Episodes

Doing a podcast about education during the most turbulent year in memory (strikes, funding crisis, retention and recruitment issues) is bound to throw up some negativity. This week, we thought we'd focus solely on what keeps us coming back to the job. Why do we still love it? Why haven't we quit, if things are so gloom and doom. We come up with our top reasons why teaching is still a great job and what makes us feel good about the profession. Let us know what you think. Instagram: @TeachSleepRep...

Teaching is consistently placed in the top 5 most stressful jobs there are. Burnout feels inevitable. With the wrong school & policy in place, it's practically impossible to avoid. However.... We do have control of enough in our job to help. Even just a bit. Here we talk about our top 6 actionable tips to avoid burnout. We do these ourselves & they've had an impact! We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think. Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast

Writing assessment is broken. Ridiculously high bar for children to reach; a moderation procedure open to fudging; increasing pressure to meet certain end goals. Should we go back to formal tests? Is there a way to fix teacher assessment? Why are 'Published' pieces of a work a complete waste of time? Find out all that and more in this week's episode! Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast Bew report (2011): chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...

Join us for a chat about the current state of OFSTED in schools and the committee report into what needs to happen to change the horrific narrative around school inspections. What are the main problems currently? What are the most important and urgent changes we need? Is the new chief inspector serious about change? Hope you enjoy the talk! Let us know what you think on Instagram. Find us at @teachsleeprepeatpodcast

School absence is at crisis-level post-pandemic and doesn't seem to be budging much.We chat about the underlying causes, why playing the blame game won't help & what are the actionable steps that need to be taken to solve it.We look at a cross-party committee report from the House of Commons and the suggestions it made to the government.The fining system is limited and doesn't seem to be doing the job. Instead, it impacts low-income households disproportionately.What's the solution?Join us ...

The initial findings of the Teacher Workload Reduction Taskforce have been published and make for interesting viewing. The government have already responded to two suggestions, ruling out an extra INSET day but promising to rapidly review performance related pay. How many of the recommendations are actually helpful? How much is even going to affect most schools? Can we really trust the government to implement meaningful change? And most importantly.... What's the point unless Ofsted is fully ref...

How do primary schools timetable an over crammed curriculum? Are some subjects given too much time compared to others? Can a more flexible timetable have more pros than a fixed one, or is the change too disruptive? Over 50% of people we polled on Instagram said they would change their school's timetable, but does anyone have the *perfect* balance? We talk about everything from specialist teaching, unfixed PPA times & what even *is* the purpose of the timetable? Hope you enjoy it! Find us on Inst...

The boys see in the new year with the usual light-hearted look at the last week & the 12 months ahead. Both set a daily target for 2024 and set up a competition to see who will last the longest. Silly games are played, government 'leaks' and the usual shenanigans. Thank you so much for all of your support in 2023 & here's to 2024!

Join us for a festive hour of laughs, quizzes, games and anecdotes! It's Christmas and boy are we ready to celebrate.Hayden tries to ruin Christmas for Dylan.Dylan serves up the hardest quiz round you'll ever see.They both rant about how rubbish turkey is.It's not to be missed!Merry Christmas to all of our listeners, and we will see you before the new year!Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast

Noticed your health, fitness and wellbeing declining over the years as a teacher? Us too! This week we chat with Martin Malone, an ex-teacher who is now best known as 'The Teachers PT' and pick his brains on how to battle against the relentless pressure of the job, and ultimately stay fit and healthy. If you find this as tricky as we do (now more than ever with new babies to keep us busy!), then why not write in with your experiences? Perhaps you could motivate us to get fit! (we doubt it). Mart...

Welcome back valued listener/customer/friend!This week we lean into our unhinged and playful side with an episode all about Christmas!We play games. We talk about Christmas in school. We reminisce on our own good times. We delve into Christmas parties for the kids and Christmas parties for the adults...Loved recording this and we love you if you're reading this.Why not get in touch? We might even reply!...Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcastemail: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com

We are BACK in the same room with a full, normal, feature-length episode.Hayden debriefs on life as a new dad with his 2-week old, Dylan laughs at Hayden going through exactly what he did last month and EVENTUALLY we talk about the drastic changes in the teaching profession.We talk about the macro changes over decades, which are mostly for the better. We then talk about how drastically the career has changed since we started teaching about 8 years ago... This time, not mostly for the better!...

