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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 heal…

Hello and welcome to a laid-back, fun bitesized episode from Dylan & Hayden.We enjoy some more blind ranking, discuss how much money our fingers are worth & Hayden tried to catch out Dylan with the ultimate friendship quiz.If you want to lighten up your commute, this might just be the thing…

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 …

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 th…

More teachers than ever are quitting, which means even moreteachers than ever are currently thinking of taking the plunge and leaving the profession.Here are 5 things you should definitely try before packingit all in.These won’t work for everyone, but we’ve seen first-hand howthese small…

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: @tea…

With Hayden entering the new-dad club, the boys have anhonest discussion about the life-changing event of becoming a father. Fromfunny stories to serious thoughts, this is a must-listen for anyone wanting tolearn more about the process and the realities it entails.It is definitely the Best Hard…

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 …

Join us on our second BITESIZE episode where we talk throughthe completely serious and real TOP 5 ways to boost teacher wellbeing inschool!Each of these 5 steps have been meticulously crafted andthought through. This definitive list is absolutely real and definitely not amade up section to …

Welcome to the first in our new side-series - "Teach Sleep Repeat: Bitesize!"Most Mondays, we will top up your feed with a short episode. It could be anything... but it won't be long!We kick off with a Q&A special. There's not much we don't know about each other, but we found some bits!Let us kn…

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-l…

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 opinionIn this episode, we speculate on five particular elements of the career which we think are contributing the most to teachers quitting at an ala…

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 wa…

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 w…

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…

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 so…

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 gam…

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'…

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 …

The start of the new school year is just around the corner and we are super excited to get back teaching!We talk about all of our favourite top tips for stepping back onto the crazy rollercoaster ride that is Term 1 as a teacher.This covers everything from how to build relationships with yo…

The indisputable rise of teachers posting content on TikTok is causing heated online debate.From setting unrealistic expectations, to sometimes being an outright safeguarding issue, we discuss the topic in depth.- Does it encourage 'bad' teaching practice?- Are inexperienced staff havin…

Every teacher has heard it all before when it comes to the 13 weeks 'off' a year that we get.It's used as a stick to beat us with, to justify tonnes of extra work and (even though we are in a retention crisis) a reason as to why our job is 'easy'.So why do so many teachers struggle with the…

Lee Parkinson (A.K.A. Mr P) is a hugely popular primary school teacher who has grown a huge online following through offering training courses to school staff, creating funny education related memes & hosting an award-winning podcast with his brother (2 Mr Ps in a Podcast).Lee sat down with us …

The summer holidays are in full swing and we are carrying on with weekly episodes of the podcast!This week, Hayden takes the lead and is in complete control... And he wants to probe and find our more about Dylan's appearance (and win!) on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire a couple of years ago.…