7: Shampoo, Strikes and Stories From The Classroom

0:00 Hayden. You know, when kids come up to you and say, I've got a joke and 90% of the time, it's something along the lines of what's pink and an animal. And they say it's a pig and he expects a lot of usually completely rubbish. But you laugh anyway. Right, exactly. Well, sometimes it gets an absolute Corker so here's my favorite ever joke from a child ready? Okay. A man walks into a Library walks up to the receptionist and says, hi, how can I order some fish and chips? Please, the receptionist replies. Excuse me, sir. This is a library and the man replies saying, oh, sorry, Can I some fishing trip? Okay. Very good, very good. What I've got one as well. You ready? Why did the baker have smelly fingers? I don't know, why did the baker has many fingers? Because he needed a poo? Hello Ron!

0:50 Welcome back to episode 7 of teach sleep. Repeat, my name is Dylan and my name is Hayden, and we've had some lovely feedback from last week once more, and I think Hayden one of the running themes. Everything everyone said, to me this year is your story Daft under. Yeah, people apparently like, hearing about me being an idiot. So, I've actually got another one of those stories for later on. Excellent. We can maybe again, I know we've got about 15 features at this point. This new one every city every week, but I don't know. We could think of something on the lines of you being a It is crazy. Something about that? Yeah, that sounds good. Okay, but yeah, in general, thank you so much again, for the feedback, we say, it every week, but we see the follows going up on Spotify.

1:30 We see the ratings going up, we see the retention Staying High, and we're just so grateful for you guys to come back every week. And for some reason, what to listen to this, it's unbelievable to us. Just one step closer to that podcast money isn't enough. What we doing it for. What's that customers? Yeah. Yeah, those customers are going up. So these customers keep coming for the door is exactly what want to see. Anyway, Hayden you have a big week in education when we think about it. We're going to come onto the strikes later on. But before we get there, let's just rip it back. And as always, we've condensed, our weekly catch up to this podcast. So I don't really know what's going on your week so far. How's it been? Well, as you can tell those of you that listening can't see this, but I'm wearing one of those lovely hot bean bags around my neck.

2:12 You might have noticed That was you don't see my questions. I know because so much about. You doesn't surprise me anymore. I've known you too long. You just think he looks cool. You could turn up in anything and I think I've got gold Hayden's doing something. Well, it's very warm and it's held my neck. Because my neck has been getting progressively more painful every day. This week, actually due to a horrific Whiplash accident of me playing squash, right? And by horrific accident, I mean absolutely nothing happened. Other than me, just playing squash normally and I'm 30 now and apparently When you have, you would know obviously being a very, very close to 30, man. I'm just a baby, exactly you justice baby. Why you don't, you have experienced this yet, right?

2:52 I'm in my thirties. Now I get Whiplash from squash. So right. You know, that's so starting the podcast off, strong with a story about you hurting your neck, playing sport - yeah? Yeah. Anything else going on this week? Or, I mean, you're gonna hate me because I know you're a little bit annoyed that I play Squash without you. I also went to the driving range gone. Okay, so Elephant in the room. Let's just address this out. What better time than in front of an audience of people to address. This have customers is horrible whole Revelation that see if they're worried that, you know, we used to play golf and play Squash quite a bit.

3:34 Now that we have no reason to invite you to my cousin, just wants to play. And we just seem to have got into a bit of To retain and that's how it starts, isn't it? Ladies and gentlemen? That's not my cousin. Just wanted to fly. Yeah, be 2025 if I see you in that squash bug. And, you know, I really think happened, you are sick of losing, didn't you? Well, not really because he's even better than you. I'm losing even more actually. So clearly I love losing. I tell you what, I do, what you where you'll never see me again, is on the golf course because I now hate golf after going to the driving range, one time for the first time in months, that are what I expected. But you just think you would be good at, right? Uh, yeah, I was just obviously Sports room. Obviously, I just remember how to swing perfectly and, you know, Max and balls up there, but that absolutely terrible. Absolutely, terrible honest.

4:23 Honestly, I don't think I hit a straight ball. I've like the hundred balls I hit. So, yeah, absolutely hate that game. Now, terrible, terrible Sport and I don't know why you like it. Cool. Now that retentions nosedived after your two. Excellent stories. Maybe the real fans can listen to my we went. Okay, go on until what you're weak. Well, it was a good one obviously. A short one due to the industrial action. But again, we'll come on that later. I do have a couple of stories, this week, that, that really did make me laugh. One of them, we were in class and we are watching a video and there's a YouTube video, you know, sometimes in class we have a very short like one minute YouTube video that summarizes it with visuals. And it's just a really nice starting point for your lesson. And there was a guy on there, just a cartoon animation and it was younger looking guy in smart clothes with a beard and dark hair.

5:10 So, obviously, straight away. One of the children cause it's you. It looks like you You and I was it haha. Yeah. Okay. But it's not there. No. No. The children then took that as a, the floodgates open basically and they started shouting out and telling me exactly all the people who I look like on. No, that's right. Oh yeah, exactly. So sad. So look at that. You know. You look like that guy in the sighs. No, no he doesn't. And I actually wrote them down because I thought to myself. Yeah, taking this, here's the list. This is, this is 100% genuine. This week, the list of things or people, I say things. Reason that the children that I look like okay. Yeah the first one, the boy from Scooby-Doo which boy I said just a boy who's get Shaggy apparently.

5:55 Yes. Okay, that'll be it. Yeah, next one. That guy from the Telly that guy good. Yeah, could be could be. Yeah. It could be a big bird hair Feathers Head a bit. Yep. Gorilla that one. That's yeah, that's fair enough. Yeah. Yeah. My dad as in the children the child said, you don't know. Do you like my dad? Yeah, okay. Yeah. And the one that really made me laugh at it because it's nowhere, it's just get just a different guy. Now you know Wreck-It Ralph oh my God, you do. Oh what what do you want to Wreck it Ralph? You do posture? Have you seen Wreck-It Ralph? Get a picture?

6:36 Yes, please, you look like wreckit-ralph that kid that kids in like team points or something? Okay, well that we know it's going in the end. Granted. I don't we. Yeah, we'll put. Okay, we'll do a vote. Okay. Alright. Does he like to think that like wreckit-ralph you do? Well, that's good to know because I had down. I thought what he talking about and I write that down thinking that with the most controversial one. Yes. I look nothing like him. Wow. See about that. I don't know. There's something there. I think I think. Yeah. I think it's the shoulders. I don't know, pretty much. All right, let me self-conscious hugely broad. Yeah, it's a bad thing and you let you wreck stuff. You know like if you were you'd walk around dressed up ever thugga maybe look a bit like a Ralph. If it's gonna make you feel good which is saying that they're breaking down each part of his name. Yeah, it's okay. Fair enough, there was one other thing and this really might, again, this is detrimental on me, but I really be love you all with me action, this one.

7:28 So I can say the first half of the story and you will know, you won't know the second half. So we kind of Gatecrash. The club didn't me one day this week. There's an after school club going on. How are ya and the children making cards? Because Mother's Day is coming up. So the children making a card for someone at home that has to be the mother could be any Person in their life and the teacher was explaining this as Hayden and I walked in. So, obviously being the nuisances we are, we then kind of said to the class are so lovely. So in an hour's time, I'll come back and I'll collect all my cards to mr. Price for the children in there, obviously, were in my class for maths and English, and you can see them like, yeah. And I was like, cool, nice one. Clearly, the teacher was like, what have you done that? Because it's me, lovely cards for home.

