Ep 28: Top Tips For The New School Year - Self-care, High Expectations & Building Relationships

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Hello and welcome back to
another episode, Ohh Teach,

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Sleep, Repeat.
My name is Dylan.

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And my name is Hayden, and last
week I got called out for

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closing my eyes when I did the
introduction.

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So I'm gonna do the rest of the
podcast like this, I think.

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What did you?
I didn't do that, did I?

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I don't know.
Someone, someone sent me one of

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my sister.
I don't know, she's my sister

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making some kind of comment
about the podcast.

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But you know and how good I am.
Yeah, yeah, clearly I still go

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back to that strategies.
We're here 2 seconds.

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Hayden this week we are coming
towards the end of the summer

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holidays, so we're gonna have a
bit of a chat about getting back

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into the groove of things going
back in September.

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I'm really excited.
But before we dive in, dive in

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Before we dive in, before we
dance in to talking about that,

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as always, do people want to
know, Hayden, the famous

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question How do you eat, pal?
Well, thanks for asking.

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It's been alright.
It's it's a week that to me and

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you I guess now is is very much
a symbol of the end of the

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summer holidays because we've
been running our summer club.

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So if you listen to episode six,
we talked about the fact that we

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run our chosen business as well,
which I won't go into loads now.

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But it is a particular,
particularly special week for us

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because we run a summer club and
I just wanted to give a shout

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really to our tutors because we
have a team of teachers who work

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with us and they are incredible.
Genuinely incredible.

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Like every every year we're just
blown away really how good they

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are at doing it and this year
has been the most sort of smooth

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and seamless one because I think
all of our shooters bar won this

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year have done our summer club
last year and they just, they

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just get stuck in.
Yeah, so just want to pick them

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up.
Thank you guys.

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We appreciate you and it's been
a really smooth week.

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So that's taken up a lot of our
sort of mind space and time

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we've been.
We've been on the sidelines just

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helping out with that, running
everything.

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But also today, it's quite a fun
day.

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Dylan came round my house it
we're gonna record the podcast

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earlier on this earlier on in
the day.

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It's it's the evening now and I
looked outside it was sunny.

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You know we don't get that many
really sunny days really.

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So I just said come on let's
let's, let's go outside.

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Let's do something with our
girlfriend.

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So, you know, we did.
We played table tennis for four

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hours and they sat and in the
sun they sat in the shade

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talking about whatever they want
to talk about.

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I don't know.
It did not.

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I was going to say right now, it
did not feel like I thought we

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were.
I'm listeners, watchers,

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viewers, whoever you are,
customers, not called to

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customers in a while, customers.
We were genuinely paying.

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We were genuinely playing table
tennis for like Serena half

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hours straight.
And you know, when you get in

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your zone, I don't know, we
talk.

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I might talk about this later,
actually.

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It's one of the things I'm
talking about when we start

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school again.
But having this kind of ability

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to step into a different mindset
where I was not thinking about

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anything else, it was absolutely
bliss.

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And for me, that's any kind of
like competitive sport or it

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could be like a game or
something.

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That is where I get into my zone
and I find that so good of my

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well-being.
It sounds really silly people

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listening.
Like what?

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You on about like what?
3 hours of time?

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No.
But it really does clear my

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brain, and I don't think about
or worry about anything else

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about.
You.

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Well, yeah, because you're
thinking about is the strategy

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and winning.
You're very competitive person,

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so obviously you want to win.
It's not a bad thing and I think

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everyone needs that really.
And probably most people do have

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something where they're like, Oh
yeah, that's the thing I like to

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do.
And you might not have thought

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about it before, but it's
probably because it completely

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takes your mind off everything
else, and you can be totally

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zoned in on that thing, whether
it's.

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Watching a programme or or
Speaking of programmes, Hmm,

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I've been very excited.
I've been very excited.

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Well, I thought you had
mentioned this when I asked you.

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How was your week?
You not.

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Stop going on about it.
So this is really sad, but Game

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of Thrones, it's been out for a
long time, but my girlfriend

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Lauren has never watched it and
I have always said, oh, we

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should watch it at some point.
Because it's one of those things

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that if you like, if you like
Game of Thrones, if you like

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that kind of fantasy world, it's
one of the best.

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Obviously excluding the last
season.

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We all ignore the last season
because it's absolutely

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terrible, but up till then it's
really good and worth watching.

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And she finally came and was
like, yeah, go on then.

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She's bloody loving it.
She is loving it.

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We are so addicted.
We're honestly, we've been

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watching it for three days, four
days, first season done.

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So I've been thoroughly enjoying
that, thoroughly enjoying that.

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I actually can't believe you've
done that to her knowing how

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terrible the ending is that that
is like a form of like some some

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kind of neglect there that you
just saying.

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Yes, let's get you loving this
show, which I know ends

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horrendously, but let her enjoy
the ride.

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For sure.
Let her enjoy.

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The ride, I did say, though I
gave a disclaimer at the start,

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I said.
If you like it or not, you know

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you have to have really, really,
really low expectations for the

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last season and it will be worse
than even those expectations

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like it will be.
It's just so terribly dreadful.

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About it.
But do you like resolution in

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this story as you watch?
Yes.

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Tough.
Well, you're not getting it, not

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getting any of that.
Do you like stories where they

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spend seven seasons elegantly,
very slowly, meticulously going

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through these incredible
journeys of all these characters

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for them to then just just do
more than that within one season

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and they travel everywhere and
do this, that happens and it's

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just completely pointless and
rubbish?

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Yeah, yeah, you do.
Like what, Game of Thrones?

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Is bad.
Just watched the last season on

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that note of like shows and
stuff because we were speaking

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about earlier and and you spoke
about this idea of having a go

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to watch that you're really
invested in, that you know you

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can binge is such an
unbelievable feeling.

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But you can explain it in a
second.

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But we're currently going
through at the minute with

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Netflix.
Anyone got Netflix?

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You might watch Lincoln Lawyer.
It it's one of those shows where

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it's really, really easy to
watch.

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It's not like ridiculously super
clever and you haven't got to,

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you know, massively pay
attention and work things out

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yourself.
Just a nice easy watch with some

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twists and turns.
And it's just usually you know

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something, someone committed a
crime and you work out the case

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with the lawyer as it goes
through and it's just one of

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them.
We throw the other day three in

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a row.
Like I would never sit down and

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watch a three hour film.
I would, I just, I I would just

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be like whatever.
I just don't think I've got the

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attention span.
But this really hooked me.

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It's like, yeah, another one.
And they're so good, aren't

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they?
Are these shows of doing the

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perfect cliffhanger?
It's almost like the 1st 5

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minutes resolves the cliffhanger
from last time.

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Then they have 50 minutes of
like fluff and it's like, ohh

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yeah, I see you mate stuff and
then at the end, 5 minutes, ohh,

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my gosh, this thing is about to
happen and then it doesn't.

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And it's like the perfect
combination to get me to watch

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the next hour.
Yeah, it just makes you happy.

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I I like, I don't like being
bored.

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And even as Lauren, we're
really, really bad at being

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bored.
Like our mood immediately just

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hit hits rock bottom when we've
not got something to do or look

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forward to.
So when you've got, when when

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you're back up is a show that
you enjoy watching, you've got

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lots of it to watch.
It's great because it's like

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even when you're bored, it's
like just do that thing, then

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you know it's hard not to binge
watch it so fast that you run

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out of episodes.
And when it's a household where

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you're on summer holidays, it's
very easy to get into some

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roots, isn't it?
Yeah, exactly.

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And we talked about the last
episode is going to check it

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out.
We were talking about, you know,

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the ups and downs of, well, I
suppose the pros and cons really

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of of holidays and things.
And how someone saying that it

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can be quite lonely as a teacher
because you might not

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necessarily have your friends,
might not be off as well.

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And you can get a bit bored.
And I certainly suffer from it

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in the holidays, getting a bit
down, but not when we've got

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table tennis and Game of
Thrones, They say there's no

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danger of you getting bored
today, Jesus, and we won't speak

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about who won table tennis.
Yeah, it was close.

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It was close.
I won about 19 games.

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You won about one.
That's alright, alright anyway.

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Something that's close anyway.
Anyway, don't worry about that

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too much, OK?
But yeah, I was thinking about

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how our weeks have been and I
was like, they're pretty much

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overlapped, haven't they?
This week, I feel like we've

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spent an ungodly amount of time
together, you know?

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Normally we say the podcast is
catching up, but.

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Yeah, I suppose because our
summer club, obviously we've

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been spending all morning just
being around for that and doing

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some work just one of those
weeks and one of those weeks,

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one of those, Well, I was hoping
to kind of bring up the fact

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that today I wore my hat and and
the reason I wanted to talk

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about me wearing my hat is, hey,
don't know if you've noticed

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this, but if you noticed this
before, but I've got quite a big

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head.
Ohh, have you?

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Sorry, I I'll react again.
Ohh, do you?

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I've never thank you.
No, it's that you're supposed to

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say no, you don't.
It's.

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It's normal for your.
Ohh yeah no you don't.

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It's God bug that.
Anyway, sorry.

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I know he's big.
So anyone else have a big head?

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I don't know if I'm talking to
no one here who listens.

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You've all probably got normal
sized heads.

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That's absolutely fine.
But summer, it's just a

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nightmare.
It's a nightmare.

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But not anymore Hayden, because
I found that they do hats in XXL

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size and that is perfect for my
head.

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So as soon as I found one that
fit, I've now got about four.

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I'm hoping you have them here
for their viewers.

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This podcast.
You see this little bit of tuft

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here.
Anyone who's watching.

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OK, for those listening, I'll
describe it to you.

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There's my hair is it's called
hat hair.

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I've got a massive tough here
where my hair is being

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compressed down.
Hayden, you're gonna have to

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talk and maybe commentate on
this and you'd be really vivid

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because you know there are
people who just listen.

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I don't watch.
I know you always forget that.

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But I'm going to put my
headphones off so I won't be

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able to hear you.
OK?

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Genuinely.
I'm worried because I will not

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be able to hear him.
So from now I'm taking my now I

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might still speak, actually I
won't because I don't speak over

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Hayden, but I I can't hear from
now and I'm putting that on, OK.

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Brilliant.
So at the moment you're looking

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at a 30 year old man and you'll
soon see a transformation.

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It's very interesting.
Ohh look toddler.

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There he is.
It looks like a toddler now.

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He's wearing a hat.
He's very happy.

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He's very, very happy.
He has been wearing it all day

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and he wore it the whole day
that he bought it as well

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despite being inside.
And yeah he's fashioning it now.

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Looks really good taking it.
Ohh back to a 30 year old.

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Fantastic was It was really nice
to be talking nicely.

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About me?
Yeah, really good.

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I was just saying how it really
sort of suits your age.

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Ohh.
OK, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah.
You know, it's like can't detect

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any fashion now whatsoever.
Fashion.

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No.
No, not at all.

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Fashionable.
Yeah, But you know what Hayden?

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Yeah.
Don't think you're harder than

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the Sun.
SPF is no joke.

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OK, yeah, that stops the sun.
But you should know, mate, of

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anyone.
I've been working out all day,

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but my hat here's a little bit
less noticeable, so hair.

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And you can check out my bed.
Are you going to bed?

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Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I'll bring it back.

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Guys.
Again, If you're not, if you're

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not watching, I mean, even if
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you probably hear it because
it's so fluctus, as you can see.

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Any good bit, you know, it's a
sign of a good beard when you

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can actually count the number of
hairs on the side.

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And Ryan's jealous, obviously
he's got one.

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He's got one of those stupid
beards, you know, birds that

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grow.
Ohh yeah, one of those really

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silly beards.
And it's like, oh, you look so

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foolish.
You know those silly beards that

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actually cover where?
The beard.

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Where's the cover, honestly?
Yeah, yeah, Ohh man, they look

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so dumb.
Whereas this one it's like, I

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don't know, it's in it's the new
fashion.

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Yeah it's and it's you know it's
self styled.

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Some people like cutting a
goatee and stuff.

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Yours is there already.
You got it, No problem.

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Yeah.
Anyway, we are digressing.

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We are really going off point
off topic.

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You can tell we spoke, we spent
a lot of time each other this

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week, right now.
But do you know what?

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I am genuinely really excited to
talk about this because starting

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in September it is just around
the corner.

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It's always sad, isn't it, when
you're coming off comes to an

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end.
But I don't know about you.

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I do get excited and I'm
starting to get excited.

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I do look forward to meeting my
new class.

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So shall we Hayden, do a little
Jingle, make a joke about the

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jungle?
We always do and just dive into

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talking about how to hit the
ground running this September.

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Let's do that.
I'll.

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I'll be back after the Jingle.
Just going to start off by

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saying Dylan, as we were playing
the Jingle, there is drinking

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over what seems to me at all,
some sort of Viking flask as you

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can see on the screen right now.
That one?

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Well, I've never seen that in
your house before.

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Why do you have this?
Why do you suddenly have to look

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at it?
It's not.

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It's not sudden.
This was a gift end of year gift

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last year.
Ohh, fair enough.

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That makes sense.
Ohh, why is it a ship?

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Yeah, it's a ship of some sort.
I don't know, but it's just it's

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really nice.
It's great for a pint.

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You put a pint in there, you
know, if any, if any beer

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companies are listening and want
to send us a free wine for us to

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drink during the podcast.
You want to sponsor us?

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Let us know because we're
currently sponsored by

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Southeastern Water.
Yeah, we're going to be those

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guys that drink a bit, you know,
like comedians just have a beer.

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They have a can.
It doesn't really, it doesn't

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really fit, does it?
If we're having a beer, talking

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about doing a display in the
primary classroom?

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Really.
Yeah, yeah, maybe we.

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Saved the best for the
classrooms.

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Tip #1.
Later on.

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Well, you keep one there.
Hey, you spoiled it.

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Geez.
Yeah.

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Now we're going to be doing our
top three tips.

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I've got Hayden and Nice to talk
about our top three tips to hit

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the ground running in September.
But I just want to start off

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because again, this week I've
been talking to a lot of people

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online, especially on Threads.
I'm loving Threads.

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Threads is so chill compared to
Twitter and stuff like that.

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And you actually have
conversations with people.

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I've been really enjoying it.
So if you're listening to this

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and you follow us on Threads, do
give us a little message at us.

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Let us know you're listening
because I do really love it.

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And it's one of those genuinely
raw experiences where you get to

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just meet other teachers and.
Why do you reckon that is like,

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well, why is that?
Because we haven't got like,

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it's not.
We've got tonnes more followers

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on that, no anything else.
I think if you're on threads, I

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think you're more active like
with threads at the minute

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there's not a lot of people on
their active right, because

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loads signed up.
But if you're on threads

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currently inactive and talking
and engaging with people and

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following them you, you, your
timeline is less dense with face

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with with Twitter and stuff.
I know about you.

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I think 9/10 of my tweets are
random people I've never seen

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before.
What I find is Threads is really

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good at is it puts content in
front of you, the people you

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follow and it's just more text
based, it's more chilled out.

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You don't feel like you're
missing out on anything if you

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don't go on there for a day
because you can probably catch

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up within like 10 minutes of
scrolling.

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It's not overwhelming and I
think the people on there are on

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there for a conversation,
whereas.

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I was going to say that makes
more sense.

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Because you're gonna go doom
scrolling.

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You're just looking at content,
whether you go on Instagram or

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something like that.
That's well established.

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Yeah, not going on threads.
If you get on threads, you go in

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there to actually use the app.
So yeah, makes sense I suppose.

