Hayden. Yes, babe.
Just 10 episodes ago. We were nobodies.
Now look as relaxing in the Seychelles during the Easter
break. Cheers.
Who'da thought, me and you would
reach 10 billion weekly listeners in just ten episodes a
Dylan. Come on, wake up me.
What is the Easter holidays? You got 32 reports to write six
weeks of lessons to plan for maths English and the afternoon
subjects Anastasia and you've barely even touched last term's
marking, Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode
of teach sleep. Repeat, my name is Dylan and my
name is Hayden. And this is the big one episode
10. We are celebrating our 10th
week. Hey, Dan.
How's it feel? Double-digit?
Say that's pretty cool. I didn't think we'd make it past
about 34. Want to serve you.
So always a bonus, you know, we're still here.
Why is that? I know, I just thought we'd get
bored. No one's listening.
But we've got like, we got tons of listeners.
Now, Dylan tongue guy, 10 listeners.
Like that's like, yeah, so many listeners.
Okay, so we're here. We're carrying on and I think
we're planning to keep going. As far as I'm aware.
Yeah. Why not?
Why not, I was thinking of maybe replacing you, but I haven't
told you yet but I'm down to that when we get there any a
lesson and no not yet. But I did do a poll last week
and again people are Keen something we need to get on
Hayden is just sorting out a guest to come on.
The only thing is if a guest comes on it's just a
practicalities of it, isn't it? Had we need to get so you know
someone's might get them all ready make sure the internet's
all good but it should be something we can achieve and you
guys want it. So we're going to find a really
good guest to begin with. I was thinking Boris truss.
What do you think? Yeah, yeah.
I've I've heard he's a fan favorite from our last episode
so yeah, absolutely. Anyway it is halftime.
And I remember last time we did a podcast in half time, we spoke
about what been up to. It's only just started, but even
up to much yet Hayden. I've not been up two loads to
most of you. I've had a fairly relaxing start
to the half term because I've got a bit more coming up later
on this week. So I've got a stag do this
weekend or which I've been in charge of planning.
Which always just adds on that extra bit of pressure, you know,
like, I hope it's a good. I hope it's fun.
You can say, you can say it, we all know what it means, if
someone's in charge of planning a stag.
Do what's your official Rogers almost on the best?
Man? And the best man, so I can
actually tell you what it is even though it obviously,
recording this few days before this will come out in the day
over there so it's all good. So for our stag do, we're going
up to the Lake District? And we're doing Gorge walking
which involves just generally climbing things, jumping in
water and Having a having a blast too much for you but bit
of Interest day, however, I am excited for it but I was a
little bit worried today but yesterday in fact, because I
went out the front of my house to just sweep up my driveway a
bit right? And I was exhausted.
Afterwards honest, I like my legs hurt and I was like oh,
he's sweeping for you know, three minutes.
Okay, I'm going to be climbing. This is gorgeous for six hours,
right? Yeah.
Bit worried. You know I'm going to say, don't
you? Go on.
We went out for lunch. The day and we had to walk up.
What was genuinely genuinely. Like, like, honestly 20 meters
of a hill and we got to the top. And I told you, and I said,
please tell me you're sorry, I can't even finish the sentence
because I was breathing so much from the tiny Hill there.
Because you literally said, I really say that.
I'll tell you when we're inside God, no, yes, it's bit.
Embarrassing, really, we need to sort ourselves out, Dylan.
You know, you're nearly 30, I'm 30 we go, we can't do this
declining in. Physical health, but you know
what? Okay, that's okay, them for
future us. How was your week?
Yeah, I do, it's been fine. It's like you said, I've
definitely had a day or two. I don't know about everyone else
this into this, especially if their teachers, but the end of
term for I just feel like everything kind of culminates,
you know, you tend to start thinking about reports, you tend
to have parents evening to go to you just kind of becoming
fatigued, right? And the two-week break comes at,
such, a good point. So, I've definitely been been
lounging around a bit, which is much needed.
But, Also, find, you know, I'm very much like we said before,
Sunday's, like, admin days when you're a teacher, because
Saturday, you end up doing a bit of work Sunday.
Maybe you work a bit, but you just got to get like even just
as an adult Sunday's just turning to the day, where you
get your washing done, you have to go shopping.
Just a really boring day that if you had to tell my 10 year, old
self that had to be dragged away from my connects and my Bernard
Bionicles, they'd be devastated but the really boring adult day.
So what I found is half terms tend to be an extreme version of
that. So the last couple days.
I feel like I've done nothing but But boring stuff, but it's
good because like you I'm getting ready for stuff later in
the future. So I've come run mine, beginner
a foreign company, but did go to yours with them yesterday.
That's not what I was talking about, it definitely was.
But now I've been doing lots of, you know, solicitor paperwork
when the process of trying to sell the house that took out.
It's just so straight anyone who's moved house, like I wish
someone just told me beforehand, like what an absolute stress is.
Little things like updating my contract on my phone, you know,
all those tiny jobs which just kind of wait until you've got
headspace to do you leave him alone.
He's doing your 12 hour days. Yeah, exactly.
So all the important things I'm sure next week on the podcast
we'll talk about much more exciting stuff because we got
family coming to visit with so excited, I little niece is
coming to visit. So what we've just been doing,
they're actually just now before this podcast, we recorded we
went out just to get some stuff because when she comes over,
she's from America, they live in America.
So we've not seen that much. She was born in China, aah in
the height of covid. So very, very, very hard to have
ever seen her. I've never met her myself.
So, I'm meeting her for the first time and what we were
doing was just then we went out and we bought her just some bits
to have when she gets here last night and we obviously just
getting a bit overexcited. A very, very looking forward to
seeing her because she likes Paw Patrol.
She likes Disney. So he went to the card shop and
I'm sure everyone knows those huge balloons.
You can get. Yeah, but they kind of blow up
for you. And there was a huge, Paw
Patrol, 10, and a, My Little Pony one, cause she really likes
that as well. That's obviously where stood
there. See.