8:08 Now, they're going to make cards for their teacher, so an hour goes by and I nearly forget So it's just time for them to be leaving, right? So I got a background to where the club is, which is next to the door where the children go out and they were just being excused, not only a few children left, so go through the door and there's one child there who turned trying to said, oh oh we're going to do the few next week because they've decided actually next week there. I think the teacher must have said, you know let's do one for someone at home this week next week. We'll do with mr. Fries. Yeah. Yeah I'm going to do a next week but I do next week and we're going to do and they started listing things that the teachers obviously said that a my traits that can be a Pitch. Piece of me, right? So if ya got pain behind your ear, you've got a beard. You've got a jumper because I usually wear a jumper with my collar. You look like Ram.

8:51 Now other charts, it's a child. Yeah, right girl was kind of just stood there staring at me looking a bit confused, but wasn't looking at me was looking at like my jumper, like my chest. And then she kind of looked up at Mission that's been snowing. So what it is? It's no doubt, it's nice. That it was what Scott's knowing you dandruff Sandra. So passing dandruff, it was a beard. Dandruff. Yeah, my beard had got way too long. You can see if you watch the reels, it's good. You could start, I went home that day like immediately. I'm shaving. My beard.

9:32 Being an older. Now, we now have your face by such an insult. I said I was a kid, and I tell you what, that kid knew it was not snow and they knew they were doing you wrong. You know what, you know what, you know what? I gen you. Think this child for a word insane. Honestly, okay, honestly, I mean she probably didn't. Well that's what I think crying. It's your car next week. Miss ya, goody tippex need to lose jumper so good. I've actually been asked if I could get dandruff but I said serious question because I'm bald. So that's it kid has to get that off and I was like well no fun enough. Just a greasy head.

10:13 Yes actually I do shampoo in my head head and shoulders. I do. I do, I do I actually I think is head and shoulders. I did you know this? I'm sure I told you this know I use Head and Shoulders every day. Every morning early, I shower every more. I'm a morning person. What? Yeah, why come on. I want you to work out because the kids always ask me this and I like what why? And I think the I think the explanations fairly logical. Here's me thinking don't have hair Logics gone. So what's okay. So obviously I wash as normal like soap and all that but when it comes to my head I just I still get greasy. Like what Do you get greasy hair, right? I still agree. Still happens. It's just goes all over my scalp, so I use head and shoulders in this at soap would be fine.

10:54 But I'm just, you know, I've convinced that it has said jobs. I said head on it so that that was so. So so it says in the shoulder so I do my shoulders as well. Yeah, well, you could Harry shoulders but I I have to, I just yeah, rinse. I get the grease off of its no, I'm not sure my hair but I'm still watching my head. You know, jump at that time, where we worked out that between you and I we have exactly enough hair for two people. It's just me. Yeah, we have reach out to the right amount of hair. Okay. This is getting weird to the hair. Now on our bodies were, we're going to 47 episodes in, right? These guys don't want to hear about. I haven't the customers need to know all about us before they go on to purchase the property, the merchandise of Wreck-It Ralph t-shirt. So before we move on, there was up, that's going to stick my nose in it.

11:37 You're gonna you gotta love that. There's one other thing I want to talk about this week which is both of us actually. So we're not telling each other how this went because we were there in the room and as I think we may have Mentioned before on this podcast, can't remember Hayden. And I are the mass coordinate is in our school and we are in that squeaky bum time as we like to call it where ofsted never had that time, just like maybe like a little child, we're ofsted are appending essentially you know, it could be anytime great. And and yeah, as a result, I've been Mass coordinators and very much looking as if our subject will be the subject of a deep dive when it comes to ofsted inspectors coming into a Go big push in a minute for us to get prepared and as prepared as possible.

12:20 And as part of that this week, we met with a woman who's been helping our school out but getting prepared as possible for our stead when that eventually comes and we had a meeting with her and, you know, I wanted to talk about this because there's this culture, isn't there? Hayden in school and it's been dubbed, mocks dead and it's very much, you know, it's got negative Tendencies when we hear mocks Ted and I just wanted us to discuss how What we did actually we came out of it, feeling really positive and it's been really useful and how it might contrast with what other people may have experienced before with similar situations, from their school, trying to run through what enough said process might be right. Be like and get ready for it. So my yeah like my natural instinct. When I hear mocks Ted is or don't do that and if we did a higher Mach said I'd be like really oh are we doing it in a box?

13:08 So in your opinion what do you think of when you think of moth monster? Because I'm a very clear idea, my yeah. So when I think of mock said, I think of the whole show Bank like you are going to tell your teachers that for the next two days or however long amongst their not an ofsted inspection, might be for your school. We're going to spend that amount of time pretending wholeheartedly as a school that those ofsted inspectors walking around. It just happens to be me, you know the head teacher and someone else we're going to walk around and we're going to box teju. So we're going to come into your lessons. We can observe. You were going to talk to all the subject leaders. We're going to basically give you a report and we're going to try to be ofsted right to give you guys practice of what it's like to have off to come around. And that's what I think of, as a mock said, the whole shebang we have to prepare, right? And I think every subject leader will say that being prepared makes them feel more.

13:53 Confident makes them feel more ready when from the time comes. So there is a balancing act to do isn't there as as leadership in a school where you want your staff to be ready and have gone through the mill if there is so to say. But the pressure pressure of a mock said, it's not necessarily helpful and what we found was the way us could have done it and especially from our point of view was really, really positive because What was essentially was we were questioned as if we were maybe in a meeting with ofsted, but it was it was way more informal. It wasn't a whole day, it was a chunk of the afternoon and it wasn't here. The questions answer me. I'm not going to give anything. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, an appeal. Is it, was he exactly? It was here.

14:34 The questions. Tell me what you think, you might say, here are some ideas about what else you could do. And I'm kind of moving on from there. So, from our point of view, having that kind of Middle Ground, we force really Active. Then we and even just like the things that he thinks the show, sometimes it was cheap, it wasn't in that we gave a wrong answer, it was more like a really cool but like make sure you just show these documents. When you talk about the, make sure you have this up and that up because then they can see these certain things and it was just a few things we'd overlooked and like we do have that we had those documents, we just didn't think of having them right there with us at that time, we were like, oh yeah, of course, that makes sense. So it was really helpful for us, but yeah, I don't know. I can imagine, you know, I know us and we're really passionate about mass as well, and that role I can still imagine though for a lot of other people, whether it's just their personality or because the subjects completely different, maybe they're not as passionate because at the end of the day, most subject leaders are kind of just thrown into it. A primary schools, it's like, oh, hey, on top of your teaching job.

15:30 By the way, you've got to do this, you just have to because everyone does apparently. So, I imagine, I can imagine for some people even that experience that we had, which we found quite positive, probably, because we were really prepared, and we're passionate, anyway, I imagine other people would still find that really stressful, but I don't know. I thought overall for us, it was the best version of what you could call sort of class as a box. Did I guess it wasn't a proper box set but I you know if we're going to do it that's the way I do. It just a little informal meeting with someone who's there to help ask you some questions. Help you get prepared. Not two days of walking around making you feel on edge, you know? And it was really good. Was that shoots, this woman was fantastic. The questions were perfect, but and but she was external, you know? And it was that idea of still this is a strange. This isn't there.

16:13 The head. This isn't the assistant head that we talk to on a regular Basis and liaise with this was someone from the outside coming in saying no actually this is what they're going to ask you and you need to convince me there's no oh I kind of know this already where we can skip over some stuff we had to really convince her as if she was an outsider and I want to jump on what you just said about subject leadership. Because it is really, really interesting. And I'll be interested to know any teachers listening if you lead a subject or not and what subject is because like you said, there's this big thing with schools where it is kind of a big rule in many schools that you just need a subject. Where A single person has to leave one of the subjects because if you think we need an art leader Aditi leader geography, History Science re English could be writing, could be reading math.

