Season 2
Feb. 25, 2024
Ep 51: The Best Things About Teaching Are.....
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 ...
Feb. 18, 2024
Ep 50: Top Tips To Avoid Teacher Burnout
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 ...
Feb. 11, 2024
Ep 49: Writing Assessment: How Many Schools Are Cheating The Broken System?
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 teache...
Feb. 4, 2024
Ep 48: Is OFSTED Actually About To Change For The Better?
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...
Jan. 28, 2024
Ep 47: The School Absence Crisis: What Caused It & How Can It Be Fixed?
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...
Jan. 21, 2024
Ep 46: Will The Teacher Workload Reduction Taskforce Actually Make A Difference?
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 r...
Jan. 7, 2024
Ep 45: Is The Primary School Timetable Fit For Purpose?
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% o...
Dec. 28, 2023
Ep 44: Hayden Vs Dylan: New Year's Resolution Challenge
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, govern...
Dec. 21, 2023
Ep 43: THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Secret Santa, Memorable Gifts & Why Turkey Is Massively Overrated
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...
Dec. 17, 2023
Ep 42: The Struggles Of Staying Fit And Healthy In Teaching: A Chat With Martin Malone (@TheTeachersPT)
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 aga...
Dec. 10, 2023
Ep 41: Christmas in School, Teacher Gifts & A Whole Bunch Of Owls
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 ...
Dec. 3, 2023
Ep 40: The Drastically Changing Teaching Profession: Chronic Underfunding, Enormous Workload & Dwindling Respect
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 ab...
Nov. 26, 2023
Ep 39: Can You Help Us?
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 ...
Nov. 19, 2023
Ep 38: Heather Wright & Jane Considine on Amazing Books, Boosting Writing & Representing Female Teachers
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 del...
Nov. 9, 2023
Ep 37: How Can We Fix Toxic Schools? (Problems And Solutions)
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 ow...
Nov. 2, 2023
Ep 36: Why Are SO Many Teachers Quitting? (Top 5 Reasons)
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 care...
Oct. 26, 2023
Ep 35: Our Ofsted Experience
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 dee...
Oct. 19, 2023
Ep 34: Becoming A Parent - Sleep Deprivation, Projectile Vomiting & Celebrating Farts!
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...
Oct. 5, 2023
Ep 33: Big Announcements!! (...And Some Other Stuff)
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...
Sept. 28, 2023
Ep 32: Teaching Assistants - The Unsung Heroes of Education
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, ho...
Sept. 21, 2023
Ep 31: What Is The Point Of Marking?
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 H...
Sept. 14, 2023
Ep 30: Is Behaviour Getting Worse?
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...
Sept. 7, 2023
Ep 29: New Year, Crumbling Schools & Geordie Accents
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 ...