These tiny packs they're like 15 centimeters by 10 centimeters.
So, oh yes, let's get two of them for her.
Be so fun, obviously, forgetting that they're about to be blown
up. These are like one meter tall
genuinely or just dropped apps that you shove them in the car.
It was the most stressful experience ever, I think.
Now we're going to pop but we made it.
She's got two massive balloons to have when she comes and I
can't wait for her to just ignore them when she gets.
Yeah every child does give you three seconds of attention on
them and never look them again, you're like okay I'll play of it
then. Oh, was that the Kaaba?
Box. It all came in are playing that
for four hours and pay downs but in, but now it's been a, it's
been a very, what's the word when you know, doing Adam, any
kind of job so far but I'm like a dollar to it.
Yeah, I do. It's just, it's just like,
obviously adults. One more blank about this
because I feel growing up, you just realize.
Oh, this is just what an adult does we, you just have to do
loads of washing every single week and go shopping every
single week and it's so boring and I think it's okay to say
everyone listening to this is going.
Yes, I know it's boring day. Grow up when we grow until
Injustice more boring listening to you talking about it.
So thanks. That's what I was thinking right
now. I think in brilliant everybody
watching this lesson. Dillon shut up.
Give us the funny kid stories from school.
That's what we live here last episode.
And we know that you guys are going to talk about more Primary
School experiences which is exactly why we gonna do.
Oh, what an excellent segue. Yeah, brilliant segue.
We should, we should just play the, we should just play the
jingle there, to be honest. But now I carried on talking
like always there was a jingle different but now it's gone.
No, I could we could edit this out but we're not going to do
it. If that's okay.
What we gonna do is we're going to move on because we can go
straight to stories but this time it's different.
Like we said last week, we teased you with it.
Oh stories from our Primary School experiences.
Okay. And we've had a couple of people
right in as well. So we picked one or two stories
to read out. So essentially just thinking of
memorable stuff from when we were kids at primary school.
I'm looking forward to this one because it is you know anyone
can relate to this now. Absolutely.
Anyone connectors? We all went to Primary School.
We've all got Ridiculous stories that we love to share and it
kind of started it last week because I want to jog my memory
because you're going to come in with this story which is an
unbelievable story. We can't wait to try this, it's
just like funny to me but it's linked to the one I told last
week about how I was trying to make new friends.
I just joined the new school went to the toilet at break
time. I've never used a year Rio.
I also had someone complained to me about I called a urinal.
Apparently, it's a urinal. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, urinal.
I said apparently. So anyone wants to take up the
way I pronounce things, please take out with the northern
Association because I am from the north Aiden.
And then of you, I was going to say, it's just the northern you.
I forgive you. This other things, you know?
Yeah. Also apparent I mentioned a lot
as well that I'm from the north. But but yeah, whatever.
I'm proud. Okay.
Once before. Good.
Not once. No, I'm not.
I am though. I am a northerner.
I'm at huh? Yeah.
Yeah, not tell, you know, I don't know that but you're from
down in. Okay, I'm from the north of the
country, honestly, the better half, but let's go into another
day, but the story was that I went to the toilet.
I had never used a urinal or a urinal ever before and I thought
was completely acceptable just to whack my pants and my
trousers all went down to my ankles and she quickly found
out. It wasn't not the best first
impression but this story I want you to tell it Hayden because
this this was just brilliant. It was in direct response to
them. All right, girls have had a
story and it's nice and simple. But yeah, very similar.
You'll see the comparisons. So this person wrote in and she
was reflecting on a story from I think reception time she was
saying to me at the time, so from reception time.
So I'm laughing already. So So, you know, when you're
that age and just nothing's rational yet, is it, you're kind
of making sense of the world, you have don't have much life
experience. Anyway, so she was jealous
essentially jealous because she had found out that the boys got
to stand up when they weed. She was like, what?
That sounds amazing. That sounds like the best way to
we. So being a reception child, she
took herself to the toilet and tried to stand up and we and of
course being Like a five-year-old four-year-old
girl, just it up and we'd all over herself.
We all have her clothes and there was like, okay, that's
that's pretty rubbish. Obviously didn't work left and
the teachers were like, oh dear and start accusing her of
wetting herself. And again being like, you know,
when you're that young, she couldn't look past her and she's
like, no I haven't wet myself. I haven't weighed myself.
I was trying to be like a boy. I haven't wet myself.
I wasn't being standing up is that?
Well you know you are covered in.
We though so you've went no I don't mind.
Self. I was just I was just waiting
standing up. That's a good show.
You haven't wet yourself. What's that smell friendly?
Why is there a little bit of we in fact loads of we on the
floor, little over the seat and the rest is on you.
That looks to me like you've got yourself.
Could you please define what in yourself?
So yeah, very similar to your story.
Just being an arrogant child and be like, no, I have not been
myself. That's a different act.
I have, we done myself, that's different.
It was purposeful get out of my face teacher.
Yeah, I've got a story. Can I give you can I jump in
with a story, just a sip, not similar, but it's me really
young as well. And I was thinking, yeah, this
and just one of those stupid moments where you think what was
I thinking? What was I thinking?
I wasn't embarrassingly. This wasn't reception.
I was in about your five at this point.
So you think this was the last year ladies and gentlemen.
It was in this fourth year yet when I worked in year.
Five know. So when I was in year 5, so
what's that? Nine years, old.
Nine years old. Yeah, and I in the morning, my
best friend at the time was my best friend for much longer
after this as you can, possibly imagine thought.
It'd be funny to throw chewing gum at me and I don't think he
was intentionally trying to get it like in my hair but it landed
in my hair, right? Which is obviously.
Wait, wait, wait. Sorry.
Your hair. Yeah.
So back in the day Dylan I had more, I had more Luscious Hair
than this and this concoct not gotta let ho did you always Have
that bigger forehead though. I'd like to say no but I did.
I always one of my nicknames. The secondary school was big
forehead can isolate a genocide nickname.
That's just describing it often came.
They often came from across the playground.