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And where can they find us?
On our various social medias?

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So on threads is the same as our
Instagram So Teache repeat

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Podcast.
I always get this wrong.

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Teach St repeat podcast.
OK, Teach Sleep repeat Podcast.

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That's our Instagram and our
threads.

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Find us on there.
We're on Twitter, but I don't

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really like Twitter.
I'm not gonna lie, I've never

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really got on with it.
It's good for you can get, Yeah,

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X sorry, X geez, you can.
You can retweet or RX or

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whatever the hell did Elon Musk
wants to call it?

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I don't know.
The less I talk about the

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better.
But I'm enjoying threads, I'm

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enjoying Instagram.
But the point is, I had a lot of

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people talking to us about this,
so not a lot of people listening

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will be going back in September
as well.

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And some people are already back
in, so I think Leicester are

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already back or something like
that.

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They went off early.
But I don't know, I want to be

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really positive because we fall
into this trap, don't we all?

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This is cycle of being like, oh,
we wanna complain isn't isn't

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TikTok toxic?
All these people doing this nice

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stuff.
And I really want to just

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clarify some bits because I see
a lot of accounts now where it's

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just teachers outside of school
time sharing some cool stuff.

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Like I don't begrudge that at
all.

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I don't want anyone to think
that I sit there and resent that

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because I think that's really
cool.

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I think that's really nice.
I think that's helpful for a lot

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of people and there's a lot of
well-being people out there who

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are doing really amazing things
with tick tocks and short form

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content.
And I think maybe we were a bit

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generic and blunt and not
specific enough last time.

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I don't want anyone to think
that TikTok bad.

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No, obviously not.
But those specific things we

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talked about.
But anyway, Hayden, we are going

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back to school very soon.
It'll be like our 8th year, 9th

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year, something like that.
I mean, we're getting old now.

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How do you feel though, and how
does it compare to when you were

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and any qualified teacher?
Way more chill to be honest with

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you, I feel.
I don't know why.

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Is that from my experience?
Or is it because I've become

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more stubborn over the years and
I'm just like, no, it's my

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summer holidays, you know, or
more confident that I'll just be

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OK but way more chill.
I know that my first few years

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of teaching I would have spent
so much of the summer, if not

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doing something for school,
thinking about it and fretting

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over it.
Whereas I can genuinely say and

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still to this, like this minute
right here.

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I switched off the day we left
school and I have not even

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remotely thought about it yet
because I've just said to

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myself.
In that last week I'll do what I

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need to do.
I know it will be enough, more

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than enough time to get what
done what I need to get done.

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And until then I'm not even
going to think about it.

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I don't care.
Not worried about it, it will be

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fine.
But there's no way, No way.

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My first year of teaching,
second, third, maybe even 4th

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year, I would have just spent
the entire summer being annoyed

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at the idea, but also just
worrying constantly.

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What about you?
How do you feel?

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No, I feel fine.
I suppose I kind of want to

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separate the whole feeling in
summer because I'm the same as

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you.
Like you know, that has changed

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a lot since I was an NQT and my
almost, you know, some

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apprehension of got to get
things done.

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Because like we spoke about in
the last episode to death, we

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know things that have to get
done will get done and we know

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what to do well and what's more
important, priority rise wise

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and what we want to spend time
on doing and what we don't.

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But I suppose, I mean more how
are you literally feeling about

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getting back in front of
children and teaching them and

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meeting your new class?
Because that's the bit, the raw

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bit for me.
That hasn't really changed since

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I was an NQT, which I'm really
pleased about and probably is

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what keeps me coming back to
this job, because it is easy to

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be very negative and fall into
that kind of trap.

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And you're right, Like there's
there's things we can do, is

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become more experienced to stop
threatening so much, but there's

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only so much we can do when
maybe there's like school

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leaders in certain schools
imposing that on you.

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But what I think I really buzz
about and I've got a smile on my

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face already because I can't
wait to be back stood in front

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of my class talking to them,
getting to know them, teaching

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them and doing what we love
doing.

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And I've missed doing that.
Ohh, yeah.

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So think of that, then nothing
but positive.

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I am so excited and that has not
changed.

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You're right over the years I I
think I'm as excited as I've

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always been about the new class.
But I like that.

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I like the performance.
I like that like I do think

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teaching there's there's an
element of acting and performing

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involved in it and.
I just.

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I just love it.
I don't know what it is about.

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Do you mean like well, what
specifically are you are you

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acting up to in terms of is?
It, I guess.

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It's my teacher personality.
It's it's the side of me that I

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want to show and share with the
children.

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Because obviously for 99% of
adults that cannot be all of

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you, because it's just not
appropriate that you're

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obviously going to have an adult
life that is not appropriate for

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children.
So you pick and choose the parts

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that you share with your class.
And I love that bonding

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experience so much.
And I and I'll perform and I'll

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play up to certain aspects of my
personality or things that I'll

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be doing on purpose, because I
just think it's good for my role

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as a teacher that maybe I
wouldn't even do in real life.

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You know I might be I might ham
up more of my personality.

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I probably wouldn't be like that
if I was speaking to my parents

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or something like that.
But you know with with the kids

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and and I love it and and seeing
them smile for the first time

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we're seeing that like
realisation in their face that

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I'm I'm not horrible.
Yeah it's as simple as that.

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Like that I'm actually, I'm fair
and and I'll be kind to you and

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I care about you and all that
sort of stuff.

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And when the kids are like, ohh
yes, it's like always like

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pleased and happy that I've got
a nice like someone that's going

449
00:19:05,050 --> 00:19:06,710
to be nice to them.
I don't know.

450
00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,110
I just love it.
I love that feeling.

451
00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:10,280
It's probably quite selfish
really, because I like the fact

452
00:19:10,290 --> 00:19:13,620
that it makes me feel good.
Well that they like me I guess

453
00:19:13,710 --> 00:19:16,170
is there is there there's a
whole saying there's no such

454
00:19:16,180 --> 00:19:18,200
thing as a unselfish act.
You know you always want

455
00:19:18,210 --> 00:19:19,480
something to come back to you of
course.

456
00:19:19,490 --> 00:19:21,300
But I I, I completely agree with
you.

457
00:19:21,310 --> 00:19:24,540
Like it's that absolute buzz of
building that bond with your

458
00:19:24,550 --> 00:19:26,820
children.
Like I absolutely love it.

459
00:19:26,830 --> 00:19:28,940
And you made a really good point
there.

460
00:19:28,950 --> 00:19:31,720
When they realised like the
person you're going to be to

461
00:19:31,730 --> 00:19:35,540
them and when it's a positive
thing that is such a huge like

462
00:19:35,650 --> 00:19:38,400
that's when I know that you know
I've succeeded in the first

463
00:19:38,410 --> 00:19:40,420
time.
You know when when they think OK

464
00:19:40,470 --> 00:19:42,640
and it's very separate to
behaviour you can you can have

465
00:19:42,650 --> 00:19:44,670
boundaries and stuff like that
and again we'll talk about this

466
00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:49,550
in a second but that bond that
you can make in that first time

467
00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,770
and and really excite them and
make them happy and make them so

468
00:19:53,780 --> 00:19:56,010
glad to be in school and in your
classroom.

469
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,950
That is such an important
starting point for me, because

470
00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:00,570
then all our expertise can come
in.

471
00:20:00,580 --> 00:20:02,730
Then all our What are we, the
end of the day?

472
00:20:02,740 --> 00:20:05,810
A trained professionals in
teaching children, OK.

473
00:20:05,820 --> 00:20:08,870
And we've made this distinction
last week about fun and

474
00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:11,760
learning, and you made a great
point about how we seem to be

475
00:20:11,770 --> 00:20:14,320
moving.
Towards maybe a more draconian

476
00:20:14,410 --> 00:20:16,420
these are the facts you need to
learn and we're gonna revive

477
00:20:16,430 --> 00:20:17,820
them, blah blah blah, and I
must.

478
00:20:17,830 --> 00:20:21,400
Recite the knowledge, Yeah, but
I do think that is our job as

479
00:20:21,410 --> 00:20:24,480
professionals in teaching
children things and and them

480
00:20:24,490 --> 00:20:27,260
learning.
We're not professionals in the

481
00:20:27,270 --> 00:20:29,680
show that we talk about and the
fun aspects, right?

482
00:20:29,690 --> 00:20:31,940
That's not really what we go to
university for.

483
00:20:31,950 --> 00:20:34,820
You know, It's something that a
lot of teachers have and you

484
00:20:34,830 --> 00:20:37,560
kind of need that passion.
But for me, the exciting thing

485
00:20:37,570 --> 00:20:39,020
is merging those two things
together.

486
00:20:39,030 --> 00:20:42,720
And I think what you say about
being that person, that role

487
00:20:42,730 --> 00:20:47,250
model, that, that safe place for
the children, that's what I love

488
00:20:47,260 --> 00:20:48,990
about the start of term is
establishing that.

489
00:20:49,740 --> 00:20:51,190
Yeah, because they get to
realise it.

490
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:55,270
And also I I've met my class
because generally schools do a

491
00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,780
transition day or even a week in
some schools where at the end of

492
00:20:58,790 --> 00:21:01,890
the term 6 before summer you
will meet your next class.

493
00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:05,130
So I've met my next class and
they are so nice and that's

494
00:21:05,140 --> 00:21:06,850
always a buzz and I will just
say this.

495
00:21:08,060 --> 00:21:10,380
Every class is different.
Every class is different.

496
00:21:10,390 --> 00:21:12,670
And you will have a slightly
different relationship with

497
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,510
every single class you teach.
And I think that's important to

498
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,210
hear, especially if you're not
very far into teaching, because

499
00:21:17,260 --> 00:21:20,700
it's very easy to blame yourself
if you don't quite have the same

500
00:21:20,710 --> 00:21:22,110
connection with the class one
you only like.

501
00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:24,110
Well, last year, you know, I
could do this.

502
00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:25,250
I could do that, and they
didn't.

503
00:21:25,260 --> 00:21:26,810
And this year they're being
really disrespectful.

504
00:21:26,820 --> 00:21:29,090
When I do this sort of thing and
I can't seem to do that now, am

505
00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:31,820
I just losing my touch?
And you can feel a bit like

506
00:21:31,830 --> 00:21:33,190
that.
But you have to remember, every

507
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:34,670
class is different.
I've had both ends of the

508
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,430
spectrum.
I've had classes in the past

509
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,330
where you just think that
they're just.

510
00:21:38,430 --> 00:21:41,290
Honestly, just angels like that.
Every single child in the class

511
00:21:41,340 --> 00:21:44,980
behaves so impeccably well and
it's nothing to do with me, it's

512
00:21:44,990 --> 00:21:46,690
just pure chance.
And I've had other classes where

513
00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:49,670
the behaviour has been very
challenging and there have been

514
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,670
aspects of my performance and my
personality that in the whole

515
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,330
year I haven't even got to show
them one time because it will

516
00:21:56,340 --> 00:21:59,560
get taken advantage of by.
Groups of children or even just

517
00:21:59,570 --> 00:22:02,260
one particular child sometimes
can really change the the

518
00:22:02,340 --> 00:22:05,920
atmosphere and you just can't.
And it's easy to be like, ohh,

519
00:22:05,930 --> 00:22:07,680
it's just me, you know.
They just don't like me.

520
00:22:07,810 --> 00:22:10,100
I'm just different now.
It's just whatever, you know.

521
00:22:10,140 --> 00:22:12,360
But it's it's not necessarily
that.

522
00:22:12,370 --> 00:22:15,970
So this new class that I've got
seem really, really really nice,

523
00:22:15,980 --> 00:22:19,060
like super polite.
They were really like caring

524
00:22:19,070 --> 00:22:22,010
when you could just tell can't
you even the first even half an

525
00:22:22,020 --> 00:22:24,740
hour of teaching a class like
what kind of class they're gonna

526
00:22:24,750 --> 00:22:27,000
be really shouty.
They're going to be a bit rude.

527
00:22:27,010 --> 00:22:28,880
Are they gonna be a few
personalities that constantly?

528
00:22:28,950 --> 00:22:32,090
7-8.
And yeah, fingers crossed, I'm

529
00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:34,760
gonna have a really like,
smooth, simple year because they

530
00:22:34,770 --> 00:22:36,670
seem lovely.
Well, I've taught that bunch.

531
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,080
I've taught that bunch and they
they are absolutely that bunch

532
00:22:39,090 --> 00:22:40,360
you've got coming up to year
six.

533
00:22:40,370 --> 00:22:42,100
I taught in year three and in
year 4.

534
00:22:42,510 --> 00:22:44,840
And that's right, they were.
They're just gorgeous.

535
00:22:44,850 --> 00:22:48,040
They're just gorgeous kids.
And I think that is a big part

536
00:22:48,050 --> 00:22:50,220
of the job.
And I think what's important to

537
00:22:50,230 --> 00:22:54,100
just double up on your point is
I think only as a more

538
00:22:54,110 --> 00:22:56,320
experienced teacher do you
really learn that lesson.

539
00:22:56,430 --> 00:22:59,130
And I remember being a less
experienced teacher and almost

540
00:22:59,140 --> 00:23:01,620
sometimes being frustrated
because schools can sometimes

541
00:23:01,630 --> 00:23:04,440
feel like it's just the more
experience you are, the more you

542
00:23:04,450 --> 00:23:05,940
step into roles, the better you
become.

543
00:23:05,950 --> 00:23:08,060
And that's, you know, it's like
a rite of passage because you've

544
00:23:08,070 --> 00:23:09,940
been there 15 years.
You're obviously going to be

545
00:23:10,010 --> 00:23:12,200
ahead of in line for the person
who's been there eight years and

546
00:23:12,210 --> 00:23:13,480
the person who's been there for
years.

547
00:23:13,610 --> 00:23:16,060
And it can feel like that a lot
of the time rather than like a

548
00:23:16,070 --> 00:23:19,320
meritocracy of, well, you know,
actually I'm actually in this

549
00:23:19,330 --> 00:23:21,800
role because I'm better at doing
this, maybe even if I've not

550
00:23:21,810 --> 00:23:24,200
been teaching as long.
But I do think teaching is

551
00:23:24,210 --> 00:23:27,760
unique in that there are so many
lessons as a teacher that you

552
00:23:27,770 --> 00:23:31,510
can only learn from having 345
cohorts.

553
00:23:31,580 --> 00:23:34,920
And I think going through that
dip and at the other end of

554
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,570
really bonding with a class
getting done really quickly and

555
00:23:37,580 --> 00:23:39,060
it's just being like water off a
ducks back.

556
00:23:39,070 --> 00:23:40,830
It's like you've been teaching
them this whole time.

557
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,180
Then having a class where it's
different and you doubt

558
00:23:43,190 --> 00:23:45,440
yourself.
But then again coming through it

559
00:23:45,450 --> 00:23:47,410
because you're more experienced
than going through that phase.

560
00:23:47,420 --> 00:23:48,600
Again.
I've ohh this cohort are

561
00:23:48,610 --> 00:23:52,050
different again and I managed to
grasp onto this thing and it was

562
00:23:52,060 --> 00:23:56,250
easier that way and then
realising oh wait no no each

563
00:23:56,260 --> 00:23:58,770
year is so different and that's
a really.

564
00:23:58,780 --> 00:24:01,600
Important people.
Yeah, they're literally people.

