Ep 85: How To Survive The Christmas Term (8 Top Tips)

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Hello teaching profession
embodied into one person I'm

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Ofsted also conveniently
embodied into one person I.

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Really, Ofsted, I'm so good.
In fact, I'm actually, for once,

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kind of happy to see.
You.

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Well, what can I say?
We have got rid of those world

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word judgments.
Have me those teachers.

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Yep Yep Yep Yep for years and
years.

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Oh my judge was a toxic.
Finally we got rid of them.

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So happy now.
You know, I'm not sure it's

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quite like that, but it has
taken us a long, long, long,

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long time to get rid of those
completely pointless and really,

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really silly one word judgments.
I'm glad that they're gone from

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this system.
One word judgments are stupid.

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We all agree.
So thank you for doing that

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often.
We are gonna start judging

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schools and absence levels
though.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you are.
You are funny.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Why are you laughing?

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Yeah, I'm laughing.
Why are you laughing?

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Sense of humour, isn't it?
Yeah, you've developed one.

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Finally.
I'm being deadly serious.

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Though one word judgement.
It's funny, but.

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No, we are going to do that
though, because I do think

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absence crisis, big buzzword.
All the newspapers say all big

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absence crisis.
So, you know, as the people who

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are in charge, we are in charge
of you.

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Remember who's in charge?
It's me.

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OK.
We decided to get rid of 1

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judge, so that was our choice.
Not you.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah.

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So we've decided equally to
bring in judgements for schools

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for absence levels because
there's too many absent children

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and whose fault is it if not the
schools?

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Well, the kids don't live at
school with us, the teachers.

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Precisely, we want them to.
We don't get them to school,

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funnily enough.
Actually, if you really think

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about it for a second, it's
quite complex, but the parents

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and carers who look after the
children who take them to school

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are not the teachers at the.
School.

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No, no, no, no.
And which is why I think it's

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fair enough to blame the.
Teachers.

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Restaurant teachers.
Yeah.

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Yeah, it's teach fault.
That makes no sense.

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No, no I don't.
Think it makes perfect sense if

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you actually think about it for
a minute, but don't worry, it's

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part of a wider range of
initiatives from the government

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across the board, not just
education.

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So in the food sector and
agriculture, we're actually

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going to start blaming the shops
because the amount of food waste

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that families at home put into
the landfill, that's definitely

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the shop's fault because why
would the shop sell the food in

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the 1st place not knowing that
the people would choose to not

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eat that food.
So it's definitely Tesco's

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fault.
So we're going to start moaning

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at Tesco.
Furthermore, we're going to go

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after the gyms because you know
what, what screams it's the

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gym's fault more than someone
signing up to the gym and then

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choosing not to go themselves.
I think that is absolutely down

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to the gym.
It's down to the supermarkets

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and down to the schools.
And it's time someone started

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holding these people accountable
for things that they've got

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nothing to do.
I mean the things that they are

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absolutely, definitely to do
with.

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Have you lost your mind?
I think I have.

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Have you?
Yeah.

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But we'll see you next week
anyway.

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We're in for an inspection.
See ya.

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Hello everyone, and welcome back
to another episode of Teach

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Sleep Repeat.
My name is Dylan.

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And my name is Hayden.
Did a skit this week.

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It was.
A bit silly, wasn't it?

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A bit silly, but it was also
grounded in absolutely

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ridiculous news.
Yeah, that came out.

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Sorry to bring the tone down
immediately, but how insane does

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an organisation have to be when
you spent on it?

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This sums up education.
Spend years and years and

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literal years saying how insane
something they do is, which is

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the one where judgments for them
to just turn around and say that

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they're going to start judging
schools and absence now.

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Yeah, is I We actually can't
fathom it.

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And almost all the goodwill that
I was willing to give them is

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already just.
Gone.

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They've got ODD.
What do you mean?

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Oppositional defiance disorder.
You know when you, you know when

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you know when someone tells you
to do, You know when someone

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tells you to do something,
you're not doing it now in case

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you think it's in case you think
I did it because of you.

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They're like, if we get rid of
all my judgments, they'll start

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thinking we're listening.
So I tell you what, we're going

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to bloody give them another one,
you know?

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What we can do, though, just to
tick a box, let's do a massive

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survey and call it not just the
listen.

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Let's call it the big listen.
We are not just listening, we

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are big listening.
We're all also big ignoring SO.

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Yeah, and we're big inventing
new things that you'll hate.

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It's.
Insane.

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Yeah.
Who did they talk to when they

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came up with?
It obviously no one.

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I don't get it.
Who's in these buildings?

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Yeah, Listen, put, teach, sleep,
repeat on every now and then.

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Might knock some sense into you.
Old Rishi used to listen.

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I mean, he ignored us, but he
was there listening.

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I've got a feeling Rach Reeves,
old Rach, might be listening.

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I don't know the budget.
Did you see a bunch of that?

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Budget.
I did, yeah.

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Yeah, there was obviously the
main bulk of it was just saying

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how awful the last 14 years have
been and you know what, a little

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bit of me absolutely loved it.
The.

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Black hole The black hole the
Tories have left.

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You know what's hilarious about
the black hole?

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Because obviously in the media
and stuff and the Tories

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obviously saying that's
ridiculous, we didn't leave a

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black hole.
The OBR, who are like the

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independent body for like budget
responsibility in this country,

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have published a document saying
no, no, you absolutely didn't

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tell us that all of these, this
amount of money was missing line

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by line.
And Rachel Reeves just said,

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yeah, I'm going to publish it
line by line where all this 22

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billion was that you said was
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The OBR have evidence that the
Tories literally left there and

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then called an election.
Do you remember when we were

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like, why is he called an
election now?

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That's why because they were to
cover and settle all the

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strikes, have that massive black
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And I just thought to myself,
Jeremy Hunt, who was the

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chancellor beforehand, came out
and said basically the OBR are

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biassed.
They're biassed.

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They're politicising the OBR.
And I'm just like, we live in a

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point in society now in in
culture in general where no one

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can do anything wrong because
they'll just say that they're

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biassed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It's just immediate.
It's like this independent body

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has said that you did something
horrendously wrong.

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Yeah, yeah.
And it's OK because you can just

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say I don't believe him.
The irony of everyone reading

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that in in the newspapers that
are owned by them.

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Yeah, it's all biassed.
It's all by everyone.

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Consume this media about how
look how biassed.

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The subjective thing is biassed.
The Daily Mail told me so.

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Honestly is we live in a fast.
Honestly, it's just a joke.

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It's a joke.
But I thought it was, I honestly

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thought in general, the budget
was quite sensible.

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And the bit that to do of
education that I am joking about

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the fact who's listening to us
because last week we talked a

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lot about SEND provision and how
it's broken.

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I don't think it goes nearly far
enough to actually fix the

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crisis.
But it's over a billion pounds

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been invested in specifically
into Sen and it's a massive

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real, real terms increase in
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I think it's almost 20%.
You know, it's a step in the

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right direction.
You can't, you can't immediately

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fix what's happened for 14
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I think I've said this a lot.
We said it last week.

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Yeah, I don't feel I, I honestly
feel like we're past the point

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of no return, but I feel like
it's nice at least to see a

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movement in a direction.
And if that means that

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inheritance tax increases a bit
and private schools get more of

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that added onto them and funding
for schools in the NHS

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increases, that's a movement
that I agree with.

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And it's not going to be
everyone's cup of tea, of course

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not.
But the move, the general move

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of this budget, I'm just like, I
agree with that.

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Actually, unless we can just
magic more money exactly it does

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there has to be movement like
you haven't you described it

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quite nicely and it's like well,
of course, of course someone

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someone in that movement is not
getting the benefit of it.

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Sure right.
I understand that yeah.

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But yeah, I agree it like it
it's got it's got to do

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something we've got to can't
just keep doing what we're.

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Doing You've got a choice,
right, Of austerity or borrow

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more and tax more.
Yeah, OK.

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Well, no one wants austerity, so
they're borrowing more and

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taxing more, but they also don't
want that.

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It's like, OK, do you want
public services to function

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remotely?
Because that money has to come

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from either borrowing or taxing
or cuts from other services.

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Didn't didn't Reeve say in her
in the budget?

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She's like, yeah, don't really
want to do this budget and I

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don't hope to hope to not
repeat.

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This, yeah, because it's because
she's.

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So they've said they are
increasing their tax income by

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huge amount, £40 billion.
That's a huge raise in tax,

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right?
Over half of that is coming from

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employers.
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So the big move was on National
Insurance for employers, not

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people who are actually employed
to work.

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That money will come somewhere
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If you're a business and you
have to pay more insurance,

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National Insurance, you're going
to either up your prices or, you

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know, cut some of your staff and
stuff.

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So let's not pretend it's not
going to have an impact on

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people.
Of course it will, of course.

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But I think you've got to get
the money from somewhere.

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And if you're just going to
blindly froth at the mouth and

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get annoyed, you actually need
to check yourself a little bit

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because you're either saying I'm
OK with with services as as they

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are, or I do want taxes but not
me, but not me, not me.

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I'm not very well off.
If you're benefiting from

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inheritance tax, whether you
feel it or not, you are very

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well off.
You are very well off.

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Because a lot of people are not.
Yeah, only four or 5% of estates

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that are inherited are affected
by inheritance tax.

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There's a threshold of over like
375, I think it's up to half a

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million or something.
If you getting your house from

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your partner or from your mom or
dad, that's a huge amount of

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money.
And when you bought your house

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in the 1970s for 20,000 lbs and
a packet of buttons and you're

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now selling it for 1.5 million.
OK, don't turn around and tell

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me you worked hard for that
money.

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They didn't.
They didn't.

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And house for 50.
Years.

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Sorry.
We're speaking to the people

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that are inheriting it as well.
Yeah.

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You didn't even buy the thing.
I'm sorry.

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Like, I get it.
And you know if we've got to

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look after our family, I get it.
Like, I'm not gonna pretend like

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we're just soulless creatures.
Yeah, yeah, but come on.

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There's got a bit of line of.
Reality some your money.

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Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
I just, I, I look at it very

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much black and white.
Like you didn't work for your

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house to increase 15 fold.
No, you didn't work for that.

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So we're going to tax stuff.
Let's tax the stuff that's not

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work.
Let's tax capital gains.

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Let's tax inheritance tax.
Brilliant.

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And try not to hit workers as
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That's a good move to me.
Yeah.

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And in all of this was more
money for schools.

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Good.
Yeah.

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And in NHS, right, public
services in general.

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No, it was, it was OK.
I, I, I did.

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I had a feeling of dread going
into like the budget just

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because of the last few years.
I was just thinking, Oh my God,

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are we gonna have another list
of trust?

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Is she gonna are we gonna
cripple the economy in in 8

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minutes?
Yeah, if it was as radical as

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trust but the other way, yeah,
it would have been really

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disheartening and like
discredited Labour immediately.

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But it was actually, in my
opinion, quite a sensible

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budget.
I think if you're moaning a lot

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about it, I just want to know
what you'd have done instead.

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Yeah, because I just think
there's not much more they could

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have done.
I really don't think so.

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Maybe I used?
The term of me the other day,

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and I've never heard it before
that in my backyard.

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Not in my backyard.
Oh, and NIMBY.

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Because NIMBY, because I feel
like there's a bit of a bit of

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that attitude.
I think when when it's like,

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well, I think we do need the I
do.

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I think we do need more money
for the country.

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Yeah.
But not if it remotely effects

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my way of living.
Even though, even though I'm

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well off and yeah, I don't know,
I just feel like I do.

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I hear that a lot from people
where that where it's like,

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well, yeah, wait, wait.
I say to them what you said be

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like, OK, what?
What would you have done then?

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Genuinely, yeah.
Well, that's what I mean.

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I say, you know, get people who
don't work ever, get rid of

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their benefits, right?
So they'll die.

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Are you insane And do you know
how much those benefits are?

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It's tiny compared to your
£1,000,000 estate you're getting

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for nothing.
Yeah, yeah.

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Bit of clarity please my.
Favourite.

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My favourite one stop the boats.
OK, go on then.

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Do you think we're not trying to
stop the boats?

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I didn't even think that when
Rishi said we're going to stop

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the boats.
Yeah.

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The the biggest thing I was
talking to him about stopping

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the boats was like, you can't
say that because it's really

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hard to do.
Yeah, it's not that.

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If it was just as simple as
going we're going to stop the

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boats, they would be stopped
already.

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Just do a trump.
There is.

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Build a wall and across the sea.
Say you're going to build a

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wall.
You don't actually do it.

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Not do it.
I just think, you know, anyway,

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I was, I, I listened to the
budget and I thought it's pretty

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good.
It's a step in the right

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direction in my opinion.
Let's see how it works out.

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Let's see what the future
budget's like.

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That's what someone else said.
She, she mentioned about like

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freezing the tax thresholds.
She was going to freeze the tax

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thresholds past 2028.
And what that would basically

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mean is as your pay goes up with
inflation, you get drawn into a

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higher tax bracket.
So you end up paying more taxes.