Didn't know who it was but you know it's just a nickname isn't
people. Obviously I just never saw them
at no attention. That's not a nickname that
that's not. Does that like nicknames her to
have layers of like Nuance describing what they can see on?
Okay, I can't. It's myself as a nickname
because otherwise it's bullying. So I know it's a nickname.
They like me hear those kids are still kids from the air above
shouting at me across the hallway.
They're just my friends. Anyway, it's a nickname.
So back big forehead little me with a mop of hair okay.
A nice mop of hair are lad. Got some chewing gum in my hair
and it was before school that bitter playground time before
the whistle goes and you go in. So I thought, right?
Come on Problem. Solver, what can I do here?
I, you know, I don't I'm Obviously is chewing gum in my
hair. I think the best course of
action is to go sneak inside sneak to my tray.
In the classroom, the window allowed in yet, because no one's
there and cut it out, that way the best course of action.
So went in there, it was right in my crown right here, the back
of my head and obviously I can see it.
So I thought okay it doesn't feel like too much.
I've grabbed the hair with the chewing gum in it and thought
right minimized it I'll just cut just believe the chewing gum.
I just cut that bit out. Did it chucked?
It away? You know, legs back outside,
Bish bash, Bosh. Glad no one's going to know now
that that's happened. I'd ask it my friend in trouble.
I'm not in trouble. Anyway, fast forward, five
minutes should go inside and the teacher was like, whoa, what
have you done? I just cut the biggest lump
clump of hair out and I had a big patch.
They have to go home, obviously, cried, and it, and it never grew
back. I did this.
I repeated this process six or seven times, and that's where
I'm at now. Okay, so they call me, big
forehead, they call me chewing gum head as well.
Don't know what, you know, these names disappeared over the
years. So that's just, that's my
idiotic moment. I'll always remember as a child
too, afraid to just do the right thing and just ask for help and
that ladies and gentlemen, is how Hayden went bald.
Thank you for tuning in as an amazing story.
But the thing, the thing I love about Primary School Stories is
when I thought about this a few times, I know we've spoken about
this before because it's really mad some Kind of duality of with
primary school teachers and we're very aware of our
Consciousness, right? We're very aware of the memories
were making. I can remember lots and lots and
lots from pretty much every year where I've been a teacher.
But, and you see these children who have their own
personalities, they're already molded into their own people and
they're very specific and very real emotions and very real
problems, right? That we deal with every day, but
then I remember and I try to think back to primary school and
I don't remember a lot of stuff if I'm perfectly honest, and
it's really weird to think Look how much we think we're
affecting these children's lives?
And we are we're like giving them developing them in certain
ways in motion the education in and it all like kind of
compounds it where they remember it or not.
But it is really interesting to me to think back to what I
actually remember from primary school because the things I
remember are the really like emotional moments or something.
Where a teacher really helped me to grasp something.
Or I was half or those trips, those enrichment things, the the
fun, the stuff that we're so scared about that.
We're losing so much from education, right?
Out that they're the things I really, really remember.
Like I remember so vividly and I don't know.
Lots of people, our age will remember this as well.
We had a school trip and it was arranged and we are would have
been in year for I think it was a school trip to the Natural
History Museum. Firstly, what?
A peak trip to go on, like unbelievable.
When you're in here for walking in and seeing I know it's a
whale now but it used to be a massive dinosaur like that was
such an or inspiring moment, like, but that's not even the
point. I'm making the thing.
I remember, I'm more than anything from that day.
It was the World Cup. The 2002 World Cup.
It was in Japan. I think, or South Korea, Japan,
and South Korea. England were playing Brazil.
And we went into school early because we were getting a coach.
And we watched the first half in the hall and you see all those
means online of that television being rolled in, you know, the
VHS Anthony who yes, literally what happened.
And I remember. So vividly, we watch the first
half and I was a member because I think was Michael Owen who
scored and it therefore went crazy.
It was like the biggest Spring in the world.
And then Brazil equalised. We had to go, though.
We had to go on the coach and we were devastated.
Were gutted, because obviously, obsessed with football then, and
we went on to the coach and I always remember my teacher, my
PE teacher at the time he was training as well just to become
a teacher funnily enough. This is the same person from our
bungo story from our second podcast.
He was my teacher as I am that working with him.
Anyway, he had like a really state-of-the-art handheld TV
thing had this huge antenna coming out of it too.
Receive like the signal of the television and this tiny, tiny
screen. And he was sat on the coach
watching the game and the whole coach was side at like staring
at him, like, waiting for him to say something and then, and then
Brazil scored and Brazil won. And we were just like, oh, and I
remember because we got off the coach and obviously went to, we
went to the Natural History Museum.
We had a bit of a walk once we got on the coach and this car
drove past waving this massive Brazil flag, and but, but, but
it's so vivid those memories and It links in with everything,
that everything fun trip. You do those big projects.
I did a project on space, like, it just like blew my mind
because I could just, we spent weeks just researching what we
wanted to look up. And I found it so fat.
I learnt so much and that's what I think sometimes is slightly
concerning maybe from our point of view is that we are losing
maybe a lot of that is the first thing to go, especially post
covid. Yeah.
And I wonder why as well. I often think is you know what?
Firstly is that true? Is it?
Across all the schools, you know, the country that we're
losing that or is it just a kind of localized experience and,
and, secondly, sort of why is it?
Do you think because of the pressures, perhaps of, of the
curriculum nowadays, we're leaving it.
But you're right there, I'm just going to jump on like thinking
about like just reminiscent of it because I was trying to
think. Can I remember a single time in
my entire primary school experience, where I was doing
work in a book? And I honestly can't, I was
trying so hard to think of a memory that I have.
And the only things I remember about actual lesson time, One
making a World War Two booklet then.
Yes it is. I remember doing it because I
got I to actually spend a really good amount of time doing all
the illustrations and make it. I loved it.
I really don't like the planets. The planets thing I spoke about.
I remember an acrostic poem down the side.
