1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,770 So I said that's where I keep my Pritt sticks. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,420 Dylan from teach like repeat. You're so silly. 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:09,680 Ohh Hey there. Ohh. 4 00:00:09,690 --> 00:00:12,040 Didn't see you guys. Welcome back to another episode. 5 00:00:12,050 --> 00:00:13,140 I'll teach you. Repeat, my name is. 6 00:00:13,150 --> 00:00:14,600 Dylan, we know that my name is. Hayden. 7 00:00:14,610 --> 00:00:16,400 My name is Hayden, my name is Dylan. 8 00:00:16,610 --> 00:00:18,710 Where's one of us? Somewhere here. 9 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,950 Have you noticed how obviously we've talked about before when 10 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,500 we're in school constantly, people got names mixed up 11 00:00:24,510 --> 00:00:28,760 because we're usually the only two blokes and we just come as a 12 00:00:28,770 --> 00:00:30,670 pair. So someone walk up to me and 13 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:33,660 say, have you seen Dylan? Yeah, you. 14 00:00:33,670 --> 00:00:35,560 Have 5050? Well done. 15 00:00:35,570 --> 00:00:37,040 Right here. But then I was thinking about, 16 00:00:37,050 --> 00:00:40,150 you know, like Brad and Angelina when when together in the media, 17 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:41,460 that Brangelina. Yeah. 18 00:00:41,530 --> 00:00:43,500 And I've thought before about what our name would be. 19 00:00:43,830 --> 00:00:47,080 And and it turns out if we joined dinner then Hayden we get 20 00:00:47,090 --> 00:00:49,270 Dylan. Or if we do the other way 21 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:54,270 around, we get Hayden. Wow, what a couple name. 22 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,090 Yeah, I know. Ohh. 23 00:00:56,100 --> 00:01:00,650 So that's my thought for the day is if we were to ever be a 24 00:01:00,660 --> 00:01:02,270 couple and the media were to pick us up. 25 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:03,910 So it's two things that probably will never happen. 26 00:01:04,180 --> 00:01:05,190 Well. One of them. 27 00:01:07,380 --> 00:01:16,060 When the Sun again, Yeah. And also with our partners 28 00:01:16,070 --> 00:01:17,800 names, they're Lauren and Lauren. 29 00:01:17,990 --> 00:01:23,000 So if you join them, that'd be Lauren and Lauren. 30 00:01:25,580 --> 00:01:28,930 Ohh, nothing would change. Anyway, we start recording, 31 00:01:28,940 --> 00:01:30,930 yeah. Crap. 32 00:01:30,940 --> 00:01:33,360 We press record a minute ago. You've been here this whole 33 00:01:33,370 --> 00:01:35,090 time. Anyway, lovely to see you guys. 34 00:01:35,100 --> 00:01:36,770 For us it was half time this week. 35 00:01:36,820 --> 00:01:38,590 Again, a big thing. I didn't know this. 36 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,010 I thought the half terms were quite rigid. 37 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:42,490 Loads of people are on half term. 38 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:43,010 Till next. Week. 39 00:01:43,020 --> 00:01:44,800 Yeah, I know. I also thought half terms were 40 00:01:44,810 --> 00:01:47,470 for having a break from work. Sorry. 41 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,810 You you naive petal. They're not really weird, isn't? 42 00:01:50,820 --> 00:01:53,170 It so how's your week been there because it has been half time. 43 00:01:53,180 --> 00:01:54,930 It's been busy. Isn't it obviously the whole 44 00:01:54,940 --> 00:01:57,440 theme of this this episode is about burnout and stuff, so 45 00:01:57,450 --> 00:01:59,820 don't give too much away. We've got our top tips on the 46 00:01:59,830 --> 00:02:02,170 way burning out, baby. Are you burning out, baby? 47 00:02:02,630 --> 00:02:04,120 What's your what's been busy, isn't it? 48 00:02:04,130 --> 00:02:06,520 Yeah, you know this because to be honest with you, half of the 49 00:02:06,530 --> 00:02:10,139 business of this week has been because we've had a massive like 50 00:02:10,190 --> 00:02:12,740 overhaul of our website which is taking up lots of. 51 00:02:12,750 --> 00:02:16,170 Quick recap for anyone who doesn't know Hayden and I, we do 52 00:02:16,180 --> 00:02:19,760 work part time in a school, but we also run our own tutoring 53 00:02:19,770 --> 00:02:23,160 business outside of that, which has grown nicely over the years 54 00:02:23,170 --> 00:02:26,110 and something we enjoy doing and we put a lot of our time to that 55 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,400 as well. So what's happened then this 56 00:02:28,410 --> 00:02:30,610 week as if I don't know well website. 