@alastairc.com We're reading Orion's Lost as our family bedtime story. (Feeling quite smug as it was my choice and they're loving it). My voice actress wife is jealous of whoever got the chance to record the audiobook and she says her new life ambition is to play Ship in the film version...

@grahamandre.bsky.social I think your Insta has been hacked...

Looking for something to distract you from the fact that it's the last day of the break? Got a spare 30 mins? Take a listen to this podcast that my wife is in - sharing an insight into the world of voiceover acting. open.spotify.com/episode/7MEn...

I haven't been able to keep up with the demands of #NoShelfControl lately. Other commitments have meant that finding the time to create it has been a challenge. I don't want to stop the newsletter, but I want to make it manageable. half termly - 6 a year or termly - 3 a year?

This Month's #NoShelfControl

I ate lunch with a boy in my class yesterday. He was eating a Peperami and decided to sing a song about how much he loves them. Unfortunately he mispronounced as Peroni. 🎵I love Peroni! Peroni,peroni, Peroni!🎵 I might sing it in the pub tomorrow

1 month to go until I run the London Marathon on my 40th birthday Sponsors welcome... 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/dean-bodd...

My wife goes into hospitals and makes ill children smile. So... When I was stuck in traffic and bored today, I noticed her "Sweep" puppet on the passenger seat. I decided to entertain myself by making him wave to the cars passing us. Sometimes it's the small things in life ...

Very embarrassed to be sharing this 22 days late, but this month has been taken over by WBD, my wife's birthday, OFSTED and marathon training.... Book of the month is the fabulous Jenny McLachlan #NoShelfControl

It's a little sickening being married to this talented beast!

So... World Book Day... For some reason, one of the most controversial days in the school calendar. Keep it simple - keep it about books & stories and you're winning...

Why am I raising money for @CHICKENSHED_UK ? Well this video pretty much sums it up. Watch youtu.be/mRxsuEIgZ6E?si… Then donate2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/dean-bodd...on

PSA - Mo William's brilliant Pigeon books are 99p in Aldi My year ones are about to become obsessed!

It's time for January's edition of #NoShelfControl (I intended to get it done last weekend, but life got in the way)

When you forget your bag for life and refuse to buy a new one for 30p

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*Monthly Begging Post* This month I set myself 2 challenges... 1) Run everyday 2) Run 100km I've managed both targets so therefore it's as good a time as any to remind you that I'm doing this all for charity...

Well I wasn't expecting to see this on my dog walk to this morning...

Not enjoyed your first week back? Time for a change? Come work with me and my awesome colleagues - maternity post Suffolk/Cambridge /essex border search.app/V9WAVXM85D1d...

First begging post of the year... For my 40th this year I am running the London Marathon for an amazing charity - Chickenshed. I'm currently at 23% of my target. That's where you guys come in! Sponsor me - (please) 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/dean-bodd...

I'm running a session on - Phonics in KS2 when we go back. I know what I want to share with the staff but interested to know what KS2 teachers would want to gain/learn. So far it's broken into -how we teach phonics -using phonics to support reading -using phonics to support writing

Here's #NoShelfControl's review of the year! What are your favourites from 2024?

I'm very close to becoming the Karen I swore I'd never be... Yesterday - fireworks at 12:40... These shit time keepers made me sleep downstairs with the frightened dog. Tonight, it's half 10 on the 2nd of Jan why the F are people still fireworking(ours I'm using that as the verb)

Wife has said it's up to me to choose the NYE film this evening. So I've chosen this romantic comedy...

Why does my dog want to sit on our shoulder? I think she was a parrot in a former life

That awkward moment when someone leaves a group chat and everyone replies to them after they've left...

This is the worst Boxing Day sale ever Was £329.99 Now £4,642,381,276,626,641,224

Does anyone else's mum start conversations with "Ooh you'll never guess who died..."

It's beginning to look a lot like.... EASTER???

I'm not saying my wife is dramatic, but we ran out of orange juice this morning and I refused to pop to the shop. She's been walking around singing a made up song about how it's the saddest day in the world and that her husband doesn't love her ...

First day of the holidays... Body clocked!

Ok I've found some of my new favourite Christmas lyrics... From Alex Horne and the Horne Section - Fiddly Christmas

I've been called rude for laughing at Lego Dobby's shadow...

Every year my son finds new ways to challenge Father Christmas... Unfortunately, this year we have hit a snag ... He's finally outwitted us. Not sure how we sort this.

Today has been sponsored by...

Dog walk chic is a whole new world of fashion... Yesterday was running gear and a wool coat. Today -running trainers, suits trousers and a lumberjack coat...

Just got the Christmas Decs out of the loft and retrieved my favourite Christmas books! A good Christmas book is like a good Christmas song. They make you feel warm and put a huge smile on your face!

I'm bringing #NoShelfControl over to Blue Sky! Here's Novembers edition

Moral dilemma... Take the staff room's last tea bag or leave it for someone else?

More Phonics Check love... Went into our SENd hub to do a screening with a child who was absent when I last visited. He wasn't feeling it, but another lad said "I'll do more phonics!" Came and plonked himself on my lap and completed another screen whilst giggling at all the 'aliens'

@mrsmoggie.bsky.social Every time I do the phonics screening check, children ask what the Pseudo words are and I tell them that they're the Monsters' names. For the first time ever, a child argued with me... "They can't be names, you said names need to start with a capital letter!"

We had a flyer for our local cinema and the listings went -Wicked -Wicked -Paddington in Peru I just wish someone had the foresight to instead call it Paddington 3: Jungle is Massive

When you only teach part time, you can miss out on the best lessons. Not this time! My trust's 's #FestivalOfSpokenLanguage will be awesome. Teaching yr 1s how to tell a joke!!! (The formatting is off due to my phone not having the right font)

You know when you've got loads to do, but you decide to start a superfluous project just because you feel like it? I'm trying to create a book advent for the days leading up to Christmas that the children aren't in school. I'll embed a video link behind each door. Everyone needs a Christmas book!

My wife is in Manchester on the 25th Jan for work... I might go up with her if I can get enough people interested in #EduBeers Every time I go oop north, I miss out on the beers as I have to drive home... Any northerners about?

Decided to jump on the Christmas bandwagon. Well, the good stuff anyway

Does anyone know how to turn off Google Maps' "anxiety mode'? Mine seems to send me down one way dirt tracks in the dark that seems to have Evri van drivers speeding at every blind corner

Our trust is having a spoken word festival. It is challenging the youngest children to learn how to tell a joke... I'm printing off the best from this thread. And I've finally found a use for the comedy module from my drama degree!

Great to see Schools Week going all Daily Mail on us. £200 increase... ... For teachers earning £110,000 🤣

Decided to up my training this morning and tackled a half marathon... I'm going to ache for the rest of the week... Surely my pain is worth a small donation to a good cause! 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/dean-bodd...