Yeah, I did that as a title page for every single planet and I
remember doing it, I love it, if it's fun.
I also remember the classic lesson of electricity where we
got all of the crocodile Clips out and the bulbs and stuff, you
know, each and I just I remember I want to just get them all.
I'll super inspired by it, and I wanted All of them.
I was like I was thinking, I wonder if after school I could
stay and maybe I could get all of the crocodile clips and other
stuff. And I can make this massive
circuit, and I was imagining him.
I didn't remember this silly irrational thought I was like,
imagining this like floating ball of crocodile Clips, right?
Made this crazy. Can, like, Contraption out of
electricity, but like it, even though it was nonsense, it
didn't matter because I loved it.
And I couldn't have wanted to be there anymore, but I don't
remember a single English lesson.
I don't remember a single Mass Essen.
I honestly, just don't, and I loved maths as well.
I don't remember sitting there and Doing things.
I just have those memories of like special moments.
Another one, for example, was when we got a new library, my
primary school, we didn't really have a proper library and they
built in this like upstairs part to the corridor because it's a
really tall Corridor. They managed to.
It's basically like yeah this is really cool.
They just built in this whole Landing part and it was a nice
balcony. Almost yeah, that's exactly what
it was. Is like an indoor balcony but
really themed it was quite like low lighting but like jungle
theme and I just remember being And I wasn't really a big reader
then but that that maybe want to go and read.
I wanted to go and sit in there because it was awesome.
Looking. Yeah, it's just funny, isn't it?
How, and I just reflect on my own practice now and I think,
yeah, definitely, what am I doing?
That's the thing because I think it's really though really
important point to make that just because we can't remember
those English and maths lessons. Clearly, they were building on
each other, clearly. Those small steps were like,
helping us to make progress and it's all really important and
it's not just a simple case. Of obesity while I remember
this. So it's good.
And I don't remember that. So we class of course, but but
there, but there is still such a powerful thing to say, the
anything I remembrance stands out from school like you're
saying your new library. I remember the day.
Our school got a computers computer, sweet just be one
computer in each classroom. Then we've got our computer,
sweet. I remember the day that our
teacher told us guys, and they even said this, like I that they
must have just been being honest.
I like, guys, we've got some funding, we've got some money.
I don't know whether it was from vouchers or what.
But, we've got some money for new playground equipment, and
they let us look through the booklets, look, through the
things and say, what kind of stuff we want?
I remember that. And then it got delivered to the
school. And I was like, there was this
space operas, you can stand on and I was still it's and it was
like, the best thing that could ever happen.
And, and I just feel like in the grand scheme of, like, the cost
of stuff. These, these small moments for
our children are just Priceless, aren't they?
Because you don't know. You can never tell what every
child's getting outside of school, and I just think as a
society and as a country, As a government as it has a group of
teachers, there's such value empowering money into our kids.
Whether it's these resources, these special days, these
amazing things that I remember for the rest of their lives
School. Dinners, like why can't we feed
our kids properly? Why is that even a political
question that the nutrition of our next generation is in
question. I don't understand it.
Yeah. Now you're absolutely right.
We should be prioritizing these things going outside.
Is one thing that in my teaching practice I've always Ways are
periodically anyway, particularly when it gets nice
and sunny in the year, right? I reflect back to times when I
was a kid where I loved it. When I teach it, took us outside
to go and do some like observational drawing or
something that I just enjoyed so much and I'll have these moments
like maybe weeks or months in the year.
I'm like it's nice outside what can I do to get my kids outside?
And I'll think I'll try and change my lesson so that we can
go outside and do it or we can, you know, take the learning
outside because I just know that they'll enjoy that thoroughly
compared to whatever. That plan that day and I'll just
try to get out as much as possible when I think more and
more about Primary School, such a big part of it as well.
Which makes sense now because it is such a big part of school
life so I can see why. But for me personally was the
whole sport acts aspect, that that was that was a huge you
know the feeling of your teacher saying to you at 2:50 guys you
can go and get changed. You've got a football match
after school. The feeling of standing up out
of your chair and walking out as everyone else.
Finishes their work is the best feeling in the world.
Ugh. Yeah, sorry guys.
I was gonna go grab my shin pads because I'm getting changed for
a football game. I'm a pro and I'll always
remember. Yeah, I'll always remember this
one game because it's hilarious, looking back, but in the moment,
I felt so accomplished. Right?
So I'll tell you, the reason why I felt accomplished, then I'll
give you the context as to why it's hilarious.
So, I played a game. It was my first game for the
school because I was quite late in terms of getting into sports
and football. So, as we said, previously, I
don't have, I mentioned this, but I am from the north.
So, I moved down here and I joined a new school as we said,
Yes, Ray and it's probably if or when I played my first game for
the school because only in year 3 when I moved down here that I
actually get into football properly, right?
So I got into the team. My first ever game, it was a
friendly with another school was away so we drove the minivan
over there. Most exciting day of my life
ever. I started the game up front.
I scored a goal. First goal ever scored, ever in
any competition playing football at any point.
And I remember on the, on the wall at school are sports coach
the same. When I mentioned, Earlier, I
would always put up a sheet of paper with whoever played, you
know, the team list for the whole school to see who scored
my name was there. And it said at the bottom, man
of the match and it was my name as well as on the window and
it's the best feeling ever. But what's absolutely hilarious
looking back is that it was the beating.
So I was paying for the beating, not even the 18.
The second thing was we lost 11 1 plus 11 one, that's what I
scored. The only goal of the match from
my team not of the actual home and we lost the game with you
still, Out good. And that, that makes me just
think, oh, maybe I. Maybe I need to put more time
into those moments because it's so easy to overlook them now.
Isn't it as adults? And there's a million other
things to think about to forget that.
Yeah. It might be a little thing for
us and like, really are better paper now you just be so easy,
wouldn't it just not print that bit of paper because you got
something else to do. But for that, for that kid for
you, little you that even though you lost seeing your name next,
to man of the match, I'm probably some like Microsoft
Word or even just handwritten piece of paper, then.