57 00:02:30,620 --> 00:02:32,230 Would you like? I'm playing the role of the 58 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:33,810 audience? But what do you mean Hayden? 59 00:02:33,820 --> 00:02:35,330 He probably doesn't. Please be quick because I 60 00:02:35,340 --> 00:02:37,250 couldn't care less. I've clicked on this for burnout 61 00:02:37,260 --> 00:02:39,330 I don't care about. Having changed the layout of a 62 00:02:39,340 --> 00:02:41,950 big chunk of our website, yeah, and it was just a massive job. 63 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,050 So that's been done. But in the back of my mind the 64 00:02:45,060 --> 00:02:47,520 whole time I've been thinking. I do have loads of work to do 65 00:02:47,530 --> 00:02:49,650 for school as well, though there's a planning to sort out 66 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,990 and I've just been pushing it back and back and back. 67 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:53,870 Still haven't done it, obviously. 68 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:55,430 Listen to this on Monday. We're back at school. 69 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,610 It's Friday when we're when we're recording this. 70 00:02:57,660 --> 00:02:59,690 I've still not done it, but we'll see. 71 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:02,070 Because we can't really complain about having to do our business 72 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:03,990 stuff in our time. There's nothing as half time. 73 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,660 Anyone out there who's teaching a lot of teachers do like a side 74 00:03:06,670 --> 00:03:07,950 thing, whether it is a bit of tutoring. 75 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,260 Yeah, I know some people do crafts and things and sell 76 00:03:10,270 --> 00:03:12,200 those. You know there's no such thing 77 00:03:12,210 --> 00:03:13,670 as time off when you're self-employed. 78 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,070 But you know, it's kind of frustrating isn't it? 79 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,750 When you think we get to the half time, OK, cool, I can rest 80 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,030 and recoup. I can concentrate on my 81 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:20,930 business. Ohh. 82 00:03:20,940 --> 00:03:24,450 But also I've got 8 hours of planning to do and it doesn't. 83 00:03:24,460 --> 00:03:26,930 It doesn't annoy me because I know what people, I know people 84 00:03:26,940 --> 00:03:29,590 are doing it from a good place. But there is something about 85 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,640 when people say stop it, stop your plate, it's half term 86 00:03:34,650 --> 00:03:36,150 break. You just turn off and have a 87 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:37,950 break. OK, well there be nothing to 88 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:39,690 teach when I get back home. Yeah, exactly. 89 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:42,500 I've got a massive chunk of planning to do and I'm teaching 90 00:03:42,510 --> 00:03:45,560 in the first week and I'm like, even if it feels like the second 91 00:03:45,570 --> 00:03:48,010 week, I'd honestly probably just leave it and be like half term. 92 00:03:48,020 --> 00:03:50,700 I'll do it when I'm back at work, man. 93 00:03:50,710 --> 00:03:51,730 But yeah, I've been putting it off. 94 00:03:51,740 --> 00:03:52,680 It was quite funny the other day. 95 00:03:52,690 --> 00:03:56,060 When I finally down to do it, I was like I've got no more 96 00:03:56,070 --> 00:03:58,210 excuses. On website was pretty much done. 97 00:03:58,220 --> 00:03:59,620 There was a few like bug fixes and. 98 00:03:59,630 --> 00:04:01,820 Stuff our friend Harvey was just basically running through. 99 00:04:01,830 --> 00:04:03,540 Stuff, yeah. And he he's been developing it 100 00:04:03,550 --> 00:04:06,040 for us with his company Vision Tank and. 101 00:04:06,350 --> 00:04:07,890 They're great honour. That brilliant. 102 00:04:07,900 --> 00:04:09,600 That's amazing job. Check out our website. 