16:56 Yeah, you know, it's almost endless and you can share out these leadership roles between the whole staff. But there's a discrepancy even there between ofsted moving towards a more wholesome approach. Not just looking at data of mass in English, by actually looking at your curriculum and The Wider kind of depth of curriculum. That your children are getting an error. Nevada knowledge without actually, that being transferred at that same sort of progress into that, becoming way more important hasn't kind of translated into leadership and getting tlr and extra pay. So you get kind of dichotomy, sometimes of huge amounts of work. From history coordinators, for example, ripping up the curriculum because it's going to be a huge Focus for ofsted putting into our history coordinator has done at like I can't put into words how many hours of work.

17:46 You know, transforming this curriculum. Making it really clear for us. So that if officer came in, we'd be saying the same thing as them. Our children are get a really good curriculum. That matches the skill set needed, the vocabulary needed, huge amount of work but no extra pay. No tlr whereas as misleads we share a tlr because math is math. English is English, they get tlrs but it's just a bit of a bit of a you know it doesn't match up at the minute, does it? Yeah, I mean for those that are listening that maybe aren't in schools or not in those sorts of roles just to make that really clear. There are some subject leaders in schools who are in the core subjects as we call them, which is mass in English, and technically science as well. But the core subjects maths and English come with extra pay. So if you'd lead to those subjects, you are subject to a tlr which is a teaching and learning, or teaching, learning responsibility as it was called.

18:34 And yeah, it's just a bit of extra money across the year to lead their subjects. But like you said, the kind of culture has changed a lot over the years and ofsted will be equally interested in these other subjects. The idea was, or you get paid because these are like the main Subjects often are always going to hone in on these but is yeah, it's changing, you know, that yet they hone in on everything very quickly and people aren't paid to lead these other subjects which is just as much work if not more sometimes than the people doing the maths and English and yeah, it doesn't make this strange. I don't know scenario of people getting paid for something and not for the other. Well the good thing is Hayden, like we said last week and I called open you've got PPA so two hours a week just fit in there. Yeah, exactly do it then.

19:15 And you know, it's really interesting. Last point on that, lots of schools. Now, you don't even get to tell offering this to maths, you know. It might be given to someone on that. Yeah. Very, very, very common, very common. I saw how it was, it was more people didn't get tlrs for leading those subjects than the way I think classic, you know. Let's make it fair and equal. None of you get anything now. Yeah I can see that because that honestly, that I know it's stupid, but that's my first thought I was like, well, at least at least it's a step towards fairness for everyone. It's just that everyone's being screwed. It just goes into this. Kind of whole system of massive massive underfunding where we're in a culture where we can be asked to do this. Huge job.

19:56 Huge, huge job, just because, and I think this might leave nicely Hayden into our next section, which we're going to dive into these next round of strikes. So, talking about strikes. I was going to mention this earlier by. I thought I'd wait for this section, right? I don't know if you've seen this, but I've already fall into this trap, and I think it's kind of sad, really? Because when I was leaving on Tuesday this week, obviously, knowing that there were strikes on Wednesday and Thursday and the majority of our schools striking. I was watching people taking home like, piles and piles, and piles of books and tests and things. And I was thinking, oh God it as well, as I was walking out with a For those tests because we've had test week and I've left school on Tuesday about 5:45 the school was kind of closing and I simply hadn't had enough time to get an entire batch of test as Market.

20:50 Which what we're doing? I thought you go, I'll do it tomorrow and my strike day and then I got really annoyed at myself because I'm paying for that. I'm paying to have the next day off to strike to take industrial action. Make a point, make a stand about Out, you know, a lots of different things. One of them being the sort of working standards that, you know the well-being of us. I'll do it, are marking tests at home and I just thought Christ. How many other people how many listeners right now? Can honestly say that they went home and they strikes and they didn't do any work done about you, this is such a good point and it leads really nice in something else I wanted to talk about, but it's you hit the nail on the head, right? When teach the Striking number one, our pay is taken, right? We're not, we're not doing it, we're not sad. Sat around doing nothing and getting paid still, we pay for that out of our pay packet.

21:42 But number two, it doesn't get rid of all those things. We talked about over the last few episodes that extra part of the job, right? It doesn't get rid of that. Those things still need to happen. We've essentially just got rid of that contact time that teaching time, all of the other stuff, like you having to get those test marks and put onto the area is still has to happen. Yeah. At some point and what really, really, really infuriates me and it's something maybe we could talk about now is kind of Of before me, talked about strikes, it was very much Strikers versus non-striker's in terms of teacher versus teacher, right? And and there was fall out and it and it did get ugly. And I'm the first to put my hand up and say that, in the initial kind of discussions about striking. I was definitely more on the edge of of course you should strike.

22:25 Of course, we should try because if this and this and I'm very aware that sometimes when I get into it because again I am passionate about it that it may sometimes come across as a bit condescending, especially to those who maybe just couldn't afford to Strife, whatever reason. Yeah, and I think I've come back from that a lot more now especially after having for strike days are in about a month. I mean that's a huge hit for anyone. Yeah. But the thing, I noticed this time and perhaps you could tell me what your position on this is is that teacher versus teacher again. But within people who did strike, because I heard stories last time of teacher who decided to strike. But on their day off, didn't go to the picket line that was arranged their school and, you know, didn't actively go out. And let's say, traditionally strike, right? And the next time they met as a union, when they were discussing about their next round of strike action, the any you rep in their school, who was a teacher, obviously, made the point of kind of calling those people out, almost as if to say and said this exact line, which I really disagree with again. So I'm not just militant any you, of course, but it was, it's not a day off, it's a strike day. You need to come and show your support in the picket line and I know I thought to that and I wonder what your reaction is to say, Mike.

23:37 Reaction to that. Is the that's not the only way. That's not actually the point of striking like the point of striking is not to go out there and get in people's faces to say what I'm striking. The point of striking is to not to be at work like ultimately, that's the thing you're going to have the most impact you're going to have is by not being there, putting that pressure on the government to take action. Right? Obviously there's the Step Up where. Yeah, you could eat. You can also, you can be quite like you said by militant about it, you can get out there on the streets, you can get your signs out, you know, stand up. Picket line and do those things as well. But I don't like the idea of basic insinuating that or you're doing nothing by just striking by being at home like you're not doing nothing.

24:17 You're still not being at work, you still making that point that impact from the government's perspective, you know? So yeah, I would be annoyed if someone had said that to me by basically, I get it, you know, he said you were passionate right? Like yeah, I mean, clearly you could on top of this, but I can understand why someone would be that passionate again, on that next level. And maybe be a bit condescending bit. Rude. You know, please understand if you're listening to this that we don't actually want to strike at all. Of course we don't actually want this but the level of disruptions level one going up and showing your showing up in. London is level 2 it is better. Of course. It is I can I completely get that and I completely agree. But again maybe it's where I fell on the other side of actually I'm going to use this day off to rest or catch up or recuperate or do it.

25:04 So many other teachers did which comes into what you said later. Of lost time. Lots of people are marking independent writing. That takes a long time to my properly. Lots of people are catching up on tests and I just wanted to tell this story right now because it shows how conflicting I am because I didn't do it, but I really appreciate if you're listening to this and you showed you went to a picket line and you went to, I have so much respect and praise for you. And I want to say thank you because today, obviously there's lots of other strikes going on as well. There's there's Junior. Doctor strikes, there's Other strikes in that even the BBC. I think locally, local BBC people on strike, it was a huge day of strike action. I was driving past a local hospital today and we were in traffic.