Yeah, it was, it was. All right.
It was a word doc nothing fancy. But it It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter because I'm 29 and I'm sat here now, talking
about it. How crazy is that?
That decision of that teacher, I'll always be great, you know,
because because that teacher, I know always puts the kids first
every single decision they make because I worked with this
teacher for a bit as well, when I'm every single decision at the
Forefront of his mind was houses benefiting the children, what
the children getting out of it. And I think it can so quickly
become lost sometimes and yeah, I'm guilty of it.
To where you see a curriculum in front of you, you feel the
pressure of delivering the curriculum, you are under
pressure to do X, Y Zed, but when we strip it back, what's
going to have the most impact on the children?
It's them feeling special, it's them feeling loved.
It's them feeling appreciated and it's those huge.
Wow moments that actually I think more and more I need to
make sure that I continue doing as I go through the profession
and not get ground down by it. And actually when I look at an
afternoon lesson and it's DT and we're building these huge
structures, it's not a bad thing.
It's something. In that, I'm going to actually
reddish now, because I'm so cool.
This child. And they're 25 might look back
and go. How do you remember when we made
a dome in our classroom and it was huge.
Yeah, I'd be teaching was really stressed.
We had a great day and I think it just that's true.
Isn't it stress? The stress levels of doing those
kind of things can be huge, which I think highlights the
kind of fundamental issue. I'm not going to talk about it
much because we did talk about analyzed episodes I go and check
that out if you want to. I've just there's too many jobs
too little time. So when I can understand
literally from first time, Parents as well.
When you are when you get on a Monday or even on a Sunday
before you started your week. And you can already see that
there are more hours of work to do than you.
Then you're going to work the next week already like your
timetable is already, completely filled, plus more.
You can see why it's so tempting to not print that little sheet
of that kid's name on it and put it up on the wall.
You can see why that doesn't happen.
Perhaps as much now as it does, when y lots of teachers reflect
on teaching, 20 years ago and say, yeah, we used to do way
more of that stuff. I can see that now.
Now, but I tell you what, leading on from that.
But yeah, we've talked about lessons and things you remember
from primary school, I'm sure everyone listening has specific
things they remember. But I tell you what, I do
remember and this this may be like, hints as towards what kind
of people they were? I remember every single teacher,
I remember every single teacher that I had, I do from, when I
joined the school in year, 3 year 4 year, 5 year 6.
And I remember when I trained to become a teacher again not
again. Sorry when I trained the first
time. Become a teacher, you have to
spend a certain number of days, you only ones that spend a
certain number of days just in a school before you do anything.
That's very cool. I can't read what they're
called. They've got specific name, but
you have to do them. You're not working.
You don't actually like doing groups or anything like that.
You just in a school because I think the point is you need to
spend 10 days in a school, to make sure actually it's the
environment for you and you're sure you want to go for my
dissertation on that stuff. Yeah.
It makes complete sense to schools are very specific
environment. So to say, you want to be a
teacher ever being in a school would be a bit crazy.
Really, so it's good to go and check it out and obviously I
reached out to my old school because at that point so any
primary school, you know, as a young man you don't know any
other primary schools other than the one you went to.
And I think this is a common theme having worked in primary
schools, the overwhelming joy that one of their extra people
is is reaching out to them like it's a really they love it and
having seen it kind of happened in schools where in now it makes
sense because if one of my children emailed me when they're
older and said all kind of come into the score but I oh my gosh.
Yes and I had this moment actually impair.
Evening this week, we had Parents evening in our school.
Talking told my current classes parents going really well,
having a chat, and then in one of the, the downtime, one of my,
one of my pupils has a brother who's in primary school, but
she's gone. Secondary school.
And she was my, one of my pupils in the class that got shot
because of lockdown in March, 20, 20 in.
Yeah, and it was in year 5, so she's in year eight or nine.
Now, I think wherever it would be but she's in secondary school
and she and her mom and her Her brother and her dad,
specifically had came to my room knowing that it was parents
evening. Yeah, just to see me just for
her to see me and catch up and it was so nice to see.
And actually just goes back to what we said last week about
our, we play ourselves into helping these children and you
know, just just the fact they came around to see me.
It sounds crazy but I was just so it's thank you.
It's so nice to see you. We had a little chat and the
classic you know, teenage slightly awkward but clearly
wanted to come and say hi and it was just really Nice to have to
see them and see how much they've grown, but they kind of
Link's back to what they're saying.
They're right about, you know, teachers and the bond they make
it has an impact because I remember them.
And I was so like overwhelmed, not overwhelmed but Overjoyed to
actually see them again because they were nice to me.
I remember like it because you know I think just because you're
a child, sometimes I think a lot of adults might think are, you
know, it's treat them like children.
It's fine by. Remember them being nice to me.
I remember them going out of their way to help me.
And when I saw them as an adult, I was like Hello, it's so nice
to see you and they remember, do you remember?
It's crazy eyes exactly the same.
I went to I went to my primary school when I did those or 10
days. I ended up volunteering for
quite a bit actually before I go into teaching.
And yeah, it was just such a wonderful experience and I'm
really thankful actually, because the lady who I was with
most of the time, which is Port. I'm not afraid to say her name
because big shout out to you. Who, who?
Let me in her class. She's our fourth listener.
But yeah, here we go. You wish you mrs.
Porter, don't forget Boris trust.
Oh, yes, very and she. It's just I just loved it.
I loved every moment I was in there and it confirms me I was
like, yeah cool. This, what I want to do, I want
to work with kids, they are awesome, but but I could have
easily like looking, you know, knowing being in the Korean
after eight years. I could easily have just been
kind of bummed off. As I was just volunteered.
I just we're busy were busy busy, just put them over there.
Let make it get him to do some backs and displays or something.
Just got me out the way, you know, easily, but she didn't she
was really lovely and, and gave me lots of valuable experiences
with the children. So I could really work out
whether I want to do this or not so that was great.
Now I know that people listening as well, if You know, we want
more stories. I hopefully if you're listening
to this, you're thinking of your reminiscing.
