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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · 5d

Having already finished Holes with Y6, we are now reading Front Desk by Kelly Yang. My first time reading it with a class, so planning WCR as I go, but my reading lessons for this, plus loads of lessons over last 3 years are in here, for free of course.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · 28d

I put this on every year, but as Year 6 move into addition and subtraction this week, I can't wait to crack the old cryptarithms out. So much rich discussion and gives you loads of opportunities to model proper problem solving and recording and organisation of ideas.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Sep 10

From someone who's been kicking around teaching for a while now, it may be useful to know that pretty much every teacher going will be planning excellent, ambitious lessons for their new class and promptly completing about 40-60% of what they intended. It's so normal early on.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Aug 30

You don't need to do any sort of test in the first week(s) as a 'baseline' - of course they're gonna do better later in the year when you've actually taught them things.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Aug 26

Got myself set up for the new crew today. Forever grateful for this much natural light......even though for some reason the lights are on here....which they pretty much never are.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Aug 25

Why?

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Aug 25

Love the holidays so much, but also excited to be back next week. The scaries have thankfully never been a thing for me. Excited to have my new class, who are lovely. Excited to be leading on implementing OPAL and a new maths scheme, which I wrote. Just looking forward to it!

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Jul 31

You can't move an inch in most schools without banging into an Allan Ahlberg book - and for good reason. What a witty, imaginative, creative powerhouse of a writer. This is my personal favourite. He'll be missed.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Jul 6

As the year draws to a close, I'm sharing my Y6 reading folder (though there are random bits in like some Y2 lessons) for free, which is full of Y6 whole class reading lessons.

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Plus my (very long) blog on how we teach it:

mrboothy6.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/w...

Reading - Google Drive

drive.google.com

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Jun 30

Couple of tweaks for various reasons, but got our class novels for next year locked down. Y3, then 4, then 5 and then 6.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Jun 22

I first did this last year and both me and the class have referred back to it loads. 'Oh I remember looking at this on transition morning' etc

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Jun 22

My quick easy move up morning idea is to just spend the morning teaching tiny tasters of the curriculum - so I'll read the start of Holes, do some evolution & heart work, a touch of algebra, bit of art etc then do a quiz about it at the end and spend plenty of time chatting to them.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Jun 15

Does anyone know where I can find our historic GLD? I can’t see it on the DFE portal where everything else is.

Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Jun 7

We are using OPAL!

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Jun 7

This week we started a project in school to commit to making play and play time as important a part of the curriculum in our school as english, maths, science etc. It's a really exciting project to be leading on and something so different from what I've done in leadership so far.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · May 17

One of the biggest Eurovision injustices of all time is that we didn't send Darius Danesh (RIP) with Colourblind. We'd have absolutely walked it.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · May 11

SATs this week.

Thinking fondly back to 2018, when the government sent us the KS2 spelling SATs for Year 6, with this form to confirm we had taken delivery of the correct amount.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · May 8

Couldn't do Percy Jackson when the parent v much appears to die in the first chapter.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · May 7

I am still on the hunt for any great Year 6 appropriate books that do not feature any family death, especially parental. Please help a guy out - even if it's to plug your own book!

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · May 7

Hi - just a reminder I run a book shop, supplying books to schools, with a great discount, especially on class sets, and a specialism in providing diverse and inclusive books. Please do email me any time to talk about ordering!

[email protected]

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · May 3

Today is the 20th anniversary of one of the best albums ever. I will be listening to it loudly.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Apr 14

If it's helpful, even though you're (probably) on holidays, I am resharing the very long blog I wrote about how we teach Whole Class Reading at our school. We have really fluent children who love reading and I've tried to break it down as much as possible.

mrboothy6.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/w...

Whole Class Reading 2025

Hello – it’s been a few years since I wrote about the teaching of whole class reading, and I figured I would do it again, as it’s generally the thing I am asked about the most – plus in…

mrboothy6.wordpress.com

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Apr 20

@lynnekelly.bsky.social

Hi - is there any parental or family death in Song For A Whale? I can't remember!

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Apr 19

I know this is often asked, but I need two Year 6 class novels next year that do not allude to parental death whatsoever. Can anyone remember if the secret of haven point does? Was also thinking of can you feel the noise, which I’m fairly sure doesn’t.

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Ashley Booth @mrboothy6.bsky.social · Apr 14

Just found out there are no inverted commas in The Handmaid's Tale and therefore, sadly, Margaret must receive a grade of WTS.

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