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Everyone pays a bit more tax by.
Default, so they were going to

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they were going to freeze that
for even further, but they

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didn't.
So that was like a a positive.

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It was weird that a positive was
I'm not doing a negative thing

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and that's a positive now
because everyone thought I would

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do a negative, negative thing.
But someone said yeah, but also

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she's got like 8 more budgets to
come in this parliament.

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So the point was OK, but she
might freeze it in two years.

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She might have been thinking,
let's spread out because there's

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a lot of negative stuff, let's
not do this one yet.

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We'll be all right for.
Another Yeah, yeah, I don't

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think we'll see.
But in general, I was like, do

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you know what?
It was all right.

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Anyway, very quickly then it's
been half time and you can tell

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it's been half time because we
spent a lot of time talking

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about the budget rather than
what, you know, been up in the

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school because we haven't been
in school.

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We had time to record a skit.
Exactly.

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You can tell it's half time.
That skit took 2 seconds.

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Yeah.
Should.

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We pretend to be offset as a
teacher and talk about

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absolutely all right.
Don't specifically said I don't

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want to.
I don't want to plan it.

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Let's just go.
Just record it.

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I was like, all right, let's do
it.

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Has your half time been then
yeah, it's.

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I've really tried to have some
time for sure, and it's been

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nice.
Yeah.

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I mean, literally, we have done
a few things.

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Pumpkin picking, yesterday,
pumpkin picking.

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Honestly, it sounds so stupid.
The same.

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We have our sickles and we are
slicing off these pumpkins.

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Someone made the point on
Instagram.

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We posted the picture and my
caption was would you like to

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come into my incredibly muddy
field and pay me to pick my

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vegetables and then pay for the
vegetables at the end?

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No, no, of course I wouldn't.
What if October and pumpkins?

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Oh, give me my hat.
Take my money.

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And then someone messaged saying
someone commented.

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I leave saying they don't even
grow there.

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They they are placed in that
field.

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Actually put on the.
Floor put on the floor for you

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to pay to enter to pick up and
put in a wheelbarrow and go and

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pay as.
Soon as we got there the first

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thing I saw was some like 5 year
old run out to a pumpkin and on

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his lead just boot it but
massive hole in it.

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I was like, okay.
I would be having that.

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I don't think that's picking a
pumpkin, good Sir.

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But yeah, have you done much
work then?

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Do you know what I not much I
have I have done some work and

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I've got quite a lot left to do
and it is just annoying me.

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I'm going to be honest with you.
I just hate the fact that I

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can't even have one week where I
can just genuinely switch off.

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Like you, there's always I
basically made a list of four

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things with my job share.
I messaged every day.

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I was I'm sorry to talk work,
but we've got these four massive

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jobs that we need to get done
between us.

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How do you want to do it sort of
thing?

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And got that pumpkin picking.
We've got to go, pumpkin pick.

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Gotta play snooker at least
once.

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Gotta.
Kick a hole in a pumpkin.

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What's on your list?
Then what is?

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The 4th I'm trying you for is
what?

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You've got to do in half.
Is what I've got to do half

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term.
So we've got a bunch of writing

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to Mark.
Sure that I'm.

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I'm not I'm trying to try not to
rant about that.

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But you know how much I hate,
right?

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Yeah.
That's gonna take like four or

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five hours because it's top set
year 6 English class first or

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two kids.
Yeah, it takes a long time to

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mark their writing to properly
mark, properly mark it because

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every, you know, every few weeks
we do a proper big piece of

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writing, one of them.
So that's, that's a big job.

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Then we've got parents even
coming up and we exchange

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comments with our teachers
because we we don't have, I'm

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sure schools do it very
differently, like in, in all,

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you know, all different ways.
But in our particular school, we

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have sets for maths and English
and then we but we only talk to

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our class.
So parents will come in and I

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don't teach them for maths or
English.

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I can't really talk to them.
So we have to exchange notes to

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each other.
Sure.

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Well, that's OK.
So we need to get some notes

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written up for our maths class.
We've got top set maths and

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English.
So we've got the most kids ever.

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I've got to write these notes
for the other teachers.

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OK, let's get that done.
Then I was like, OK, it's our

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turn to we share English
planning.

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So, so we've got the first two
weeks.

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So we need to get the first two
weeks done.

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Do you want to do a week?
I'll do a week.

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So it's like, OK, let's get
let's get some English planning

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done.
And there's something else as

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well.
And you've got to do that in

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half time because it's the first
day back.

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I always get people have a great
time off.

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It's like, well, I do need to
teach maths and English on my

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first day back.
Yeah, Zoo. 9:00 on Monday I've

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got to teach maths, so I have to
have plan it's.

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Not like work where you just
turn up and do your work.

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Yeah, I've got to do my work
before work, yeah.

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Otherwise I can't do my work.
Yeah.

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Exactly.
And you've got to do your work

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after after work so that the
next day you can do work as

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well.
So my last one was doing

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assessments, end of term
assessments, because do you know

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what?
On the last day of term, it got

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to 5:45 and the school was
closing and I hadn't done them

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yet.
And I was like, for God's sake,

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I have to do this in half time.
You shouldn't have been doing

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Instagram.
Real with me?

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Yeah, literally you did come to
my room and do one.

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I was just trying to catch up
with marking.

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So anyway, I'm being boring now,
but there's big list of stuff to

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do.
I've done some of it and I've

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still got stuff to do, which is
kind of just ruining the last

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few days of this holiday.
What about you?

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I've managed to avoid work.
I've got stuff to to do.

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I know what I've got to do.
It's not too much, but it is

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something.
It's still work, you know, and I

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can get over that.
Yeah.

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Because, you know, I was talking
to you earlier about it.

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It we do get 13 weeks off in the
year, OK.

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And I know it's an intense job.
And I know we do way more.

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And I'm the first person you
listen, if you listen to this

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podcast more than 20 minutes,
you know, I'm the first person

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to defend teachers to the hilt.
But I do think some semblance of

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work during holidays is OK
because of the sheer amount of

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holidays we get.
That's just my opinion on it.

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Yeah, you've always said that to
be fair.

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Very consistent.
I've got about.

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I've probably got two to three
hours of work to do.

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I can accept that.
That's all right, that's OK,

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it's fine, and I still need to
do it.

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I've been putting it off and
that's my prerogative.

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Could I have stayed later,
probably in term time and got it

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done?
Maybe.

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But I stay late anyway, so just
have to do work sometimes.

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But the one thing I have
noticed, and as we record this

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is Halloween and after the
Jingle, we're going to play a

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little game, OK?
But it's, it's based around the

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fact that we have this year,
because of where Halloween lands

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in the middle of the hard term,
we have managed to avoid the

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behaviours that come with
teaching before and especially

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after Halloween because I don't
have anyone out there who's ever

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taught on the 1st of November.
And the kids are wired, they are

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overtired, they are smacked up
with sugar.

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They are, they are absolutely as
high as a kite for a kid as it

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can possibly be.
And teaching is just insane.

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Yeah, it really is, Absolutely.
Yeah, 100% is so noticeable that

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they've they've had four hours
sleep, bloodshot eyes and

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they've had sugar for breakfast
and they've got tonnes in their

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bag and they've all stuck it in
to give their mates went.

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Trick or treating last night,
Let's do the game now before the

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Jingle.
Then we'll finish off.

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We'll do the game.
But it's not even a game really.

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I'm going to list my top five
days where children's behaviour

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are insane.
OK, so I like the Halloween.

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Yeah, so you might be thinking
right now do can I think of days

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during the school year where I
just know that my children are

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going to be off the scale with
their behaviour?

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Yeah, So I'm going to go reverse
from 5 up to one.

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All right, get ready.
I'll just react #5 when there's

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a full moon.
What are you talking about?

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When there's a full, is this.
A seriousness where you're

451
00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:21,040
making up.
There's the thing.

452
00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:24,480
Listen.
When no, no, you're not having

453
00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:25,800
this.
Not straight away.

454
00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,280
My number 5 is when I dangle a
necklace over the head of the

455
00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,800
TA.
If it goes clockwise, the

456
00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,200
children's behaviour is going to
be mad that day.

457
00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:37,800
Come.
What are you talking about?

458
00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,760
A full moon.
Listen, we're not wolves.

459
00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:43,400
Halloween.
And when it's Halloween in a

460
00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,720
full moon, the kids turn into
werewolves and they eat all of

461
00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,800
the paper.
Let me talk, Let me talk, OK?

462
00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,480
Number one, I'm completely on
your side, right?

463
00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,160
For years and years with my
profession, when someone said

464
00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:55,760
it's a full moon, I scoff at
them.

465
00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,520
Howling up.
Yeah, it's a full moon, The kids

466
00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,680
aren't going to misbehave.
But I have witnessed it year

467
00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,000
after year.
The kids have been insane, their

468
00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,560
behaviour.
I was like, what is going on?

469
00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,080
And then someone says Super Moon
tonight.

470
00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,320
I can't.
I can't, I can't.

471
00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,040
I can't even pretend to be here.
Let us know guys, if you're on

472
00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:15,440
this thing right now, let me
know.

473
00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,440
Yes or no?
Is this a thing?

474
00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,080
Full moon Horrendous.
I have nothing to say, I just

475
00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,000
want to know what these guys.
Especially when your teachers,

476
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,880
Professor Lupin from Harry
Potter Full moon.

477
00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:28,720
Oh my, awful right?
I'm moving on #4.

478
00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,280
Half Moon, not quite as bad
watching.

479
00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,400
Give us room.
It's not great.

480
00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:41,280
Oh God. #4 the day before the
Christmas holidays, the last day

481
00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:43,480
of Term 2.
That's real, where it's the very

482
00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,720
last day that was.
The kids are just thinking about

483
00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,040
Christmas.
You're probably off.

484
00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,720
You're off timetable.
You're not doing what you used

485
00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,320
to be doing.
That's my number. 4 #3 is the

486
00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:56,040
morning after Halloween.
We've already spoken about that.

487
00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:58,520
Kids are just riled up.
They've not shooked up.

488
00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,040
Yeah, shooked up.
They've not slept.

489
00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,760
They're not ready for learning
#2 whenever it's been wet play

490
00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,480
and the children are stuck
inside, yeah.

491
00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,160
Yeah, it's and it compounds if
if it's break and lunch and then

492
00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,040
the next day as well.
You've got two days in a row.

493
00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:14,680
God, it is the absolute.
I'll tell you what and, and do

494
00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:16,560
you know what it might be #1
right.

495
00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,720
I'm not going to change it, but
this, this situation might

496
00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,400
actually be #1 where it has been
wet play at break time and

497
00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:24,640
lunchtime and in the afternoon.
You've got to try and teach 2

498
00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:25,040
lessons.
Oh.

499
00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:27,360
Impossible.
What a horrible combo.

500
00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:29,240
Impossible.
Yeah, wet play really does suck.

501
00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:31,800
It really, really sucks.
Yeah, they just, they do.

502
00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:35,000
You know what sums it up right?
If someone says to you as an

503
00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,120
adult, right, you've got a
break.

504
00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:39,160
Now I'm, I'm so excited.
I'll sit down.

505
00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:41,640
If you can't wait, I'll relax.
If you say to a kid, you've got

506
00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,680
a break, they Sprint to nowhere.
They just go out the door and

507
00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:45,920
they're sprinting in a
direction.

508
00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:48,000
They need that.
Is it the opposite then if I

509
00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,960
said to you, you've got a break,
you know, like, yeah, a break.

510
00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:51,960
And I said you've gotta go and
run around, gotta go run around

511
00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:53,440
in the outside.
That's not great Sprint.

512
00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:54,920
You'd be like no.
English is my break.

513
00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:57,280
We've got an inside.
We've got a breakdown half.

514
00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,440
But I need it, that's true.
They just need to let us some

515
00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,000
steam.
Like when kids want to stay in,

516
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,120
I quite often say to them, even
though I probably don't mind.

517
00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,320
If I go and sit and read I'm
like please just go and run

518
00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,120
around for like 3 minutes.
Honestly just go and run to the

519
00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:09,560
end of the playground back.
Genuinely just just go and do

520
00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:11,040
something.
Or even just go and sit on a

521
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:12,880
bench outside and read.
Yeah, get some fresh air.

522
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:14,920
Get away from.
Me, it's a thing and also I

523
00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,440
don't want to be in here.
So I need a break too.

524
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,680
I've told you to have healthy
snacks and I've got 3 cream eggs

525
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,160
in my bag.
I can't eat them if you're here,

526
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,760
can I?
I don't think that that's a

527
00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:27,360
healthy snack, Is it on Doritos?
Oh yeah, that's a healthy snack,

528
00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:29,320
kids.
Oh, so a snack drawer there full

529
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,000
of a caramel caramel bar?
A share bar that you've eaten

530
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,440
all night?
Not to say.

531
00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:36,080
Literally, I can't even argue
with it.

532
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,800
Right #1 Yep, the worst, worst
indicator for behaviour.

533
00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,880
Windy day.
Do you know what windy day?

534
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,080
You're going to laugh at that
one.

535
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,840
I wanted to I wanted to be like
another full moon.

