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Finished doing the garden after 3 days 😅 bit impressed with my recycled planter made from wood left lying around 🙌

I’ve had a fabulous few days at Clapham Terrace. The children from Years 2 - 6 have been working really hard to create this 3D sculpture of their beautiful Victorian School . . . 🤩 darrellwakelam.com

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Teachers using AI 🤖 Is my ‘research’ correct - a simple search with Chat GPT uses almost 10x times the power that a Google search uses? Creating an AI image uses as much to fully charge the average iPhone? A 30 sec video uses as much power as the average household in a day??

Well this is exciting! A huge thank you to everyone who has supported, inspired and challenged me over the past however many years of posting & talking about playful learning ideas 🙌 Comes out in May but available for pre-order if you fancied it! #playinupperprimary

I know people like to see how things start, so here's a tube becoming a lion . . . 'Play' is the key, you can only discover things like this by being open to suggestion. 🙂👍 darrellwakelam.com

Play and French 🇫🇷🇫🇷 Just thought I’d share this video about a French lesson I did this afternoon with my p3/4 class! Took inspiration from @mr_minchin as my class are currently doing Food and Drink this term! #primaryteacher #scottishteacher #primarythree #primaryfour #play

Grid Reference Games 🎲 Three wee activities to take outside and easily adjusted to focus on co-ordinates. #playinupperprimary

I've had a wonderful day today helping the Year 5/6 kids at St. Mary's in Swanage to create this Medusa Mosaic. 😮 Just cardboard and lots of patience . . . one day, 30 kids. 🙂 darrellwakelam.com

A fair chunk of my day in 4 pictures - not a bad start to the school garden, lots more to come #pollinationpatch #globalgoals

Spelling with co-ordinates today went down really well! #playfullearning

This is all very exciting 🤩 We will be using Blair Minchin new book during our international day of play 🤩 June 11th 2025 University of Cambridge Primary School PEDAL Cam LEGO Education

"Play skills are life skills and schools that do not embrace a play-based approach are not preparing children adequately for their lives in the 21st-Century." Do you agree with Professor Julie Fisher? Share your thinking in the chat below ... youtu.be/ksxlrA4n45M

Very happy to start bringing to life the pupils ideas for their Global Goals library. Can’t wait to have them all at work, making much of this non-fiction section an exciting space #globalgoals #pupilvoice

Play beyond upper CLPL opportunity... "Lets press play" are holding a free online session called Play beyond the Early Years: High impact - High return strategies for schools. Further info and sign up can be found below. Play Beyond Early Years

100 ideas for Playful Learning Strange to be doing this in my garden 🤣 but adapted one of the activities from my book and wanted to share as we got a lot of learning and mileage out of it this week #playinupperprimary #playfullearning

A wee multiplication session that went down really well with my P5 class. They pick six numbers from the screen for bingo. You (or your puppet 🤷🏻‍♂️) then call out a number between 1-10 and learners can multiply it by 3 or 4 to try and make one of their numbers #playfullearning

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