565
00:24:01,820 --> 00:24:04,360
And you know, especially for
teaching like year six like I

566
00:24:04,370 --> 00:24:07,150
am, they're they're just,
they're just like fully

567
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,370
developed people, you know, I
mean in terms of that you can

568
00:24:09,380 --> 00:24:12,850
have a full on conversation with
them about practically anything

569
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,210
and they will be able to engage
in that conversation.

570
00:24:15,260 --> 00:24:18,330
So yeah, it makes sense that
your person, that your

571
00:24:18,340 --> 00:24:21,910
personality has a person will
connect with their personality

572
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,120
as people more sometimes in some
cases or you connect with just

573
00:24:25,130 --> 00:24:27,070
generally more children easily
than others.

574
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,910
It's just it's just the way it
is and everyone will have, I

575
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,750
think, anyone with a bit of
experience in teaching.

576
00:24:32,850 --> 00:24:36,730
If I say to you right now, think
of I don't want to say favourite

577
00:24:36,740 --> 00:24:39,090
class because it sounds harsh,
but think what's the first class

578
00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:41,320
that comes to your mind?
One that you reminisce on

579
00:24:41,470 --> 00:24:43,600
teaching.
You know, you'll be able to

580
00:24:43,610 --> 00:24:44,890
think of 1.
There will be, there will be a

581
00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:47,510
group of children or maybe a
couple of years that comes to

582
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,720
mind and and you might not even
know what it is about it.

583
00:24:49,730 --> 00:24:52,950
But it's probably just that you
developed real relationships

584
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:54,920
with those with more of those
children than perhaps in other

585
00:24:54,930 --> 00:24:58,120
classes because you're
personalities matched and I love

586
00:24:58,130 --> 00:24:59,970
that about teaching.
We're going to do a whole

587
00:24:59,980 --> 00:25:02,410
episode in the future, I know,
maybe even next week.

588
00:25:02,420 --> 00:25:05,480
I'm not sure on the positives of
teaching because like you said,

589
00:25:05,490 --> 00:25:07,810
sometimes I don't want to come
across too many.

590
00:25:07,860 --> 00:25:10,760
We like to, we like to pull
apart the stuff that's that's

591
00:25:10,770 --> 00:25:12,840
rubbish about the job.
Like every job, of course, but

592
00:25:12,850 --> 00:25:14,480
there are also some amazing
things we're going to do.

593
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,170
So that in the future.
But one more thing.

594
00:25:16,180 --> 00:25:19,850
You said something earlier about
meritocracy.

595
00:25:19,860 --> 00:25:21,080
I feel like we should write this
down.

596
00:25:21,090 --> 00:25:23,930
This could be a really
interesting episode is teaching.

597
00:25:23,940 --> 00:25:28,090
Really sorry is like.
That the career in terms of your

598
00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:31,240
career ladder, is it really a
meritocracy or is there more

599
00:25:31,250 --> 00:25:32,760
behind the scenes there?
I think we can have a good

600
00:25:32,770 --> 00:25:38,190
debate about it not necessarily
always being just a meritocracy

601
00:25:38,510 --> 00:25:40,370
in terms of people getting their
jobs and roles and things.

602
00:25:40,380 --> 00:25:42,300
So that could be a juicy one.
Could it?

603
00:25:42,310 --> 00:25:44,620
Could it possibly be that in
some schools there's such a

604
00:25:44,630 --> 00:25:48,050
thing as nepotism going on where
family members, you know, get

605
00:25:48,060 --> 00:25:50,130
ahead of each other?
I've heard lots of stories about

606
00:25:50,140 --> 00:25:53,180
that.
That happens a lot in all walks

607
00:25:53,190 --> 00:25:55,400
of life, to be honest with you.
So there's no reason that it

608
00:25:55,410 --> 00:25:58,700
wouldn't happen in in schools as
well, definitely.

609
00:25:58,710 --> 00:26:01,210
But certainly, yeah, certainly
lots of things I think come into

610
00:26:01,220 --> 00:26:04,600
the into the playing field when
it comes to getting jobs in

611
00:26:04,610 --> 00:26:06,110
schools.
We could talk about that in

612
00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:07,410
another episode.
That would be fun.

613
00:26:07,420 --> 00:26:10,330
Looking forward to that.
So kind of like digging a bit

614
00:26:10,340 --> 00:26:13,700
deeper now.
So obviously, I think maybe

615
00:26:13,710 --> 00:26:17,780
that's a red flag as a teacher
that it's your time to maybe

616
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,090
really positively think about
looking for something else if it

617
00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:23,850
comes to September and you don't
have that buzz anymore.

618
00:26:23,860 --> 00:26:26,750
I think for me, if that kind of
flame had kind of been

619
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,530
extinguished of no, I'm really
looking forward to meeting my

620
00:26:29,540 --> 00:26:32,410
kids, which I am, then I think,
OK, well, what's left then

621
00:26:32,420 --> 00:26:34,830
because that's that is a big
part of the job is, you know,

622
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,470
being excited to actually
deliver the core element.

623
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,650
But yeah, I suppose diving a
little bit deeper and I'm going

624
00:26:40,660 --> 00:26:43,540
to draw on a lot of information
I've got from people on threads.

625
00:26:43,620 --> 00:26:45,510
And I asked them and I said, I
said this lesson is all about

626
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,040
hitting the ground running in
September and he top tips that

627
00:26:48,050 --> 00:26:51,340
you give people.
And I suppose one thing just to

628
00:26:51,350 --> 00:26:54,380
start us off because we're going
to give our top tips later, but

629
00:26:54,390 --> 00:26:57,080
this is more generic I suppose
now that we're going to get into

630
00:26:57,090 --> 00:27:00,840
ours are very specific.
And there was one idea and it

631
00:27:00,850 --> 00:27:05,920
was all about the balance
between getting into really good

632
00:27:05,930 --> 00:27:08,140
quality learning as quickly as
possible.

633
00:27:08,330 --> 00:27:10,020
So just getting straight bang
into it.

634
00:27:10,030 --> 00:27:12,080
Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to
show you that I'm ready because

635
00:27:12,090 --> 00:27:14,040
I've made this fantastic lesson.
I'm going to deliver it really

636
00:27:14,050 --> 00:27:16,220
well and we're going to learn
lots and it's going to be fun,

637
00:27:16,230 --> 00:27:18,840
it's going to be engaging and
I'm going to show you what I'm

638
00:27:18,850 --> 00:27:21,900
here to do for you.
But then also balancing that

639
00:27:21,910 --> 00:27:25,360
with setting routines, setting
expectations, setting behaviour,

640
00:27:25,370 --> 00:27:29,770
you know, how would you go about
that balancing act potentially

641
00:27:29,780 --> 00:27:31,570
especially if you're less
experienced, teacher had and

642
00:27:31,580 --> 00:27:33,130
what would be your advice to
someone?

643
00:27:33,690 --> 00:27:37,290
Should they spend the whole day
in class setting these rules and

644
00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:39,840
expectations should be dive
straight into learning?

645
00:27:40,150 --> 00:27:42,580
Where's that balance for you?
Because I've got a very specific

646
00:27:42,590 --> 00:27:44,670
idea of what I like to do.
So I just, I don't know what

647
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:45,950
your answer.
I wouldn't know what you said to

648
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,040
be honest.
So what do you think?

649
00:27:47,270 --> 00:27:50,840
Yeah, well, I think the culture
generally.

650
00:27:50,910 --> 00:27:52,800
Is this kind of like ease in
culture?

651
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,840
I think in a lot of places
you'll find that ohh on day one

652
00:27:56,850 --> 00:27:59,710
we'll just do some like fun
activities and some games and

653
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,110
some Ice Breakers.
But I've actually found from

654
00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:05,730
experience that the quicker you
get into the bog standard normal

655
00:28:05,740 --> 00:28:07,990
routine the better.
And I didn't really believe it

656
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,050
at first.
I was like, no, God, we've got

657
00:28:10,060 --> 00:28:13,190
all these days across the year,
let's just have a day where we

658
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,530
can do mistakes and have some
fun and show the kids that were

659
00:28:15,540 --> 00:28:18,130
fun.
But I have a genuinely found

660
00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:20,110
that and maybe it's just my
experience.

661
00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:22,530
I could be wrong, but I have
found that when I've done that,

662
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,120
the children then have taken
way.

663
00:28:24,190 --> 00:28:26,090
Longer to get into routines
because I just like, can we do

664
00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:29,090
that fun thing we did yesterday?
But does it literally their

665
00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:30,400
first experience of you, Can you
do that?

666
00:28:30,410 --> 00:28:32,030
Because that was great.
I wanna do that now everything's

667
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,660
rubbish compared to that.
Whereas I found when you just

668
00:28:34,670 --> 00:28:36,940
get straight into it, you might
have a moment for like honestly

669
00:28:36,950 --> 00:28:39,050
5 minutes from the kids like we
did in English maths today

670
00:28:39,060 --> 00:28:41,170
already.
And you're like, yeah.

671
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,830
And then they get over it and
then it's fine.

672
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,080
And then the routines are set
very, very quickly and they're

673
00:28:47,090 --> 00:28:50,130
just fine.
I I think that's better.

674
00:28:50,140 --> 00:28:51,990
Now I'd probably lean more
towards that.

675
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,080
You can do things within the
lessons to make them a little

676
00:28:55,090 --> 00:28:59,370
bit more easing in, but
generally getting straight into

677
00:28:59,380 --> 00:29:00,510
routines I think is the best
way.

678
00:29:00,980 --> 00:29:04,450
Yeah you've just you, you've
you've basically said exactly

679
00:29:04,460 --> 00:29:06,150
what I think.
So that's that's promising in

680
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,340
that I think as you get more
experience you find that again

681
00:29:09,350 --> 00:29:11,950
there are going to be cohorts
and maybe even not cohorts but

682
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,570
specific children maybe in rare
cases where it might be better

683
00:29:16,580 --> 00:29:18,670
for them to read themselves in
some way if they've got certain

684
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,270
needs or stuff.
But I think on the whole the

685
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:26,100
best way to set expectations and
routines is to do the routines

686
00:29:26,110 --> 00:29:28,050
and have those expectations
whilst you're doing the thing

687
00:29:28,060 --> 00:29:30,710
you're in school to do.
I think you know cracking on as

688
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,160
soon as possible.
You know get into your

689
00:29:33,170 --> 00:29:35,220
classroom, you're going to teach
some maths.

690
00:29:35,230 --> 00:29:36,630
Here's what we do in maths
lesson.

691
00:29:36,750 --> 00:29:39,970
There's no point I don't think
unless the very specific reason

692
00:29:39,980 --> 00:29:43,940
you've got doing anything other
than that and some schools will

693
00:29:43,950 --> 00:29:45,060
do.
Some people listening to this

694
00:29:45,070 --> 00:29:47,540
will be in schools where on the
first day they're going to spend

695
00:29:47,550 --> 00:29:49,610
half day in class and they do
some activities to get to know

696
00:29:49,620 --> 00:29:51,300
each other.
I'm not saying that's a bad

697
00:29:51,310 --> 00:29:53,800
thing.
I'm just talking about in terms

698
00:29:53,810 --> 00:29:56,950
of if we're giving the advice of
how do you set routines and

699
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,800
expectations early.
I think you can make them really

700
00:29:59,810 --> 00:30:03,590
clear within 5 minutes, 90% of
children staying in the same

701
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,290
school.
So the expectations are exactly

702
00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:06,550
the same.
They're not brand new.

703
00:30:06,590 --> 00:30:07,780
They're going to a new year
group.

704
00:30:07,790 --> 00:30:09,310
They know the rules.
You know it's not.

705
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,010
They don't suddenly wait, what?
We have to put our hand up when

706
00:30:12,020 --> 00:30:13,220
we talk.
It's like, yeah, you're 8 and

707
00:30:13,230 --> 00:30:15,290
you've done that for six years.
Of course you do, right?

708
00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:17,380
I'm exaggerating.
But like, no one sat there

709
00:30:17,390 --> 00:30:19,230
going, wait, what?
In that, like morning lesson

710
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,850
where you're saying we don't
shout out like taking notes,

711
00:30:21,860 --> 00:30:23,590
like what?
We don't shout, OK?

712
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,150
Ohh, Dylan.
No, we do have to.

713
00:30:26,190 --> 00:30:29,070
You're like you're a kid now.
OK, Dylan, we do have to respect

714
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:30,470
the class equivalent.
Of course we do.

715
00:30:30,580 --> 00:30:31,350
Wait.
Ohh my.

716
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,210
Class roll on the wall.
I can't believe it.

717
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,610
Coming here for now and for the
first time ever, someone's

718
00:30:35,620 --> 00:30:37,520
telling me that I can't count my
seat.

719
00:30:37,610 --> 00:30:40,630
No, the peak children who shout
out, the children who don't put

720
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,600
their hands up, the children who
get out their seat, the children

721
00:30:42,610 --> 00:30:45,330
who cause problems aren't doing
it because they're not aware of

722
00:30:45,340 --> 00:30:47,320
the school rules.
They're doing it for a different

723
00:30:47,330 --> 00:30:48,490
reason.
And you can deal with that and

724
00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:51,660
you can have expectations.
Again, I'm not against certain

725
00:30:51,670 --> 00:30:53,120
class rules.
I've seen on transition day,

726
00:30:53,130 --> 00:30:54,500
people have written class rules
together.

727
00:30:54,510 --> 00:30:56,900
I've done that before and we've
all signed the contract at the

728
00:30:56,910 --> 00:30:58,590
bottom.
It's a really nice activity to

729
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,120
do with your kids, right?
But the best way to ensure that

730
00:31:02,130 --> 00:31:05,050
that happens constantly is to
just do it.

731
00:31:05,100 --> 00:31:07,540
Get into that quality teaching.
Get into having those quality

732
00:31:07,550 --> 00:31:09,770
expectations.
You show them that you have our

733
00:31:09,780 --> 00:31:12,090
expectations of yourself by
providing them with excellent

734
00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:14,850
lessons and really good
teaching, and that you expect

735
00:31:14,860 --> 00:31:16,400
from then.
Therefore really high

736
00:31:16,410 --> 00:31:21,360
expectations with behaviour.
I'm not sure that those interim

737
00:31:21,450 --> 00:31:24,490
things have a huge effect on
behaviour in the long term.

738
00:31:25,380 --> 00:31:27,050
I've totally gone off class
rules, by the way.

739
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:28,990
Like, I really, really don't
like them anymore.

740
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,670
Really.
Like, I actually, I actually

741
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:31,690
avoid.
I will avoid them.

742
00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:32,310
Why?
Why?

743
00:31:32,660 --> 00:31:33,220
Why?
Why is that?

744
00:31:33,230 --> 00:31:35,500
Because that's that's like, I'm
kind of indifferent, but you

745
00:31:35,510 --> 00:31:36,780
sound like you're against them
that's.

746
00:31:36,790 --> 00:31:39,240
Yeah I've I've just slipped in.
I'm just ohh God I hate.

747
00:31:39,250 --> 00:31:41,570
I just find it cringey now.
I don't know what it is like.

748
00:31:41,810 --> 00:31:43,980
I think maybe with the older
kids I don't think this applies

749
00:31:43,990 --> 00:31:45,820
so much to the younger.
The more the younger you go I

750
00:31:45,830 --> 00:31:47,980
think the less my opinion now
applies.

751
00:31:48,030 --> 00:31:50,500
But I guess I'm thinking about
teaching year fours, fives and

752
00:31:50,510 --> 00:31:52,800
sixes, which is what I spent my
career doing.

753
00:31:54,310 --> 00:31:56,210
I don't know.
I just, I find it a little bit

754
00:31:56,220 --> 00:31:58,420
patronising.
Just a little bit patronising.