536
00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,360
But I have also witnessed this
many, many, many, many times.

537
00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:52,840
What is it about wind?
Yes.

538
00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:54,080
Why?
I don't know.

539
00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:55,480
I don't know.
I don't know.

540
00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:57,440
I don't know.
I don't know.

541
00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:58,640
I still don't.
What?

542
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,000
Insight we give them this
podcast.

543
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,280
I don't know if anyone could
tell me.

544
00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:02,760
Why?
It's a strange phenomenon if

545
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:03,800
it's.
They don't even need to be

546
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:05,000
outside, they can just hear the
wind.

547
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:08,000
Yeah, maybe it reminds me of a
full moon.

548
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,120
It's like howling, isn't it?
I don't know, Maybe it's a

549
00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:11,520
compounded effect.
I don't know either.

550
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,520
But yeah, I agree, windy days is
the absolute worst.

551
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,320
Why?
Kids are just like off the rails

552
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:17,400
when it's windy.
It's insane.

553
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:18,640
That's my number one.
Yeah.

554
00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,320
If it's a windy day, honestly,
if I get, if I leave my house to

555
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,120
get to my car in the morning and
I'm remotely windswept, I'm

556
00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:27,960
like, God's sake.
Oh God, yeah, OK, I know it's.

557
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,080
That's really annoying.
Without hair, you don't know.

558
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:31,520
I can never tell when it's
windy.

559
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,440
Yeah, it's the only indicator on
your hairs.

560
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:33,840
When?
It's wet.

561
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,200
Yeah, Yeah.
Yeah, I love to look at the

562
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:36,120
people.
Yeah, that's funny.

563
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:37,840
You're not windy.
It's not like a bat, you know, a

564
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,960
bat's blind.
It's just like, it's little like

565
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,280
hairs.
It just it like gets sonar.

566
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,640
Is that how you hear as?
Well I have got sonar just.

567
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,000
The prickles on top of your
head, like if they remotely get

568
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,080
brushed you're like, Oh yeah,
northeasterly wind.

569
00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:51,160
It is a bit like that depending
on which part of my body.

570
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,200
Sure, Obviously I've got hairs
everywhere, you know, being such

571
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,920
an extremely hairy man.
Unlike you, you know, I just.

572
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:57,520
That's how I tell.
But yeah, windy days.

573
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,640
And it's a weird, very, very
strange problem.

574
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,360
I remember when someone first
told me about that and I

575
00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:03,160
honestly laughed at their face
like I did with you in the full

576
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:04,920
moon.
I genuinely was like, oh, that's

577
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,480
a really good joke.
And then I saw it again and

578
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,440
again and again and again.
I was like, OK, so any child

579
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,720
psychologist, obviously, lots of
you listen, child psychologist,

580
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,920
if you notice, get a lot of
dentists, Rishi and child

581
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:15,840
psychologist.
So if you're a child

582
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,680
psychologist and you know why
wind makes children behave like

583
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,040
buffoons?
Keep it to yourself.

584
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,080
Keep it to yourself.
Don't write in don't write in TT

585
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,600
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media platforms that we.

586
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,800
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Which are Instagram?

587
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,560
Go on.
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588
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,160
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589
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:33,360
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590
00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:34,920
Lots of messages lately.
Appreciate them.

591
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,720
And the others.
Let's play the Jingle.

592
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,720
Let's get actually, what is this
episode now Let's just.

593
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:40,800
Have a Jingle and find out,
shall we?

594
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,440
Christmas time is one of my
favourite times as a teacher.

595
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,400
I love it.
Do you?

596
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,480
No, you know, yes, I do.
Of course I love the.

597
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,600
What makes it good because we're
going to talk about how to

598
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,440
survive Christmas time because
it's it is a slog.

599
00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,880
Very often terms one and two.
Bit of clarification.

600
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,200
Some people still call the first
what we call 2 terms, one term.

601
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,200
So we're talking about the term
from September to the end of

602
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,240
October is term 1, and then you
return at the end of October or

603
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,360
the start of November until
Christmas is term 2.

604
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,440
We're talking specifically about
that term 2, and it can be quite

605
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,160
tough because you just had an
extremely long term one this

606
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,880
year, longer than ever.
Most people only get a week off.

607
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,640
Some get 2, might be more
recharged than others, but this

608
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,720
does feel like a slog.
But there's certain things I

609
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,440
feel in term 2 that really get
you through to Christmas because

610
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,720
it's such a nice term.
So what is it about this

611
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,320
Christmas term that makes it
such a good term?

612
00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:39,200
It's a busy term, I'll tell you
that, which is why we're going

613
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:40,560
to talk about surviving yet
soon.

614
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,040
But yeah, you're right, there's
loads of there's loads of unique

615
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:44,280
parts of the Christmas term that
are great.

616
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,920
First one comes to mind, the
Christmas party.

617
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,320
What school doesn't have a
Christmas party?

618
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:50,440
Do you remember your Christmas
party?

619
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,840
Do you know what I do?
And I remember considering my

620
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,320
memory absolutely dire.
Genuinely.

621
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,000
I do remember being sat in my
school hall on a big long table.

622
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,600
They got all the dinner, classic
dinner tables.

623
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,240
Every school has the same ones
all lined up in this big long

624
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,480
one with lovely, like stuff.
So lovely that just call it

625
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:08,160
stuff.
What's it called?

626
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,840
The stuff on the table?
All the stuff on the table is

627
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:10,880
nice.
You do like decorations.

628
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,120
Decorations.
What's the I can't think of

629
00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:14,880
words?
What's the the thing that Drake.

630
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:15,360
So Joe.
Joe.

631
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:16,560
It's tablecloth.
Yeah.

632
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,240
Wow.
Joe is great for podcasts.

633
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,880
When they can't think of words.
Yeah, I know it's probably the

634
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,320
only prerequisite.
Yeah, my, my.

635
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,120
The only thing better than that
is when you say your words

636
00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:27,240
consistently wrong make up.
Words.

637
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,000
At least I get words out.
Yeah, but no I.

638
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,240
Can't think of the word for a
cloth on the table.

639
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:32,840
Sorry.
Think it's a cloth?

640
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,280
Table you're liking my memory
doesn't work and without

641
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:36,920
remember that one that you can
remember that time.

642
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,200
Memory inception.
Well, I wish I could remember

643
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,000
that time you forgot that thing
and you didn't remember.

644
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,240
I remember.
That you did forget, but I don't

645
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,200
know what it was.
Anyway, do you remember anything

646
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:49,360
else to do with time to
Christmas?

647
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,200
Party as in more things or my
Christmas party we saw.

648
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:53,160
Everything.
Come on.

649
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,480
Let me look at my little list.
Days out, days out.

650
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:57,440
Can you go to the church?
Don't.

651
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:58,480
You can.
Sing some songs.

652
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,440
See, I'm not very religious.
In fact, I'm not really

653
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,120
religious.
Yeah, but I do really enjoy

654
00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:04,920
going to the church with the
children and them singing their

655
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:05,760
hymns.
It's just a nice.

656
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,960
I was gonna say break it down.
Why do you enjoy then if we

657
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:09,960
don't go to the church, do we
just sit there in silence and

658
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,320
pray or something?
We go and have a laugh, yeah.

659
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,640
Have a laugh.
We do the kids, the kids enjoy

660
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:16,760
it.
We do have a laugh.

661
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,360
Though I hope God, well, he's a
character do.

662
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,560
You know who this lad is?
He's Jesus.

663
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,440
That's what you're here for.
I don't know why I'm.

664
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,000
I don't know.
Is Jesus.

665
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,000
Everyone come, come on, Let's
sing a song for him.

666
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:32,960
Jesus from us.
Let's sing a song for him.

667
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,480
Come on, come on, Go on, stat.
Wait, teachers, we're gonna

668
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:37,640
embarrass you.
Stand up God.

669
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,480
But yeah, I like it.
There's a Carol service, often

670
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,120
goes on.
Sometimes it's in churches as

671
00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:43,680
well.
Yeah.

672
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,000
There's something about kids
singing Christmas hymns and

673
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,400
songs.
It doesn't matter that's

674
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:48,840
religious.
It's just bloody nice.

675
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,360
It's fun hearing it.
Good fun.

676
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,080
Love a good choir.
Anything else?

677
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,480
I think what comes to mind for
me, which is enjoyable, is those

678
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,600
chances where you can just get
rid of the curriculum and just

679
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,760
make something just, you know,
just classic.

680
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,080
Getting some card, getting some
glitter, getting someone, maybe

681
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:04,640
not Glitter these days gets
everywhere.

682
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,040
It's not good for the
environment, I agree.

683
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,200
But definitely still get glitter
out because that is what

684
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,520
happened.
Lots of stuff you make in

685
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,880
decorations.
The big one, again, I think

686
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,280
people listening who maybe
aren't in a school might be

687
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,000
shocked to hear that we still
put the hoops up.

688
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,920
It's a classic thing, the big
think about a big hula hoop.

689
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,840
We hang it up in the hall, one
per class, and we dangle

690
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,240
decorations coming off them.
And that's like an afternoon

691
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,120
that we spend just literally
doing that.

692
00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:30,800
Not.
That standard across schools or

693
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,760
are we just saying something
that only 1% of people are

694
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:33,920
getting?
No, because we haven't worked in

695
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,040
a couple of schools that do
that.

696
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,440
Definitely standard.
In our area, yeah.

697
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,680
Now whether there's like an A
divide?

698
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,840
Did you do it as a kid?
Yeah, I think I did.

699
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,160
Yeah, I seem to remember doing
it.

700
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,240
It seems to be a thing I think.
We did something similar.

701
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:46,560
I think we had a hoop, but we
made something.

702
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:47,920
Similar, you hang something in
the hall.

703
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,680
Yeah, you make per.
Class, you make something, it

704
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,320
gets hung up.
Christmas fair again, busy, like

705
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,320
a bit of a nightmare to organise
sometimes.

706
00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:58,000
But yeah, it's nice to get all
the parents, all the families,

707
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,920
all the teachers in.
I love those years where you

708
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,680
actually try and take the
Christmas fair really seriously.

709
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,080
We've done ones before where I'm
like, come on, kids like that.

710
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,200
Kids will put on a stall like
that kind of Christmas fair, not

711
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:08,360
just one way, like adults
running it.

712
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,120
And we'll be like, I want to get
a nice range of stalls.

713
00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:14,400
And really what all that ever
happens is it turns into to can

714
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,560
we have 7 chocolate fountains
and a bunch of marshmallows?

715
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,720
Can we just have things, really
sugary things we can eat and

716
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,200
every stall is just kids running
around buying marshmallows,

717
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,840
buying chocolate.
It's like, OK, this didn't work.

718
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,280
So you've got one kid who's been
serious and like I've made, I've

719
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,600
spent 7 hours at home making
these beautiful decorations for

720
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,880
your tree and everyone's just
running past because they want

721
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,120
the chocolate.
So Christmas fairs can be quite

722
00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:34,920
fun.
Turns into a Halloween sugar.

723
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,360
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you know what, It's always

724
00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:39,680
good when you do it a bit early
and you say once your parents

725
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,200
here you can go home.
Yeah, love that.

726
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,960
Off you go and you get that one
kid that says if my parent comes

727
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,280
and we go straight away, is that
OK?

728
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,840
Yes, it is.
Yeah, maybe.

729
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,600
See you later.
One of my favourite things I

730
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,760
just, I just, I love putting
music on in class.

731
00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:56,960
I used to do it a lot more as a
teacher in general.

732
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,360
Like I put a bit of music on,
but I don't know this.

733
00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:01,840
I'd make a kind of screws now.
Well, normally I just put on any

734
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,520
old music.
What any what pop music?

735
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,400
Class yeah, just bit of pop
music or.

736
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,800
Like what's that doing what not?
Yeah, to those of you earlier in

737
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:10,600
my career, I realised that it
wasn't very good, which is I

738
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,320
don't do it anymore because I
just get distracted.

739
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,000
But I just I put a music on,
whereas Christmas, it's

740
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,440
definitely a good excuse.
Nothing more than trying to do

741
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,320
an ancient Egyptian lesson.
I've got dual leaper in my.

742
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,680
That's real.
Yeah.

743
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,080
Who's that pharaoh?
Who's that pharaoh?

744
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,560
Or Bruno Mars?
Gosh, yeah.

745
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,280
Exactly why he's not doing it.
But when Christmas times it's

746
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,160
like, OK, we're making, we're
making things, we're making our

747
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,720
decorations.
Let's put on Mariah Carey on on

748
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,200
repeat.
I get a 10 hour loop of her.

749
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,160
But her song obsessed about
Eminem.

750
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,160
Not not a Christmas song.
Yeah, well, he's so obsessed

751
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,560
with me.
So can we can we listen to

752
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,440
Christmas song?
No, I'm listening to the

753
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,280
beatable team, Mariah Carey and
Eminem, and we're gonna listen

754
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,280
to it back-to-back.
Or let me listen to Eminem songs

755
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,360
as well.
No, I'm not safe for work.

756
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,040
Yeah, so music.
I just love getting a bit music

757
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,920
on Christmas spirit, you know?
It's nice.

