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Mary J

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Primary Teacher 🦕 #SDG obsessed. #EduSky MEd Early Years Pedagogue #MIEExpert #WakeletAmbassador #noveleffect, education, travelling elephants and general life posts. @ElliePrimary1 on that place ✝️🏳️‍🌈Aberdeen, Scotland https://primary1help.wordpress.com/

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · Nov 13

Glad you’re here.

Fewer books, more engagement - a small test of change in a play based classroom. #EduSky read.bookcreator.com/FH906VnSU8vp...

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 12h

It’s a lap top! #PlayIsTheWay #EduSkyPrimary

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 12h

If you don’t know what pokey time is, well you’ve missed out. We’ve been learning about the meta skill of focusing, and developing our fine motor skills by poking pins through paper to make pictures.

We love it!

#EduSkyPrimary

A picture of toadstools made with holes in paper.

The picture of toadstools coloured in. We find it quite relaxing.

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 1d

You might not know what this is, but the children who collaborated on it know exactly what it is. There is order and reasoning behind the placing of every item. #PlayIsTheWay #EduSkyPrimary #EYFS

A combination of wooden blocks, planks, cardboard boxes and carpet tiles.

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 1d

Newsflash. It’s Christmas. I’ve started on the mince pies.

VEGAN
FRIENDLY
MERRY LITTLE MOMENTS
6 Sweet Mince Pies
GREGGS

Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 1d

Have a word with YouTube for removing the individual episode Mr Benn. Our children deserve to experience the work of Mr Benn.

Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 2d

Got my badge. Team Scotland. 🙂

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 2d

The Spotty Sausage Dogs game was a very big hit today. #EduSkyPrimary

Spotty Sausage Dogs game from Orchard Toys laid out ready to play on a yellow table.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

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Michael de Jong @sprakeloos.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg after being released #FreedomFlotilla

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 2d

We are writing a new version of Mr Benn, the zookeeper. Well I’m excited! #EduSkyPrimary

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 3d

Awwwwww!

Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 3d

The look I get when I go out.

2 dachshund dogs on a sofa staring at the camera looking sad.

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 3d

This is a further authoritarian drift by our so called ‘progressive’ Labour government.

Cumulative impact = exerting pressure…so the plan is to ban protests when it looks like they are working!

Horrifying stuff

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, so supporting a group that is protesting about genocide.

Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 4d

Not sure I agree it ok to arrest people for that either.

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t get my head around people being arrested for protesting against a genocide.

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 5d

We kicked of #BlackHistoryMonth (UK) with this fabulous true story by Floella Benjamin. We’ve also read The Day War Came and made welcome posters for every new child who joins our school. #EduSkyPrimary