755
00:31:58,430 --> 00:32:01,760
Like immediately establishing
this strange relationship of

756
00:32:01,770 --> 00:32:03,180
treating them like they're
three.

757
00:32:03,570 --> 00:32:05,910
So of course, of course they
know the class roles.

758
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,280
Genuinely, of course they do.
Like you said, like no, no child

759
00:32:10,290 --> 00:32:13,690
is getting to your five year six
who doesn't know all of the

760
00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:15,130
classroom rules.
They're just they're choosing

761
00:32:15,140 --> 00:32:18,260
whether to follow them or not.
I I like to just go in really by

762
00:32:18,270 --> 00:32:20,700
saying.
You've been here for six years.

763
00:32:20,710 --> 00:32:22,050
You know what the school rules
are.

764
00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:23,970
My expectations, just like
everybody else is.

765
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,050
I might just say, you know, the
usual stuff, just be respectful,

766
00:32:28,060 --> 00:32:29,970
whatever this is.
This is kind of my level is

767
00:32:29,980 --> 00:32:31,550
where I'm at.
I don't like shouting out.

768
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,210
There might be some personal
things, but you know this.

769
00:32:33,220 --> 00:32:34,780
This really annoys me.
Don't do this.

770
00:32:34,790 --> 00:32:36,650
I don't like it when children go
out that seat.

771
00:32:37,230 --> 00:32:38,970
When I'm in the middle of doing
something, so please don't do

772
00:32:38,980 --> 00:32:40,220
that.
That just really frustrates me

773
00:32:40,230 --> 00:32:41,960
If you've got to just have
respect for that.

774
00:32:42,030 --> 00:32:43,860
But in general, guys just do the
right thing, you know?

775
00:32:43,870 --> 00:32:47,210
The right thing is I don't know
when I go through like the OR

776
00:32:47,220 --> 00:32:49,600
got these class rules, I don't
know.

777
00:32:49,610 --> 00:32:52,760
I just think it's a bit
condescending.

778
00:32:52,890 --> 00:32:54,940
Strange.
Yeah, it's interesting.

779
00:32:56,410 --> 00:33:01,110
I want to like, dive deeper.
So do you think that your

780
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,890
attitude is predicated on the
whole school having a really

781
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:07,290
strong ethos of what's expected
or not?

782
00:33:07,340 --> 00:33:12,290
Because, you know, there there
may be some situations where I

783
00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:15,050
know for a fact different
teachers have different levels.

784
00:33:15,180 --> 00:33:17,970
OK, so you have these school
rules, but you may well have a

785
00:33:17,980 --> 00:33:20,390
class with a teacher.
You're in your six, right?

786
00:33:20,460 --> 00:33:22,560
So let's just say there's a
class who've just been in year

787
00:33:22,570 --> 00:33:25,990
five and that teacher had a
different level of what they

788
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,590
accepted because we can't all
have the exact same level.

789
00:33:29,740 --> 00:33:32,190
They come up to you, you kind of
don't set your stall out.

790
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,100
You like guys you know how to
behave and they're OK, we're

791
00:33:34,110 --> 00:33:35,190
going to behave just like last
year.

792
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,390
But to you that's unacceptable.
Is that fair then to kind of

793
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,110
call them out and and when it's
been allowed by a teacher

794
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,530
previously?
Yeah, I just think that's the

795
00:33:43,540 --> 00:33:44,700
fault of the teacher before
then.

796
00:33:44,710 --> 00:33:46,650
If they're not, if they're not
even up to the standard of the

797
00:33:46,660 --> 00:33:49,740
school, every single school in
the UK will have school rules, a

798
00:33:49,750 --> 00:33:52,760
culture of of behaviour and
rules within that school.

799
00:33:52,770 --> 00:33:54,560
They just, well, even if it's
written down or not, there will

800
00:33:54,570 --> 00:33:57,450
just be a culture in that school
of of how we behave and do

801
00:33:57,460 --> 00:33:58,960
things right.
So I think.

802
00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:02,650
If if you want to go further
than that like if you're even

803
00:34:02,660 --> 00:34:03,880
stricter, let's go the other
way.

804
00:34:03,890 --> 00:34:06,620
Now you're you know using on I'm
I've, I have to set the class

805
00:34:06,630 --> 00:34:09,429
rules cause I wanna go even
further than these then I just

806
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,489
again, I just think you're
setting yourself up for.

807
00:34:11,659 --> 00:34:14,110
I don't think it's gonna be that
impactful if I was a kid.

808
00:34:15,010 --> 00:34:17,190
And I was in a classroom,
already knew the school rules.

809
00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:19,310
I've been there for four years.
I know exactly what I should and

810
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,489
shouldn't be doing, right.
And then I have this teacher

811
00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:22,770
that then puts in these extra
rules.

812
00:34:22,780 --> 00:34:24,750
I'd be like, oh, oh, extra
rules.

813
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:25,750
I just, I don't know.
I don't.

814
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,070
I wouldn't respect it at first.
I don't think it's good.

815
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,250
I just below where we go.
I don't know.

816
00:34:30,260 --> 00:34:31,610
Strange.
You've got schools for reason.

817
00:34:31,620 --> 00:34:33,080
Just stick to them.
I'm gonna press you on it

818
00:34:33,090 --> 00:34:34,670
because you kind of changed my
question.

819
00:34:34,860 --> 00:34:37,639
Which like, is it?
Is it the fault of the kids

820
00:34:37,650 --> 00:34:39,290
though?
They've had a more lenient

821
00:34:39,300 --> 00:34:40,550
teacher.
They've come to you.

822
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,550
You're like, you know the school
rules guys and then they act

823
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,830
exactly how it was allowed last
year and you're telling them

824
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,429
off.
You said it was the teachers

825
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,170
fault, but then.
But the kids are the ones who

826
00:34:49,179 --> 00:34:50,110
bear the brunt.
Of that.

827
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:51,310
Ohh, I see.
OK.

828
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,710
So in that situation then, yeah,
maybe I'd take the I'd take the

829
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,139
higher ground and not higher
ground.

830
00:34:56,150 --> 00:34:58,880
Sorry.
I'd try not to like belittle

831
00:34:58,890 --> 00:34:59,990
them for not knowing something,
say.

832
00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:01,290
Maybe you didn't do this last
year, guys.

833
00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:03,920
Then I might remind them of a
rule, alright, but I don't.

834
00:35:03,930 --> 00:35:06,790
I just don't like the activity
of like sitting down and having

835
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,800
like your six class rules up on
the thing as if they don't know

836
00:35:09,810 --> 00:35:11,940
these things already.
And if they don't, if they

837
00:35:11,950 --> 00:35:14,430
happen to not know them one,
what was it?

838
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:15,520
What was the teacher before
doing?

839
00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:17,240
Because my class rules are just
going to be the school rules,

840
00:35:17,250 --> 00:35:19,790
realistically.
And I might just have a word and

841
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,040
be like, oh, you know your kids
come up to me and and they and

842
00:35:22,050 --> 00:35:23,900
in your class they said they
used to throw their chairs at

843
00:35:23,910 --> 00:35:26,160
you.
So could you maybe sort that

844
00:35:26,170 --> 00:35:28,270
out?
They come up to me and they

845
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,330
start just snapping up pencils
and chucking them in and they

846
00:35:30,340 --> 00:35:32,990
thought that was OK.
So I I don't really think there

847
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,560
would be many situations.
I'm talking specifically.

848
00:35:35,570 --> 00:35:37,480
I'm going to clarify we're going
to get to the bottom of this.

849
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,580
I just mean low level stuff
where there is just that

850
00:35:40,590 --> 00:35:42,500
difference.
Like we said last week, some

851
00:35:42,510 --> 00:35:44,130
teachers don't mind their kids
talking whilst they.

852
00:35:44,140 --> 00:35:44,750
Get on.
Yeah.

853
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:46,910
OK.
Some kids and this idea of like

854
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,660
you know, the school knows how
how specific are they and all I

855
00:35:51,670 --> 00:35:55,480
suppose the only point I'm
making is that it would require

856
00:35:55,490 --> 00:36:00,140
really strong clear school rules
that cover a lot for us to kind

857
00:36:00,150 --> 00:36:03,440
of make the assumption that kids
definitely not sure what you

858
00:36:03,450 --> 00:36:05,390
want in your classroom.
Like I agree with you.

859
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,710
Like I don't necessarily sit
there and do school rules for an

860
00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:10,540
hour for my kids.
But yeah, I I I try and simplify

861
00:36:10,550 --> 00:36:13,390
it as much as possible and then
from there set expectations as I

862
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:14,160
go.
I agree with.

863
00:36:14,170 --> 00:36:15,750
That completely, exactly I do as
I go.

864
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,590
Yeah, yeah.
If something seems out of line

865
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,460
then.
Well, I would then make a thing

866
00:36:20,470 --> 00:36:22,500
of it and make a learning point
of it, but I wouldn't, I just

867
00:36:22,510 --> 00:36:24,400
wouldn't do an activity at the
start all about it.

868
00:36:24,450 --> 00:36:27,140
And to be fair, at the beginning
of my analogy, I did say that I

869
00:36:27,150 --> 00:36:29,120
might introduce myself and say,
look, I don't particularly like

870
00:36:29,130 --> 00:36:30,810
this thing.
This particularly annoys me and

871
00:36:30,820 --> 00:36:33,240
that might be my opportunity to
just pick out some stuff that

872
00:36:33,250 --> 00:36:35,060
may already seen and be like,
yeah, I don't really like it

873
00:36:35,070 --> 00:36:37,940
when children are just chatting
when doing their work and give a

874
00:36:37,950 --> 00:36:40,660
reason, I say because I just
don't think you're focusing.

875
00:36:40,670 --> 00:36:42,740
You know some tasks require
really deep thinking and when

876
00:36:42,750 --> 00:36:44,540
you're when you're chatting,
even though it's innocent and

877
00:36:44,550 --> 00:36:47,110
you're not being loud, I'd I'd
rather you were just really

878
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:48,860
thinking about the task.
And that's just my personal

879
00:36:48,870 --> 00:36:51,050
preference, guys.
Which is other than that, be

880
00:36:51,060 --> 00:36:52,060
respectful.
You know the rules.

881
00:36:52,070 --> 00:36:53,410
Let's crack on.
Yeah.

882
00:36:53,470 --> 00:36:55,120
And that would be the extent of
it.

883
00:36:55,130 --> 00:36:57,650
And I think children might
respect that a bit more as the

884
00:36:57,660 --> 00:36:59,180
older they get younger down.
I don't.

885
00:36:59,190 --> 00:37:01,030
I actually think my advice goes
out the window.

886
00:37:01,130 --> 00:37:03,540
And because you're actually
teaching them the culture that

887
00:37:03,550 --> 00:37:06,010
point, it's like you are still
teaching them the school rules

888
00:37:06,070 --> 00:37:08,680
when they're in year two.
They don't really know how to

889
00:37:08,690 --> 00:37:10,280
behave yet.
So you maybe you have to be a

890
00:37:10,290 --> 00:37:12,870
bit more explicit.
I remember when I went to year

891
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:17,440
three and this was just when we
came back from COVID and we're

892
00:37:17,450 --> 00:37:19,710
in a Junior School, so they are
brand new to the school.

893
00:37:20,070 --> 00:37:23,280
And we made the conscious effort
the head of year and I've

894
00:37:23,290 --> 00:37:26,430
completely agreed and I thought
was a great idea to streamline

895
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,890
the rules.
And we had like we basically had

896
00:37:29,900 --> 00:37:32,690
two rules and they were on the
board and they were absolutely

897
00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:35,970
non-negotiable and that was the
standard And we kind of moved

898
00:37:35,980 --> 00:37:39,120
from there as we went through.
And those two rules were you do

899
00:37:39,130 --> 00:37:42,450
not get out of your seat and you
put your hand and you do not

900
00:37:42,460 --> 00:37:44,490
shout, you put your hand up.
And and it was like, that's

901
00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:46,350
simple.
And it worked really well

902
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,190
because because there were two
rules and so clear and had a

903
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,650
picture on the board and we were
so consistent.

904
00:37:52,660 --> 00:37:54,710
And this is the advice I'd give
people in September, especially

905
00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:57,830
if they're new.
If you're going to set a rule or

906
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:02,590
a standard, hold the children to
it every single time.

907
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,370
So we said hands up, if you want
to talk, no shouting out.

908
00:38:05,380 --> 00:38:08,160
It's kind of the same rule.
Do not go out.

909
00:38:08,170 --> 00:38:10,320
You see.
And you know if that ever

910
00:38:10,330 --> 00:38:14,500
happened, it would stop.
No, that's our rules, OK?

911
00:38:14,870 --> 00:38:18,010
And not once did you let anyone
get away with doing it.

912
00:38:18,020 --> 00:38:19,980
You weren't horrible to them.
Didn't shout them down.

913
00:38:19,990 --> 00:38:21,760
You didn't make them feel
stupid.

914
00:38:21,850 --> 00:38:23,000
Nope.
You're in this new school.

915
00:38:23,010 --> 00:38:27,210
These are our 2 golden rules and
a big thing I'd say to staff.

916
00:38:27,900 --> 00:38:29,670
Again, we're talking to all
staff here.

917
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,080
More, the inexperienced staff
who are looking for tips and

918
00:38:32,090 --> 00:38:36,540
hints do not budge.
If you say to a child today,

919
00:38:36,590 --> 00:38:40,200
you're not gonna talk unless you
put your hand up, you have to

920
00:38:40,210 --> 00:38:42,560
stick with it because as soon as
you get one child, don't do it.

921
00:38:42,750 --> 00:38:43,630
Go.
We can all do it.

922
00:38:44,630 --> 00:38:48,300
Yeah, do you know what I think
might be the catalyst to me not

923
00:38:48,310 --> 00:38:49,720
really liking this class rules
anymore?

924
00:38:49,770 --> 00:38:52,960
Umm, is an experience I had
maybe four or five years ago as

925
00:38:52,970 --> 00:38:54,620
different school that I worked
out at the time.

926
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,630
And I don't know you, you might
be able to, you might be able to

927
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,690
like, not be down a bit here
with my opinion, right?

928
00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:03,740
No, I I I think no, because I
think there's part of me that's

929
00:39:03,750 --> 00:39:05,290
just gonna be a defensive about
this, OK.

930
00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:07,810
But what happened and maybe
maybe I'm justified.

931
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,030
So I had done just because it
was classic thing to do.

932
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:16,090
I had my class rules and I made
these six little posters and

933
00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:18,390
three of them were do they were
green.

934
00:39:18,460 --> 00:39:20,380
It was like do this, do that, do
this.

935
00:39:20,390 --> 00:39:22,570
And then the other three were
like a red colour and it was

936
00:39:22,620 --> 00:39:24,120
don't do this, don't do this,
don't do this.

937
00:39:24,130 --> 00:39:26,760
And between those six things.
It was just that they were like

938
00:39:26,770 --> 00:39:28,060
our golden rules for the
classroom.

939
00:39:28,070 --> 00:39:31,540
Simple as that.
And and I got told I can, I

940
00:39:31,550 --> 00:39:32,960
guess, what were you told?
Go on, go on.

941
00:39:32,970 --> 00:39:33,540
Was it?
Yeah, go on.

942
00:39:33,550 --> 00:39:35,160
Was it?
Was it to not have anything that

943
00:39:35,170 --> 00:39:36,970
says don't?
Yeah.