758
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,320
It's nice and especially when
you double up with making cards

759
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,280
and stuff, you know, you don't
need to concentrate just making

760
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,640
a reindeer or something.
It's perfect.

761
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,520
Making cards.
That's another thing like

762
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,720
literally making cards that I
think that goes in with like

763
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,240
decorations in general.
Just I think that the theme is

764
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,320
this sounds awful, but more laid
back stuff, more fun stuff, more

765
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:15,640
laid back.
The kids are just enjoying

766
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,320
themselves.
They're getting excited and you

767
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,120
don't have to mark the cards at
the end.

768
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:20,520
Yeah, yeah, I agree.
That's good.

769
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,440
As a percentage, yeah.
What would you say is a standard

770
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,040
amount of your class that when
they write their card, do it the

771
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,600
wrong way around and it opens?
Oh, that is such a thing, isn't

772
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:31,320
it?
What percentage?

773
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,240
Because I think it's like 40%.
Oh.

774
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,520
No up in Year 6.
It's elite.

775
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,240
It's down to 39%.
Oh, 48, you know, probably like

776
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,880
10% when I worked in year 4.
I agree.

777
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,000
It was almost like it was
genuinely like they hadn't not

778
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,280
no one had thought about it,
right.

779
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,960
So and it was just a 5050
chance.

780
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,240
It's like, well, whatever.
What?

781
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,800
Yeah, Honestly, I don't care how
they do it.

782
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,640
I don't get it.
It's like he goes, I've got a

783
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,120
card for you to try and open it.
It's like, oh, it's the other

784
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,400
way.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

785
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,640
Oh, that is funny.
I make a card for your parents

786
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:01,840
and they make a card for you
instead.

787
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,560
And I'm like, oh, mate, you have
burned your parents hard here.

788
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,480
One card to me.
People who raised me and give me

789
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,880
all the money and all the.
Or the person who looks after my

790
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,120
attendance at school.
I'm gonna give it to you,

791
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,480
teacher.
Well done, Ofsted.

792
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,000
Yeah, do you know what?
I'm gonna be judged for my

793
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:15,920
attendance.
Give me the bloody.

794
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,960
Christmas card?
Yeah, I got you here.

795
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,600
And it can be kind of summarised
with I guess why Time 2 is

796
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,640
amazing for me.
And it always comes down to

797
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,120
this.
The kids are exciting.

798
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:26,520
Exactly.
The kids are happy.

799
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,520
If you walk for a school towards
the end of Time 2 especially, it

800
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,680
is genuinely like a magical
place because there's

801
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,520
decorations everywhere.
The kids are smiling, there's

802
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,040
stuff going on.
You might be going to the

803
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,480
church, someone's doing some
decorations.

804
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:39,880
You can hear some Christmas
music in the back.

805
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,320
Santa's walkthrough randomly got
Santa in the building randomly.

806
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,240
Sorry mate, it's.
Just it's just the deputy head

807
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,440
or something.
Yeah, literally.

808
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:47,080
And no one.
Knows.

809
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,640
Yeah, yeah, literally.
But I don't know, I just, I just

810
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,080
love it.
But I think being realistic and

811
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,840
the main bulk of this episode
then is it it because of how

812
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,960
busy it is, you can kind of get
carried away with all of that

813
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,800
and get rushed up on a high and
then when it comes to the end of

814
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:06,440
turn 2, boom, you are burnt out.
It is, and I think there's

815
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,040
things we can do to smash Term
Two, Yeah, to help with burnout

816
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,400
stuff, obviously, but just in
general, we've put together some

817
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,320
tips to make term two really
successful.

818
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,240
I'd like to start with my #1
tip.

819
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,520
If that's OK, how do I survive
term 2 at least?

820
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,120
Five term two.
Well, the first thing I want you

821
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,680
to do, get those hints about
what gifts you want from the

822
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,800
children in really early.
You're doing guided.

823
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,360
You're doing guided writing and
you have to think of something.

824
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,800
And then the teacher that
received some delicious

825
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:37,240
Maltesers and a lovely can of
Stella Artois, isn't that.

826
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,120
My I'd be I'd.
Feel so lucky as a teacher, but

827
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,400
I received more teasers than a
can of Stella Artois.

828
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,080
That would be bloody lovely.
Wouldn't it get anyway?

829
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,880
This whole list of just like a
selfish, selfish list, what else

830
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,440
can we do to ensure that we get
given things do?

831
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,360
You know what else the teacher
loves?

832
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,400
All inclusive holidays and
Maldives.

833
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,880
Isn't that lovely, kids?
I would.

834
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:03,200
Love that if I received that as
a gift and maybe maybe even a

835
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,320
collective gift.
Yeah, we collective gift for all

836
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,760
the parents, put the money in
together and get me something

837
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,760
nice and big.
You want back all back to your

838
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,440
desk.
Oh, sorry, I've tripped over.

839
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,280
Sorry children.
Here are all of my mugs that I

840
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,400
got last year.
Here are all of the mugs I got

841
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,680
last year.
I, I forgot that I brought them

842
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,760
all in, just become, because I
don't use them, horribly

843
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,720
selfish.
And we sound so awful right now.

844
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:28,760
Listen, if you can't joke.
Yeah, I know.

845
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,160
The amount of the amount of hate
people get for doing.

846
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,200
But it's a joke.
Yeah, it's a joke.

847
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,760
OK, I don't want to go to the
Maldives.

848
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,640
I just want to do I just.
Want to go to Madrid?

849
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:38,760
Yeah, fine.
And I do want some.

850
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,200
I do.
No, but it's a joke.

851
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,480
But what's what is genuinely
coming out of this, which is

852
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,920
actually funny in Term 2, The
amount of times that I have just

853
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,240
said stuff and they've picked up
on it.

854
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:49,320
Immediately.
That's nice though, yeah.

855
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,040
Well, I want I'd say this a
million times.

856
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,280
One time, I think I actually
wore these last year when it was

857
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,240
Christmas, I just told the kids
this story about me that to do

858
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,840
with a Gherkin.
OK, It was needs to be a bit

859
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,560
more clarification.
Maybe it's a, it's a guy came

860
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,080
from a guy came from a
McDonald's cheeseburger that I

861
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:06,560
didn't want.
Someone put it on my helmet.

862
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,400
When I was playing cricket, I
went out and played cricket with

863
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,320
a Gherkin on my helmet.
From then on, I was called you

864
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,680
were good, you were good.
I told them this story and then

865
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,480
at Christmas time, I got a jar
of gherkins, a jar of pickled

866
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,920
gherkins wrapped up.
I got some socks with a Gherkin

867
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,480
dancing on it.
And my point is, kids pick up on

868
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:22,280
stuff.
Yeah, of course.

869
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:23,360
So don't.
I'm.

870
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,720
I'm obviously joking when I say
get your hints in now just to

871
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,760
what you want.
But if you did mention

872
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,560
Maltesers.
Yeah, you will get.

873
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,640
Maltesers.
Yeah, 'cause they come up to you

874
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,400
sometimes and ask, just asking,
Sir, what chocolate do you like?

875
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,080
Not for any reason, just
wondering what chocolate you

876
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,160
like.
And what do you drink?

877
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:40,960
Alcohol.
Yeah, my mum.

878
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,560
My mum wants to know what
alcohol you drink.

879
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:43,600
Yeah.
Why does your mum want to know?

880
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:44,960
I don't know, but don't worry
about it.

881
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,200
Surprise, you say to them.
Well, actually I quite like a

882
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,440
little bit of gin.
It comes to the end and you get

883
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,400
some red wine.
Oh, I think I said gin honestly.

884
00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,040
So funny, I think I'm three
years in a row now I've received

885
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,600
a very particular gift.
What do you think it is?

886
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,400
Is it a hair brush?
It's a shampoos.

887
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,080
No close.
OK, a wig.

888
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:06,600
A wig.
A wig.

889
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,560
I'm not joking.
I've done three years in a row a

890
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,960
kids got me a wig and they found
it absolutely hilarious.

891
00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:12,600
Obviously I've worn it for an
hour.

892
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,719
I remember actually you wore
that wig to dropping your kids

893
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,920
off to assembly.
I ruined but I felt so.

894
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,600
Bad honestly stood at the front
of the Ted teacher.

895
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,639
We're in assembly, trying to
keep talking in assembly, and

896
00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:26,520
then this clown walks in the wig
on with a red wig on.

897
00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:29,080
I just looked at him and he sort
of smirked in it and, and I just

898
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,600
sort of thought, I'm gonna, I'm,
I'm ruining the behaviour.

899
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,960
Like, like flicking your hair
side to side.

900
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,480
There's 400 kids in here.
Like a L'Oreal advert.

901
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:38,719
Yeah.
And literally I was, I was like,

902
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,360
oh, it felt great.
Oh, that was good fun.

903
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,400
But yes, term.
That was that was a joke.

904
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,560
Yeah, OK, That was a joke.
Biggest, biggest.

905
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,600
That's all you need in it.
Yeah, produce all the tips for

906
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,280
that one.
Just tell the kids what gifts

907
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:51,320
you want and make sure, yeah,
because.

908
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:52,520
That's why we're in teaching,
isn't it?

909
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,800
The gifts and the money clearly
must gifts.

910
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,640
Yeah, anyway.
Do you do you want to do an

911
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,920
actual helpful?
OK, right.

912
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:01,800
We, we talked about the hoops,
didn't we?

913
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:02,360
Yeah, right.
OK.

914
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,920
Whether you got hoop or not,
it's you'll probably do some

915
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,360
sort of class decoration.
Sure, pick a good one.

916
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,240
Pick a simple.
One, yeah, which is good.

917
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:14,400
But by good, I mean easy for you
to plan, resource and make and

918
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,440
get up onto your hoop wherever
it is.

919
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,040
Don't be the teacher.
That's like super adventurous.

920
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,560
I'm gonna do this thing here
that's gonna take ends up taking

921
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,280
you loads of time.
You have to take them all home.

922
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,880
Yeah, because I've got, I've got
to sew this part together and

923
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,560
the kids can't do that.
I've got to do it 32 times.

924
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,000
I'm gonna make a donkey.
I'm gonna make it a donkey.

925
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,160
That's simple, isn't it?
Songy.

926
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,120
Honestly, that's the worst thing
I ever did.

927
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,160
Was tell the.
Doggy story, well, one year look

928
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,840
alright, what we have in our
school, we sign up to what

929
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,000
decoration we want to do, and if
you're the last person to sign

930
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,520
up, most things have been like
done.

931
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,040
Yeah, because you only doubled.
Are you in the hall?

932
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:46,960
Exactly.
I think I try and get snowman

933
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,000
really quick.
You know why?

934
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:49,800
Because I can just cut out a
snowman picture.

935
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,600
And they stick away.
Yeah, You've got those people

936
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,360
that do this lovely 3D one balls
that like open up and you just

937
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,280
know a bit of paper.
I did it one year, right?

938
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,160
They all did.
They all did a snowman, right?

939
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,520
They ordered a snowman.
Honestly looked horrendous, like

940
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,080
compared to the effort other
people put in.

941
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,480
But it was, it was nice.
It was the kids had clearly done

942
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:08,600
it.
So it was lovely.

943
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,160
I forgot they're hanging in a
hall, therefore obviously need

944
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,680
to be 360° because the back of
the snowman would just blame

945
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,520
white guard and nothing on it.
So I had, I had to double up

946
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,800
their snowmen, which didn't line
up because they're all different

947
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:21,960
sizes.
So I had to put them

948
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:23,720
back-to-back, stick them
together.

949
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,360
Yeah.
And then hang them, which may

950
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,600
add half as many snowmen.
So when you went into the hall,

951
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,200
there was like first two gifts,
first two stars, 32 shepherds,

952
00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:33,560
and there was honestly like 12
snowmen because they were.

953
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,240
Worse Was that that was that the
year that they were really

954
00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:37,240
heavy?
Yeah.

955
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:41,440
And so your line also just
drooped down because they were

956
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:42,880
all kind of condensed into the
middle.

957
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,480
I remember that.
I remember thinking, who's done

958
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:45,720
that?
Like 10.

959
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,520
I walked in with my donkey.
Right.

960
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:49,360
Sorry.
What is that?

961
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,080
Wait, come on.
So one year, why did you pick

962
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:52,920
donkeys?
Honestly, there's nothing left.

963
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,400
Why donkeys on the list?
Ohh donkeys, come on, think

964
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,880
about.
It snowflake, you know, snowman.

965
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,120
A donkey, Yeah.
Little baby Jesus that was

966
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:01,520
already gone.
How do you make a donkey?

967
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,120
Little donkey.
So I really couldn't be

968
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,920
bothered.
And it was like that day you had

969
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,960
to get in the order for like the
craft stuff you wanted for.

970
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,480
And I was like, Oh no, on
YouTube looking for how to make

971
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,080
craft donkeys.
Obviously it doesn't exist.

972
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,880
Who's making craft donkeys?
Seriously doesn't exist.

973
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,520
So I was like, I know what I'll
do.

