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Ashley Booth

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Ashley Booth

@MrBoothY6

Most importantly, a very happy Y6 teacher. Deputy Headteacher. ADHD and autistic. Probably an entertainer third. Sell books via @anewchapterbks

Birkenhead, England

mrboothy6.wordpress.com

Joined July 2015

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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Jan 3, 2025
Hello - I wrote a new blog about the teaching of whole class reading, which I haven't in a while. It's over 9000 words so quite a read, but I hope the comprehensive nature of it comes across as helpful, rather than patronising. Anyway - hope it's useful!
mrboothy6.wordpress.com
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…
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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Dec 24, 2023
Just seen a woman who has ordered an ASDA home delivery but they’ve subbed her turkey for Bernard Matthew’s turkey dinosaurs and I’ve absolutely lost my mind💀💀💀💀
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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Apr 27, 2024
Just seen a TikTok where a parent was (well within their rights) complaining about the cost of a school trip to NYC but most bonkers thing is the comments - people are furious that costs would cover the teachers going. Well…yes - you know they can go to NYC without your child??!
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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Apr 10, 2023
Please can one of the science teachers on here explain why the foil that was more than sufficiently covering an entire Easter egg suddenly can’t stretch itself to cover a now half-eaten Easter egg?
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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Jun 19, 2024
We have a child with quite significant needs in our class, and yesterday a group of the boys squirrelled off at break time and came back with a list of suggestions to make sports day accessible for him, such as blutacking his egg to his spoon. The kids truly are alright.
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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Jul 8, 2023
Does any primary school still do that thing where the kids draw their own faces and then it gets printed on a tea-towel you can buy? Absolutely elite primary activity that was.
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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Apr 27, 2024
Replying to @MrBoothY6
‘Why am I paying for a teachers flight??’ Quite literally so there is someone to take your child.
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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Feb 19, 2023
The Roald Dahl rewriting thing feels odd simply because there are 42 new David Walliams books published every week that are stuffed with problematic drivel - often racism that isn’t even hidden. What’s the point of acting retrospectively if you don’t get it right in the present?
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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Apr 28, 2024
Replying to @Amesb22
How awful for them.
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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Jan 2, 2020
There should be a get into teaching advert that shows a teacher asking their class to write the date and underline it followed by a child immediately asking if they should write the date and underline it.
Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Apr 28, 2024
Replying to @andyfcawley
What are you on about?
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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Jun 20, 2024
Have a boy in class who we found out for varying reasons I obviously won't go into, didn't know how to ride a bike. Boxed off the last 15 mins of every day for him and two of the other boys to go out and they have taught him. Watching him ride across the playground was magic.
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Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
Mar 23, 2020
Just seen Matt Hancock saying that whilst in schools all children must stay 2 metres away from each other at all times. I am now led to believe that Matt Hancock has literally never met a child.
Ashley Booth
@MrBoothY6
May 27, 2023
I don’t wish to make too simplistic of a solution, but maybe they could just pay the ones that are already here some more money?
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