103 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,630 Www.topdogonline.co.uk. It's really cool and give us 104 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,380 some feedback. Anyway, we do actually teach and 105 00:04:15,390 --> 00:04:17,120 stuff as well. We're not just sit and chat and 106 00:04:17,130 --> 00:04:19,250 bitch about stuff, we actually do teach. 107 00:04:19,260 --> 00:04:21,930 We do stuff. But I finally sat down and I 108 00:04:21,940 --> 00:04:23,450 thought, I've got to do this planet. 109 00:04:23,460 --> 00:04:25,120 Now I do. I really don't want to do it. 110 00:04:25,230 --> 00:04:27,630 And Harvey rang me. I was like, have you got, can 111 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:28,490 you jump on. We've got. 112 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:29,860 We've got. Do I just got a few things on 113 00:04:29,870 --> 00:04:31,600 for like, yes, yes, I can. Absolutely I can. 114 00:04:31,610 --> 00:04:33,040 I can do that for as long as you want. 115 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:34,180 All day, all day. Baby. 116 00:04:34,190 --> 00:04:36,120 I don't do any planning. Let's do that. 117 00:04:36,630 --> 00:04:39,180 Is weird, isn't it? My house gets really clean when 118 00:04:39,190 --> 00:04:41,180 I got planning to do. It's hard. 119 00:04:42,690 --> 00:04:44,010 Do you feel bad though then about you? 120 00:04:44,060 --> 00:04:47,340 Because obviously Lauren, are our Laurens and our babies just 121 00:04:47,350 --> 00:04:49,870 say Lauren singular. Lauren just encompass all that. 122 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,730 That's their couple name. Yeah, so Lauren. 123 00:04:52,110 --> 00:04:54,430 And do we need a couple name for our babies? 124 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,870 Her. Error. 125 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:02,060 I just felt bad because I was like oh is that half term? 126 00:05:02,070 --> 00:05:04,280 We're supposed to be doing nice stuff and I'm just sat here 127 00:05:04,290 --> 00:05:08,190 working all day everyday. Yeah, probably rubbish, but 128 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,250 other than that, how's your? Nursery been terrible. 129 00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:11,770 Yeah, nursery. She's good. 130 00:05:12,470 --> 00:05:14,710 It's all decorated. It's got carpet now, not seen 131 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,990 it. There is a changing, you know, 132 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,570 it's like a changing thing on the top, but a chest of drawers 133 00:05:20,580 --> 00:05:21,980 underneath. I don't know what that's called 134 00:05:21,990 --> 00:05:23,320 a changing console. I don't know. 135 00:05:23,740 --> 00:05:25,930 The crib is done, although it won't be in there for a while. 136 00:05:26,060 --> 00:05:28,150 I'm really struggling with the idea that he's gonna have his 137 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,080 own room soon is I know it's meant to be 6 months and I've 138 00:05:31,090 --> 00:05:33,900 seen a lot of stuff lately about like basically ripping western 139 00:05:33,910 --> 00:05:36,240 culture for thinking that kids have to be so independent so 140 00:05:36,250 --> 00:05:37,080 quickly. Hmm. 141 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,580 And you know the six month thing is just an arbitrary age and 142 00:05:40,590 --> 00:05:44,740 Rory's 4 1/2 months now and I'm like, ohh, six weeks Doesn't 143 00:05:44,750 --> 00:05:48,280 seem like enough time for us to then let go of him and him being 144 00:05:48,290 --> 00:05:50,190 his own room. I don't see a problem with him 145 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,690 staying in our room because he's not on my side of the bed. 146 00:05:52,700 --> 00:05:54,900 Doesn't wake me up. Yeah. 147 00:05:56,230 --> 00:05:59,100 No, but he, I don't know. There's something both of us are 148 00:05:59,110 --> 00:06:00,610 a bit like. Ohh wait, he's still in your 149 00:06:00,620 --> 00:06:02,000 room at 4 1/2 months? Yeah. 150 00:06:02,010 --> 00:06:03,620 Yeah. Ohh God River was in her own 151 00:06:03,630 --> 00:06:07,740 room by 8. Days Oh my We're. 152 00:06:07,750 --> 00:06:09,680 Comparing. I'll tell you what I know. 153 00:06:09,690 --> 00:06:10,770 I know we've had this conversation. 