944
00:39:37,810 --> 00:39:42,150
And and yeah, I got told to take
them down and replace the three

945
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,620
giants with with three mod dos.
And at that point I was like,

946
00:39:45,630 --> 00:39:48,400
ohh, it's not for the kids.
It's just some stupid thing for

947
00:39:48,410 --> 00:39:50,150
the school.
So we look like a certain way

948
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,540
because that has absolutely no
impact.

949
00:39:51,550 --> 00:39:55,440
I will argue that with anyone,
there is no way that that having

950
00:39:55,450 --> 00:39:58,100
three dots on the on The thing
is psychologically impacting

951
00:39:58,110 --> 00:39:59,480
any.
It's just not.

952
00:39:59,590 --> 00:40:01,200
It's just a thing that looks
good.

953
00:40:01,210 --> 00:40:02,810
And for whatever reason they
wanted to do it.

954
00:40:02,820 --> 00:40:04,100
I was like, oh, this is
completely pointless.

955
00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:05,980
Yeah, OK, I'll change it to
those three things and I'll

956
00:40:05,990 --> 00:40:07,730
never mention it to the kids
because I actually don't care

957
00:40:07,740 --> 00:40:10,290
anymore, which is what I did.
I didn't even remotely reference

958
00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:13,780
it at any point to the class.
I just did what I said I always

959
00:40:13,790 --> 00:40:16,300
do, which is just say.
You know, just be nice

960
00:40:16,310 --> 00:40:18,840
basically, and if anything comes
up across the year, I'll I'll

961
00:40:18,850 --> 00:40:21,340
intervene at that point and make
a rule if I need to.

962
00:40:22,330 --> 00:40:24,420
So since then I've never done
class rules again.

963
00:40:25,430 --> 00:40:28,790
Wow, you're stubborn.
I know.

964
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,070
And I did.
I got the fence because I was

965
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:31,870
thinking, what are you talking
about?

966
00:40:32,260 --> 00:40:34,230
It's about, it's growth mindset
kind of thing, isn't it?

967
00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:36,260
It's it's a very common, that's
how I know what you're gonna

968
00:40:36,270 --> 00:40:37,870
say.
It's a very common thing, just

969
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,050
in general, that apparently
people are much more likely to

970
00:40:41,060 --> 00:40:43,490
go along with something if it's
framed as an action rather than

971
00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:46,790
a do not like, like like like
you, like you, you were told to

972
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,710
do something and I don't do that
and you're like, what?

973
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,740
But if someone came in and maybe
said how about something like

974
00:40:52,750 --> 00:40:54,230
this, You may have just done it
like that.

975
00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:56,250
Oh, that's a good idea.
So you just prove your point?

976
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,630
Ohh man.
Yeah, yeah, that's probably,

977
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:01,820
that's what I said.
I'm, I think I'm being

978
00:41:01,830 --> 00:41:03,620
defensive.
There probably isn't psychology

979
00:41:03,630 --> 00:41:04,840
in it, but it was one of those
things.

980
00:41:04,850 --> 00:41:06,390
It was like, it just felt so
petty.

981
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,270
Like really, does it really
matter?

982
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,560
Me telling the children like
don't break the equipment rather

983
00:41:12,570 --> 00:41:15,870
than do respect the equipment.
I get it.

984
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:17,430
It does.
Maybe it sounds slightly better,

985
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,720
but it just wasn't that
important and maybe realised the

986
00:41:20,730 --> 00:41:22,290
whole thing, it's not that
really that important.

987
00:41:22,340 --> 00:41:25,110
So before we give our like top
three tips that I've asked us to

988
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,750
go and do, I'm going to go
through a couple of just the the

989
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,530
more really helpful ones that
are quite generic but really

990
00:41:30,540 --> 00:41:32,570
good to remind yourself of doing
that I got from people on

991
00:41:32,580 --> 00:41:35,380
threads and maybe after I say
one you can just come in what

992
00:41:35,390 --> 00:41:38,110
you think how important it is
and why it's important maybe.

993
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:42,230
So one I thought was really good
was have the children from day

994
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:44,500
one.
Understand that it's their

995
00:41:44,510 --> 00:41:47,760
responsibility to leave the
classroom in the same state they

996
00:41:47,770 --> 00:41:50,160
came into the classroom in.
Hmm.

997
00:41:51,030 --> 00:41:53,440
I love that one that has slipped
with me in the last year or two.

998
00:41:53,450 --> 00:41:55,260
I don't know why and it really
annoys me.

999
00:41:55,330 --> 00:41:56,760
And this year I'm gonna be on it
again.

1000
00:41:56,910 --> 00:41:58,760
Such a good one.
I hate.

1001
00:41:58,770 --> 00:42:02,360
And I always say to the kids,
Ohh, I say what are you doing?

1002
00:42:02,670 --> 00:42:04,580
Why are you leaving the room?
Pencils on the floor under your

1003
00:42:04,590 --> 00:42:05,180
chair.
It's not mine.

1004
00:42:05,190 --> 00:42:06,450
I don't care.
It's under your chair.

1005
00:42:06,610 --> 00:42:08,060
You're responsible for that
space.

1006
00:42:08,070 --> 00:42:09,290
I genuinely say that to the
kids.

1007
00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:10,780
I do not care if it's yours or
not.

1008
00:42:10,850 --> 00:42:13,390
I just want everyone to get into
the habit of looking underneath

1009
00:42:13,490 --> 00:42:15,450
before they go and just picking
up anything that's there.

1010
00:42:15,490 --> 00:42:17,000
It doesn't matter if it's yours
or not.

1011
00:42:17,010 --> 00:42:19,510
Just be nice and then I'll say
you know some kids have the

1012
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:20,870
attitude of the cleaner will do
it.

1013
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,850
I always might hate that.
I know ohh.

1014
00:42:23,860 --> 00:42:25,730
You probably do the same thing.
No, I'm sorry.

1015
00:42:25,740 --> 00:42:29,020
It winds me up so much that if a
child leaves my class at the end

1016
00:42:29,030 --> 00:42:31,200
of the year and still has that
attitude, then that's one of the

1017
00:42:31,210 --> 00:42:32,730
things I judge myself as failing
on.

1018
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,010
Like, I know, I know, I know, I
always say, and I agree with

1019
00:42:36,020 --> 00:42:39,120
this, I'm there to teach them
things I'm not there to.

1020
00:42:39,810 --> 00:42:42,360
Anything political.
I'm not there to be anything in

1021
00:42:42,370 --> 00:42:44,630
terms of anything like that.
I'm not trying to change them as

1022
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,440
people in any way.
That's anything anyone could

1023
00:42:47,450 --> 00:42:49,740
argue is negative.
But that's the one of the things

1024
00:42:49,750 --> 00:42:53,000
that I do like, be kind to
people and that includes don't

1025
00:42:53,010 --> 00:42:55,280
fob it off on someone else just
because their job is as a

1026
00:42:55,290 --> 00:42:56,820
cleaner.
It winds me up and I always say

1027
00:42:56,830 --> 00:42:59,400
to them, maybe you say the same
thing, their job is to clean,

1028
00:42:59,410 --> 00:43:02,150
not tidy.
They come in to clean, to clean

1029
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,850
the tables, to Hoover, to clean.
They're not there to pick up

1030
00:43:04,860 --> 00:43:06,810
your rubbish.
Yeah.

1031
00:43:06,820 --> 00:43:08,590
Is that what I say?
They're not.

1032
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:09,830
Their job is not picking up your
pencil.

1033
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,320
That's your job, OK?
And if it's not your job, it

1034
00:43:12,330 --> 00:43:14,010
falls back on me before it falls
back on the cleaner.

1035
00:43:14,020 --> 00:43:15,160
It's certainly not the cleanest
job.

1036
00:43:15,170 --> 00:43:16,390
Definitely.
Their job is to, you know,

1037
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,000
Hoover, clean the tables,
whatever.

1038
00:43:19,860 --> 00:43:21,050
Yeah, why come up with original
point?

1039
00:43:21,060 --> 00:43:23,770
Was no, it was just what I
thought was a brilliant rule.

1040
00:43:23,780 --> 00:43:26,150
And it's something I'm gonna do
when I read this, which was

1041
00:43:26,380 --> 00:43:29,310
teach the children that, yeah,
you walk in in the morning and

1042
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,460
see how this classroom looks.
It looks like this when you

1043
00:43:31,470 --> 00:43:32,750
leave.
And that's between every lesson,

1044
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,400
going to lunch, coming back for
everything.

1045
00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:37,420
Hold them to account.
I did it really well the year

1046
00:43:37,430 --> 00:43:38,950
before last.
I don't know why I slipped, but

1047
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,090
I just did.
And I was really harsh.

1048
00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:42,740
Really, really overly harsh at
the start.

1049
00:43:42,750 --> 00:43:43,970
Way harsher than I thought I
should be.

1050
00:43:43,980 --> 00:43:46,130
But it worked.
And I said, if something is

1051
00:43:46,140 --> 00:43:49,110
under your chair, I don't care
if I've told you to check it or

1052
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:50,950
not and you leave the room, You
lose break time.

1053
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:52,330
Really mean.
Wow.

1054
00:43:52,340 --> 00:43:54,490
It was very mean.
But it was one of those things I

1055
00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:56,570
knew would work, and I and I
knew that no one was going to

1056
00:43:56,580 --> 00:43:57,390
their break time.
No one did.

1057
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,330
Couldn't lose a great.
Time, I think.

1058
00:43:59,340 --> 00:44:02,670
And then they just got the habit
immediately of they're going to

1059
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:03,690
have it very quickly of
checking.

1060
00:44:03,700 --> 00:44:04,770
I was like, cool.
The whole year was great.

1061
00:44:04,780 --> 00:44:07,070
They never left floor.
Good.

1062
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:08,830
Because it was like, no, I'm
gonna treat this really

1063
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,010
seriously.
And there's really serious

1064
00:44:10,020 --> 00:44:11,630
consequences.
That's how I'm gonna train you

1065
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,770
that this is so serious.
Look after the space around you.

1066
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:15,660
I agree.
What was the?

1067
00:44:15,670 --> 00:44:17,270
Next one, next one.
Very, very good one.

1068
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:18,980
And it kind of goes against what
we said earlier.

1069
00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:22,300
You know, don't do fluffy things
all day, trying get into

1070
00:44:22,310 --> 00:44:24,430
routines as quickly as possible.
I still think that's important.

1071
00:44:24,470 --> 00:44:27,090
But one of the few things where
I'm like, absolutely this could

1072
00:44:27,100 --> 00:44:29,230
be used as a little game little
ice breaker because it's so

1073
00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:32,850
important, is to try and learn
your children's names as quickly

1074
00:44:32,860 --> 00:44:36,210
as possible.
That I'm bad at learning names

1075
00:44:36,220 --> 00:44:38,390
and I always have a concerted
effort to do that.

1076
00:44:38,540 --> 00:44:40,740
It makes such a difference when
you know their name, because

1077
00:44:40,750 --> 00:44:42,540
it's just that building block to
build that relationship.

1078
00:44:42,550 --> 00:44:44,060
It's hard to do otherwise.
What do you think?

1079
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,900
Hmm, yeah, I agree.
Names really important.

1080
00:44:46,970 --> 00:44:49,560
And the fluffy things.
It's a big scope.

1081
00:44:49,750 --> 00:44:52,480
It doesn't need to be lots.
You can do very small, simple

1082
00:44:52,490 --> 00:44:56,030
things to make your kids smile
and I think that's important,

1083
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,030
You know, very, very simple,
silly little things that don't

1084
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,790
take much effort, that don't get
them riled up too much to make

1085
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,190
them smaller.
One of my favourite things to

1086
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:04,730
do, and it does depend on the
class.

1087
00:45:04,740 --> 00:45:09,220
I didn't do it once with certain
year groups, just mimicking the

1088
00:45:09,230 --> 00:45:10,490
way they reply to me in the
register.

1089
00:45:10,540 --> 00:45:12,770
Just, I just find it funny.
Like they'll say good morning

1090
00:45:12,780 --> 00:45:14,850
and whatever they say to me,
I'll say to the next person.

1091
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,120
And then eventually they clock
on that I'm just copying the

1092
00:45:17,130 --> 00:45:19,220
last person's response and just
little things.

1093
00:45:19,230 --> 00:45:21,890
Can they just smile?
They find it funny and it's so

1094
00:45:21,900 --> 00:45:23,490
simple and they leave and
whatever.

1095
00:45:23,550 --> 00:45:25,090
So yeah, doing little fluffy
things.

1096
00:45:25,100 --> 00:45:27,300
I think they've always got a
place to build nice

1097
00:45:27,310 --> 00:45:29,150
relationships.
Do you know what?

1098
00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:32,390
I think that's a really nice
time to move on to our top tips

1099
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,270
because of my first tip.
Funnily enough, there's quite

1100
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,090
nicely linked to something you
just said, so we play the

1101
00:45:38,100 --> 00:45:39,680
Jingle.
And then we can do our top tips.

1102
00:45:39,690 --> 00:45:41,560
So yeah, in general, let's
summarise actually very first.

1103
00:45:41,610 --> 00:45:44,180
Firstly, routine, super
important.

1104
00:45:44,230 --> 00:45:48,040
Set expectations really quickly.
Have high expectations and we

1105
00:45:48,050 --> 00:45:50,150
just said that, but have high
expectations of them and

1106
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,950
yourself because you're
fantastic teacher and hold them

1107
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:54,680
accountable.
Hold them accountable, yeah.

1108
00:45:54,770 --> 00:45:57,000
If you're going to set a rule,
if you're going to have this

1109
00:45:57,010 --> 00:45:59,760
expectation of them, don't let
it slip, because then it's not

1110
00:45:59,770 --> 00:46:02,220
an expectation, it's a hope.
And they're two different things

1111
00:46:02,230 --> 00:46:07,370
to me.
We're back and I'm hotter than

1112
00:46:07,380 --> 00:46:08,630
ever.
And he was watching.

1113
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,270
It's not a very pretty sight
right now for us.

1114
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:11,750
I am so hot.
Avane.

1115
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,000
What's?
Get on, got on.

1116
00:46:14,350 --> 00:46:16,520
OK, I said, I'll say different
way.

1117
00:46:16,530 --> 00:46:19,700
I'm dripping with sweat.
So we just said before then we

1118
00:46:19,710 --> 00:46:23,860
we went through a lot of the
tips and hints for starting off

1119
00:46:23,870 --> 00:46:26,180
September on the right foot that
people are sent in to us.

1120
00:46:26,490 --> 00:46:28,590
A lot of them overlapped.
It was like we said, routines

1121
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,820
and things like that.
But some of them overlapped with

1122
00:46:30,830 --> 00:46:33,610
the three hints I've put in.
So I'm going to kind of put them

1123
00:46:33,620 --> 00:46:35,180
in with that.
If you wrote in to us and said

1124
00:46:35,190 --> 00:46:37,180
anything, hopefully you can see
why I might not have mentioned

1125
00:46:37,190 --> 00:46:39,580
it so far.
And Hayden, you have your three

1126
00:46:39,590 --> 00:46:42,440
ready, correct?
Yeah, I just glossed over them.

1127
00:46:42,450 --> 00:46:43,890
Mine are very admin based
actually.

1128
00:46:43,900 --> 00:46:45,800
Really add mini.
OK, so it might be different to

1129
00:46:45,810 --> 00:46:46,330
yours.
We'll see.

1130
00:46:46,340 --> 00:46:47,730
Interesting.
Well, maybe do one each.