25:48 It's like backed up traffic and we kind of come to a stop outside. The hospital where there was this whole group of people congregated almost like a picket line the demonstration. Yeah. To show their support and then when we started up again we drive past them. I beat my horn and gave them a wave, right? And they are really happy, they were cheery. And I felt two overriding emotions and it was crazy, right? Kind of just washed over me. It was like, I was in a sembly all over again. Push it over me because the first one was almost like regret. I kind of wish that I was doing that. I was thinking, okay, I'm going to see my family today, so I don't regret that. I have the idol. Really nice day on my strike. That I went to see my family.

26:28 It was perfect. It was a really nice kind of day, just catch up with them. Saw the little ones, it was really nice, but I And of regret not showing my face and just, you know, showing that support in the next level like you said, but then the overriding emotion after was, you know, pride and and like passion and I was so happy for like I know they're striking and I can't really put this into words but my whole being was taken over with yes like solidarity. Like you just well done. You've put yourself out there and I thank you because I just hope that this Stays this feeling of it's unjust. This feeling of you are the people who are the glue to this country, the nurses, the healthcare, the teachers that Railway workers the shop workers. These are the real people who actually keep our country together and they are they're saying, no and I just like got emotional almost, I really did genuinely, and I just thought Brilliant like look what you're doing, you've taken a cut. You've taken a pay cut to argue how you're not getting paid enough.

27:37 If that isn't the ultimate show of how much you believe in something then what is and they were just wondering why Wreck-It Ralph was driving past in and they were happy to see you. It was nice to see a character. So big and so popular. Do that and show support jokes aside? I do agree. Even listen to you. Tell that story I almost got like secondhand emotions that because I know exactly how you feel. Cuz I'll be the same and I am a little bit. Disappointed in myself for not being, you know, one of those picket lines or those rallies. I know. There's still time. We can do it another day, but yeah, equally just like ice ice around. I'm Mark tests. I go ahead and I spoke to so many people that were like, oh, thank God. I can get, I can get some work done so that I can have a weekend for once, like, what a sad State of Affairs and it's just highlights again. So, yes, it's, you know, this is a huge reason to strike the working conditions of teachers is ridiculous. It's stupid.

28:29 Yeah. And I think the kind of, the point I want to make now moving forward, is that kind of Pride and just so. So glad that these people feel, they can come together to make this point and it's just met with a brick wall. And it really frustrates me because especially in England where education is devolved in terms of, you know, you know, Scotland and Wales have certain powers even though they're part of the British government, there's certain powers that are handed over to Scottish MPS and Welsh MPS for them to have their own. Budgets and saw their own things out, right? Yeah. It is Scotland. And Wales education is one of them, so they're in charge of their own curriculum, they're in charge of their own funding. That's why tuition fees in Scotland a free because the government have chosen to take that step because they're in charge of that for Scotland. So in Scotland, and in Wales, they've had pay offers, right? They've had pay offers come in so that they can kind of decide for themselves, whether they want to accept that or not and that was without the the strikes being called off, okay? So Scotland voted I believe too.

29:29 Checked them Wales is currently. Now having received the offer called off the strikes to ballot their members to see if that's what they want. Okay? Right Keegan Keegan is the education surgery. She opened penned a letter, an open letter to parents, okay. And in this letter it was released the day before the strike. So on on Tuesday, I believe and it was just just classic government kind of like safety safety net of framing the Union's as the bad guy. Guys, and it was just along the lines of, you know, we don't want this instruction. Tappin, we've offered this Olive Branch to the any you we've said, if they just call off, the strikes will sit around the table and have discussions.

30:13 So, you know, trying to shift the blame basically, and saying the any you are obsessed with striking, two things to say to this, okay? Or two things to say to this. Number one, we are the any you, the teachers are the any you, they are. They have this really, really hard line. I love trying to characterize the union so you don't have to characterize the teachers and just outright them all true. We are the any you, we vote. We represent the eight. What do you think? We are like the people at the top of any you ballot. Us at this really high threshold that the government set that, I never thought would get that. We'd get to, we got there because we the teachers voted for that. So every time they say that any you are obsessed with striking, we can see straight through that, we know what you're saying. And the second thing I want to say to that, Is what are you talking about?

31:01 Call off the strikes and then we'll have a discussion. No of that. What do you mean? We're striking for a better pay deal. We're not striking to have a chat. We're not striking to have a little chinwag round, the table when which you'll just say no and get rid of the strikes and not give us anything Scotland, managed to do it, whales managed to do it in 2011 when there was a pensions debacle is teachers and they were negotiating with the government, all those negotiations. Happened whilst industrial action was on the way. There was never a cat. She's changed the goalposts suddenly and try to shift onto you, stop striking and we'll talk about it. You're talking like a teacher to your class. You start behaving yourself and maybe we got four golden time. It's not going to cut, is it is exactly what you said.

31:43 It Paints the, any you us teachers, literally everyone, in education. It pains them at the bad people, simple. It's a clever plan and it will, you know, a lot of people will fall into it. It's just the way, the way it works in the country, a lot of people will be like, yeah, yeah, actually Yeah, the teachers are scum and it's like, they really want us. They really want to strike, they're just doing it because they love striking and I just hate that people like so many people can't Elevate their thinking slightly more to questioning hmm option. A suddenly hundreds of thousands of teachers and educational staff are all scum. Now, despite doing a job that's like inherently, like relies on people, caring about children, they're all Come now.

32:28 And they've all become greedy in unison at the same time. That's mad. Haven't they? And they all hate children's, they're striking or maybe, maybe hundreds of thousands of people collectively have had enough because the government of wrong, they're in the wrong. Maybe that's why it's like which one is it? I'll Keegan said it was the, it was the Union's. They love striking. So yeah, that's punches up. That's it. Hundreds of thousands of teachers. All scum, all greedy. Now, what they were compliant or for the last 12 years, but they're greedy. Now, you know where they are. Though, because actually I checked in the Daily Mail, so lazy. Yeah, yeah. And actually it's impartial, even though all of it is owned by, you know, Tory's doesn't matter. Because it's truth is fine. Because Boris Johnson has, you know, offered up their the head of the day.

33:11 It's all fine, it's all fine because you know, it's fine because the BBC has a left-wing bias obviously. So everything else. But, you know, ignore the fact that it's bound by a Tory donor. You know, the, the media completely impartial and teachers are obviously just just lazy. We At the most. It's just weird, isn't it? That like it must have been the maybe maybe like a few years ago. It's just this massive greedy way. If you know, all these great people with trained to be teachers at the same time and they all said, you know what we'll do in a few years time, we're all going to decide to be a bit more greedy at the exact same time. Yeah. And and we'll just it will just hold the country to Ransom and we'll strike because we love it, not because we could go to those those meetings and and you know, get get rejected off our or we love striking so much.

33:55 We're just going to make it, you know, horrendous or the country. I'm gonna keep doing it. Because migrating out of sent and you know what really grinds my gears, I'm really gets me up about this actually Hayden is that we clapped all these guys was at nine off. Yeah she's miyaichi no blasted probably isn't the teachers when I Clap the NHS goals and Anais use, Excuse me, inflation is really high and might because of your incompetent leader who was around 40 days. My mortgage is about to go up by four hundred pounds, a month and food is doubled. And I'm just, I'm just really, I'm just really struggling to get by and I was just wondering if Maybe we could have some kind of some kind of increasing our payback, that kept us up with your face. Yeah, lazy. You're lazy, right.

34:36 It's time to move on to our little end of episode sections. I absolutely love these. Before we get in. We've got some toxic stories. This week, back to that one, reading forward to that Hayden, Scotland for us. I've not heard these. So I'm kind of looking forward to it and half excited to get a bit annoyed. You know, that feeling, sometimes you quite like it in a bit, riled up. But before we do want to say a huge thank you to everyone has been following us on social media. We Ought to be posting reels of these podcasts. So if you want to find those, get over to our Instagram, teach, sleep, repeat podcast, just search as give us a follow. We post as much content in there as possible. We have an email account. Teach seat repeat, POD at gmail.com, where you can send us your funny stories where you can send us your anecdotes where you can send us, your confessions or examples of toxic, no, toxicity in the school, and the very last thing.

