Lego I had to get the boy ready for Christmas to get this? Absolutely. Along with my Christmas Carol one, this is a personal fav.

For me, that’s the best pacing for quite some time. #Running #fatnotfit

This week’s free-writing stimulus was a fallen soldier. I went poetry again, although non-rhyming for a change and a very different vibe to last week’s dinosaur poem. #Year6 #FreeWriting #Poetry #EduSkyPrimary

TBR Mound is gonna have to suck it up this time. A fine haul whilst on the annual break to Cambridge. #Books

Hits breaktime, so once again it’s time to share this week’s personally generated teacher Free-Write. Thought I’d try poetry this week, and I’m seeing some of the class have too. #EduSkyPrimary #Dinosaurs