154 00:06:10,780 --> 00:06:11,940 But if. You don't have it. 155 00:06:12,570 --> 00:06:15,000 No, no, no. These guys need to know if your 156 00:06:15,010 --> 00:06:18,760 parents, if you ever see any any content online, Instagram, 157 00:06:18,770 --> 00:06:22,460 TikTok, whatever about babies and children, look at the 158 00:06:22,470 --> 00:06:26,100 comments section. They're just people are just so 159 00:06:26,110 --> 00:06:28,060 horrible. Yeah, so horrible all the time. 160 00:06:28,070 --> 00:06:29,140 Just nothing's. Right. 161 00:06:29,150 --> 00:06:30,710 What do you mean you play with your child? 162 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,960 Your child will become dependent on play then, and they'll be 163 00:06:32,970 --> 00:06:34,520 happy. Yeah, I watch a video sometimes 164 00:06:34,530 --> 00:06:35,500 and be like, oh, that's a nice idea. 165 00:06:35,510 --> 00:06:36,990 Let's just check the comments for validity. 166 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,170 Yeah. No, always. 167 00:06:38,260 --> 00:06:39,050 Ohh. I didn't. 168 00:06:39,060 --> 00:06:40,710 I didn't do that. Oh, you shouldn't do that until 169 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:41,910 this time. Ohh wow. 170 00:06:41,970 --> 00:06:44,130 Did you know that has this adverse effect? 171 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:44,880 Ohh my. God. 172 00:06:44,890 --> 00:06:46,910 And also there's every single view under the sun. 173 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,050 There'll be someone saying it's the best thing you can do, 174 00:06:49,090 --> 00:06:51,100 someone else saying it's the worst thing you do, someone else 175 00:06:51,110 --> 00:06:53,090 saying you could do if you want. Don't really make a difference. 176 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:56,970 Oh my God, just let me crack. On I'm yet to find a single 177 00:06:57,070 --> 00:06:59,450 video related to like something you can do with your child 178 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:01,450 that's actually just got positive comments like I was 179 00:07:01,460 --> 00:07:03,710 like, Oh yeah, this is really. Good I've I've seen there's been 180 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,130 like a shift, I think, from people who are fed up with it, 181 00:07:06,220 --> 00:07:09,310 who I've seen lately there might be like a dad on there playing 182 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,890 with their daughter where they're maybe just doing some 183 00:07:11,900 --> 00:07:14,190 rough play because the whole thing that we've seen before is 184 00:07:14,260 --> 00:07:16,960 dad's and are more likely to rough play of their son than 185 00:07:16,970 --> 00:07:18,680 their daughter. But rough play is really 186 00:07:18,690 --> 00:07:20,630 beneficial for everyone. When I say rough play, it means 187 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,830 like, you know, throwing them onto a beanbag and stuff like 188 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,660 that, a bit silly. And so there might be like a dad 189 00:07:24,670 --> 00:07:26,850 doing it with their daughter. And obviously the classic 190 00:07:26,860 --> 00:07:29,260 comments to your to your daughter. 191 00:07:29,270 --> 00:07:31,470 Do you know what kind of a thing that's gonna have a really bad 192 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,360 effect when they grow up and they know men can throw them 193 00:07:33,370 --> 00:07:34,720 around. It's like, ohh my ohh, my 194 00:07:34,730 --> 00:07:36,160 goodness me playing. No. 195 00:07:36,170 --> 00:07:38,850 But what I see now is a switch where there's comments and 196 00:07:38,860 --> 00:07:40,900 they're just completely satirical and they'll start off 197 00:07:40,910 --> 00:07:41,980 with that, but they're just joking. 198 00:07:41,990 --> 00:07:44,310 Like you shouldn't do that with your daughter because they grew 199 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,540 up loving you and having a really. 200 00:07:45,550 --> 00:07:48,940 Nice song band, yeah. Completely like, like sarcastic. 201 00:07:48,950 --> 00:07:50,940 You get baited and I'm angry. I'm reading the first sentence, 202 00:07:50,950 --> 00:07:52,320 ready to reply to that. No, this is. 203 00:07:52,330 --> 00:07:54,090 This is wrong. You're being stupid, and 204 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:56,750 actually they're just. Like, yeah, you know what? 205 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:58,310 Crack on. You know your kid rather than 206 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,550 anyone. Before I had kids. 207 00:08:00,660 --> 00:08:02,250 I def. I'll be really honest. 