974
00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:22,840
I'll get a bit of grey card, cut
it into like a trapezium and

975
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:27,360
then stick to lolly sticks.
Stick to lolly sticks on it.

976
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,920
Make your own donkey.
And then they can draw a donkey

977
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,440
on it.
They just did it.

978
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,480
They did.
It took them like 45 seconds to

979
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,120
make these donkeys and they were
so bad.

980
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,640
And then they've got to go in
the hall and it's like, it's

981
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,280
when it's next to like the
person who goes all out and

982
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,000
everything.
It's your donkeys.

983
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,160
They used to do it like stained
glass windows and then the other

984
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,280
classes and they're spending
like the whole afternoon making

985
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,280
these.
Lovely things.

986
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,400
Yeah, I've got these beautiful
instructions on the board, like

987
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,400
these great things.
Really proud of them.

988
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,200
And they're my cliffs.
Molly, who coming with a donkey

989
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,280
that's to make them all like
make the noise as they come

990
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,360
hanging on to the oh God.
It's embarrassing.

991
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,400
Every single year I got
ridiculed.

992
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,200
Mine and your line are always
the worst.

993
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,000
You can tell always the worst
you can tell.

994
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,880
And I'm year six.
That's the year 3's come in with

995
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,920
something better and I'm like,
oh, here's the year 6 donkeys

996
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,160
this year, Dylan, we've got to
do it.

997
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:18,360
We've got to do something good,
don't we?

998
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,160
No, we've got to ignore our own
advice.

999
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:21,800
Okay, try.
Something I'm doing donkeys.

1000
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:24,680
And I.
Want you to tell me you should

1001
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,080
put on Tez.
You download stuff you should

1002
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,400
put on your step by step guide
and how to make a donkey on Tez.

1003
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,040
You should do it honestly.
Love that.

1004
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:32,640
Right.
So next one, I'm gonna give

1005
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,680
another actual series hint.
Don't be scared in time 2 up

1006
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,800
until Christmas to reserve some
time simply for fun.

1007
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,440
Don't, don't be worried that oh,
every single minute needs to be

1008
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,920
all dedicated to learning.
They're not making progress on

1009
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,040
these these things that I've got
to get and they've got to

1010
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:48,640
highlight the progress they're
making.

1011
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,160
Don't worry about it.
It's OK to have chunks of time

1012
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,760
in time 2 especially, especially
towards the end that are just

1013
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,680
dedicated to doing something for
the sake of doing it because it

1014
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,240
is fun to do.
Don't be obsessed with learning.

1015
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:01,960
This is the stuff the kids will
remember.

1016
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,680
They will love being in your
class that day.

1017
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,840
And this comes with a caveat
because it's on the other side

1018
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,680
of this coin of the same hint is
you should still do learning up

1019
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,800
until the end of time.
I really, really do believe that

1020
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,400
I don't don't just for the sake
of it.

1021
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,520
Get rid of a lesson.
The whole week last week so I

1022
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:17,560
don't have any learning this.
Week.

1023
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,120
No, no, no, I would actually do.
I do maths and English until the

1024
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,320
end.
I think having that system in

1025
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:23,720
the morning, that routine is
still good for them.

1026
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:24,920
They still need to cover the
curriculum.

1027
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,000
So yeah, don't be scared to
reserve time for fun, don't be

1028
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,560
scared to carry on learning all
the way through, but just know

1029
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,800
that you are a professional and
you can make those judgement

1030
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,000
calls and you will.
You will probably benefit hugely

1031
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,520
from continuing doing learning
until the end of the year, but

1032
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,680
also the kids knowing that do
you know what?

1033
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,440
This afternoon it is just fun.
Enjoy yourself.

1034
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:44,840
No, I agree.
I'm actually going to jump in

1035
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,120
with another point that's very
relevant.

1036
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,480
Skipping down our list here,
Dylan, but staying on top of

1037
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,920
your diary dates.
But with that in mind, you do

1038
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,800
kind of need to plan ahead.
You need to know what's coming

1039
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,240
up.
You need to know when you can

1040
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:55,880
book in those fun events.
Like, you know, like we're

1041
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,760
saying, don't just be like you
get to the last week and you're

1042
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,440
like, Oh no, I've got 19 things
to do.

1043
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,440
Let's do them all.
It gets manic.

1044
00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:03,320
Stay on top of your diary dates
in in the.

1045
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,920
In term 2, because they're just
always something we are like,

1046
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:07,880
you've spent the weekend
planning maths, right?

1047
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,800
And then you find out that two
of your lessons that week are

1048
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,120
being taken up because you do
it.

1049
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,240
I mean, can you think of it
like?

1050
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,240
Santa's Grotto.
Yeah, Santa's grotto on Tuesday,

1051
00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:16,160
and on Wednesday we're doing
Chris Tingle, so get your

1052
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:17,600
oranges in.
We put a cattle in an orange

1053
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,480
with some licorice, all sorts on
the side.

1054
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,520
Because that's Christmas thing,
apparently.

1055
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,320
Yeah, Mentor.
Yeah, and then and the next day

1056
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,360
you've got a long assembly, so
you have maths lessons half and

1057
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,400
you're like, oh God, I spent
ages planning all this stuff, I

1058
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,040
just didn't look ahead.
So yeah, just.

1059
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,160
And it's your fault at that
point.

1060
00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:31,640
Yeah, exactly.
What are you like?

1061
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:33,120
Because I'm awful like that.
Yeah, I'm so bad.

1062
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,240
This is this is that kind of
thing where I'm like, I think, I

1063
00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:36,920
hope no one listens from our
school because they were like,

1064
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,520
Hayden, you've not picked up a
diary in three years.

1065
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,680
No, no, because what we can do
is we can say what's good

1066
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:43,440
practise.
Yeah, but you don't do it.

1067
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,960
I yeah, I'm not here saying I'm
doing these things right.

1068
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,000
Oh, God, but it's true.
Make the donkey.

1069
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,240
But yeah, I'm not.
I'm not.

1070
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,440
Every single point so far you've
done the opposite actually.

1071
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,800
Do you have a good time to
normally?

1072
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,480
No, terrible.
Absolutely dreadful this is for

1073
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,160
me.
But it is true.

1074
00:40:58,160 --> 00:40:59,920
That is a good another point.
Staying on top of your class

1075
00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:03,360
diary in general, staying on top
of your diary is important, but

1076
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,080
especially this time because
there's just so much going on.

1077
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,760
Like you said, it's a busy time
and there's nothing worse.

1078
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,280
I've done this before where you
have sacrificed 2 hours of your

1079
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,440
Sunday to do this really nice
lesson, and then you don't even

1080
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:15,200
get time to do it.
Yeah.

1081
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:16,720
Because it's literally not
happening.

1082
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:18,720
And it's like you're sat there
doing whatever you're doing.

1083
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,080
I don't know, taking the kids
one at a time in to see Santa

1084
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:22,000
and pick a toy.
Yeah.

1085
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,520
Oh.
God or double down on that

1086
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,040
right.
What you are actually doing that

1087
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,360
in that activity, something you
forgot about and it and it

1088
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,520
required some other planning.
It's like, oh, did you get in

1089
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,120
the order for the paper that you
need?

1090
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:32,920
I was like, no, I didn't even
get the cards in.

1091
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,440
I didn't get the card in.
We can't make Christmas cards

1092
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,080
now in this session.
Oh, I do have a Roman numerals

1093
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,480
lesson, is that.
Is that all right?

1094
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:39,960
I do.
I do plan that.

1095
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:41,560
Yeah.
Next hint.

1096
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,720
Hint.
Hint, hint, next hint.

1097
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:44,840
Oh next hint.
Get it?

1098
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,280
You're.
Going to get it off the top. 5

1099
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:50,200
hints.
Next tip and still get outside.

1100
00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:54,840
OK, still get outside.
And what I mean by this is it's

1101
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,280
in the summer, very tempting.
And in fact, lots of people do

1102
00:41:58,280 --> 00:41:59,840
this where they go.
Yeah, OK, Outside, learning

1103
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,880
today because the sun's out.
It's a lovely day.

1104
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,120
Let's go outside and just do
what I was going to do anyway

1105
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:05,360
outside because it's good for
the kids.

1106
00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:07,240
Don't be afraid to still do that
in time, too.

1107
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,360
Get outside still.
I know it might be a bit cold.

1108
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,800
Put coats on.
OK.

1109
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,040
Kids still love it.
They love getting outside.

1110
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,160
They love the fresh air.
And it's important for the

1111
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,840
children because they get into
school in the morning and it is

1112
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,880
dark now and they leave school
and it is getting dark.

1113
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,920
When they leave at 3:15, perhaps
it's not quite as dark.

1114
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,600
But by the time they get home,
have their dinner at the end of

1115
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,160
their day, and for some
children, they don't get outside

1116
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,000
enough.
They'll have lunch, they'll have

1117
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,440
break time.
We talked about the importance

1118
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,080
of getting out for that.
But when it comes to their

1119
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,040
learning as well, just get
outside.

1120
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,080
Don't be afraid to do it.
Well, there's something magical.

1121
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,400
I remember this as a kid, right?
I don't know what it is.

1122
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,000
It's very simple to us now
because you get older things

1123
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,400
that excite you as much, but
there's something magical about

1124
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,720
a really frosty day and your
teacher takes you out.

1125
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,000
Go on a nature walk and
everything.

1126
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,400
Everything like sparkly and
frosty, the floors a bit

1127
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:52,560
slippery.
All be careful.

1128
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,600
I don't know what is.
I remember as a kid being like,

1129
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,160
this is great.
This is better than normal for

1130
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,320
some reason.
And then I remember, I remember

1131
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,520
doing that and drawing.
I remember drawing this.

1132
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:01,440
I don't know what I was meant
to.

1133
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,160
I don't know if it's like an
English person or not, but I've

1134
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,720
got a vivid memory of like, we
had these Berry bushes across

1135
00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:10,520
the back of our playground and
like a cobbled fence underneath

1136
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,440
of stone.
And I remember because we walked

1137
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,440
past and we always used to joke
that then berries are poisonous.

1138
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:15,680
You can't possibly.
Yeah.

1139
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:17,640
But we were walking past and I
had AI had a pad like.

1140
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,160
The silica packets on the sorry
carry.

1141
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,480
On gel, I love to be.
And I just remember sat there

1142
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,560
looking and sketching the Berry
and the leaves, and there's

1143
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,240
frost on it.
And it's insane that I remember

1144
00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:29,680
that.
Yeah.

1145
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,880
But if that day we hadn't chosen
to go outside and do that, I

1146
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,000
just wouldn't have that memory.
And I always think about stuff

1147
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,760
like that.
I'm just, why did that stick in

1148
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,200
my head?
Because it was different.

1149
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:39,000
Yeah.
Because it's fun.

1150
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,920
It's enjoyable.
Don't be afraid to go outside

1151
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:41,920
still.
And then you've got the ultimate

1152
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,880
one if you're lucky enough that
it actually snows my proper

1153
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,040
snow, the kit like I, I don't
think, I hope I'm never that

1154
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:49,560
teacher.
That's like stop looking outside

1155
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:51,520
when it's snowing.
I hope I'm always a teacher that

1156
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:54,760
says, come on, let's go out.
It's snowing, Let's let's spend

1157
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,880
it doesn't snow that often.
Let's go and like, stand in it

1158
00:43:57,880 --> 00:43:59,200
for a minute.
And if it really snows?

1159
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,320
Gotta get through my Roman
numerals that it's the Roman

1160
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,440
numerals for some reason.
You how you can't.

1161
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,960
You must know what L means in
Roman numerals.

1162
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,760
We can't possibly go and play in
the snow for 5 minutes.

1163
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:08,560
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.

1164
00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:10,480
I've had some of the best times
ever, honestly, taking kids out

1165
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,240
and it's just snow.
It's like or in the morning,

1166
00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:14,120
it's snowed all night and it's
actually a proper thick.

1167
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:15,840
It's like, OK, of course, of
course.

1168
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,160
What do you I'm I want to do it.
Of course, we're going to go out

1169
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,040
in the snow and make snow angels
and Chuck off a couple of

1170
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,160
snowballs at each other.
And the rules are simple.

1171
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:25,920
If someone ends up tracking it
at someone's face really hard

1172
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:27,640
and we'll cry about it, we go
back in, we'll do it again.

1173
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,520
Be careful.
Yeah, it's snow.

1174
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,120
Get over it.
But, yeah, you know, you just

1175
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:32,160
gotta take him out, have some
fun.

1176
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:32,680
Just.
Yeah.

1177
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,480
So basically, Scott, you said
just.

1178
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:36,840
I'm writing class.
Get outside, especially if it's

1179
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,960
snowing.
Well, your your next tip is

1180
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,600
linked to getting outside.
It's exactly the same thing

1181
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,000
really.
It's also, it's just for us as

1182
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,960
our own mental health, like you
were kind of alluding at it.

1183
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,160
It does.
It's dark, isn't it, that you

1184
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:48,720
know the days?
She just get in earlier and

1185
00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:50,440
leave late.
Yeah, for teachers, you know,

1186
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,360
she at lunchtime, get just get
outside.