Now, on some of your famous Primary School memories, we
would love to hear them genuinely.
We really want to see them even if they don't get feature on the
podcast because, you know, 5,000, people write in to us,
very likely, we'd still like to read them.
Anyway, just to feel that kind of joy, and maybe we can pick
out a couple of stories gonna read them.
Anyway, we're gonna read them anyway.
Oh, there we go, comes the memes.
But yes, please be right in th sleep, repeat pod, is that right
at gmail.com. That's right.
Well done on Instagram. You can shoot, you can check us
out at each Loop, repeat podcast, then I would it make
them saying therefore there we are the different so well,
someone moaned about the length. Yeah, I thought, well, I'll make
it even longer but I'm spiteful and I think very quickly.
But lean on what you said. I'm going to shout out my
teachers from primary school. I'm gonna do so yeah.
Yeah, sorry mrs. Wood, well done, absolutely
cracking cracking teacher-led. No introduced me to life in the
South and you know didn't make me feel like an outsider mrs.
Walker year for always with a guitar in hand she made.
I joined the choir not much of a singer, but she believed in me
felt good. It was in the choir, we won
stuff. Excellent religion.
Always remember her. Then a, why this sticks in my
head but she's playing the guitar and she's going, she's
teaching us a song. It was a him or something.
And she would say, the no of she would say the name of the note
as she was playing the note sometimes and it just always
thought of me her go dese us. The I don't even know what that
means though. But is it something to do music?
I don't know, but I remember it, I remember is good.
They're doing is so mr. Branton year five, John I
remember about mr. Branson and yes.
I've grown when we had a good week with fill up a jar of
marbles so the top we get a tree.
We could watch mr. Beam on the TV, that's a
brilliant. Watch mr.
Bean. Absolutely loved it heightened.
My love of Comedy I think thank you mr.
Branton and yes six mr. Letts mr.
Letts was the man who pushed me and pushed me and pushed me
especially with math. So I was a member because he
loved maths, I loved maths and I remember you were saying you
don't really remember doing much work.
I remember doing working U6 because he would give me really
tricky mask. Questions.
And it would always say, at the bottom, as like, a little
challenge in the mass booklet, it was called, let's
investigate. And it was like this open ended
problem, right? I remember doing them so much
because it was like, cool, wild Ellen.
You can do everything. So, let's investigate and I was
like, oh, let's investigate. It was all about like, shakes.
And I remember something to symmetry.
Yep. And each teacher, I have such a
specific memory of how they were.
And if they ever do, listen to this, I'm just going to say
thank you to them because you had an impact, and you have any
impact that. I hope I'm having now.
So, thanks. I was just a And so all for
listeners right now, what you need to do is go on social media
and just shout out. Some shout out a teacher you
know, that made a difference to you because I tell you what,
they probably worked their socks off back then, shout Mount say
something. Nice.
I'm going to shower at one of my teachers won't go through all of
them. One of my teachers year three
and year for she was Miss Dunn thorn in your three.
She got married over the summer. Came back as mrs.
Plankin and she bet she was gutted when she saw you there
faster? Yeah.
Oh man. She was just such a lovely
teacher. I got on Facebook to answer for
you. I've got a face, but now we're
adults here. Every week, we cook up some
point later in life, and it was great and just want to shout out
because she made a huge difference to my charted and
maybe really love learning. And that is when my lover lonely
kicked in. I was around that time, I
realized I could do stuff. And I worked really hard and
like you said she pushed me. So yeah, yeah, big up that they
got the primary school teachers that helped T.
Reckon if we met these people again, right in real life that
we'd regress 28 year old selves. Hey Miss hey Miss, I'd like to
think so yeah. Yeah, no.
Last night at the register for you, please get what you want in
a pub. Sorry.
Miss there is something about seeing your old teachers.
There was no way you do. You do naturally just it feels
weird calling the by that name, I still wouldn't want to call
them both. Oh, I don't like that.
Yeah, well, the thing is, as well as we work in primary,
obviously, but obviously, because we are older.
I have far more memories of secondary as well, and this is
equivalent teachers there. Maybe, maybe we do, you know,
teacher shout out of the week, and we just think of a teacher,
that's, you know, influence their lives for a bit and our
last forever eventually. Hey, it's called being nice.
Okay. Yeah because you know why don't
you I'm making this a thing. So one day someone shouts me out
on a West Side, start the name the wheels already so good luck.
Already ahead of myself there then we're gonna defy teachers a
week. Oh man.
Anyway 5th, 5th, every five minutes, jitka duct, you up.
I really want to tell on the flip side now and embarrassing
story. I've done some other kind of
funny things and I guess a hairpin is very interesting.
Yeah. They have been welcomed a little
bit so that's amazing. Like, that's just like Dopey
asking. So silly like, what am I doing?
I do those. Yeah, but this one's actually
embarrassing one of those moments.
That is a core. Three.
Because it will embarrass me to my core literally, you know, I
mean, and I'll never forget that and I'll never forget that after
the word Corrigan. Yeah, I know.
And I like how you explain what a core memory was by saying
Corrigan. I definitely.
Yeah, good. That's what a good teacher does
explains a word with the same word.
That's how you. That's how you understand?
Therefore, no, wonder, what do you think it means?
Look at the root word. They're obviously shit up,
right? So I was in year 6.
It's actually really embarrassing.
I feel embarrassed telling a story so stupid.
Six, I wasn't listened. You were the football kid,
right? You were like into the furball?
I couldn't have cared less about football.
I was the one who'd I just want. I just wanted to do maths and
draw stuff, and, but to try and fit in.
I was also very conscious of that I want I didn't want to be,
you know, separate everyone else.
So I'd be like Michael Owen is started kicking in but like I
didn't know what was very quickly come in.
Could I really quickly come in? What?
Because of the most hilarious thing ever is you still say
Michael? I know because it's because of
primers could experience, it's become Email because I still
don't. I'm not interested in football.