A short stop-gap episode with just Dylan (Hayden is new-born Dadding!) & a small request from us....Would you leave us a review? :)Thank you so much to all of our listeners. You are the best.Please let us know who you are and get in touch with us. You can find us on:Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcaste-mail: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com

We are joined this week by two extremely knowledgeable and lovely guests: Heather Wright and Jane Considine.Heather created and runs the amazing 'Reading Rocks' which provides amazing opportunities to children, from book deliveries to author events.Jane is a widely respected and well-known provider of training around all things English. Her methods and practice is implemented in thousands of schools across the world.Recently, they both delved into the podcasting world with their show 'The ...

Toxic schools. If you don't work in one, then you've definitely at least heard the horror stories.Teaching is a job full of stress. Poor leadership, micro-managing and embedded expectations to sink massive amount of your own time just make things worse.In this episode, we reflect on some real-life examples of how schools become toxic, what a bad culture looks like, and how choices at the top trickle down to stress at the bottom.In an attempt to not be doom and gloom, we then talk about exa...

It's time for the OFFICIAL* top 5 reasons that teacher recruitment and retention is in a dire state in England. *not actually official and just our opinion In this episode, we speculate on five particular elements of the career which we think are contributing the most to teachers quitting at an alarming rate! Fun fact: in 2022, 12.8% of newly qualified teachers quit within their first year... Join us as we explore some more juicy numbers and try ever-so-hard to get to the bottom of why. If you h...

Every single teacher in the country knows the impact of *that call*. We reflect on our recent Ofsted inspection in detail & give valuable insight to the procedure and what we experienced as maths leads involved in a maths deep dive. Whether you work in a school who are due an inspection or just want to know what the process involves, this is a must listen episode! If you have any questions about the process and want to know more, get in touch! Teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com @teachsleeprepeatpodca...

Welcome back! It's been an extremely eventful couple of weeks. Dylan became a dad! And Hayden is not far behind... We also had OFSTED in this week, and they deep dived our subject: maths. We'll be going into a lot more detail on this in a future episode, so stick around! I think it's safe to say we lose the plot in this episode. Dylan's childhood tales have Hayden pretty much in tears of laughter. Thank you for listening and hope you enjoy! Feel free to write to us any time: Instagram: @teachsle...

Join us for a particularly special episode in which we share some awesome news with you: our much-loved customers! I mean audience...Besides our BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS, we get weirdly deep and discuss self-diagnoses, religion and perform impressions of the Tasmanian Devil... I'm not sure what to say really. It's an odd one. Hopefully by the end you'll understand exactly why!We also host a Q&A section and answer some of the questions that you've written in. So if you want to hear more about Hayden...

We all remember our favourite teaching assistants from when we went to school. They are the glue that holds things together and are an amazing support system not only for students, but teachers too.We talk about the role, how it’s being squeezed, and the slow transformation of the role into something that is paid extremely little but with more and more responsibility piled on.We also have a few messages to chat about from you lovely listeners and catch up on our week!Thank you for listenin...

Helllllloooooooo again and welcome back to another episode of Teach, Sleep, Repeat!We are keeping the face-to-face podcasts AND we genuinely think this is one of our funniest episodes yet.Get ready for a whirlwind tour of Hayden's latest stag do adventures, Dylan's Harvest Festival song game (pure laughter) and our good old chat answering the question posed in the title of this podcast....What is the point of marking?It's time consuming. It's not very helpful. Why do we continue to think...

Join sweaty messes Dylan and Hayden for the second instalment of 'recording a podcast together in a tiny room'We discuss how we're banned from working in the same year group, our general classroom banter and our opinions on children's behaviour. How much impact does school really have on a child's behaviour?Thank you for listening or watching. We love our loyal customers. We love it even more when you write to us!Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcastEmail: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com

New school year = New season!We are back after a week off and we are actually together in person!We talk about the start to the school year, moving house on the last day of the summer holidays, and discuss an email from a listener who is already disgruntled! Oh and the small matter of a whole bunch of schools potentially about to collapse...Thank you for listening or watching. We hope you enjoy the (awful) Geordie accents.Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcastEmail: teachsleeprepeatpod@gma...