1187
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:54,560
I know you want to get your
marking done.

1188
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:56,800
I know you want to sit there.
Honestly, just get 10 minutes.

1189
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,160
Go and get some fresh air, some
crisp air, get some sunlight.

1190
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:01,720
It will make a difference to
your mood.

1191
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,480
I I really try to live by that.
I do really try to get outside

1192
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,440
in the in those winter months
because I get so immediately

1193
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:08,880
SAD.
I think I must have got an SAD,

1194
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,320
you know, seasonal depression
because it's I just, it's dark.

1195
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,120
You leave when it's dark, you
get home, it's dark.

1196
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:15,920
It's horrible.
So get outside for yourself as

1197
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:17,640
well.
Get some sunlight at lunchtime,

1198
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:18,600
even though it's just 10 minutes
I.

1199
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,640
Think with that, with that tip,
people can listen to it, but

1200
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,640
like, oh, all right, I've got to
do my work though.

1201
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:25,320
Yeah.
All I would say on that tip is

1202
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,720
genuinely just just do it for a
bit and see because I think

1203
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:30,440
you'll notice the difference.
It's like when people take the

1204
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:31,760
Mick out of meditation and
stuff.

1205
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,240
Used to be me.
I used to be breathing.

1206
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,560
Get over it you.
Know what, I did it for a bit.

1207
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,320
It's really good.
Of course it helps.

1208
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:39,200
That's why loads of people do
it.

1209
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,200
Why do you get out of the
sunlight?

1210
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,040
Because it does help your
health, it does help your mental

1211
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:43,440
health.
So just, you know, even if

1212
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:45,480
you're sceptical at that point,
I would say just try it for a

1213
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,800
week and just see.
Unless it's a full moon, tend to

1214
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,840
not go outside because you don't
know what's waiting for you is.

1215
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,040
It is it windy?
It's a windy full moon.

1216
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,640
It's.
Raining and it's Halloween

1217
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,320
yesterday and it's Christmas
tomorrow.

1218
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,440
Oh, I hate when that happens.
Oh dear.

1219
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:05,680
And.
It's Friday the 13th.

1220
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:08,760
Do another hint.
Do another hint.

1221
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:12,840
And this one's like a bit more,
I suppose.

1222
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,960
This is such a weird up and down
seriousness and not so serious

1223
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,600
hint tips and stuff.
This one's like, I suppose more

1224
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,600
on the serious side is over the
years I've kind of become more

1225
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:26,760
aware that not all kids have an
amazing Christmas.

1226
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,760
And if you think about it, in
your class, there will always be

1227
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,000
children who do not have the
best home life.

1228
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,600
There'll be children probably
who you teach probably, if not

1229
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,160
indefinitely in your school, who
are not looking forward to

1230
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,200
Christmas because it means two
weeks at home and school is

1231
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,640
their safe place.
So all I'm going to make with

1232
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,960
this point is just don't forget
that, you know, some kids don't

1233
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,920
even celebrate Christmas, OK?
But even even if they do, it's

1234
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,600
not a nice time for them because
their environment that they're

1235
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,040
in at home is not jolly, It's
not it's not good for them.

1236
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,240
So what are you saying?
How do we combat that?

1237
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,960
How do we how are we fair as
teachers in terms of.

1238
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,280
I think if a child is talking to
you about what they're really

1239
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,480
excited to do over Christmas
because they've got plans, yeah,

1240
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,200
you should never make that child
feel bad for that.

1241
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:08,760
So don't, don't listen to engage
with it.

1242
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,600
No, no, you can't mention
anything that you do because

1243
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:13,160
someone might be offended
somewhere.

1244
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,680
Let them have their moment,
enjoy it and talk about it.

1245
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,000
What I'm saying is be aware of
those other children and make

1246
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,320
school as fun and engaging, as
lovely and as nice as possible

1247
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:24,600
for them whilst they're in
school.

1248
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,320
Because at the end of the day,
like we've joked about with

1249
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,960
absence and stuff, we don't have
control of their home life.

1250
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,520
We can report stuff, we can look
out for them, they're

1251
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:37,880
safeguarding is paramount etc.
But we only can do a certain

1252
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,280
amount of stuff as a teacher,
and I think a big thing is that

1253
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,400
control in school.
Make it safe, make it enjoyable,

1254
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,680
make it fun, give them
everything they could possibly

1255
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,720
want to have a really nice time
in school, and don't go on and

1256
00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:50,240
on about what you're going to do
at home.

1257
00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:53,720
But as the teacher who's in
charge of the conversation, let

1258
00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:55,720
children lead it sometimes.
And they go, oh, I'm going to

1259
00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:57,880
see my uncle in Christmas.
I've not seen him in three

1260
00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:58,920
years.
I'm so excited.

1261
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:00,280
Brilliant.
Big them up.

1262
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,560
That sounds lovely.
But as the driver of

1263
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,200
conversation, don't do a big
write about what you're excited

1264
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,640
to do for Christmas.
Yeah, Don't, don't, don't, don't

1265
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,760
drive.
Presently hoping, hoping to get.

1266
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:11,480
Yeah, what you have got.
Yeah, it's classic, isn't it,

1267
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:12,720
Because people do good
intentions.

1268
00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:13,920
I probably did it in my first.
Year.

1269
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:14,720
I've certainly done it.
I've.

1270
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:16,680
Been like oh what's everyone?
Hoping for thinking now.

1271
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:18,400
Yeah, I probably would, honestly
without thinking.

1272
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:19,720
But you need to have it in front
of your mind.

1273
00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:21,720
Yeah, because I'm about teaching
you, but you know.

1274
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,360
Yeah, but it's true.
I'm joking, obviously, but yeah,

1275
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,200
you I think you do have to be
careful of what you say.

1276
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,760
I agree.
Those leading questions, you

1277
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,680
know, what if something just
imagine that some was not a

1278
00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:32,200
great Christmas, just make it
all about their time with you in

1279
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,320
school.
Not so much emphasis on the

1280
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,160
outside of school time because
you know what, you don't know

1281
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:37,520
what's going on.
You can't control that, but you

1282
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:38,720
can control what's going on in
school.

1283
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,680
Very good tip.
I really, really enjoyed that.

1284
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:42,680
Thank you.
Okay, another one kind of

1285
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,320
serious then, I guess behaviour.
We talked about behaviour quite

1286
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:46,520
a lot ironically in this
episode.

1287
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:52,240
But just expect and understand,
be ready for behaviour to slip a

1288
00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:54,240
little bit right towards the end
of Christmas term.

1289
00:48:54,240 --> 00:48:56,240
What?
So expect it to happen, expect

1290
00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:57,760
it to happen.
I'm not saying let it happen.

1291
00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:59,760
Sure, I'm saying expect the
behaviour.

1292
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:01,480
I prepare for it.
Sure, that's probably a better

1293
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,440
word.
Prepare for behaviour to be

1294
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,000
maybe a bit trickier towards in
the term.

1295
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,120
Like we said, it was in our it
was in your top five list of you

1296
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,240
know, when back when behaviour
goes a bit wild.

1297
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:10,920
It's true.
It's exciting.

1298
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:12,960
The Christmas time is exciting.
The routine starts to change.

1299
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,560
You know, if you're aware, you
know, if you're aware of the

1300
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:17,320
diary dates, you know, there's
lots of other things out of

1301
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,240
routine coming up.
Some kids really struggle with

1302
00:49:19,240 --> 00:49:20,560
that.
Some kids take advantage of

1303
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:21,720
that.
You know, some kids are just

1304
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:24,520
fine, but just expect that
behaviour to be a bit different.

1305
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:26,760
Prepare for it in your mind and
maybe have some strategies up

1306
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,320
your sleeve ready, but just just
be aware that it's probably

1307
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,360
going to happen so you're not
caught off guard I think is the

1308
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,640
the point here.
I think the big thing thinking

1309
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,360
about End of Time 2 is the
expectations.

1310
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,280
We always talk about having
really clear expectations for

1311
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,160
behaviour and lines that cannot
be crossed.

1312
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:44,200
Those lines inevitably move when
you start doing more fun

1313
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,400
activities, right?
So, you know, if you're playing

1314
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,000
Mariah Carey through the
speakers and the kids are making

1315
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:50,640
Christmas cards and they're
singing at the top of their

1316
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,600
lungs, right?
Yeah, That is clearly a very

1317
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:54,880
different expectation as to what
you would expect during a maths

1318
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:56,440
lesson at any other time in the
year.

1319
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,440
So the children, there are some
children who will struggle with

1320
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,720
that shift in expectation.
And because they'll see that

1321
00:50:01,720 --> 00:50:04,560
that's been lifted and they can
do more, a lot of them will

1322
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:05,800
treat that as if they can do
anything.

1323
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:07,960
Yeah.
So I think what what I would say

1324
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:09,440
to people is absolutely what
you've said.

1325
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:10,800
Plan ahead, know what's going to
happen.

1326
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,080
Expect children to struggle with
it.

1327
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,280
But then combat your combat it
yourself by being super clear.

1328
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,080
Yeah.
So be really, really, really

1329
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:18,640
clear.
Yeah.

1330
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,440
Clearer than ever when you say,
listen, guys, I want to play

1331
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,680
this music today.
I am so excited.

1332
00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:25,120
And you're excited, too.
I can see that.

1333
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,280
And we're probably going to be
singing out loud, and that's

1334
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:30,360
absolutely fine.
But there will be points when I

1335
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:31,880
need to show you the next thing
we've got to do on our

1336
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,240
decorations, or there will be
times where we've got to use the

1337
00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:36,800
scissors and you're still next
to someone who's actually

1338
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,160
feeling a bit anxious or maybe
overwhelmed by loud noises.

1339
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,200
So I might ask you sometimes
just to lower the tone.

1340
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,680
And when I ask you to do that,
you've got to do it straight

1341
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:45,320
away because that's the deal
we've got here.

1342
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,360
A lot of children, 98% of
children that will be fine with

1343
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:49,760
that will cover it.
And you've done your job.

1344
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,160
There'll still be about 2% who
struggle with it.

1345
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:53,000
Yep.
And that's where your

1346
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:54,560
professional judgement has to
come in.

1347
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,320
And you either, you know, allow
them certain things because of

1348
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,480
they've maybe they've got
special needs or EHCP or simply

1349
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:01,800
because they need to calm down a
little bit.

1350
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:04,680
And you at the end of the day,
you need to own it As the

1351
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:08,080
teacher when you change those
expectations, I have lifted this

1352
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:10,600
lid.
So when Children Act outside of

1353
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,320
that, what they're used to
doing.

1354
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:13,880
That is my fault.
Yeah, exactly.

1355
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:14,880
I can't you blame the
eight-year.

1356
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:16,440
Old for doing that, yeah, You've
got to take the consequence.

1357
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:17,680
You've got to take
responsibility for it.

1358
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:18,760
Yeah, I agree.
I think that's a really nice

1359
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,440
point about, yeah, you can
expect them to be a bit more

1360
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,480
wild.
So, so combat it by having

1361
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,040
really, really super clear
expectations that are in, in

1362
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:27,800
these new boundaries.
I think that's a nice point.

1363
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:29,280
And also, you know, and stick to
it.

1364
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:30,480
Yeah, we've said that in a
previous episode.

1365
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,040
If you said, and this is the
consequence if you don't do it

1366
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,480
and you can't meet these new
standards and they don't do it,

1367
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,680
you've got to, you've got to
stick to the consequences.

1368
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,240
Otherwise then you really will
see your behaviour slip because

1369
00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:42,240
they're thinking, oh, we can be
wild and we can get away with

1370
00:51:42,240 --> 00:51:42,560
it.
Yeah.

1371
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:46,000
So there are tips for term 2.
I think if we were to summarise

1372
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:47,960
it, what I'd want to say to
someone in a sentence or two, if

1373
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:49,920
I came up to them, especially if
they were thinking gosh, how am

1374
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:50,960
I going to get through this
term?

1375
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:55,240
I would say to them enjoy it,
have clear expectations, have

1376
00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:59,600
lots of wiggle room for fun and
just take in the kids excitement

1377
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,800
because if we can't do that as a
teacher, what can we take in

1378
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:03,000
because it's such a stressful
job.

1379
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,080
It's that magical time of the
year where actually we get load

1380
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,920
out of it from the kids.
Let them have some fun, enjoy

1381
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:10,320
this time as much as you can.
Brilliant.

1382
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:11,600
Love it.
Thank you, Dylan.

1383
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:13,880
No problem.
Let's play a quick game after

1384
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,480
this Jingle and then we'll wrap
it up.

1385
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:16,920
But I want you to play along at
home this game.

1386
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:18,080
I want to hear what you would
say as well.

1387
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:22,560
That's a good one.
Before we dive into the game, I

1388
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,200
want to just ask listeners one
more time.