35:21 Massive thank-you, because it makes such a difference. When people find us for the reviews, if you can do one thing for us while say, To give us a follow on Spotify, give us a review and that goes for all of your accounts where you might find us iTunes, Amazon. It goes so far for us, and we really appreciate it. So, thank you very much Hayden. I've done my bit. I've done my little plug, we don't have a sponsor, so I'm sure you guys don't mind me. Talking for a minute about that. Do you want to tell me now? Yes. Got you riled up this week? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Now these I'm hoping this will spark a discussion, like you said, get a bit riled up, maybe they're not crazy things. Okay? But there's just a good discussion point. So I saw recently I heard you're from some from reading, some things online. There was a TA just asking for a bit of advice and saying that they've got a contract that starts at 8:30. And this is really important because that person they have to start at 8:30 because of their own child care, like routine in the morning, okay?

36:14 So that was very, that was like a really important part of that contract. But that now being reprimanded by the school, they work for, and they're in quite a lot of trouble because they get there, 8:30. And that's saying you need to be in the school here at 8:20 so that you can prep. You can be ready to start. Start, you know, doing whatever you need to be doing 8:30. And this person saying, you know, the whole point of our contrasting, 8:30 was because that's the that's like the earliest time. I can, I can be here, you know, because of my, it's a knock-on effect to their child care routine in the morning because I have to be ready 10 minutes before they start and there's the school has made it very explicit. Those ten minutes won't be paid.

36:55 They said your pay. Your pay starts at 8:30 and they were asking for advice and I just thought was really interesting. I thought you know, I don't know if whether you think this is toxic or not. I thought a good discussion point. So yeah, a couple of things come to mind straight away. I'll say the first thing because it's really quick and really easy T. Azar gold dust and angels and I love them and I'm very aware, you know, you know, and very sentimental, very sentiment is podcast, but it's true. And I don't think we say it enough here and get it across. How much we just appreciate them so much. They are the literal glue to. So Many schools, aren't they? Because they are just the people who get things done for you and they their teachers in their own right there. Kind of, you know, those figures of you can put your, you know, that shoulder to cry on. So to say, you can go with them with your problems. But listen, they support their, just the best people in the world.

37:43 And so many of my favorite colleagues ever have been those T8, especially the start of my career, the start my career teachers are busy busy, busy non-stop Tas are just as busy, but they just always find time to listen to you. I find that and You know, just so first thing, we appreciate you absolutely. Second thing on the story. It's an interesting one because for me, there's one thing that came to mind, but something that kind of changes in this situation for me. So the first thing that came to my mind is when I was at University and its sixth form. I worked as though my contract was 8:55 on a Friday and 12:00 to 8:00 on a Saturday. So I did 12 hours a week whilst I was at six form. Just as you know, some pocket, money to save up, run my car when I passed my test and when my contract My shift started at four, you know?

38:29 And it was just expected and it was kind of taken as just. The fact that I clock in just, I clock in before for so that I can go on to the stuff, the shop floor, I could start work at for because I'm there to start work. Now, that means I arrived at Asda a course to 4 or 10 to 4, right? And I walked through the outside door into Asda at 3:50 because then I would go to my locker, put my things away, you maybe get a quick drink and Maybe on the shop floor, ready to start work. So my initial thought there was okay, well actually, I think it's quite normal in the world of work for. If your your contract starts at certain time, you're expected to actually be working at that time. You know and anything, you know, you don't get paid to travel to work, you know your travel time isn't paid and in the same way as your prep time before doesn't get paid when I threw the doors. Yeah, exactly.

39:18 Now the thing that slightly different in this situation is it sounds as if this was a discussion that was already had that, you know, I need to have this time because of X, Y Zed and If that kind of was maybe it was a miscommunication at the time or maybe it's just something that they've overlooked and now they say no, you need to be here. That's going to have a really detrimental effect. It sounds to me as if this person isn't isn't just, you know, they're not just dusting off and saying, no, no, I just I come here at this time. The, you know, that child, they've got child support. So surely, I think in any sane mind, if that happened at my school, I'd have a sit-down, I said, okay, how can we solve this problem then because you've got to do this and, yeah, rather than being reprimanded and kind of threatened, all this. I reckon the school probably or just In the similar sort of opinions. What you had there? Have like, well we're you know, we're paying you from 8:30. So you need to be like working from on the dot, you know, from 8:30.

40:04 So you need to get here in reasonable time to start that job at 8:30, but it did make me think. And I know I don't want to go down this Rabbit Hole really now but it did make me think about we all just, you know, we just sucked into this culture, which is actually inherently just wrong of, like end of the day. You're paying for my time. I am here at 8:30, I'm walking through the doors, 8:30, if he won't pay me, I wouldn't be here. Like this is not my choice. Kind of like you wish you know shit shit we just change the culture of it, shouldn't be. Yeah, we pay you from the second you get here because actually you're not here for a jolly even walking through the doors and go put your stuff in a locker. When you're asked her ass till your time, you're not doing that for fun, you're doing that as part of the job. It's just that we've convinced ourselves that no, no. You can only be paid for the second, your labor is making money for that.

40:47 The company in anything, it takes to be there, no matter how hard we make that, it's not paid, that's just you just do that. Yeah, so I don't do, you know, is to do, we just need to have a bit of a shift. I'm thinking it's an interesting one. I don't necessarily think that expecting someone to start their work, when their contract starts is, is, you know, out of the is extraordinary. You know, is another thing, I think, I think that that is something like, said ingrained in the culture, so it's a weird one, but, yeah. I think they're specifics of that case, you know, I just, I hate the when people in the position of power immediately, go to kind of like, you know, wielding the building the knife almost to be like, well, no acceptable, rather than just. Okay. You know, let's make this Because they're human beings. Okay, let's start your contract 840 then. Yeah.

41:30 To give you time and you can still get 8:30 if that's you know if that's going to be the thing. Yeah. And I need 10 minutes early. I bet I bet the reactions that would be oh thank you. Yeah. Sounds good or you know or actually I need that extra 10 minutes. Could I stay 10 minutes later at the end and maybe prep the next day just to then? I don't know. So that's the end of that story. I've got another story. I'm going to just jump straight every here. This woman was actually it's quite refreshing but I've seen this story lots of times and I know you're going to be like, oh yeah, I've heard this before, okay. It was a pgce student. So pgce is, well, is what did and I both did? It's a one year teaching course. And you have to have a degree already to be able to do the one year. If you, if you don't have a degree already, you have to do the three year course, right? So this person was doing the pgce and they were just talking about how they felt like in their placement school, which is about nine. Ten weeks of practicing teaching at a school. They were just abused, and used as free labor, and they were given absolutely no support to the point where they felt like they were actually treated.

42:26 Be badly. They were talk to you rudely and they were just basically used as free work in the school. There was no development for them and then this person was then questioning because of these experiences and also seeing all of the extra stuff that's used have to do which again go back and listen to our PP. A silly joke that we made at the start of last episode because it highlights all of these things, they realize that actually there's a lot more to teaching them, maybe they thought and they sort of left with the question of it is this job worth doing Doing is this? Have I made a terrible decision was what they put? Yeah, it's so common. It's so common couple of things to kind of dissect. Their the first thing about almost like free labor with students, right? It's such a fine line because truly genuinely, when I trained, I made the most rapid progress in my teaching, and my confidence, and in my ability to devote deliver lessons while when I talk more and more.

