Episodes
Nov. 18, 2025
Ep 153: Listener Questions: Covering Sick Leave, Teacher Wellbeing Fads & Why Arithmetic Is Vital!
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Nov. 16, 2025
Ep 152: The Future Of Education: AI, Oracy & Financial Literacy. Will The Curriculuim Review Work?
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Nov. 11, 2025
Ep 151: Teacher Guilt, Making Whole School Changes & What To Look Out For When Touring Schools
We are answering your listener questions again! Let us know what you think! Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions,polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STA...
Nov. 9, 2025
Ep 150: How Teachers Can Deal With Tricky Parents
Dealing with parents is an important part of the job as a teacher. We talk about how to go about it, what to avoid, and what schools can do to help their staff. Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions,polls on fu...
Nov. 4, 2025
Ep 149: Listener Questions: Teacher Acronyms, Encouraging Reading & Involving Your Union!
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Nov. 2, 2025
Ep 148: Attendance Awards, Smartphones & Absence Fines: Our Strongest Teacher Opinions!
Having worked in schools for 10 years each, we have developed some strongly held beliefs on education, esepcially in primary. What do you think? Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions,polls on future episodes & ...
Oct. 28, 2025
Ep 147: Listener Questions: Supporting Neurodivergent Teachers, Short Attention Spans & Teacher Superpowers!
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Oct. 26, 2025
Ep 146: Balancing Teaching and Parenting: Can You Do Both Well?
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Oct. 21, 2025
Ep 145: Listener Questions: Embarassing Pupil Encounters, Worst Education Buzzwords & Would We Work For Ofsted?
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Oct. 19, 2025
Ep 144: Extra PPA, Wellbeing Days & Supportive Leaders: AMAZING Policies Every School Needs!!
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Oct. 14, 2025
Ep 143: Listener Questions: Gender Stereotypes, Lesson Plan Formats & Getting Secondary Ready!
Leave us a review and share this episode with someone youthink 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.w...
Oct. 12, 2025
Ep 142: The Ultimate Guide To Primary Maths: Fluency, Reasoning, Problem Solving & How To Teach It Well!
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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...