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

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

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

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

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

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!)

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

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

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 🙌

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

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

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

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! 🍁

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

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!

P7/6 have enjoyed practising times tables and coordinates through games! Thanks to @mr-minchin.bsky.social for the inspiration! #playistheway #GlasgowCounts #playinupperprimary

Loved these Anemometers created by the kids today as they learned about Da Vinci and investigated air resistance #stem #playinupperprimary

Outdoor learning today. Pairs, take turns to run to collect digit stone. Create 5/6/7 digit number, circle the largest/smallest. @mr-minchin.bsky.social

You never stop learning and trying new things - looking to develop oracy in the classroom. This wee, paired discussion starter, recap previous weeks learning, aims to give a scaffold to help pupils navigate their chat

Get the maths outside - whilst the weather is holding out! 🏈 This’ll be the third year I’ve gone running ‘fall football’ with an upper primary class and it’s such a great opportunity to extend learning across a term and offer lots of opportunities for consolidation and depth!

I adore K’nex but this much cheaper alternative has a huge amount of scope for block play and exploration of structure #playinupperprimary

Thank you @mr-minchin.bsky.social for this idea. It was very interesting watching the way they sorted them!

4 super simple maths games 🙌 Love these as they all transition from one to the other - and they also involve all learners being active and participating throughout #playinupperprimary

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

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

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.

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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

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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… #playfullearningn#playinupperprimaryry

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

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 🙌

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