43:21 Okay? So, so the idea of actually teaching Lots, I personally They felt like that was a real benefit, okay? Now everyone's different and that that kind of Journey to teaching a certain percentage. I think it works up to 80 percent by the end is different for everyone, depending on what they need. But, you know the the line though is is exactly that. How helpful this what's happening, are you with the same math class everyday planning, us planning? A sequence of maths lessons? Seeing how the, children develop, seeing how they use previous learning to build on day by day? Delivering that lesson yourself planning future lessons based On where they are, that is very different to being asked in the morning. Are we give free teachers off? Can you go and do some your free math? Oh, by the way, in the afternoon year six they've got a trip and we've got sort of the residential and the kids are left behind.

44:09 There's no teacher to teach can take the residential. You're not even teaching, you know, you're just babysitting children and doing like, tie-dye covering. Yeah. Just covering it's very, very, very different. And I can see the Temptation for for staff, for SLT in schools that have lots of students to save a lot of money on cover. Right by using these students but there's a moral obligation. If you have students, you have decided that you're going to help develop them and you've got to do that. And that's got to be sacrosanct, I think throughout. And what's best for the student has to come first and not only are you not paying them in a lot of cases that they are paying to be there? You know people that don't have funded courses if they're just doing a straight up pgce and they've been hit with the full nine and a half Grand or whatever it is these days fee for that year they are paying NG to be in that school.

44:57 They're paying for your experience and training. And yeah, I agree that there is a fine line and it can be so easy because schools are so horrific be underfunded and under so much stress that yeah, I can see the temptation of a leader going. We could pay for a supply teacher or we've got that student who has got a day where they get to just go and observe people. Should we just ask them to cover this and say it's their experience and it's like, you know, I can see it because they because they probably convince themselves. It's really good experience, really good speaker, gonna cover that year, 3 class, you get to teach you. Threes and really, yeah, There's some experience they had, but that's not what I'm paying for. They're not paying for that, you know. And so I just thought I was an interesting one. If I remember correctly, schools do actually receive a nominal fee but they do receive a fee to take students as well. And I noticed something.

45:38 No, it's not a lot, you know. But the idea is that you might have to arrange cover not for the student but for maybe the, the mentor to be out of class and have meetings, right? And maybe that funds could go towards that. Like the idea is that it has to be centered around the student, and it's so sad. Sad. Isn't it that that student you know their experience has directly LED them after first placement to go? Okay well what's the point my response to that person if they were listening obviously they're not but if they were and anyone's in the same situation would be give it another try. Go to another place, go to another school. And generally, do you know what? My advice generally, to people who have a really bad time at the moment in schools is schools are just this. It's just so not regulated at all. Schools are so different from one another before you pack it in.

46:26 Because you had a bad experience, I just urge you, you know, go and try another place. Obviously, they have to do that, you can do what you want but for those that feel like they love teaching and then there's just something, you know, that's changed her mind at the last four years, try somewhere else. Changing schools can be a game-changer for a lot of people because there are some fantastic schools out there. We moan a lot because we want to relate to some of you guys that you know, you work in a tough job. But equally there are some amazing schools out there who have amazing headteachers, amazing teachers amazing Tas amazing student teachers. You get incredible experiences. I had an incredible experience. Training to be a teacher. I'm pretty sure you divide a fantastic experience and because you know, I will say this that you know, this school really did give me that chance to kind of, you know, teach I covered sometimes. But that was, you know, very rare. And I absolutely agree to that and I felt like I really made a bond with my class and the teachers are my mentors around. Me were unbelievable and always be in debt to those people. And for that reason, I do like to think that, no matter how stressed I get, I would be there to offer help to anyone, you know, entering the profession.

47:28 We will get two stories from the classroom, but we're going to do a really quick confessions because this is kind of like the, this is the result of us, kind of opening. This kind of flowers are several different types of strands of parts, of the population. Yeah. So we've got some confessions now, I really, really, really like this one because this one kind of leads on last video. We talked about the harrybo. Okay. So anyone who follows our Instagram as well will see that. After I heard about story last week about the teacher who literally ate the remains of the hobo bag even though it's for the party at the weekend. You will see that I have this week, had to hand out some sweets, and I tell you what, I noticed right away that they were two bags of 22, right? So I was like that's 44. There are not 44 kids in my class. I can't wait to take a leaf out of that person's book. So I dismissed the children I kind of left the girl handing out the harrybo's as they went out. And I said, I'll coach join the back of the line and I'll see you out and she came out and I saw her out. She didn't have any hair was left in her hand and I was like, jackpot.

48:22 I've got like 12 bags of harrybo waiting for me in the classroom. Went back completely, empty turns out. She's In the last few kids, like 5H just to get rid of him at the end. But anyway, this story, it's linked to her bow and I'll just read out to you because I got Center on Instagram. That's the place to be guys, teach sleep, repeat podcast, get an Instagram, share your stories with us. You could be on the podcast, not really a confession. So this person just thinks that already sticking by this. It doesn't it doesn't think this is a bad thing but more of a way forward in life, I used to teach a class of thirty six children. That's in its own. That's crazy one. Day. They'd all one a mini packet of harrybo. Can't remember, why? But it's just something I did every now and then to entice them into working hard.

49:03 They were so desperate to eat them in class that we decided to strike a deal, the agreed payment to open them now and eat them from each of them was to sacrifice. One harrybo each to me, they weren't bright enough to realize that I basically end up with a full sized bag back and was loving life. Happy class Happy Teacher. That's clever. And also way more You're getting way more a little, how did you get the mini bag? Like honest that 8 is like tell ya 10 8 10. Yeah. There's not many absolutely 6 back and then that way everyone's happy you know they're happy. I call that harrybo socialism. You know, everyone paid to say this like there's teachers yeah, just just rooting socialist into that but where the 1% still managed to fry from the teachers their job of a horde of them.

49:51 That's pretty far as a really good one. Another one is, well here this one's slightly okay longer and I'll save this for stories. Okay, so we're going to have stories guys because it's less of a confession more of just a crazy thing that happened. So do you have any confessions from what? Yeah, I can say I've I've had a confession in this week, which I read really genuinely made me chuckle. Okay, so you haven't heard this. I obviously, I've said it for you. I'm going to read out to you exactly how its ratings. I like the ones that were written, guys. By the way, the Dolphins one, we had a few episodes back was really hilariously written. So yeah, please No. Please do. Take the effort to do that. You can be one of our favorite customers Wreck-It, Ralph approves. I love all my classes.

50:33 I just need to say that before you read on and think I'm Hollow ghost, is a great start. What are they say to stop a story? Right? Children, love to draw you stuff. Okay, any teacher listening right now is thinking? Yes, Christ. They do anything, it could be a 15 second drawing of you compare. Lately, terrible artistic prowess but you always act unbelievably grateful and impressed of what they produce. That's what we did this, which is what we did up on the wall, right? It's going right there. Exactly? Yeah, it goes somewhere and once you break that seal of being really impressed at this terrible art, they won't stop one year.

51:14 I was so desensitized due to the 10 pieces of art, aren't in quotation marks. I'd received that week that that it usually when in the Bin instead of home to my art wall, as I told them, however, I slipped up once, just once I use the bin in my classroom, which I assumed was still yet to be cleared by the clue. How wrong I was fast forward to the morning and a child is questioning as to why they're beautiful painting of me, as a Pokemon was in the bin, Fold It Up in the bin, I had to think fast and I've course, On the cleaners got away with it, this time.