1131
00:46:47,780 --> 00:46:49,920
OK.
And then when one person says

1132
00:46:49,930 --> 00:46:52,470
it, maybe everyone can come in
or we can explain what we mean.

1133
00:46:52,540 --> 00:46:54,940
OK, sure.
So I've, I've tried to be quite

1134
00:46:54,950 --> 00:46:57,390
specific because, you know,
routines and stuff are very

1135
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:58,970
important.
Everything we said before is

1136
00:46:58,980 --> 00:47:00,950
really important.
So try to like nail it in to

1137
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,230
something maybe you could
literally do in your classroom

1138
00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:05,530
or at home this week when you
start school.

1139
00:47:05,670 --> 00:47:08,660
OK, so.
Number one.

1140
00:47:09,490 --> 00:47:13,690
Use your register wisely.
And what I mean by this is it's

1141
00:47:13,700 --> 00:47:16,660
the perfect opportunity to build
those relationships with your

1142
00:47:16,670 --> 00:47:21,400
children in your class.
So not only do I mean OK in the

1143
00:47:21,410 --> 00:47:24,890
register each day make up a new
rule, make it funny, we don't

1144
00:47:24,900 --> 00:47:26,970
have to be stuck in the 1930s
anymore.

1145
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,370
And they say good morning Mr.
Price, or good afternoon Sir,

1146
00:47:30,380 --> 00:47:32,810
there's a place for that and we
still teach them to do that.

1147
00:47:32,900 --> 00:47:35,410
But as teacher I don't mind
stepping in and saying right

1148
00:47:35,420 --> 00:47:38,950
today you're going to answer me
with your favourite ever dinner

1149
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,450
or you know you're going to
answer me in your best

1150
00:47:41,460 --> 00:47:43,850
impression of this person.
It doesn't.

1151
00:47:43,860 --> 00:47:47,310
It's a way to break the ice.
You can do it sensibly.

1152
00:47:47,370 --> 00:47:49,690
You can do it non sensibly.
If that's what you want, you're

1153
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:53,580
the teacher, you're in charge.
But I find my register time, and

1154
00:47:53,590 --> 00:47:56,140
I'm going to say it registration
in general, when the children

1155
00:47:56,150 --> 00:48:00,010
come in, that is the number one
time where I build 99% of my

1156
00:48:00,020 --> 00:48:01,320
bonds.
And that was a big thing that

1157
00:48:01,330 --> 00:48:03,530
people said as well.
Build relationships with your

1158
00:48:03,540 --> 00:48:05,580
children.
That is what you can do in the

1159
00:48:05,590 --> 00:48:07,840
first time, which will have the
biggest impact all year.

1160
00:48:07,930 --> 00:48:10,620
And for me, register time,
whether it's taking the register

1161
00:48:10,690 --> 00:48:13,020
or registration, when they come
through the door in the morning

1162
00:48:13,070 --> 00:48:15,680
and they want to tell you a
story from last night, you know

1163
00:48:15,690 --> 00:48:19,430
you've done something right.
That's really good.

1164
00:48:19,500 --> 00:48:24,310
It's also a great way to tell if
you've got the kind of class

1165
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,120
that can have a little bit of
fun, bit of silliness and come

1166
00:48:27,130 --> 00:48:30,230
back down immediately and
contain themselves or not.

1167
00:48:30,300 --> 00:48:33,710
So quite, quite a good way to
find that out whether you're

1168
00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:35,110
going to put a lot of work in
that year.

1169
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,440
Sort of training them to
actually just like, you know,

1170
00:48:38,450 --> 00:48:41,250
the boundaries and things.
Yeah, really love doing that.

1171
00:48:41,260 --> 00:48:42,510
Is something I've always done as
well.

1172
00:48:42,550 --> 00:48:43,990
Yeah, I think it's number one
thing.

1173
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,100
I think over the years where
I've become more and more

1174
00:48:46,110 --> 00:48:48,020
attuned to just having the
confidence to change it.

1175
00:48:48,110 --> 00:48:49,560
Enough.
And you know, they come in and

1176
00:48:49,570 --> 00:48:50,510
read.
Of course they do.

1177
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,820
But I might still talk to three
or four kids about the weekend.

1178
00:48:52,860 --> 00:48:54,840
It doesn't matter if they miss 5
minutes of reading, they can

1179
00:48:54,850 --> 00:48:56,170
catch up on that and go sit down
and do it.

1180
00:48:56,180 --> 00:48:58,130
After I'm going to talk to my
kids and build that

1181
00:48:58,140 --> 00:49:00,550
relationship.
Yeah, I'm glad you've done

1182
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,200
something that's like to do with
the children and stuff because

1183
00:49:03,210 --> 00:49:05,950
mine are really, really kind of
admin based, so it should be

1184
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,610
nice.
So tip #2, get into school

1185
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:14,790
earlier, way earlier on one day
of the week, preferably Monday

1186
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,030
at least on your first week.
And the longer you can keep this

1187
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:18,930
up the better.
And the reason is, and I've done

1188
00:49:18,940 --> 00:49:21,940
this in the past many, many
years, is when you can get

1189
00:49:21,950 --> 00:49:26,960
everything printed for the week.
On a Monday morning, it feels so

1190
00:49:26,970 --> 00:49:29,360
good.
The weight off your chest is

1191
00:49:29,370 --> 00:49:32,720
unreal because it allows you to
focus on other admin tasks,

1192
00:49:32,810 --> 00:49:35,200
certainly in that first week.
So if you can get yourself into

1193
00:49:35,210 --> 00:49:37,720
a really good habit of just
getting yourself in earlier on a

1194
00:49:37,730 --> 00:49:39,840
Monday, you will not regret it.
I promise you.

1195
00:49:39,900 --> 00:49:41,970
It feels really good.
Get everything printed.

1196
00:49:41,980 --> 00:49:43,860
You're way ahead of everybody,
everybody else.

1197
00:49:44,090 --> 00:49:46,680
It's a good feeling.
I love this tip because you live

1198
00:49:46,690 --> 00:49:49,270
by this and I must say, some of
my tips I don't always do and

1199
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,500
I'm kind of talking to myself.
Like, because when I do it, it

1200
00:49:51,510 --> 00:49:54,290
helps me.
You always do this and the only

1201
00:49:54,300 --> 00:49:56,240
thing that's really no, I was
going to say, the only thing

1202
00:49:56,250 --> 00:49:59,230
that really makes me laugh is
that you sometimes do this, but

1203
00:49:59,240 --> 00:50:01,180
you don't get in early.
So instead all that happens is

1204
00:50:01,190 --> 00:50:03,540
you are clogging up the printer,
taking up everyone's printer

1205
00:50:03,550 --> 00:50:05,320
time.
It's Monday, it's 20 past eight.

1206
00:50:05,330 --> 00:50:07,170
I've got things to print and
Hayden doing this whole week and

1207
00:50:07,180 --> 00:50:09,060
I'm like, hey, did not now,
mate, you get a seven?

1208
00:50:09,580 --> 00:50:12,300
You wanna know something funny?
Yeah, I genuinely have never

1209
00:50:12,310 --> 00:50:13,540
done that in the last three
years.

1210
00:50:14,940 --> 00:50:16,740
For some reason.
I just never, I never correct

1211
00:50:16,750 --> 00:50:18,290
you.
But for some reason there's been

1212
00:50:18,300 --> 00:50:20,600
a couple of times where I've
just been printing a bit, like

1213
00:50:20,610 --> 00:50:22,790
just just a bigger chunk.
And you've always been like,

1214
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:24,990
here he is, knowing what I was
like in the past, where I'd

1215
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,230
always, always come in on a
Monday morning print and you'd

1216
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:30,090
be like areas talk about the
printer doing this whole week

1217
00:50:30,100 --> 00:50:31,390
and I'd be thinking, I'm really
not.

1218
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,680
I'm just printing for like for
for today's mass, for me and

1219
00:50:34,690 --> 00:50:36,300
someone else.
Listen, they just wouldn't

1220
00:50:36,310 --> 00:50:37,390
correct you.
So good.

1221
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:39,740
Wrong basically.
Good friends don't let the truth

1222
00:50:39,750 --> 00:50:42,380
get in front of a good joke.
OK, exactly.

1223
00:50:42,530 --> 00:50:45,930
You are enjoying the banter more
than I would have correcting

1224
00:50:45,940 --> 00:50:48,210
you, so I saved it for the
podcast.

1225
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:49,790
But no, it is a really good
thing.

1226
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:52,130
I need to get back to my own
advice there because I used to

1227
00:50:52,140 --> 00:50:54,930
do it religiously on a Monday
and it was so good everyone

1228
00:50:54,940 --> 00:50:56,360
would get everyone rushed over
the printer.

1229
00:50:56,370 --> 00:50:59,080
I've had it all to myself
because I got in half an hour

1230
00:50:59,090 --> 00:51:02,030
before everybody else, therefore
way more efficient as well.

1231
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,600
I could just get everything
printed in half the time and

1232
00:51:04,610 --> 00:51:06,930
then I just spend the rest of
the morning if I had the time,

1233
00:51:06,940 --> 00:51:08,710
just trimming everything,
getting already.

1234
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:10,230
It was great.
It was great.

1235
00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:12,530
Feels good.
Quality, right.

1236
00:51:12,690 --> 00:51:14,210
I'm gonna go with my one now.
So we're gonna have six in

1237
00:51:14,220 --> 00:51:18,550
total.
So this next one, tip #3, have

1238
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,310
non-negotiable time for
yourself.

1239
00:51:21,380 --> 00:51:24,550
Booked in during your first week
and then every week from then

1240
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,530
on.
And what I mean by this is be

1241
00:51:26,540 --> 00:51:29,200
strict with yourself.
So it could be for me, Tuesday

1242
00:51:29,210 --> 00:51:32,350
night, 7 to 8, I'm playing
football. 5 aside, nothing's

1243
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,850
going to get in the way of that
because I think earlier in your

1244
00:51:34,860 --> 00:51:37,870
career it's very easy to let
things kind of slipping out.

1245
00:51:37,980 --> 00:51:39,450
I've got to take this marking
home tonight.

1246
00:51:39,460 --> 00:51:41,210
I'm sorry, guys, I can't come.
No, no.

1247
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:43,420
Have a non.
Negotiable time for you.

1248
00:51:43,430 --> 00:51:45,130
We do enough outside of school
time.

1249
00:51:45,820 --> 00:51:48,530
Set yourself that amount of
time, whether it might be

1250
00:51:48,540 --> 00:51:51,400
reading a book for an hour
before bed from 8:00 till nine.

1251
00:51:51,620 --> 00:51:54,530
Set it and do it.
Because I tell you what, whether

1252
00:51:54,540 --> 00:51:56,620
we like it or not, whether we're
tired or not, we get up and get

1253
00:51:56,630 --> 00:51:58,510
into work, don't we?
That's a non-negotiable because

1254
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:00,510
it's someone else setting their
expectation for us.

1255
00:52:00,900 --> 00:52:04,350
Be as kind to yourself as you
are to other people.

1256
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,710
Set yourself a bit of time, say
you're going to do this thing

1257
00:52:07,720 --> 00:52:10,680
that you like doing, and make
sure you do it, whether it's a

1258
00:52:10,690 --> 00:52:13,070
drag or not, or whether you
think you can get rid of it.

1259
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:17,440
Just do it, yeah, brilliant tip.
I do.

1260
00:52:17,450 --> 00:52:19,600
I do that now as well.
I have a bit of time every week

1261
00:52:19,610 --> 00:52:22,560
where I'll do a certain thing.
So I quite like playing games

1262
00:52:22,570 --> 00:52:25,020
with my friends.
So I'll have a night and every

1263
00:52:25,030 --> 00:52:27,340
night it's like, yeah, we go
online because I don't get to

1264
00:52:27,350 --> 00:52:29,130
you as you get older, you know,
it's like you get to see your

1265
00:52:29,140 --> 00:52:30,270
powers as much when you're
young.

1266
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,790
And it's like, yeah, we all go
online and and we we chat and we

1267
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,570
play a game and it's so nice
because and that's my downtime

1268
00:52:35,580 --> 00:52:38,040
and it's like no, every week set
time can't be disturbed.

1269
00:52:38,150 --> 00:52:39,340
I don't book anything on that
night.

1270
00:52:39,350 --> 00:52:41,200
I know it's that night.
They all do the same.

1271
00:52:41,290 --> 00:52:43,760
It's really good, but if
something came up at work right

1272
00:52:43,890 --> 00:52:46,600
and it was like, oh guys.
Hayden we really, it would be

1273
00:52:46,610 --> 00:52:48,140
really great if you can get this
done tonight.

1274
00:52:48,490 --> 00:52:51,840
You've got to have the power to
know I'm doing this because you

1275
00:52:51,850 --> 00:52:52,820
see so many people.
Yeah.

1276
00:52:52,830 --> 00:52:55,520
You see so many people say ohh
yeah OK And they cancel their

1277
00:52:55,530 --> 00:52:58,400
plans.
Don't do it every now and then

1278
00:52:58,410 --> 00:53:00,980
in exceptional circumstances.
Sure, maybe some reason.

1279
00:53:01,050 --> 00:53:03,160
But just set that time guys.
It's valuable.

1280
00:53:03,170 --> 00:53:04,990
You are valuable.
Do it.

1281
00:53:06,030 --> 00:53:07,700
Yeah.
Like the best way to do about it

1282
00:53:07,750 --> 00:53:10,800
to to to deal with that in your
mind is like don't undervalue

1283
00:53:10,810 --> 00:53:14,040
your time.
Is there something if someone

1284
00:53:14,050 --> 00:53:15,760
says if you've got that big
thing you got to do you got to

1285
00:53:15,770 --> 00:53:18,100
do it this night.
Now ohh can you do this Is there

1286
00:53:18,170 --> 00:53:20,980
is there a scenario where you
would be able to say no actually

1287
00:53:20,990 --> 00:53:23,740
I really can't do it tonight
because of this thing whatever

1288
00:53:23,750 --> 00:53:25,750
that thing is.
Pretend that's the thing that

1289
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:28,160
you're actually doing.
Because if you are, if you are

1290
00:53:28,170 --> 00:53:30,270
OK you're saying no to it for
that reason, then you should be

1291
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,620
able to OK saying no to it
because it's your personal time

1292
00:53:32,630 --> 00:53:35,610
that you've that you've already,
you know, scheduled him very

1293
00:53:35,620 --> 00:53:38,290
good.
I'm going to move on to tip #4.

1294
00:53:38,940 --> 00:53:41,690
Tip #4 is something you can do
now, I guess.

1295
00:53:41,740 --> 00:53:46,040
So I want you to think of one
thing or more.

1296
00:53:46,050 --> 00:53:49,510
Does not be one each, but tries
to start with one that you

1297
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,650
didn't do last year.
So this only works, I guess, if

1298
00:53:52,660 --> 00:53:54,460
you've been teaching.
If you haven't been teaching at

1299
00:53:54,470 --> 00:53:56,460
all, then maybe you can think
back to your training year.

1300
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,000
One thing that you just didn't
do that didn't move from your To

1301
00:54:00,010 --> 00:54:03,680
Do List either all year or just
took far too long to get done on

1302
00:54:03,690 --> 00:54:07,130
your To Do List and prioritise
it now, get it done, even make

1303
00:54:07,140 --> 00:54:08,570
solid plans to get that thing
done.

1304
00:54:08,580 --> 00:54:10,180
Whatever that thing is that
didn't move.