I might watch the World Cup, that's about it.
But yeah, I still when I'm joking around with you, I'm just
trying to take the mick out. People that are getting really
into cook with my company. I'm just like, yeah, Michael
Owen is good. Is he always go to my fellowmen?
And that's because of my primary school experiences anyway.
So I was like going to get. Anyway, that's so the kind of
cool kids were in what I deemed as the cool kids were all having
a chat and it was a group of girls at this point was in the
classroom, I remember it. And for some reason I thought I
was kind of around and maybe sucked into the conversation.
And And one of the girls they were clearly talking about like
you know, they're unisex, they were they were growing older and
things were changing and I was mostly been a bit nosy or
something and they said they didn't have you started your
period. I had no idea what they were
talking about but I didn't want to sound uncool.
So what did I say? I just I just blacked it and I
was I yeah yeah, yeah. And then they all laughed so
much of me like they found it hilarious.
Like Aussie, just trying to trap me.
This question. I had no idea.
I took a gamble, I do want to be uncool, and then they just rinse
me, and I would read as anything.
And I just, you know, try to play it off, classic thing.
I was most kids would laugh and cry.
I'd be like, I take it on the chin, but inside dying, you
know, of embarrassment. And yeah, never forget that.
Never forget that, that taught me a lesson there.
That's like the most extreme version of when you don't hear
someone and you just guess. Um, so yeah.
And your hope, you hope, A show. What's the time?
Sorry?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, didn't hear him saying?
Yeah, I'm on my period. Yeah.
Started it in your six. Thank you for that embarrassing.
But I wish they were like old enough to kind of keep the choke
going further than one moment and just try a kneecap yeah.
Fine actually it's fine. Yeah, it keeps me on get me to
like go and show in town of on the class that you just like,
completely embarrassed myself, man.
Well, it's funny. You should say that because this
is another thing that kind of X into my Teaching.
Right? Because I kind of I sometimes
forget the kind of kid I was, right?
Because I had a very like, almost two very different
primers or experiences from when before I moved house and down
here, too. When I was up north, right,
because it was basically infant school and set and Junior
School. Yep.
So it beforehand. So, after when we came down
here, like I said, I've got into football, I would say how you
describe much more of a classic lad, as much as I hate, that
kind of terminology. Elegy.
But you know it into the football sporty still very very
much into learning, absolutely love learning but that was kind
of from when I was an infant school because I was very very
awkward and I know you always make this joke.
Very awkward as a child. Yeah.
Okay. Just um quite awkward in
general, you know that especially in like new
situations with new people, I'm very like a kind of compensate
for it sometimes trying to be over-the-top and funnier than
that but like I am actually awkward.
I definitely don't overthink everything.
No no no definitely not definitely don't think
everything waves from thinking. Oh my In this, I need to say
something now us because they're going to think.
I'm like, no, not me. And you can tell, by the way I'm
rambling, this isn't definitely not a representation.
What goes on in my head when I'm with new people, definitely.
But anyway, before I move down, I was that kid.
I was that kid who didn't want to go outside?
Crippling like anxiety about going outside because I have
like one or two friends maximum and if they didn't want to play,
what I was playing. I was the kind of kid who really
struggled to find someone else to play with, and we see that
now. Don't worry, it's like, oh, but
they don't want to play with me and I think as adults, sometimes
we can just like, oh, we'll find someone else.
Like, but it was horrible for me to do that.
I didn't want to just go and find someone else, it wasn't as
easy as that for me, it was actually really scary.
So I to be the kid who the teachers would take time.
I don't remember these teachers unfortunately, but there is a
picture. I'm going to dig it out and put
it on Instagram. There is a picture because I was
obsessed with maths, right? As a child.
As a young kid before I went to school, I started learning my
times tables. No, my addition facts.
And it was just like my hobby before I went to school.
Yeah. So I kind of knew all like the
reception year one stuff just because it's what I did.
My granddad. He tests me out and we just do
that together, right? So, I was quite, I was just a
bit ahead on maps, basically, and I would stay in it break
times and I do the registers for the whole school and when I say
do the registers, what I mean is, I would take all the paper
registers because they were back then and I would work out the
percentages of their attendance, though.
I preach kid. Yeah.
So I'd be doing that for the office, they'd obviously looking
back. They clearly did it as well, but
they let me think I was doing it.
Yeah, and I'll be working at the percentage attendance reached
Each class and stuff. And but they'd always find
something for me to do where I didn't feel like a burden.
I didn't feel bad that I was in, I felt like I was doing a job
for them. Right?
So I felt like I was doing them a favor and really how annoying
is that when you just want your break time in the kid won't go
out and you're just like, oh, but they did that and made me
not feel at all guilty for it. Like, did it for me?
Let me do it. Let me feel comfortable.
And also, I remember, I'd go on and check the weather on the
computer, and there was this, like, whether game, I don't
know. I've already Vivid memories of
the map and the Sun and the rain.
I can't remember whether it was like live update or not, because
it was like the 90s or whether it was just like, you know, a
matching up game and you could do it yourself.
But there's a picture of me, sat at the computer, my chubby
cheeks. My gray sweater I'm clicking
away. Someone's always said look and I
turn around. There's a TA sat next to me.
Clearly wishes she was anywhere else other than watching this
little kid, click on the map, but it just again adds to that
kind of memory of doing that for the kids.
Is beneficial to them. Even if they don't exactly
remember it, but I know it happened and that helped me
socially in a roundabout way too much.
All we needs to go out and play with his friends will actually
know in that moment that caused me, huge anxiety.
So this was the best thing you could do for me.
And I gradually learned to get about it in a different way.
And I just so grateful and meanwhile in my school while she
was doing this, I was also staying in break times making an
entire book of Digimon characters so you can see why
later in life. We just found each other The
friends, you know, those two kids, we probably would have
been friends at school, maybe we wouldn't have, could you be sat
there? Checking the weather and I'd be
too busy drawing Digimon. Well, here's the funny thing.
It's quite sunny day today. Most people are out, teachers,
other day off. We're starting to us.