51:56 Like that's so true. I've had this before, right? I've got a teacher who I kind of share a doorway, right? The other side of my door, it's a weird layout. The other side of my doors, another classroom and multiple times. She's come in and said oh can I just use your bin? And I first read about these were being. Yeah. But my head is like they have your own bin. Like of course you can I come in? So I just don't want to see that. I'm throwing away their work and honestly came in with, like, you do like big A3, paper bill, It doesn't go in the book but she was at how I don't want ya, see it. So this person clearly have more foresight than the film. You might say some pictures of it or something but you're not keeping the work. Yeah, we've done it. Like I just know people listen to this thinking I've actually done that and it sounds really horrible.

52:38 It sounds really mean but it's not. It's just you. Do you get a bit desensitized to it because they see that you like something they've done. So they're like cool. I can do that in free, checkups your squiggle on, give it to you and you're like, oh yeah, thank you. It does build up. And you know as lovely as is just the, the lovely bit is the See you accepting it. So obviously afterwards, I really want higher level that go into being, they get folded up and they go in the bin, have you ever had something more special things, work a, I'll keep, but there's little ones, you know, have you ever had it before? Where they'll come up to you, but picture, right? And, and that you think they're just showing you it right there was like, look at this? Yeah. Right. And then your old lovely and then it kind of just just stay there staring. Like I like your rights. Like yeah. Right.

53:19 Oh, is that for me? Yeah. All right. I don't think. It's literally just their name right there. Just written the name in that pink pen. Is that horse. Lovely. Thank you. And then literally just stay where you going to put it on my desk on my desk that you put it here. Forget about it tomorrow. It'll be gone it all when they're the most brutal one is when they ask you to name it. Oh what is it what have I draw with the kids? They want the gratification of you telling them what they've drawn but you don't know what it is. Oh is that so you get is that I'm thinking that's a lovely animal. No. Oh, okay. No, it's not even handle crazy. I'm glad I didn't say cat.

54:02 That's that's my mum. Okay, that's pretty. And she would love that go home to her, but you go show her that if you ever you ever seen as well. This is a common thing. I see quite a lot, when kids make cards just like last minute they find out. Maybe it's and adults birthday, or like another child's birthday in this in the class. And they always want you to sign. It. That's just a thing. For some reason, it can you sign the cup? Can you sign the card and then you owe and it's always, always a piece of white, A4 paper folded, terribly in half, not properly. They've written in like a pink Li light or something. Happy birthday on the front and then they just go around the class and got some people to just write their name in it. And like the ultimate win is how many adults can we get to sign this card there? Another way around a bit like can you sign the card for? So and so can you sign a car?

54:46 And the best thing is it's just have left in their trade end of the day. It's just hanging out there and taking it home. Yeah, everyone's here. Oh, man, this is Sophie. This may be lost so much, get hardened to it now because happened, but in my first year of teaching, I really put like a part and thought into these cards Christmas cards, but I got the kids. Not exactly what I call my kids at Christmas cards, memory, nice. Write them all a little message and handed them all out. As you do, most kids over there and then and then we sort of moved on. I forgot about it at the end of the Academic Year so like six months, seven months later. We were just doing it at Ray thinks that those little trays under the desks. And that's looking for this one boys desk, helping him.

55:27 Do you want to clean it? He's really grumpy, and I just pulled out my completely unopened. Sealed up Christmas card from the depth of his tray because he just couldn't have cared less about this car that I was like, oh, they'll see so much sentiment in this. No, they didn't need any can get kind of, not one bit. I love how like each year that goes by less and less of those sentimental things happen because you just realized that you could be lovely and sentimental and nice do them. Don't have to spend hours and hours, creating a personalized bracelet for them to wear once and before it breaks and never have again. That's so true. Isn't it? That the time in to the sort of send you an out, you work out that there's you again, it wrong before. How many children have that gift? I made in the first year where I literally, I can't believe I did.

56:10 I went to one of the Hobby Lobby craft and I bought those tiny white beads with letters on and every single child I made them. This kind of brace that thing with their name on, right? I spit was where I realized I could make you wasted my time. Let's go. When we were walking out on the last three kids and Brokenness that all the beat every other floor and come. Oh, it's gone. And I cared more than they did because I spent hours doing yeah. Oh God! That's brilliant, guys. If you makes it sound really hard less than that a little bit but you know, what can you say after this long? If you guys have any other confessions, we I love that we started this because the Sessions, they are brilliant. Do let us know, specifically it out on our Instagram. So do do find us or email us at the email. You know what it is?

57:02 Let's move on. Hayden two stories from the classroom. Well I'm going to start this time. Is that accursed ego because I, you know, I'm just latching on to what happened in the last episode where apparently people find it really funny to hear how much of a moron I am. Honestly, I'm so glad more people are noticing because I feel like I've had a front-row seat to this for years now. And I was thinking this show, you know, it needs to be commissioned by someone and in this podcast, can be the place because you suck, honestly, you're just like a walking me, you're just a joke, my legs and I know nicest way possible. Crying. Now, on when I say joke on legs, I mean you bring joy and laughter and happiness. Oh yeah.

57:48 Alright, Wreck-It Ralph, that's enough. Anyway. Yeah. So people love the, the understory more than I thought they were like, I was very honored and so I've got another one. It's, you know, it's not as good as under was just it's just our way to Hype up. The cost is funded in before you start. It's not as good. Yeah, it's terrible. Stop this internet often. So now so this is just another one of me being a bit of an idiot. I've The story out was that, she okay. So one day after school, again, maybe two years into teaching, you know, I was there, it was like, 6 p.m. it was really late. I was dying to go home, but we were doing geography the next day. And I really wanted to make it not one of those geography lessons where they just stare at the screen. You show them pictures of apps and things. I want to get the maps out.

58:30 And I was looking for all the resources, cupboard, and I found this tray of maps and I to know I can't even remember what's on these cards. I think it was like little continent cards or something, but they were like a like a playing cards except they were. Hundreds of right hundred hundreds but they were supposed to be elastic band it into like little groups and they all just messed up as I want to just put them back in there one day and not sorted them out. So I had them out on a table and I was in another teacher's classroom. Think we were just chatting at the end of the day, and I spent honestly like an hour, sorting them out. And our sorting this tray out, just chatting away, finding all the cards matching them up. I didn't have any elastic bands. I was just thinking it'll be fine because I've put them in piles. So I know where they are. Put them in this.

59:11 I with the maps next to them Syd you're gone 6 p.m. now I'm walking back to my classroom. One of the last people in school, hard floor. The cleaners are already cleaned it, right? I didn't look at the sign because it's me, obviously I just didn't think that they were. I've done that and I just felt I slip classic like banana slip. Like my legs went up, and I slammed the floor like honest. I think I cracked my elbow and I did it hurts so much but I was holding this tray of stuff and it just like, comically just Went everywhere. Like absolutely everywhere, the whole our been wasted because all of these cards were just scattered across the floor. And I got so angry and I just like, basically kicked it all to the side shuffle. It I just went home and do it and even do it the next day, I didn't have time to sort out again, did the boring this and instead I just I was so frustrated. You turn it up with the front door. The front of the cars in a sling, the next day and because it's less is so boring.

1:00:08 You're like, I know, I know, Yeah. So they guys just another vision of me being a complete idiot. Okay, so I've got one here. Once I forgot to tell my student that you had to be out of school by 6:00 p.m. So when the bell goes in this story at six, you literally have five minutes to get yourself out the building. So, this Bell isn't like a warning. It's the schools closing now leave, but everyone knew that obviously apart from the student. Well, one day, I went all Rogue and I actually left by 4:30 that The joys of having a student because as you know sometimes you just units taught by few lessons. They're going to Mark the lesson. You can you can head off early happy days.