208 00:08:02,260 --> 00:08:04,790 I turned my nose up sometimes to people who said stuff like that. 209 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,770 Right. And like if someone said, you 210 00:08:06,780 --> 00:08:09,690 know your baby better than anyone, Mama, if a doctor says 211 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:11,770 this, then you should be doing that Mama. 212 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:15,030 Everything's Mama at the end. Yeah, you you know, you Mama and 213 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,310 I would definitely be like, ohh, shut up the doctor. 214 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:19,910 It's a doctor. Of course I know. 215 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,380 Well, having gone through a pregnancy, well not personally, 216 00:08:23,390 --> 00:08:25,970 but having gone through pregnancy with partner, having 217 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:30,190 the whole birth process. And since then ohh my they are 218 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,030 right. Though there is a whole bunch of 219 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:35,070 stuff where I'm like, hmm, the Mama does know best. 220 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,640 The Mama does. Know and there's certain things 221 00:08:36,650 --> 00:08:39,480 where doctors have said stuff to us and it sounds great. 222 00:08:39,490 --> 00:08:41,169 And at the time we've taken as gospel. 223 00:08:41,179 --> 00:08:44,990 Now doctors said this, so we and actually, no, they were wrong. 224 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,710 They were just wrong. Like what's best for each person 225 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:48,970 is different. So what are you saying? 226 00:08:48,980 --> 00:08:50,910 Because the start of that sentence was yeah, the doctors 227 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:51,640 was always. Right. 228 00:08:51,650 --> 00:08:52,550 No, no, no. I'm saying. 229 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:54,470 I'm saying it's changed. I'm saying I used to be like 230 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,130 that. I used to, I used to turn my 231 00:08:56,140 --> 00:08:57,790 nose up. Of course I used to turn my nose 232 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,900 up to people who said Mama knows best doctor isn't always right. 233 00:09:00,910 --> 00:09:02,880 But it's changed. Yeah, Since having a baby, I'm 234 00:09:02,890 --> 00:09:05,360 like, no, there is certain stuff, actually where you are. 235 00:09:05,370 --> 00:09:07,300 You just do you, and the baby's gonna be. 236 00:09:07,310 --> 00:09:08,600 Fine. Well, look, let's talk about 237 00:09:08,610 --> 00:09:10,740 doctors for a second. Ohh. 238 00:09:10,950 --> 00:09:13,670 This is funny because, again, we've had a similar experience, 239 00:09:13,710 --> 00:09:15,500 haven't we? We're at the same doctor's 240 00:09:15,510 --> 00:09:17,340 surgery. Hey, and I'm gonna lay 241 00:09:17,350 --> 00:09:21,270 foundations of this because, you know, the state of doctor's 242 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,240 surgeries in general. We'll get on to that. 243 00:09:23,510 --> 00:09:26,220 I had a really good. Experience with my doctors. 244 00:09:26,230 --> 00:09:28,880 First time ever. Yeah, and you had a terrible one 245 00:09:28,950 --> 00:09:31,330 at the same doctors. Time in the same week. 246 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,690 So why are you so annoyed? Potluck, by the way, that's my 247 00:09:33,700 --> 00:09:36,810 my right now. Anyone in the UK, like hopefully 248 00:09:36,820 --> 00:09:39,080 you're gonna vent with me because I imagine it's the same 249 00:09:39,090 --> 00:09:42,290 everywhere. The system is so broken. 250 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:44,230 We talk about the teaching system being broken. 251 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:46,890 It's not as broken as the GP system. 252 00:09:46,940 --> 00:09:49,310 It's unreal how you can't get an appointment anymore. 253 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:52,190 So our surgery and please, please tell me if this is normal 254 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,010 because I don't think it is. And it might just be our surgery 255 00:09:55,180 --> 00:09:59,010 opens at 8:00 physically, physically opens at 8:00. 