Let's do our podcast and look at the data afterwards.
Yeah, yeah, you're obsessed with the data.
Dylan message me every day. He's like, no everyone, Melissa
ne1 - Tyler. Okay.
Fair enough. Although you're exaggerating.
I do. I am obsessed with the data, its
interests. I like it.
Okay, listen. This is Six year old Dylan
working at percentage attendance for the people coming through,
on the podcast. Okay, I'm working at the
percentage retention cable, isn't there?
Like shut up, stop talking. If three out of the four
listeners, listen what percentage of listeners to we
have listening? Oh well that's all they'll have
to write into us all to of. Come on.
That was for you. Ok, its for the listeners now
that challenge. Oh okay.
Yeah, I can't possibly work that out there so no way because this
is a percentage. We don't do that for me school
too hard. Do you you know the memes that
you see online of primary school?
And I find them so funny because they're still true.
Yeah, they are still true. But we started off last week
with the whole paper towel thing, right?
Can confirm that? That Stella thing like if a
child has a graze, it just the psychological trick to them to.
I'll just put a wet paper towel on it and it didn't work of the
time. The only thing I will say is we
have kind of upgraded. Help me with like, bumps and
stuff. We have ice packs now in the
fridge. That's true.
They're still there. Still blue.
They still blue. There's so many of those memes
are actually so true. Still aren't they can I name a
couple of them? I get the listeners to ya.
Think about this, right? So you can close your eyes, take
yourself back to Primus car, tell you, what is still in our
schools right now, every single School across the country.
You remember them. Ready number one, little wooden
benches with hooks on the end that.
Yes, and also used for PE you turn upside down, sometimes walk
along the thin end, they're still there.
They're around, same ones as well.
They've not there us, they are built so, solid, I've not
changed number two, another piece.
Thing, the Big Wall Equipment came out ever in the 2000s.
Every school ever had the funding to do this, big Wall
Equipment, you pull it out, best bit about them is most schools
don't ever use them. They're just this beautiful
furniture for the first is to see if you get them out there.
Real treat and one more thing for you just for some reason I
think of this in a bit obscure. Multicolored beanbags.
Just they're still there. We still use them, they're still
at the dish. The say again that they must be
the same ones. They don't get report.
I've got one more forever. Go on one more.
The rainbow tarpaulin the big Rain?
Go sir. Yeah, he's still the same
basically. Just time the 90s when school
got funding, we're still grappling onto all that stuff we
bought. Then we are like clinging on to
like oh my God. You remember when you're at
school and remember remember really vividly?
Obviously all of those beautiful Displays the teachers put time
up for doing cool. Us neither, but we still have to
do them all the time. They look exactly the same.
They still take up so much time. They look honestly, the same
bourdette. That little little wavy thing
colored background, still there. The classrooms, just let the
same. Just does anyone this thing?
Remember one single classroom display because if you don't if
you don't let us know if you do keep it to yourself.
Yeah. I feel bad now.
Any one listen to this upper slopes assignments at this
place? I'm sure your kids do.
Look at them, I do. Yeah, I'm sure they did notice
that many fuel. If you're watching the real you
can definitely see my opinion. Is that they absolutely will.
Remember all that hard work you put into those this space that.
Yeah. Well, they will remember it.
Hmm, all of it. Anyway, let's move on.
Okay, everyone will it just before we finish up, because we
are going to do a short one this week for the stories.
Obviously, if you guys, hopefully, you enjoyed those
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I think that was a really nice episode head and I know We come
back to our Roots here. Slightly shorter one, but I
think it's to the point and I think it's nice to reflect every
now and then, isn't it on the kind of impact we're having a
teacher's. It is very important, I think in
our jobs to do that because it has definitely made me think
again, it's rooted me back down to what I liked, what I love
about this job. And what I enjoyed as a kid,
which does quite often, or at least, it used to a lot Inspire.
The kind of things I do at school, and I need the
inspiration again. I'll, I will now go away and I
genuinely reckon, I'll probably do a few things now in the next
couple of months. Maybe I wouldn't Plan before,
but because I'm thinking about it again, just making special
moments for the children and maybe trying to get outside a
bit more or go and do something that really enjoyable, really
memorable. So, yeah, I'm glad we had this
discussion, and it's made me feel good.
I'm going to finish this day now, feeling quite positive and
that's good. Happy memories really positive.
And one other thing, this was our 10th episode.
By the way, I know it's like, you know, it's not the 50th,
it's not a hundreth, but it's a big deal for us.
And we just want to say a huge. Thank you to you guys are
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That we have this core listener base and its really, really
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We appreciate you. And I'm going to say it one more
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And hopefully this week which was jam-packed just with stories
and anecdotes and how Hayden got bald, which is what we've all
been waiting for all this time. They're all.
I'll say before we do finish up Hayden is that we still haven't
heard this. Pretty stick story is becoming a
bit of a thing. Now, when we go to save feature,
when are we going to admit it to them?
I was just going to admit what? Well, you know, I don't say it
when we could wait one second. One second.
Post to pause the podcast was, like, last viewport unpaused.
Yeah, it's not anymore. What he did.
I can't tell them. There's no Prince viktor's.
Listen, we've got a problem because people are remembering,
we've ignored it on purpose, for a cup of episodes now.
But people are asking again, what about that?
Precinct story. We don't have one Dylan.
We don't have one. No, we what we did?
We just do you've played this off for so many episodes and we
don't even have one what we gonna do.
There's some, there's some that's a problem for our future
Cellar. Let's play Say let's press play
again. In the podcast becomes.
Get it sorted. Yeah and I've got this I'm gonna
tell him you press play. I can go.
Well, I've go. Yeah, sorry about that.
Pause there. We were just having a drink, the
Princeton stories coming up. It's epic.
It is a sweet story. I can't honestly.
Dylan, can't wait to tell it to you because it's mainly based on
his experiences. So, listen in the future because
this story is going to be awesome.
Bye guys. See you in episode 11.