1:00:49 I said goodbye to the cleaner on my way out of the building and thought nothing more of it q. A panicked call from my student at about 6:30. She was locked in the building and had set the alarm so she couldn't break out the school. The cleaner hadn't realized I'd had a student and had locked up knowing that I'd left so didn't come and check my classroom. I was Obviously, the last one left on a Friday night, usually, I had to drive back to school. Thankfully, I was relatively local, a friend's house and had to talk us through how to get out of the building and also then help us climb over the gates to escape my God. Needless to say, but I never forgot to tell a student teacher about the 6:00 p.m. curfew again. Can I just say oh that's so what a metaphor at the minute for you know for the idea of teaching us stuff climbing over the fence get me out of here.

1:01:39 I'm climbing. I never forgot to tell a student teacher that even though the shop finishes at 4:30, you'll still be there at 6:30 needing to do more and you need to leave anyway. What the idea of a student teacher felony to be there at 6:30 as well. I was like, what did? Yeah, must be nice. Imagine how terrified you too. Because like I've heard of I actually heard of another member of Staff, but way more experience, just being locked in their office because they didn't realize the school have been locked up and they clean as hadn't checked and it, but they weren't too worried about it. There are just give me a ring a bit of lat. Alton, he's comin back out but it is student-teacher. You try to make a good impression you'd be. I would I would have been mad. I just would have. Also heard this story em about a relative experienced teacher got locked in the toilet. Once I was there sir.

1:02:24 Yeah I remember that happening. I think him be there. Actually laughing and fit on that personal. Oh it was okay. So you've got story for us. Hey, yeah. I've got another one. Okay, so this this is actually a story for Mika. This is not written in, it's just something I remembered and it It was it's about a boy that was in my class many, many years ago. He was so charismatic this game, like genuinely it. Still brings me joy to think of this this kid, because he was just had so much life, and brought so much joy in the classroom, right? But anyway, we once went on a school trip and it was an overnight school trip. Just one night away, the classic residential, but it'll bit younger normally do in your six.

1:03:05 We were doing it in your 40. It's quite common to all do that as like almost like a warm-up for the week-long. One later. Yeah, I know I heard it before but this is what this, what we do this school and our forecast Cohen had a bit younger, but they, as expected a lot more tears and things like that for children. And we have like a lights out there all in one Corridor basing. All these rooms next to each other in one big Corridor. And I'm kind of at the end of it, we Patrol for a while because you know what they're like, if you've been on a residential before, they want to stay up as late as they can and mess around their mates, of course, they do how often they get to get this, right? So I never feel that bad about it. I'm just like Let Him Live it down a bit they'll all fall asleep, naturally eventually. So I'm going through the rooms, most of the I've got there. Door, start the open because they didn't like the idea of having it closed. I was like, that's fine because it said, I completely locked building anyway and it's just us in it and I'd like a soccer the door just to keep it. Look just a crap of light in, you know, it's a little. So I'm going through, I'm listening. How can my head through some of them? Just making sure thinking.

1:03:56 Yeah, there are asleep noses at 11:30. Now, to midnight, maybe they've been asleep for qualitative. They've had, they've had their kind of, through their, their calm down from being so excited. Oh yeah, because they would have gone to bed at, like 9:00. So they've had their couple of hours of being maniacs. And I'm walking through Yep. Another Quiet One open that one. This is Stephens a little question. Where someone's like this scared? It was it, you'll be right. I'll be okay. Be right, mate. Your, I just get some sleep. I go to the next room and this, this that this boy is he right? Open the door lights all on every single child in bed. Except for him I guess we do. Topless pull-ups, looks me just goes, I'm a student at 11:30. The other kids are like upset with him because they're trying to sleep. Now they've had their fun and he's doing pull-ups. Oops, didn't even know I was coming. He was doing that because he wants to do it. I just made it and I obviously had to tell him to stop by in my head I was laughing so much at this and I couldn't eat a damn good idea.

1:04:54 How many children rights mind knowing they've been caught doing that would kind of like jump into bed and like, go pretend. Yeah. Yeah, he was smug. He knew damn, well that I find it funny, you know it, he all these extra we're in one basket there, he knew there's no way I'd be able Not in, use this hour, he got away and he was right, it's funny. Hey, it was right, it's the same kid, by the way, I also talked about him, but just because he's a legend and I'm just thinking about him. Now this same kid was also he is confident as you can probably tell from that story, right? And when we used to leave the classroom we'd have to just basically walk through that the playground right of the school and classic playground, there's like benches, you know there's you know standard bench has just picked me benches, two benches on one side and a big table in the middle, all connected.

1:05:39 And we We'd walk past them and he'd always always and I tell him not to every single time he jumped up onto the bench bit where you sit kind of run across it and jump off the other end. It's fun, you know, there's a year for kid is fun. I'm not that annoyed about it. I just want him to make me look like an idiot in front of all the parents. Yeah. Or and himself exactly that. And that's obviously the one I went with Isis. I did that. You can hurt yourself. You know, if you trip off that you're going to fall off a higher height, you don't hurt yourself, classic teacher talk, no kit, kids don't care, don't rock in your chair, so I don't care. You might fall off and break your neck. No, no. I won't, they'll do it anyway. You know, so he didn't listen to me one day, it's raining. Oh, you see what's coming here? It's raining. He knows he's not supposed to do. I've told him a million times, you ran up to the bench but as he went to jump onto it, he slipped. His leg went out front of him and he broke his nose on the actual bench but he literally broke his nose. Like let's go to hospital afterwards. He broke his nose.

1:06:34 And and this is this is going to sound so horrible. But part of me was like that was a lesson that you learned that lesson the hard way. Well you know obviously I checked the right foot so he stopped right there was a limited again. No, he's the he's the best bit ice. I'm not even joking. Not exaggerating, right? He was in the next day or maybe the day after you might have one that actually had one date husband. He was in the first days back, I swear to God, he did it again immediately, and I turn around, I gave him that look of, like, he knew are saying, are you joking? After what's your serial? Really doing that again. Fearless, Fearless probably went home to pull ups at night, most of his bed, you know, just just working out his nose. Making sure I'll be fine. I'ma show that bench. She's doing parkour across it.

1:07:16 The next idea you had that thought when it happened like horrible, I'm making sure he's fine, but, you know, at least he's never going to do it again. At least he worked at least as a look. No. Yeah. I was like, he's not seriously harmed and, you know, he's that kind of he's confident, he's cocky. Sometimes people just need to learn the in their own mistakes. I was like, yeah. You know, what's a good life lesson for him? You know, he's not he's not severely injured, good life lesson, they won't do that. Immediately doesn't doesn't care, right? Another bump episode. I actually really enjoyed these longer form ones because we can just sit and talk see where the conversation goes and you guys seem to be enjoying it. So again, let us know. I mean, we've recorded a lot. So, let's see what this comes out as Hayden. Anything else before we finish? Oh actually, this might be the time then if this is a too long episode, but we could finally tell us critics or have a lot of messages hating your cutout, right?

1:08:03 You can't well, finish it there. Then how can I just finish it there so I don't know. I don't know, Hayden's there guys, but I no time. No time left at all. Thank you for tuning in. Give us a follow. Give us a rating on Spotify. Follow us on Instagram and that's a shame because I'm pretty sure Hayden was about to tell the press that our we'll try again next time and if Hayden's here, I'm sure he'll say by as well. So see you next time, guys. Yeah. See you guys. Not thinking hear me. Then how can I just finish it there so I don't know. I don't know, Hayden's there guys, but I no time. No time left at all. Thank you for tuning in. Give us a follow. Give us a rating on Spotify. Follow us on Instagram and that's a shame because I'm pretty sure Hayden was about to tell the press that our we'll try again next time and if Hayden's here, I'm sure he'll say by as well. So see you next time, guys. Yeah. See you guys. Not thinking hear me.