1389
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,400
Guys, can you please leave us a
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1390
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:27,960
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1391
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,280
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1392
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,840
Five stars, if you don't mind.
And you can find us on Instagram

1393
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,840
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1394
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,480
silly memes and polls and things
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1395
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:42,440
sometimes, but it's where you
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1396
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:46,040
will see it and I will reply.
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1397
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:47,800
they're listening and they've
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1398
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,320
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1399
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,200
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1400
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:54,640
So if you are listening, do get
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1401
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:56,320
Let us know.
We love talking to you guys.

1402
00:52:56,720 --> 00:53:00,480
This game in Hayden, we've got 5
education related topics or

1403
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:02,000
words that we've come up with
ourselves.

1404
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:03,040
I don't know what you've come up
with.

1405
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:04,000
You don't know what I've come up
with.

1406
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:08,800
You're going to say the said
topic and I need to give my one

1407
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,520
word instant response.
We can expand on it after if you

1408
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,480
want to make it, you know, a bit
clear what we're actually

1409
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,000
talking about.
But one word, rapid response.

1410
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:16,960
Yeah.
Ready.

1411
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:17,920
Yeah.
OK, Yeah.

1412
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:18,480
Cool.
Let's do that.

1413
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:19,720
Ready.
Yeah, I've got, I've got my

1414
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:21,280
first.
So all education like phrases or

1415
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:24,880
just words?
OK, so first one, the caretaker.

1416
00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:28,040
Legend, Legend.
Absolute legend.

1417
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,640
If you think about your
caretaker, right, they just do

1418
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,880
everything and also they're
everywhere, right?

1419
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,560
I feel like sometimes I could
leave my room.

1420
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,040
The caretaking could be in my
room fixing the carpet or

1421
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:39,680
something.
And I say one second, I'm just

1422
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,480
going to go and grab some stuff.
I'll leave my room, go into the

1423
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,000
staff room to get my printer.
He's there fixing the printer.

1424
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,360
Yeah, when you just you're just
in my room.

1425
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:48,720
Then I walk back and he's
outside.

1426
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:52,120
You look up on the roof, it's.
Like Spider Man just fixing the

1427
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:52,680
room.
They do.

1428
00:53:52,720 --> 00:53:55,320
It's just everything.
Yeah, absolute legend.

1429
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:57,360
Can't do enough for everyone and
the.

1430
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,200
The kind of person where you're
like, you can just rely on them

1431
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,880
and they'll just reliably
reliable.

1432
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,240
But like, I think, you know,
between us, the caretakers,

1433
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:05,480
we've worked at two schools at
the same.

1434
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:06,560
I've worked at another school as
well.

1435
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,360
All three caretakers that I've
known, I've been the nicest

1436
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:10,760
human beings.
So good.

1437
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:12,480
I'm glad you said that.
Can't do enough for everyone.

1438
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:13,000
Next one?
Really.

1439
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,720
Yep, shirt and trousers
uncomfortable.

1440
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,600
Oh, let me change it.
Archaic.

1441
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,320
Oh, archaic Explain
Uncomfortable is easy to

1442
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,200
understand.
Why archaic?

1443
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,800
Because I think that is the
classic example of we do

1444
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:29,040
something because we've always
done it.

1445
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:30,520
Sure.
Classic example.

1446
00:54:30,720 --> 00:54:33,600
If we actually just stop for a
minute, and if you just listed

1447
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:35,240
what my job was, a primary
school teacher, right.

1448
00:54:35,240 --> 00:54:36,480
And all the things I have to do,
yeah.

1449
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:38,880
You would not come to the
conclusion that the right attire

1450
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:40,920
for that job would be smart
shoes, trousers and showers.

1451
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,360
I agree.
It is absolutely ridiculous.

1452
00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:46,080
Get over it.
I'm not modelling anything for

1453
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:47,200
the kids.
Yeah, the kid.

1454
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,440
There are 1,000,000 jobs.
Half of them I don't require

1455
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,160
shirt and trousers anymore.
I'm not setting the tone.

1456
00:54:52,240 --> 00:54:53,720
What if they want to become a
zookeeper?

1457
00:54:53,720 --> 00:54:55,880
Oh, sorry kids.
Mr. Price when I was in school

1458
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,480
didn't wear a shirt and tie and
trousers and and and smart

1459
00:54:58,480 --> 00:54:59,720
shoes.
So I can't possibly become a

1460
00:54:59,720 --> 00:55:01,800
zookeeper anymore, which doesn't
even wear these things.

1461
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,280
I do want to work in an office
when I'm older.

1462
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:06,560
Oh, but my primary school
teacher didn't quite wear that

1463
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:08,640
nice suit, did he?
When he was helping me glue some

1464
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:10,480
stuff in my book and make a card
for.

1465
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,800
Christmas doing PE?
Yeah, you're insane.

1466
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:14,440
We're gonna have this next one.
Then next one.

1467
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,320
That's a good answer.
Teacher assessments.

1468
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:20,200
I'm not talking proper summative
assessments.

1469
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,320
I'm talking the ones where it's
like, what's your opinion?

1470
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:28,800
Teacher assessments?
Oh, OK, I can see your brain.

1471
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:30,480
You're you're thinking.
I want to say the right thing

1472
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,800
because it's only got one word
overused.

1473
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:35,360
OK.
What do you mean?

1474
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:39,200
I mean, they are we're asked to
do it too much.

1475
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:43,400
I think it's kind of pointless.
Like I, I wanted to say

1476
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:45,320
pointless, but I don't think
assessment is pointless.

1477
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,960
I think it is very good as a
teacher to understand where your

1478
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:51,160
children are and not necessarily
just always just go off the test

1479
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,320
and, and understand that there's
some wiggle room there and stuff

1480
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:55,040
like that.
But I think the amount of time

1481
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,080
we put into doing it and maybe
sometimes was expected to like

1482
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,840
look through books and get a
really accurate assessment of

1483
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:01,920
where they are in their
geography.

1484
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,080
Are they working towards or are
they low working towards?

1485
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:05,920
Are they low expected or how
many of these have they managed

1486
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:07,120
to meet and can you highlight in
green?

1487
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:08,960
Have they met it and Orange?
If they haven't, and I've got 15

1488
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,160
different things for you to go
through in this one subject, by

1489
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:12,520
the way, you've still got to do
it for history as well.

1490
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:14,280
And for art and for PD and for
English and for maths.

1491
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:15,760
Get.
Over it.

1492
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:17,360
Yeah.
Especially when you're like, OK,

1493
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:18,680
what are they used for?
Oh, nothing.

1494
00:56:19,240 --> 00:56:20,960
Do they affect your planning?
No, no, we planned eaten last

1495
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,440
year.
So does anything.

1496
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,000
No, no, no, no.
Just teach assessment.

1497
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:26,640
Because it says somewhere we've
got to do teacher assessment.

1498
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:27,560
Are they tracked by the
government?

1499
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,240
No, no.
Anyone look at them off step

1500
00:56:29,240 --> 00:56:30,120
when they come in they look at
them.

1501
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:31,200
Nope, don't look at assessments
anymore.

1502
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:32,360
Sorry.
What are we doing them for?

1503
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:33,920
Yeah, literally.
I agree.

1504
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:43,280
School dinners.
One word for school dinners.

1505
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:47,960
Inadequate.
Yeah, I think they're

1506
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:49,400
inadequate.
Why did you think that, Mister

1507
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:53,360
Rashford?
I think in general, if you speak

1508
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,320
to anyone looking at the school
there, some schools have

1509
00:56:55,720 --> 00:56:57,160
amazing, amazing food.
Yeah, amazing.

1510
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:00,120
Fine.
But I think in general, if we're

1511
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,280
actually looking at what is
served up to the majority of

1512
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:04,400
children, especially those
children on free school meals

1513
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,560
who by definition are the
poorest in our society.

1514
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,360
Yeah, it is need.
It and need this food because

1515
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,200
you can you don't know what's
happening before and after

1516
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:13,680
school yeah and yes we can't
have complete control of what

1517
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,560
parents do but you know what we
can have control over these

1518
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,320
dinners so whatever whatever
your opinion is of what parents

1519
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,320
should be doing at home whatever
let's make sure what we're

1520
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,040
actually giving them in the
middle of the day is really good

1521
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:27,640
It's not great I don't think
it's fantastic food that they're

1522
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:31,600
getting I think if we actually
as a society again if we listed

1523
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,760
things that are important to us
I think our children eating

1524
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,880
really good nutritious quality
food should be really high on

1525
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,920
our list and get much more
attention and much more funding

1526
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:42,560
and it should be much more
important.

1527
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:44,440
Yeah, brilliant point.
Brilliant point.

1528
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:46,360
Last one.
Ready AI.

1529
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:52,560
Misunderstood.
OK.

1530
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:56,720
I I think people who are scared
AI will take our jobs

1531
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:01,240
misunderstand it's use.
I think people who say it's

1532
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:03,560
going to solve everything in
education also misunderstand.

1533
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:05,960
So I think there's a lot of
misunderstanding going on.

1534
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:07,760
I think it has very specific
use.

1535
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,600
I think there are huge problems
around how much energy it takes

1536
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:12,760
and consumes up that is not
being fixed.

1537
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:15,320
And that's going to be an issue
as we move towards using it more

1538
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,440
and more.
But equally, I don't, I just

1539
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:19,880
don't think it's very good yet.
I think it might get there.

1540
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:21,400
I think it probably will get
there.

1541
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,600
But right now I think it's
really good for administrative

1542
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:26,200
stuff.
Yeah, it's really good tool.

1543
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,080
Yeah, it's a good tool.
Like it can write you an awkward

1544
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:30,960
letter to a parent.
You know, it can write you a

1545
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:33,760
letter to the governors.
It can sort a school letter for

1546
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:35,920
a trip.
It can look at, you know, it can

1547
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,120
help you out with a healthcare
plan.

1548
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:40,160
Yeah, targets.
You can write it in a way where

1549
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:42,560
it's like an actionable target.
Is that turning something

1550
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:44,560
informal to to formal?
That's really helpful, isn't it?

1551
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:46,360
I can bullet point a list like.
If you turn this into this

1552
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:48,800
formal letter, you've saved me
loads of time because I've got

1553
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:50,680
all my points across.
The ultimate thing is reports,

1554
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,160
yeah, I, I think it's the
ultimate tool where it's like

1555
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,800
that is exactly, it's bread and
butter reports.

1556
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:57,960
I think a lot of the the
teaching, the lessons, the

1557
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,800
planning, it can help.
But I think it it's still at the

1558
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:05,440
point where it's much better for
a teacher to impart 90 to 95% of

1559
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:07,880
the actual work and
understanding and ideas to.

1560
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:09,240
I don't think it's quite there
yet.

1561
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:10,560
So misunderstanding on all
parts.

1562
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,960
I think right now it's just fine
for some stuff I'm.

1563
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:14,560
Going to ask you that again in
five years.

1564
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:16,360
Yeah, my change to where it's.
At I think it will change.

1565
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:17,800
If it doesn't change, it'll be
really weird.

1566
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:19,640
Yeah, because a lot of money's
been pumped into it right now, I

1567
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:20,560
think.
I think it will change.

1568
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:21,080
Yeah.
Ready.

1569
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:22,320
OK, my five.
OK, go on.

1570
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:27,360
OK, Senior Assembly.
Fun.

1571
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:29,400
Yeah, it's just fun, Yeah.
It's nice.

1572
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:31,680
I love it when you're not
necessarily in assembly, but,

1573
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:33,360
you know, singing assembly and
you can hear them singing.

1574
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,400
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's nice to hear 400 kids

1575
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:36,400
singing.
Yeah, I loved it.

1576
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:37,640
I loved it at school when I was
a kid.

1577
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:39,040
I'd go home and practise the
songs.

1578
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:40,720
Yeah, I loved it.
I love singing Assembly.

1579
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,440
And he has got the whole world
in his hands, so he.

1580
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:45,440
Does he does?
Okay, next one.

1581
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:48,960
Written feedback marking written
in books, written well.

1582
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:50,560
That's how we both find a very
similar thing there.

1583
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:54,000
Written so written marks.
Specifically writing in a

1584
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:55,840
child's book to give them.
Feedback on a lesson

1585
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:57,840
inefficient.
OK.

1586
00:59:57,840 --> 00:59:59,520
So not completely pointless.
No, not pointless.

1587
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,640
I think inefficient in from our
perspective, sure.

1588
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:04,960
I think feedback is essential
for children.

1589
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:05,600
Yeah.
How?

1590
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,080
Honestly, how else could they
improve, really, without actual

1591
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:09,840
feedback?
I get the next lesson.

1592
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:11,800
Obviously teaching the next
thing, yeah.

1593
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:13,560
But you still need to know.
But you need to know what they

1594
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:15,440
do.
And obviously we pick that up in

1595
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:17,240
loads of ways.
I generally know by the end of

1596
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:19,520
the lesson, I've had enough
feedback from the hour that I've

1597
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,600
been standing in front of them,
seeing them do things.

1598
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:23,680
That's enough feedback 99% of
the time.

1599
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:25,160
Sure.
So me then going.

1600
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,520
Right, I've done one hour where
I've gathered 99% of the

1601
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:29,440
information I need to know what
I how I should deliver

1602
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:31,640
tomorrow's lesson.
I'm now gonna spend an hour and

1603
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:33,960
a half, even longer looking
through their books to see if I

1604
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:36,640
can top that at 1% up.
Complete waste time.

