Episodes
Oct. 7, 2025
Ep 141: Answering Your Questions: Careers After Teaching, The Homeschooling Boom & Teacher Training Improvements
Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out.Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat....
Oct. 5, 2025
Ep 140: Learning Through Play & Continuous Provision: Why Child-Led Learning Is So Powerful!
We are joined by Ruth (MyMummyTeacher) to discuss the power of learning through play and why continuous provision can benefit children of all ages.Follow Ruth here: https://www.instagram.com/mymummyteacher/Sign the petition t...
Sept. 30, 2025
Ep 139: Answering Your Questions: Male Role Models, Wellbeing Initiatives & Fidget Toy
Thank you to our wonderful WhatsApp community for all of the quesitons. You can join the team for free https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enj...
Sept. 28, 2025
Ep 138: The Biggest Waste Of Time Teacher Jobs & Why They Can Be Binned!
There are a LOT of things teachers do that are, realistically, a waste of time. How many of these do you agree with? Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out.Join ...
Sept. 23, 2025
Ep 137: Answering Your Questions: Targeting Union Reps, Best School Trips & Parents Taking Children Out Of Lessons
We are back answering your listener questions! - Best school trips we've ever been on- Does being a union rep put a target on your back- Best holiday ever- How to become a good leader- Should parents be allowed to opt-out of ...
Sept. 21, 2025
Ep 136: The Most TOXIC School Policies Ever! Massive Red Flags!
We trawl through the most unhinged, red flag teacher rules our listeners sent into us... Some of these are not just ridiculous - they are probably illegal!Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might ...
Sept. 16, 2025
Ep 135: Answering Your Questions: School Suspensions, Recognising Red Flags & Life After Teaching
Join our WhatsApp community for episode links, future episode polls & priority question submission: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s We are back answering our lovely listeners' questions! From teachers recogni...
Sept. 14, 2025
Ep 134: Will Ofsted Ever Get It Right? Report Cards, New Gradings & Wellbeing Controversy
Join our podcast WhatsApp community for direct messages from us, links to new episodes, polls on future epsiodes & priority question submissions. https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s We dive into the confirmed Ofs...
Sept. 9, 2025
Ep 133: Answering Your Questions: Teacher Sickness Guilt, Scrapping One Subject & Promotion Without Burnout!
We answer your questions on the best thing we learned as teachers, feeling guilty about taking sick leave, how to stand out for promotion without giving up your life, breaktime snacks & what jobs we'd have if it wasn't teachi...
Sept. 7, 2025
Ep 132: Making History Fun, Inspiring & Interesting with Greg Jenner (Public Historian, Horrible Histories & Podcast Host!)
We sit down with Greg Jenner, historian, bestselling author and the resident historian on Horrible Histories . He tells us what it was really like working on the iconic show, why history should be about more than memorising f...
Sept. 2, 2025
Ep 131: Answering Your Questions: Private School Ethics, Teacher Payscales & Becoming A School Leader
Another episode where we go through your listener questions! We chat about loads, including: private school ethics, climbing the teacher payscale, the UPS debacle, becoming a school leader, and a whole mix of extremely random...
Aug. 31, 2025
Ep 130: Top Tips For Teachers To SMASH The New School Year!
September is upon us & the new school year has arrived (unless you're in a place that has already gone back...) Here, we lay out our top tips from 20 years of experience teaching in primary schools that will help you smash Se...
Aug. 26, 2025
Ep 129: Answering Your Questions: Teaching Abroad, After-School Clubs & Working Through Summer
We are back with another episode answering YOUR questions on all things education and teaching! Accents, teacher gifts, after-school clubs, teaching abroad.... The topics are endless. Get in touch with us if you have any subm...
Aug. 24, 2025
Ep 128: Unpicking The School's Bill: Branded Uniform Crackdown, Fairer Teacher Pay & Fewer Academy Freedoms
Join us for a dive into the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill that is currently making its way into law in the UK. We discuss school uniform, teacher pay and a stripping back of academy freedoms. Is it a good thing? A bad...
Aug. 19, 2025
Ep 127: Answering Your Questions: Controversial Teacher Opinions, TA Roles & Pointless Assessment
In this episode, we answer your teacher questions - from our most controversial opinions about education, to how a TA should really be used in the classroom, our top tips for moving up with your class, and how pointless asses...
Aug. 17, 2025
Ep 126: Top Tips For New Teachers: How To Thrive In The Classroom
Starting your first year as a new teacher? It can feel exciting, overwhelming, and just a little bit terrifying. In this episode, we share our top tips for new teachers to help you survive (and actually enjoy) your first year...
Aug. 10, 2025
Ep 125: Why Aren't Children Reading For Pleasure?
Why Aren’t Children Reading for Pleasure Anymore? 📚 Reading for fun is at an all-time low and the stats are sobering. In 2025, just one in three children said they enjoyed reading in their free time. That is a 36% drop since ...
Aug. 3, 2025
Ep 124: Should We Shorten The School Summer Holidays?
Yes. Hayden has an auto-focus square on his head. Enjoy it! As always, like clockwork, when the summer holidays roll around, we are bombarded with opinions on how they are TOO LONG! We talk about it. Are they too long? Is the...
July 27, 2025
Ep 123: Has Creativity Died In The Classroom? Boring Schemes, Micro-Management & Arts Funding Cuts!
This week, we chat about how in so many schools, creativity is disappearing in two major ways. Firstly, the arts themselves are languishing. Huge drops in children taking subejcts at GCSE like drama and music. Why is this hap...
July 20, 2025
Ep 122: The New Writing Framework: A Force For Good Or Bad?
This week, Dylan clears out his teacher cupboard and uncovers some absolute treasures: an inflatable flamingo, old class photos, and three brilliant books every classroom should have – The House with Chicken Legs , The Book w...
July 13, 2025
Ep 121: Our Final Week Of Teaching: Have We Made A Mistake?
It's our last week as teachers... and it's all starting to feel very real. In this episode, we look back on the moments that made us -the unforgettable classroom highs, the amazing people we met, and the exact point we knew w...
July 6, 2025
Ep 120: Do Appraisals Actually Reward Good Teaching? Tick-Boxes, Free Labour & Ridiculous Targets
It’s the end of the school year, which can only mean one thing: performance appraisal season . But with targets that feel random, policies that haven’t caught up, and a system still obsessed with spreadsheets… we’re asking: D...
June 29, 2025
Ep 119: The Birth Rate Crisis: Teacher Redundancies, School Closures & Fewer Teaching Jobs!
The hidden crisis closing schools, cutting jobs, and reshaping teaching This week, Dylan and Hayden dive into a topic that’s flying under the radar but changing the future of teaching forever. UK birth rates have fallen to hi...
June 22, 2025
Ep 118: Life After Teaching: From Burnout To New Beginnings with Sophie Hayes (StoryZoo)
Last week, we shared the biggest news of our careers: we’re leaving teaching. In this episode, we dive into what comes next . We're joined by Sophie Hayes, a former teacher and founder of StoryZoo - a brilliant initiative hel...