256 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,550 And the only way you can get an appointment is booking it same 257 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:04,020 day. So you can't book an appointment 258 00:10:04,110 --> 00:10:07,550 under any circumstance ever. In our doctors for a for a 259 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:08,980 different day. That's a normal day. 260 00:10:09,090 --> 00:10:10,740 That's normal mental straight away. 261 00:10:10,870 --> 00:10:13,740 That annoys me so much, right. Opens at 8:00. 262 00:10:14,850 --> 00:10:16,790 They don't open their phone lines until 8:30. 263 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,000 Yeah, So what they're what they're saying is basically the 264 00:10:20,010 --> 00:10:22,540 majority of the appointments will be gone by 8:30 because 265 00:10:22,550 --> 00:10:25,070 people are doctors. And I did this two days, two 266 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:26,840 days ago for two days in a row because I can't get an 267 00:10:26,850 --> 00:10:30,620 appointment queue up from 7:30 just to get there. 268 00:10:30,630 --> 00:10:32,920 To be front is like the Apple Store and has a new iPhone 269 00:10:32,930 --> 00:10:34,760 releasing. A new iPhone. 270 00:10:34,770 --> 00:10:37,300 It's healthcare. It's healthcare that I'm paying 271 00:10:37,310 --> 00:10:39,040 into constantly. Every month. 272 00:10:39,990 --> 00:10:41,790 Yeah, we just line up and if you're lucky you get an 273 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,680 appointment. So I lined up the first day, got 274 00:10:43,690 --> 00:10:45,870 all the way to the front of the queue after about 2025. 275 00:10:45,940 --> 00:10:48,970 Yes, it's probably about the 15th in the queue thinking I'm 276 00:10:48,980 --> 00:10:49,890 probably gonna get an appointment. 277 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:51,770 You know, you'd hope so. And got there. 278 00:10:51,780 --> 00:10:53,520 She was like, ohh yeah, doctor's not in. 279 00:10:54,310 --> 00:10:56,730 I was like, ohh is she not? That's that's classic timing, 280 00:10:56,740 --> 00:10:57,820 isn't it? Ohh. 281 00:10:57,830 --> 00:11:00,140 So annoyed thinking I can't God's sake. 282 00:11:00,180 --> 00:11:01,930 But these people probably get a constant abuse. 283 00:11:01,940 --> 00:11:02,910 I was. I'm not going to be that guy 284 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:04,670 that gets annoyed. It's a receptionist. 285 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:05,680 Like what? It's not their fault. 286 00:11:05,690 --> 00:11:06,520 Is it? They didn't create the. 287 00:11:06,530 --> 00:11:08,680 System was like, ohh, OK, So what does she work? 288 00:11:08,690 --> 00:11:10,330 And they was like ohh every other day apart from today. 289 00:11:10,340 --> 00:11:13,640 Oh oh classic. That isn't it. 290 00:11:13,650 --> 00:11:15,300 I finally get down there and not here. 291 00:11:15,380 --> 00:11:17,670 He's like, OK, she sorry. And she was like, yeah, yeah, 292 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:18,310 yeah, yeah. OK. 293 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,850 She got any appointments? She was like, yes, I was like, 294 00:11:20,860 --> 00:11:23,750 can I have one? He's like, no, of course not. 295 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,570 I know this system's broken. That's fine. 296 00:11:25,580 --> 00:11:27,640 What can I do? She was like, well, come back in 297 00:11:27,650 --> 00:11:29,830 the morning. She's got a few appointments. 298 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:31,830 And I was thinking, well, none of them can be booked today. 299 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:33,690 No one could book those appointments because it's not 300 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:34,640 tomorrow. Yeah. 301 00:11:34,650 --> 00:11:36,710 So it should be fine as long as I get here the same time. 302 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,300 Went back the next day, queued up again Saturday, half an hour. 303 00:11:39,310 --> 00:11:40,890 I got to the end of Q. Same lady. 304 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:43,400 I was like, oh, it's me again. Came here yesterday trying to 305 00:11:43,410 --> 00:11:45,540 see this doctor. You said she's got some points. 