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@eyesshutteacher.bsky.social

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Recently retired Primary Teacher in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 teaching since 2009 in a wide range of roles & schools. Hoping to make you smile, increase your positivity & find your focus. Often answers to Sarah, Mum or coffee My views. #EduSky #ScotEdu #UKEdu #EduSkyPrimary

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · Jan 25

Hello! This account is all about finding the space to breathe and focus in our hectic teaching lives. It’s these spaces (sometimes only a few nanoseconds long) which allow us to find the most useful response to enable our pupils to learn, progress and self regulate.

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Pantrywoman @pantrywoman.bsky.social · 5h

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Sweet or tart?

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This is your regular reminder to boost other people 😊

WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 5h

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 5h

🐈‍⬛

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 15m

😂 when I started teaching I bought non iron shirts for everyone to save a chore. But he prefers the feel of them ironed. As that was the only ironing so he did it (he was fully domesticated before our marriage). Since retirement I usually do it as he’s still working but today he did it 😊

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 5h

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 23m

It kept coming and going not I 🤦‍♀️

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 4h

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 4h

Highlights of my teaching week were being outside with the children. Lots of fun playing with autumn leaves, sycamore seeds and throwing them up as everyone leapt into the air from our climbing blocks. Autumn 1 is exhausting in EYFS, but still full of joy!

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 34m

Why hate doing it? You don’t have to interact with anyone here you don’t want to.

Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 39m

Just block those you don’t want.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 7h

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Cartoon of a social gathering. A man is talking to a vampire. The man says "Welcome, Count Dracula. Would you like a small aperitif?". The vampire replies "No, I think mine are just the right size".

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 53m

I am definitely coveting the emotional support croissants 😁

Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 1h

12th October
#3GoodThings

1. A dose of vitamin sea at a misty Arbroath
2. Fabulous fish and chips for lunch
3. MrEST did the ironing

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Inspirational Quotes @seffsaid.bsky.social · 3h

A reminder

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly this.

Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 4h

Every time someone talks about “curing” autism, what they’re really saying is:

That autism is a disease
That we are broken
That we shouldn’t exist

It’s not just wrong - it’s dehumanising

We’re not a problem to be solved.
We’re real, valid humans

Why is that so hard to see?

#AutismAdvocacy

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timothymar10 @timothymar10.bsky.social · 3h

Hmmmmmm

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 1h

My point was that the reward for doing a good thing should be knowing you made the world better rather than a shiny award or certificate.

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 1h

I think more fog than haar today. Perth was just misty and clearing when we left. Coast was absolutely clear until we got there and then I kept coming and going.

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 1h

Sounds like a good way to combat the Sunday Scaries to me. 😊

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 3h

That night when Toad went to bed he thought the biggest thoughts that he could think.

Toad thought about giant sunflowers. He thought about tall oak trees. He thought about high mountains covered with snow.

A glimpse into Toad's mind as he sleeps. He dreams of mountains, giant trees, and sunflowers.

From "The Hat"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 3h

Apparently it’s considered somewhat inappropriate to remove spilt gravy from one’s fur whilst sitting at the ticket window

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Katie Finlayson @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social · 3h

One year 7 lad met us at the door with tokens for free coffee, and was always quietly useful, collecting rubbish or handing out water or pens. When his headteacher was explaining the ways they worked to make the school a school that matters where everyone was welcome, he asked if he could speak.

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Katie Finlayson @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social · 3h

He hadn't done too good in primary, he said. And sometimes, everyone just looked at the things like fighting, and swearing, and that, but those things were like the leaves on the tree, and Mr D, he looked at the roots instead. Like whether you were in with a wrong crowd,

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Katie Finlayson @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social · 3h

or something was going on at home, or you were struggling with your work, and that's what you needed to figure out how to change. And his dad, he said you could be like the sheep, and follow everyone else, or like the wolves, and prey on people, or you could choose to be a shepherd.

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Katie Finlayson @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social · 3h

And when your mates are daring you to do something, and they're filming it, it's easy to go along. But you need to be strong enough to say "I'm sorry I'm not your kind of normal" and stand up to them. And that's what he'd learnt here, at this school, from Mr D.

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