1605
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:39,280
It's very, very inefficient.
What could I pick something up?

1606
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,520
Maybe, Yeah.
Not the best way to do it

1607
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:42,360
though.
Agreed.

1608
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:43,280
No.
Brilliant.

1609
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:47,040
OK, next one.
Verbal feedback stampers to

1610
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:50,400
stamp in the book to say I gave
verbal feedback to this child

1611
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:52,600
and almost like an excuse why
you haven't written anything in

1612
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:53,760
the book.
Condescending.

1613
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:55,440
Really.
Condescending to who?

1614
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:56,880
Condescending to the teacher
from the top?

1615
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:58,400
Because obviously you're told to
do you're given.

1616
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:02,040
No teacher in the history of
teaching has decided from their

1617
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:05,560
own free will that that is
essential for them to do.

1618
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:07,440
No one, ever.
Verbal feedback or writing?

1619
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:08,720
No writing.
Put the stamper in.

1620
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:10,280
Yeah, because everyone does
verbal feedback.

1621
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:12,760
Yeah, of course they do.
No one's thought I better prove

1622
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:15,160
to myself that I did that.
I was like, how will I remember

1623
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:16,880
that I did this?
No one's doing that.

1624
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:18,800
You're only doing it because
you've been told.

1625
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:22,720
Oh, so that you can prove to me
or X that you've done it.

1626
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:24,760
Can you put this in?
There's like, no, no, actually I

1627
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:26,120
can't.
There's two things that really

1628
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:28,360
crap me up about this.
Number one is the idea that

1629
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:29,720
teachers don't do verbal
feedback.

1630
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,240
Like Can you imagine doing a
lesson where there's no verbal?

1631
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:33,240
That's why I find it
condescending.

1632
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:34,200
What?
OK, So what do you think the

1633
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:35,920
answer to this question is?
And they get it wrong.

1634
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:39,760
They say 50 and you just go.
What do you think the answer to

1635
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:41,920
this question is?
Yeah, Yeah, It's incomparable.

1636
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:43,240
It's like inconceivable to
think.

1637
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:45,720
It's also that just such a
stupid way of proving it.

1638
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:46,880
Do you know what I've done in my
career?

1639
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:49,120
Yeah, I've gone.
Oh, they want, they, they want

1640
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:51,000
to see this, don't they?
But there you go.

1641
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,280
Okay, those kids verbal V pack.
Honestly, I've bodged actually,

1642
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,880
'cause I'm like, it's obviously
I've given verbal feedback to

1643
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:57,720
kids and I've forgotten to stamp
it in the moment.

1644
01:01:57,720 --> 01:01:59,400
That's the other thing.
Make it up randomly.

1645
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:02,000
If that's the other thing, it,
it actually, what it actually

1646
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:05,000
does, in my opinion, is when you
don't see if verbal feedback

1647
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,320
stampers like are exist and
they're part of your school

1648
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:11,280
policy and you put it in.
Sometimes what it makes it look

1649
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:13,840
like is for five other lessons,
you've not given them any verbal

1650
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:14,600
feedback.
Yeah, yeah.

1651
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:17,440
Because there's no stamper.
And it's like, oh God, no, of

1652
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:19,480
course I give them.
I'm just gonna stamp it every

1653
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:19,960
day.
Then.

1654
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:21,480
Yeah, come on, just get in the
bin.

1655
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,120
Trust your teachers.
They're obviously gonna give

1656
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:25,400
verbal feedback.
If you open a book and there's

1657
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:29,040
like, honestly, it doesn't even
mean they've given verbal

1658
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:30,680
feedback.
You could open a blank page,

1659
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:31,600
right?
And you'd be like, you know

1660
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:33,080
what?
I kind of trust my teachers to

1661
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,600
have given verbal feedback.
Maybe they didn't, Right.

1662
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,400
If the next page has a verbal
feedback stamper, it doesn't

1663
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:40,880
actually mean that they
definitely got that verbal

1664
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:42,240
feedback.
You're thinking it means they

1665
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:43,520
stamped it that day.
Do you know what?

1666
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:45,560
There have been genuinely times,
like you said before, where I've

1667
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:46,960
just gone, oh God, I need to do
it here.

1668
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:47,840
Stamp.
Yeah.

1669
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,400
And there's no different from
that box.

1670
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:52,560
Even though I know how to teach.
That's why I find it so

1671
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:54,040
condescending.
I'm like, oh, do I really need

1672
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:55,040
to put this little stamp in a
book?

1673
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:57,360
Do you think I'm that bad of a
teacher that I haven't picked up

1674
01:02:57,360 --> 01:02:59,920
the literal core essential part
of teaching, which is to talk to

1675
01:02:59,920 --> 01:03:02,240
the kids?
Of course I have two more.

1676
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:04,680
This was meant to be a quick
game, this standard organisation

1677
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:10,960
attendance awards.
Misused.

1678
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:12,720
Misused.
I would use them.

1679
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:16,920
Maybe that's not the right word.
What I mean is I think they're

1680
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:20,000
they're, they're used for a
purpose, but they're they're,

1681
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,520
they're doing something.
I can't, I can't word this.

1682
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:25,560
They're misused in the sense
that we think they're serving a

1683
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,680
purpose that they're not right.
Like, we think, We think, yeah,

1684
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:30,600
we're like, yeah, this is going
to, like, reward kids good

1685
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:32,680
attendance and encourage the
others to get into school more,

1686
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:36,440
when really all it does is make
the kids who aren't in control

1687
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:38,440
of their own attendance feel bad
about the fact that their

1688
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:40,520
parents didn't go.
What's that come full circle in

1689
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:41,880
this episode?
And we're judging people for

1690
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:43,200
attendance when it's not
actually their fault.

1691
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:44,600
Yeah, genuinely.
Yeah.

1692
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:46,480
Yeah.
Well, when a 7 year old sat

1693
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:48,280
there feeling bad, yeah.
Because.

1694
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:49,680
Because they're in hospital for
a week.

1695
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:52,320
Yeah, we've appendicitent.
OK, that I was just going to let

1696
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:53,840
you say versions.
Yeah, of course that's like the

1697
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,760
extreme, but one where it's just
like hidden where it's like, OK,

1698
01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:59,040
then 7 year olds feeling bad
because once again, in that

1699
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:00,560
morning, no one got them out of
bed.

1700
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:01,640
No one was there to get out of
bed.

1701
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:02,720
They had to get themselves to
school.

1702
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:05,160
Way harder tasks than anyone
else, but they were 5 minutes

1703
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:05,480
late.
Oh no.

1704
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:06,880
You don't get an award though.
Don't get an.

1705
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:07,840
Award.
You were 5 minutes late.

1706
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:08,840
You didn't meet the
registration.

1707
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:10,560
No, they should get an award
more than anyone.

1708
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:12,280
Kids who are getting themselves
to school every morning.

1709
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:14,480
Exactly.
So I think just just just stop.

1710
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:16,320
Doing I think, I think do you
know what I would say just to

1711
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:18,920
kind of balance this a bit, I
don't think people are being

1712
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:20,320
snide and horrible when they
introduced.

1713
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:21,840
No, that's what I mean.
That's why that's what I mean.

1714
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,000
I misused isn't the right word,
but I'm trying to capture that.

1715
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,480
Yeah, yeah.
And I misinterpreted maybe I

1716
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:28,880
don't know.
But I don't think, I don't think

1717
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:31,600
generally as a blanket thing
like just saying to kids,

1718
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:33,120
telling kids they should just
try and get into school.

1719
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:36,360
I don't think it's necessarily
bad to encourage coming to

1720
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:38,560
school.
I just think maybe maybe given

1721
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:42,440
like monetary rewards to the
same old kids whose parents are

1722
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:43,800
like middle class families.
Yeah.

1723
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:45,480
It's just, I'm just like.
It just feels a bit.

1724
01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:47,360
Oh, you get a hot chocolate.
So I did.

1725
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:48,320
Yeah.
I'll tell you what, they got a

1726
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:49,840
hot chocolate at home as well.
That kid didn't.

1727
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:51,560
Yeah.
And they got themselves to

1728
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:53,560
school five days in a row, and
they missed one day.

1729
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:54,640
Like, come on.
I agree.

1730
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:55,720
Anyway, Yeah, no.
Completely.

1731
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:57,760
And I think a lot of the
attendance stuff is forced down

1732
01:04:57,760 --> 01:04:59,560
on heads and stuff like from the
outside.

1733
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:00,960
They need to be seen.
It will.

1734
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:03,600
Be literally OK last 1 golden
time.

1735
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:06,560
It's kind of similar, I suppose.
Well, that's.

1736
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:11,320
Really hard.
I'm going to.

1737
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:14,200
What's your thinking?
Yeah, I don't, I don't think I

1738
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,440
like golden time.
Yeah, that's what This is why

1739
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,400
I'm stuck in my head.
I'm trying a one word for

1740
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:20,160
golden.
I mean just break this game.

1741
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:21,520
What would your one word be if
you got 1?

1742
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:23,520
I would probably say golden
time.

1743
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:31,080
I would say I don't say misused
again, but I would say if

1744
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:33,840
someone was to ask me what do I
think about golden time?

1745
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:35,280
Unnecessary.
Yeah, unnecessary.

1746
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:36,240
That's my word.
It would be the word.

1747
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:38,240
It's fine, but you don't need to
do it.

1748
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:40,040
Yeah.
I don't think you should have

1749
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:42,160
built into a timetable, a reward
time.

1750
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:46,000
I agree.
I think rewards should be based

1751
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,000
on.
Yeah, spur of the moment.

1752
01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:50,320
So I basically, I essentially do
a golden time.

1753
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,480
It's just really random.
So when my class do something

1754
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:54,440
really nice and then they've
gone above and beyond together

1755
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:56,400
and I and I've said to them,
hey, do you know what guy?

1756
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:58,240
You carry, carry on doing this
for another day and we'll I'll

1757
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:00,200
take you outside 10 minutes the
end of the day tomorrow and they

1758
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:02,520
do it.
It's kind of golden time, isn't

1759
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:03,760
it?
But I don't have like a on

1760
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:06,440
Friday, everyone gets golden
time and legs except for you

1761
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:09,000
because you were late to school.
Yeah, it's not your fault you

1762
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:10,560
were late to school and you
don't ever do this.

1763
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:12,040
What are you?
I'm misbehaving because actually

1764
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:15,040
your home life's horrible.
I just feel like it turns back

1765
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:19,200
into OK, all the kids with
really nice family lives that

1766
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:21,960
are probably just statistically
more likely to behave better on

1767
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:23,640
average.
We're going to reward you for

1768
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:25,320
for having that family life that
you can't control.

1769
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:27,920
And the other kids, No, you
don't get it.

1770
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:28,840
I.
Don't think there's anything

1771
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:31,880
more wrong with rewarding, you
know, like the idea of giving

1772
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:33,640
children golden time in terms of
a reward.

1773
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:35,200
Obviously not.
I agree with you.

1774
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:38,160
It's the regimented every
Friday, half 2 golden time.

1775
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:40,480
Yeah, yeah.
Don't need that when you've got

1776
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:42,160
that one kid and they need it
every week as well.

1777
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:43,800
I don't know.
Yeah, there's something just

1778
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:44,520
slightly.
I agree.

1779
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:46,680
I don't want to completely shun
it, but there's something icky

1780
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:48,280
about these.
Things it's like detention

1781
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:50,960
almost where it's like, oh, what
the same three kids have

1782
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:53,240
detention every single week
during the whole of secondary

1783
01:06:53,240 --> 01:06:55,040
school?
Well, detention's not doing the

1784
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:57,120
job then, is it?
Yeah, no, like, OK, golden time.

1785
01:06:57,120 --> 01:06:58,360
Get it every single week.
Golden time.

1786
01:06:58,360 --> 01:06:59,760
I'm the same.
Kids are missing it every single

1787
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:01,080
week at all.
They're not.

1788
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:03,600
They're not doing it because
they're going to get 20 minutes

1789
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:06,320
on a bungee jump.
Bungee jump a Pogo stick.

1790
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:07,440
I mean a Pogo.
That would be extreme.

1791
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:09,800
Yeah, they're not going to get
20 minutes on a Pogo stick on a

1792
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:11,440
Friday.
Doesn't mean they're going to

1793
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:13,800
then in English on Tuesday have
the foresight to think, oh, I

1794
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:15,000
better do this work because I
want.

1795
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:16,320
They're not going to think.
That, Mister.

1796
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:18,360
That's why they're all Mr. Price
going to jump off a bridge.

1797
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:21,000
A bungee jump.
We got bungee jump.

1798
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:23,520
We love that Pogo stick became
bungee jump.

1799
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:26,520
Let's wrap out there showing.
Good fun, I enjoyed that.

1800
01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:28,720
Yeah, that's really good.
Hopefully enjoyed it and we'll

1801
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:30,400
see you.
Next in the Christmas term.

1802
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:32,040
Ohh my gosh, what's Christmas
time now?