1305
00:54:10,190 --> 00:54:12,900
Maybe just it was boring, you
didn't wanna do it and just do

1306
00:54:12,910 --> 00:54:14,660
that thing now, get it done
early.

1307
00:54:14,710 --> 00:54:16,860
Kind of like the my last tip,
getting things done early.

1308
00:54:16,870 --> 00:54:19,700
It makes me feel really good.
For example, it might be like

1309
00:54:19,830 --> 00:54:22,170
there's a display that all year
you're like, oh, I'm going to do

1310
00:54:22,180 --> 00:54:24,160
that and do that.
And then there's something else.

1311
00:54:24,170 --> 00:54:26,330
Always come up.
Prioritise that to get it done

1312
00:54:26,340 --> 00:54:28,380
in your first week.
Just get it done and then and

1313
00:54:28,390 --> 00:54:30,020
then it's done.
You know, it might be changing

1314
00:54:30,030 --> 00:54:31,970
your tray labels.
It's just one of those jobs.

1315
00:54:31,980 --> 00:54:33,640
It's boring.
I don't want to do that, but

1316
00:54:33,650 --> 00:54:35,440
just get it done first week.
Then you feel good because it's

1317
00:54:35,450 --> 00:54:37,850
been done the whole time.
Sewing out the folders on your

1318
00:54:37,860 --> 00:54:39,960
USB.
That's a classic one.

1319
00:54:40,230 --> 00:54:41,580
It feels good.
No one wants to do it.

1320
00:54:41,590 --> 00:54:42,930
It's annoying.
You have to sit there and delete

1321
00:54:42,940 --> 00:54:45,400
things and move things and copy
stuff and rename things.

1322
00:54:45,690 --> 00:54:47,680
Get it done.
Fresh start of the year.

1323
00:54:47,930 --> 00:54:49,680
It feels good.
What?

1324
00:54:49,690 --> 00:54:51,950
What's the saying?
From I've been waiting this

1325
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:53,420
whole time.
It's called Eat the Frog.

1326
00:54:54,890 --> 00:54:56,460
What?
Ohh what are you talking about?

1327
00:54:59,870 --> 00:55:02,480
I was I was thinking like you
know that Oh my God, what's to

1328
00:55:02,490 --> 00:55:04,120
say?
I don't think of it idiom about

1329
00:55:04,130 --> 00:55:06,970
like like a cluttered mind
cluttered space where you know

1330
00:55:06,980 --> 00:55:09,800
it looks like clear the space
around you because you keep your

1331
00:55:09,810 --> 00:55:11,620
mind clear as.
Well, that's the same just

1332
00:55:11,630 --> 00:55:13,770
called clear, clear desk, clear
mind.

1333
00:55:13,780 --> 00:55:16,220
That's like literally, it's
like, yeah, something like that.

1334
00:55:16,230 --> 00:55:17,920
If there's an actual specific
thing.

1335
00:55:17,930 --> 00:55:20,840
But it's that it's that idea,
you know, like, get that

1336
00:55:20,850 --> 00:55:24,700
annoying little job done that
that you that you kept pushing

1337
00:55:24,710 --> 00:55:26,220
back in your To Do List and just
do it now.

1338
00:55:26,300 --> 00:55:28,540
That's what were you talking
about Eat the frog?

1339
00:55:28,990 --> 00:55:30,180
Are you listening to what I'm
saying?

1340
00:55:31,490 --> 00:55:34,370
He's so down.
You like eat the frog?

1341
00:55:36,950 --> 00:55:38,240
What you talking?
About.

1342
00:55:39,570 --> 00:55:42,460
The frog, eat the frogs are
saying is like do the worst job

1343
00:55:42,470 --> 00:55:43,660
straight away.
Eat the frog.

1344
00:55:43,670 --> 00:55:45,390
No one wants to eat the frog.
Eat the frog.

1345
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,260
And then you get to have
everything else that's good.

1346
00:55:47,350 --> 00:55:49,020
That's hilarious.
Broccoli.

1347
00:55:49,870 --> 00:55:51,660
The vegetables first, That kind
of thing, right?

1348
00:55:51,670 --> 00:55:54,740
Save the bit you like.
I guess so, but eat the frog,

1349
00:55:54,750 --> 00:55:56,130
because eating a frog is
disgusting.

1350
00:55:56,140 --> 00:55:57,340
No one would ever want to eat a
frog.

1351
00:55:57,350 --> 00:55:59,110
But you've got to eat the frog
at some point, so you might as

1352
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:00,830
well do it right now.
And then it's out the way.

1353
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:05,050
Wow, that was the worst day
ever.

1354
00:56:05,060 --> 00:56:06,540
Let's move.
On the idea that you didn't know

1355
00:56:06,550 --> 00:56:08,530
what I was talking about and
I've said eat the frog, yeah, I

1356
00:56:08,540 --> 00:56:10,680
was like, ohh, he's ohh he's
heard nothing.

1357
00:56:10,690 --> 00:56:13,350
I've said, yeah, brilliant.
OK, right.

1358
00:56:13,820 --> 00:56:17,150
Tip #5.
Get your dinners, your meals,

1359
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:20,550
your lunches prepped the weekend
before you start, especially for

1360
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,750
week 1.
Just get it done on the Sunday,

1361
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,950
do some meal prep, get them in
the fridge, 5 Tupperware boxes.

1362
00:56:26,020 --> 00:56:27,650
You don't have to think about it
again.

1363
00:56:27,740 --> 00:56:31,560
If you're anything like me, you
are completely disorganised when

1364
00:56:31,570 --> 00:56:33,800
it comes to anything.
It's almost like looking after

1365
00:56:33,810 --> 00:56:35,740
yourself and giving yourself a
helping hand.

1366
00:56:35,810 --> 00:56:40,150
OK, I would in the morning take
15 minutes extra in bed if I

1367
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:41,740
have to get up and prep my
lunch.

1368
00:56:41,750 --> 00:56:43,660
So if that job's done for me in
past.

1369
00:56:43,670 --> 00:56:45,880
Dylan, this is almost like
eating the frog again on the

1370
00:56:45,890 --> 00:56:47,760
Sunday.
Spend an hour and a half meal

1371
00:56:47,770 --> 00:56:49,700
prepping for the whole week.
Put me on your fridge.

1372
00:56:49,710 --> 00:56:51,600
Don't think about it again in
the morning.

1373
00:56:51,610 --> 00:56:53,890
Pick up, go.
And it has such an impact

1374
00:56:53,900 --> 00:56:56,270
because not only have you save
time in the morning, if you

1375
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:58,140
didn't eat lunch in the morning,
you think, well, that's not save

1376
00:56:58,150 --> 00:56:59,460
me time.
I didn't prep my lunch in the

1377
00:56:59,470 --> 00:57:01,280
morning anyway.
Well, actually what it's done is

1378
00:57:01,290 --> 00:57:03,260
at lunch time, you go to the
staff room.

1379
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,310
One, you have a proper dinner, a
proper lunch in front of you

1380
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:10,330
that's nutritious and helps you.
But #2, you get to actually see

1381
00:57:10,340 --> 00:57:12,710
your colleagues.
Teaching is an isolating job,

1382
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:15,800
and I'm the worst for it.
I don't spend any time in the

1383
00:57:15,810 --> 00:57:18,250
staff room because I'm probably
on my way to the shop to get

1384
00:57:18,260 --> 00:57:19,710
some lunch.
I'll come back and I've got my

1385
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:22,310
afternoon lesson.
It's just it's just one of these

1386
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,230
things where it has so many
benefits.

1387
00:57:24,380 --> 00:57:26,400
Lots of people do this already,
probably thinking, Dylan, are

1388
00:57:26,410 --> 00:57:28,270
you a child?
Of course I prep my lunch, but

1389
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,130
just don't do it in the morning
of because it just doesn't

1390
00:57:31,140 --> 00:57:32,550
happen for me or anything like
me.

1391
00:57:32,590 --> 00:57:34,960
Get your meals prepped.
One less thing to worry about.

1392
00:57:35,030 --> 00:57:36,700
You can talk to your friends at
school.

1393
00:57:36,710 --> 00:57:39,140
You don't have to be around
children all day because it is

1394
00:57:39,150 --> 00:57:40,560
very tiring.
You can have those adult

1395
00:57:40,570 --> 00:57:43,150
conversations over your lunch
and then go and get your stuff

1396
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:44,350
sorted.
Ohh.

1397
00:57:44,410 --> 00:57:47,000
Catch the worm.
Catch the worm.

1398
00:57:47,010 --> 00:57:48,880
That's what they call Ohh.
Yeah, the early teacher catches

1399
00:57:48,890 --> 00:57:50,210
the bird.
I think that's what it's called.

1400
00:57:52,230 --> 00:57:54,300
Yeah.
Ohh dear.

1401
00:57:54,350 --> 00:57:59,350
Well, moving on then to my last
tip, tip number six, you could

1402
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,820
do this again, right now,
actually, think of three to five

1403
00:58:02,830 --> 00:58:06,260
things that happen in your
classroom regularly that annoy

1404
00:58:06,270 --> 00:58:10,090
you, that something that
disturbs your teaching routine,

1405
00:58:10,100 --> 00:58:12,270
that you can control.
So I'm not talking about like,

1406
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:13,900
people walking into your
classroom and asking for a

1407
00:58:13,910 --> 00:58:15,490
child.
That's going to happen.

1408
00:58:15,500 --> 00:58:16,490
You just got to get used to
that.

1409
00:58:16,500 --> 00:58:19,180
It's annoying.
I'm talking about things like,

1410
00:58:20,620 --> 00:58:23,540
OK, the procedures like when
when a child has a drink, how

1411
00:58:23,550 --> 00:58:24,680
does that happen in your
classroom?

1412
00:58:24,690 --> 00:58:27,370
Because if you just, if you just
think about them now, they're

1413
00:58:27,380 --> 00:58:29,050
not those annoying things that
you suddenly have to solve on

1414
00:58:29,060 --> 00:58:34,080
the spot and then maybe put in
place at a sub optimal system

1415
00:58:34,090 --> 00:58:35,990
because you're just trying to
quickly solve it in the spot.

1416
00:58:36,060 --> 00:58:37,730
How do children have a drink in
your class?

1417
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,810
Think of it now and then you can
set that procedure like straight

1418
00:58:40,820 --> 00:58:43,220
away.
How does the child get a new

1419
00:58:43,230 --> 00:58:44,030
glow?
They've run out.

1420
00:58:44,100 --> 00:58:47,050
Is it putting their hand up with
you talking and then say, oh, I

1421
00:58:47,060 --> 00:58:49,660
need another glue because that
is so infuriating.

1422
00:58:49,860 --> 00:58:51,940
Think of another system.
How do they shop on a pencil?

1423
00:58:51,950 --> 00:58:54,330
Can they just get up and do it?
Do you have a different system

1424
00:58:54,340 --> 00:58:55,520
they have to do this?
They did that.

1425
00:58:55,580 --> 00:58:58,820
Just try to think of three to
five or even more things that

1426
00:58:58,830 --> 00:59:01,780
are just annoying and disturb
your flow in teaching.

1427
00:59:01,830 --> 00:59:05,040
Solve them now and then just set
those expectations with the

1428
00:59:05,050 --> 00:59:06,990
kids.
This is how you do it in the

1429
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:08,270
class.
Don't.

1430
00:59:08,310 --> 00:59:09,780
Don't have class rules.
That's different.

1431
00:59:11,550 --> 00:59:13,600
Jump on this right now.
I know.

1432
00:59:13,610 --> 00:59:15,700
I guess I.
Just called him class rules, but

1433
00:59:15,710 --> 00:59:17,700
they, I don't like them very
much, but I have them.

1434
00:59:17,750 --> 00:59:19,480
Yeah, these these can be class
rules.

1435
00:59:19,490 --> 00:59:20,970
They're not the school rules
rehashed.

1436
00:59:20,980 --> 00:59:22,480
They're actually just things
about.

1437
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,440
Sometimes they're just rules
seamless things got about.

1438
00:59:26,900 --> 00:59:28,160
There's rules around the
classroom.

1439
00:59:28,230 --> 00:59:29,570
We call them.
What do we call him?

1440
00:59:29,580 --> 00:59:32,620
My classroom, we call them.
We call them don't, don't,

1441
00:59:32,630 --> 00:59:35,140
don't, don't not get up and get
yourself a pencil.

1442
00:59:35,270 --> 00:59:40,710
Don't not do this, please.
I'm absolutely rinsed myself

1443
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:41,370
here.
Have I?

1444
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,540
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm not gonna lie, that whole

1445
00:59:43,550 --> 00:59:45,490
conversation, I was like, what
is this guy on about?

1446
00:59:45,500 --> 00:59:47,500
He doesn't know.
He has class rules, what he's

1447
00:59:47,510 --> 00:59:49,990
talking about.
Yeah, And I guess I just don't.

1448
00:59:50,060 --> 00:59:51,220
Go against everything I've just
said.

1449
00:59:51,230 --> 00:59:53,390
That's my top number six.
Yeah.

1450
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:55,930
OK, OK, Let's clarify this right
now here and now.

1451
00:59:55,940 --> 00:59:58,330
Forever.
Earlier on, I was talking about

1452
00:59:58,340 --> 01:00:00,690
school rules being rehashed.
They know how to behave.

1453
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,840
But procedures in your class
definitely go for it.

1454
01:00:03,850 --> 01:00:06,340
There might not be written on
the wall, but set them, set

1455
01:00:06,350 --> 01:00:07,910
those procedures.
But think about them now,

1456
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:08,980
because.
What about you Dan?

1457
01:00:08,990 --> 01:00:11,220
But when I'm on the spot I I
would just think of a rubbish.

1458
01:00:11,270 --> 01:00:14,010
Yeah, I'll set some precedent.
A kid will ask something.

1459
01:00:14,020 --> 01:00:16,400
I've not thought about it.
I'm trying to teach a lesson.

1460
01:00:16,490 --> 01:00:19,110
I'll quickly give them an answer
and then I've set some expect

1461
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:21,690
expectation that I've then got
to undo because I've realised

1462
01:00:21,700 --> 01:00:23,400
you know three days later, ohh
what have I done?

1463
01:00:23,410 --> 01:00:25,800
What have I let this kid do this
thing, this is really annoying.

1464
01:00:25,810 --> 01:00:29,140
Now I completely I just think
what do you do kids want to go

1465
01:00:29,150 --> 01:00:30,510
to the toilet.
What's the procedure in your

1466
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:32,790
classroom?
And be consistent.

1467
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:34,140
But it comes in with that,
doesn't it?

1468
01:00:34,150 --> 01:00:36,840
Being consistent as well,
because especially things like

1469
01:00:36,850 --> 01:00:39,890
toilets and things like drinks.
You know, you don't seem unfair

1470
01:00:39,900 --> 01:00:42,050
at all, but it might be in the
moment, because you've not set

1471
01:00:42,060 --> 01:00:44,730
that precedent and set that
class rule right, that you set

1472
01:00:44,740 --> 01:00:47,430
in your class, which is a rule
because you've not done that

1473
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,580
really clearly.
Then suddenly, you know, on the

1474
01:00:50,590 --> 01:00:51,990
spot you might make up a
different role.

1475
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:52,830
Ohh.
After you've done three

1476
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,280
questions and then half an hour
later, yeah, because you're not

1477
01:00:55,290 --> 01:00:57,190
as stressed half an hour later
you might go, yeah, of course

1478
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:58,690
you can.
And that kids obviously sat

1479
01:00:58,700 --> 01:01:00,150
there going, but I just, I
couldn't.