306 00:11:45,550 --> 00:11:48,400 Can I see her today? Ohh, I've not got. 307 00:11:48,410 --> 00:11:51,040 Not got any appointments? Actually not. 308 00:11:52,070 --> 00:11:56,980 Ah, OK and right. It's just OK OK what? 309 00:11:56,990 --> 00:12:00,020 How do I get an appointment? Cause yesterday I came and you 310 00:12:00,030 --> 00:12:02,460 said she's got some appointments today and I've come again and 311 00:12:02,470 --> 00:12:05,320 she's not got any. Like a normal person. 312 00:12:05,330 --> 00:12:07,180 I work in the hours at this doctor. 313 00:12:07,190 --> 00:12:08,820 Surgery is open. So what do? 314 00:12:08,830 --> 00:12:09,660 I do. You got half time. 315 00:12:09,670 --> 00:12:10,790 You got every single day of half. 316 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,320 Hours. Yeah, yeah, yeah, literally. 317 00:12:12,550 --> 00:12:16,080 And in the end, she was like, well, she's got some phone 318 00:12:16,270 --> 00:12:19,660 appointments later, I think. You know what would be better 319 00:12:21,010 --> 00:12:24,740 when she's on the phone to me? Could I just be there instead in 320 00:12:24,750 --> 00:12:26,380 front of her? That might. 321 00:12:26,390 --> 00:12:27,980 Work, Joe? Well, I'll bring my phone. 322 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:35,360 Ohh, sit in this lobby and then when she's done I'll walk round. 323 00:12:35,370 --> 00:12:37,650 I'll just pop on. I'll answer, I'll Hello. 324 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:42,760 Yeah, funny enough, I'm. Are you free? 325 00:12:43,110 --> 00:12:44,460 You are because you're on the phone to me. 326 00:12:44,470 --> 00:12:45,450 You are free. Brilliant. 327 00:12:45,460 --> 00:12:47,580 I'll come in. And and in the end. 328 00:12:47,590 --> 00:12:50,110 So she phoned me. I waited all day because they 329 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,270 say yeah, well, phone at some point 8:00 AM, right? 330 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:56,400 They rang up at 4:15. So I'd weighed all day just like 331 00:12:56,410 --> 00:12:58,600 not really doing anything. And the only plans I had were at 332 00:12:58,610 --> 00:13:00,670 4:30 that day. I did nothing all day other than 333 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:03,090 wait for the appointment. I had A and I was meeting my 334 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:04,960 cousin to play some snooker. Something I haven't done in 335 00:13:04,970 --> 00:13:06,420 years. And I'll be really nice. 336 00:13:06,970 --> 00:13:07,960 Corpus four. She rings. 337 00:13:07,970 --> 00:13:09,830 I was like, ohh, typical. She was like, yeah, you want to 338 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,870 quickly come in now thinking, ohh, I do, I really do. 339 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:14,470 I've also got an appointment, something else to do. 340 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,680 But I'm going to come in because I'm not missing this came in she 341 00:13:17,690 --> 00:13:20,480 didn't know what the problem. Was sorry she she invited you in 342 00:13:20,490 --> 00:13:22,530 anyway. Yeah, after about 20 seconds of 343 00:13:22,540 --> 00:13:25,450 talking, I was like, yeah, it's kind of, it's kind of one of 344 00:13:25,460 --> 00:13:26,770 those things you need to see. Really. 345 00:13:26,830 --> 00:13:27,440 Yeah. Because. 346 00:13:27,450 --> 00:13:35,070 Oh my But you need to see to check this. 347 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:36,950 Yeah, both of us. It was like a skin thing, right? 348 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:37,910 Yeah. We're not afraid of that. 349 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:39,790 It's just a skin thing. Nothing terrible. 350 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,430 But just somewhere, like, can you just look at that? 351 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:42,750 Yeah. Because I just wanna know that 352 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:44,110 I'm OK. Yeah. 353 00:13:44,150 --> 00:13:45,500 Yeah. Well, in any way, she didn't. 354 00:13:45,510 --> 00:13:46,530 Really. Know you wanna take my 355 00:13:46,540 --> 00:13:48,610 experience? Yeah, because this is the exact 356 00:13:48,620 --> 00:13:51,030 same doctors and this is gonna highlight how mad it is. 357 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,250 I phoned them in the morning at 8:00 and they said it's closed, 358 00:13:54,330 --> 00:13:55,900 but I'm fairly sure it opens at 8. 