1480
01:01:00,210 --> 01:01:02,150
I'm just thirsty.
I just want to drink, please.

1481
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:03,760
Actually, three questions.
What's that about?

1482
01:01:03,810 --> 01:01:05,240
Sometimes these things can
change as well.

1483
01:01:05,250 --> 01:01:08,300
I don't, Again, don't be hard on
yourself when in two months time

1484
01:01:08,310 --> 01:01:10,320
you want to change it.
Like, I know one thing I did

1485
01:01:10,330 --> 01:01:13,590
before, I was trying to be I was
trying to get rid of all those

1486
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:15,180
really annoying things.
I was trying to make everything

1487
01:01:15,190 --> 01:01:17,790
seamless so that when I'm
teaching, there's like minimal

1488
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:20,510
disruptions and kids can just be
autonomous and do things

1489
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:24,090
themselves.
So I put all of my, like, years

1490
01:01:24,100 --> 01:01:28,980
worth of glue sticks in a tray.
It's such a fatal error.

1491
01:01:28,990 --> 01:01:31,540
I think people will be if you've
been teaching, you'll be shaking

1492
01:01:31,550 --> 01:01:32,850
your head.
They're already shaking their

1493
01:01:32,860 --> 01:01:33,970
head early.
When you say you don't class

1494
01:01:33,980 --> 01:01:36,480
rules, they're still shaking and
then told them to do class

1495
01:01:36,490 --> 01:01:39,200
rules.
But as you can imagine, what

1496
01:01:39,210 --> 01:01:42,520
happened was the glues went
faster than ever.

1497
01:01:42,530 --> 01:01:44,990
They disappeared.
There's so many Blues got

1498
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,420
wasted, lost lids.
Rather than a child looking

1499
01:01:47,430 --> 01:01:50,740
after the glue sticks, which are
precious in any school, it was

1500
01:01:50,750 --> 01:01:52,900
just anyone out of the tray.
Whatever didn't respect, they

1501
01:01:52,910 --> 01:01:54,520
didn't respect the equipment in
that way.

1502
01:01:54,530 --> 01:01:57,830
So that's me thinking I'm being,
you know, just like Autonomous

1503
01:01:57,840 --> 01:01:59,980
now, Seamless.
It actually backfired massively

1504
01:01:59,990 --> 01:02:02,440
and I never did it again.
So don't be afraid to try

1505
01:02:02,450 --> 01:02:03,940
things.
But also you might want to

1506
01:02:03,950 --> 01:02:05,650
change it after a while if it
doesn't quite work for your.

1507
01:02:05,660 --> 01:02:07,510
Class, you might want to put
like a rule up on the board that

1508
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:09,340
says respect equipment in the
classroom.

1509
01:02:09,510 --> 01:02:13,410
That might help.
Don't put Blues in the bin just

1510
01:02:13,420 --> 01:02:14,520
because you've.
Lost the lid?

1511
01:02:14,590 --> 01:02:17,540
Don't not look after your clues,
just just double negatives

1512
01:02:17,550 --> 01:02:21,020
everyone.
Do you get like, this unique

1513
01:02:21,030 --> 01:02:23,720
feeling in your chest now when
you see a glue that's like

1514
01:02:23,730 --> 01:02:26,990
rolled up, it's maybe 3/4 full
and it's completely hard whether

1515
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,130
it's being left off overnight
and you're like, ohh my.

1516
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:31,940
God, you know, the number one
thing is they just don't screw

1517
01:02:31,950 --> 01:02:33,910
them down.
Even if they put the lid on,

1518
01:02:33,980 --> 01:02:36,560
it's like, click, click, yeah,
get the glue up like an inch

1519
01:02:36,570 --> 01:02:38,160
above.
And it's like this perfect

1520
01:02:38,170 --> 01:02:40,440
nectar of the gods there ready
to stick in the sheets.

1521
01:02:40,690 --> 01:02:43,350
And they they stick it in and
they're like, I'm OK, even they

1522
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:45,960
don't put the lid on or they
just squish it on and you're

1523
01:02:45,970 --> 01:02:48,750
like, Oh my God, no, that's.
Even worse, that's good glue.

1524
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:52,300
I'd rather you not really done.
Let's keep talking Blues from

1525
01:02:52,310 --> 01:02:54,290
here, because I think we can
relate to a lot of people.

1526
01:02:54,930 --> 01:02:59,340
What about when they've glued
something like glitter or

1527
01:02:59,350 --> 01:03:01,410
something?
It's like really messy and it

1528
01:03:01,420 --> 01:03:04,730
goes then all over the glue
stick itself and the next kid

1529
01:03:04,740 --> 01:03:07,520
goes to use it and it's like
pink and glitter all over it and

1530
01:03:07,530 --> 01:03:09,460
they're like, oh, I don't want
to use that one, so they Chuck

1531
01:03:09,470 --> 01:03:10,450
it away.
Easy win here.

1532
01:03:10,460 --> 01:03:12,330
Don't use glitter.
I think a lot of classrooms

1533
01:03:12,340 --> 01:03:13,880
don't now cause it's not very
eco friendly.

1534
01:03:13,890 --> 01:03:15,690
Yeah, don't use glitter, yeah
just don't do it.

1535
01:03:15,700 --> 01:03:16,880
I know glitter is nice.
It's a nice.

1536
01:03:16,890 --> 01:03:19,410
It's not necessary.
Don't do it doesn't Hoover up.

1537
01:03:19,420 --> 01:03:21,290
Honestly, trying to Hoover up 20
Watt carpets you got.

1538
01:03:21,300 --> 01:03:22,810
It's also a nightmare,
literally.

1539
01:03:22,860 --> 01:03:25,860
Right, Quick, quick win.
I'm still going.

1540
01:03:25,870 --> 01:03:28,260
I'm still going.
OK, quick, quick win with glue.

1541
01:03:30,190 --> 01:03:32,230
Yeah, it was quite blue 6.
Now I've not done that before.

1542
01:03:32,670 --> 01:03:34,970
Very tempted.
Just a temporary fix for a glue

1543
01:03:34,980 --> 01:03:36,720
that's not a light.
Not gonna lie around.

1544
01:03:36,810 --> 01:03:39,040
Just screw it right down, turn
it upside down, leave it on the

1545
01:03:39,050 --> 01:03:40,880
table.
It's just it's just as fine as a

1546
01:03:40,890 --> 01:03:42,040
lid.
Until you can get yourself a

1547
01:03:42,050 --> 01:03:43,210
lid.
You don't need to be like, oh,

1548
01:03:43,220 --> 01:03:45,080
there's no lids around.
Just gotta check it tomorrow.

1549
01:03:45,090 --> 01:03:46,600
So hard.
I always do that.

1550
01:03:46,610 --> 01:03:48,320
The amount of glue sticks will
just be upside down on my.

1551
01:03:48,330 --> 01:03:51,180
Side So much for clean desk.
Clean mind for you.

1552
01:03:51,190 --> 01:03:52,740
You've got glue stick for a
forest.

1553
01:03:54,450 --> 01:03:57,000
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Until we find.

1554
01:03:57,010 --> 01:03:58,940
That's a good thing, though I've
never thought to do that.

1555
01:03:59,770 --> 01:04:01,620
And anyway, we died from going
hard.

1556
01:04:01,670 --> 01:04:03,120
Yeah, it does.
It does indeed.

1557
01:04:03,130 --> 01:04:07,020
So new tip, make a glue glue
forest on your desk if you've

1558
01:04:07,030 --> 01:04:09,670
not got any glues.
Absolutely perfect, Hayden.

1559
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,100
I enjoyed that.
I think it was really nice to

1560
01:04:13,110 --> 01:04:14,590
get lots of ideas from people
and threads.

1561
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:16,270
A lot of them overlapped.
I think we're all on the same

1562
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:18,810
page, you know, teachers know
what to do with their kids, They

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01:04:18,820 --> 01:04:21,690
know what's important.
So I'm really looking forward to

1564
01:04:21,700 --> 01:04:24,450
going back and I'm hoping to act
on our own tips.

1565
01:04:24,460 --> 01:04:26,340
How many out of the six you're
gonna go for?

1566
01:04:26,350 --> 01:04:30,640
I think 2 probably because I go
there and I was like, I don't

1567
01:04:30,650 --> 01:04:33,130
really do any of these things.
Before I really should really

1568
01:04:33,140 --> 01:04:36,160
given these tips from like three
years ago, me and I'm like, ohh,

1569
01:04:36,170 --> 01:04:38,180
I kind of slipped out of these
habits I need to.

1570
01:04:38,190 --> 01:04:40,870
Do I tell you what the number
one thing from other people when

1571
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:43,430
I asked them that really stuck
with me because I know routines

1572
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:46,970
are important and people say of
course it is, but it really was

1573
01:04:46,980 --> 01:04:48,630
the tidy classroom thing I'm
going to.

1574
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:50,260
That is one thing I'm going to
say right now to everyone.

1575
01:04:50,270 --> 01:04:52,370
I'm going to really try and
stick to that this year and that

1576
01:04:52,380 --> 01:04:55,760
is you.
You simply have to keep this

1577
01:04:55,770 --> 01:04:58,130
classroom tidy all the time
because I'm going to try and do

1578
01:04:58,140 --> 01:04:59,370
it as well.
I'm not the tidiest.

1579
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:00,780
Person on my desk.
I'm not going to lie.

1580
01:05:00,790 --> 01:05:05,210
So yeah, I've got 17 glasses.
I've actually got one, which is

1581
01:05:05,220 --> 01:05:06,900
the one I've been drinking from.
You must be quite proud.

1582
01:05:06,910 --> 01:05:12,060
Wow.
And of course, my hat, The hat,

1583
01:05:12,150 --> 01:05:14,220
you know, it's starting to slip
below what you know it's

1584
01:05:14,230 --> 01:05:15,020
starting to slip.
I'm gonna.

1585
01:05:15,030 --> 01:05:16,590
I'm gonna embarrass you.
Live on the podcast where we

1586
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:20,390
live.
Your car, I'm telling you off,

1587
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:21,850
your car starting to slip.
It's getting messy.

1588
01:05:21,860 --> 01:05:23,670
Again, my car.
It's got nothing in it right

1589
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:25,350
now.
Umm, is it?

1590
01:05:25,430 --> 01:05:27,830
Has it though?
It used to be bad, but I tell

1591
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:30,530
you now, and I'm gonna have to
put on Instagram now to prove to

1592
01:05:30,540 --> 01:05:32,820
the people because my car is
obviously not in my office, all

1593
01:05:32,830 --> 01:05:34,440
right?
It's not Hayden.

1594
01:05:34,940 --> 01:05:36,220
Come on.
OK, all right.

1595
01:05:36,230 --> 01:05:37,630
It's too far.
The last few times I've in the

1596
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:39,090
back it's been right.
But when I'm in the front.

1597
01:05:40,370 --> 01:05:43,130
Yeah, it says.
There's glasses on the floor.

1598
01:05:43,140 --> 01:05:46,170
There's.
Yeah, a little half empty bottle

1599
01:05:46,180 --> 01:05:48,440
of Coke.
Yeah, you know, you know the

1600
01:05:48,450 --> 01:05:49,560
saying.
You know the saying.

1601
01:05:49,630 --> 01:05:51,820
Clean car, clean mind.
You know, you know the saying.

1602
01:05:51,830 --> 01:05:54,080
You know you know.
Saying eat the Nissan Qashqai is

1603
01:05:54,090 --> 01:05:57,400
simple and catch.
The right Let's stop here.

1604
01:05:57,410 --> 01:05:58,400
We've done enough.
Now guys.

1605
01:05:58,410 --> 01:06:00,580
Hopefully you found this really
useful and if you're not a

1606
01:06:00,590 --> 01:06:02,910
teacher, hopefully you put up a
bit long enough to enjoy it.

1607
01:06:02,990 --> 01:06:04,720
You like the banter and stuff
very quickly.

1608
01:06:04,730 --> 01:06:09,560
Before we go, had a message from
Instagram because we said last

1609
01:06:09,570 --> 01:06:12,630
week we talked about all of the
different countries that we are

1610
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:14,230
currently streaming in Hayden.
Remember how many?

1611
01:06:15,540 --> 01:06:17,350
I don't, but it was like 30.
Odd.

1612
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:21,210
It was 33, and this week we're
up to 3636.

1613
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:23,710
It basically means that this
podcast countries have

1614
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:25,930
listeners.
Yeah, what?

1615
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,260
36?
And we mentioned Zambia and

1616
01:06:28,270 --> 01:06:30,990
we're like, that's so Zambia.
Zambia is up there.

1617
01:06:31,060 --> 01:06:33,790
And we got a message this week
from someone who teaches in

1618
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:35,770
Zambia because I don't know
about you, I just think to

1619
01:06:35,780 --> 01:06:37,530
myself, that's cool, you know,
we're not going to reach that

1620
01:06:37,540 --> 01:06:39,620
far.
But this this person messaged

1621
01:06:39,630 --> 01:06:41,570
us, sending a shout out to you
both from Zambia.

1622
01:06:41,580 --> 01:06:43,690
Thank you for the great podcast.
I really look forward to each

1623
01:06:43,700 --> 01:06:45,510
week the topic and guests have
been super.

1624
01:06:45,550 --> 01:06:46,980
I teach in an International
School.

1625
01:06:47,050 --> 01:06:49,770
Misaka, where we followed the
British national curriculum and

1626
01:06:49,780 --> 01:06:52,250
I forgot, of course,
international schools are a

1627
01:06:52,260 --> 01:06:53,610
thing and they just follow our
curriculum.

1628
01:06:53,620 --> 01:06:56,150
Yeah, they're all over the
globe, so maybe that's how

1629
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:57,650
different that is.
Yeah, as well.

1630
01:06:57,660 --> 01:06:59,890
Like, I wonder how different is
gonna be differences, even

1631
01:06:59,900 --> 01:07:02,070
though it's the same curriculum.
That'd be a cool thing to talk

1632
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:03,510
about in the.
Future.

1633
01:07:03,820 --> 01:07:07,350
Maybe we get a international
guest on, shall we?

1634
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:11,210
Mr Worldwide Pitbull is very
jealous right now, Mr Worldwide.

1635
01:07:12,750 --> 01:07:16,920
Anyway guys, get in touch and
this is my last If you've made

1636
01:07:16,930 --> 01:07:19,120
it this far and you haven't
given us a 5 star review where

1637
01:07:19,130 --> 01:07:21,300
you get your podcast, please do
because you've made it this far.

1638
01:07:21,310 --> 01:07:23,620
We must be alright, mustn't we?
Don't really have a sponsor or

1639
01:07:23,630 --> 01:07:26,760
anything so we're going to beg
you because it really helps us.

1640
01:07:26,770 --> 01:07:28,160
Hey then, did you enjoy this
lesson?

1641
01:07:28,230 --> 01:07:30,290
This lesson?
I'm already back in teacher

1642
01:07:30,300 --> 01:07:31,580
mode.
Did you enjoy this lesson?

1643
01:07:32,310 --> 01:07:34,330
I love this lesson.
It was really nice sharing our

1644
01:07:34,340 --> 01:07:37,330
tips and making me think about
the stuff I can start doing next

1645
01:07:37,340 --> 01:07:38,460
week when I get ready for
school.

1646
01:07:38,470 --> 01:07:39,950
Guys, catch you next time.
Bye.