359 00:13:55,910 --> 00:13:57,870 Found out the whole thing. Actually the lines open at half 360 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:59,130 eight. I was like, fine, that's a good 361 00:13:59,140 --> 00:14:00,620 half an hour of a pub is being booked up. 362 00:14:00,630 --> 00:14:02,640 But fine. So I called at half eight. 363 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:04,690 Gotta make sure you time it right. 364 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,310 I called at 29 minutes past 8 knowing there's some jargon. 365 00:14:08,380 --> 00:14:10,470 I was like, I'm playing the game here cause by the time you get 366 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,330 through, there's been a lot of abuse to our people. 367 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,150 That won't be tolerated. If there's any other way of 368 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,590 checking out your ailment instead of coming to a GP 369 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,470 surgery, which you pay for by the way, but you can't ever get, 370 00:14:21,540 --> 00:14:23,010 why don't you try that out instead? 371 00:14:23,060 --> 00:14:26,380 Call 111 and stay on hold for seven hours and they can check 372 00:14:26,390 --> 00:14:27,790 your mole. No, they can't. 373 00:14:27,860 --> 00:14:30,540 It's a phone call. I want you to look at my mole. 374 00:14:31,020 --> 00:14:34,620 So anyway, go for all that jargon gets past half eight in 375 00:14:34,630 --> 00:14:37,960 the lines open. I go, you are #9 in the nine 376 00:14:38,030 --> 00:14:40,060 who's got ahead of me. I called it 29. 377 00:14:40,070 --> 00:14:42,900 Anyway, I'm nine in the queue, so I'm waiting and I'm like, I'm 378 00:14:42,910 --> 00:14:45,100 giving myself up for a mini argument. 379 00:14:45,110 --> 00:14:47,560 Like I'm not gonna be horrible to them, but I just wanna make 380 00:14:47,570 --> 00:14:50,740 sure that my message gets across because it's classic with all 381 00:14:50,750 --> 00:14:52,860 big companies and it's now with GP's as well. 382 00:14:52,930 --> 00:14:55,860 The people who set the system make sure someone else takes the 383 00:14:55,870 --> 00:14:57,460 flak. Some person on minimum wage, 384 00:14:57,470 --> 00:14:58,930 probably. Is out the front, Yeah. 385 00:14:58,970 --> 00:15:01,320 So it winds me up. But I also want them to know 386 00:15:01,330 --> 00:15:04,260 it's broken. So I know that there's the 387 00:15:04,270 --> 00:15:06,300 system since COVID, by the way, which has just stayed. 388 00:15:06,310 --> 00:15:09,940 Which is another annoying thing, that the first port of call for 389 00:15:09,950 --> 00:15:11,740 whatever you do at our doctors is a phone call. 390 00:15:11,820 --> 00:15:13,000 Umm. And I'm straight away. 391 00:15:13,010 --> 00:15:14,920 I'm like, OK, cool. I need someone to check out 392 00:15:14,930 --> 00:15:18,220 three moles, so a phone call does nothing for me. 393 00:15:18,270 --> 00:15:19,140 So hey. Yeah. 394 00:15:19,510 --> 00:15:21,280 What you after? I wanted to check my mails, 395 00:15:21,290 --> 00:15:22,280 please. Oh, do you wanna come in? 396 00:15:22,290 --> 00:15:23,920 Yes. Of course I do. 397 00:15:23,930 --> 00:15:25,150 Let me just look over the phone for. 398 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,680 You can you describe the mole? Well, it's quite Molly. 399 00:15:28,890 --> 00:15:31,120 It looks like every other mole I've ever seen. 400 00:15:32,550 --> 00:15:34,760 And and yeah, it looks it maybe it looks so different, which is 401 00:15:34,770 --> 00:15:36,880 why I went to look at it. So I can't describe it. 402 00:15:36,970 --> 00:15:39,660 Anyway, so I'm ready for this. I'm like, I'm always geed up a 403 00:15:39,670 --> 00:15:40,850 bit. And I was like, so it gets 404 00:15:40,860 --> 00:15:42,860 through. It's like, hey, how can I help 405 00:15:42,940 --> 00:15:43,540 you? Hello. 406 00:15:43,670 --> 00:15:46,070 I was just hoping to get some moles checked, please. 407 00:15:46,130 --> 00:15:48,400 And that's all I said, yeah. And I was because I was waiting 408 00:15:48,410 --> 00:15:49,960 for them to be like, well, OK with this. 409 00:15:49,970 --> 00:15:52,820 No did. And she went, yeah, OK, I've got 410 00:15:52,830 --> 00:15:56,190 half 10 today and oh. Yeah. 411 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,570 Thank you, good Madam. Ohh yeah I'm really angry. 412 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,400 For some reason I will. I will take that half ten. 413 00:16:03,410 --> 00:16:05,250 And she was like, cool. That's all booked in. 414 00:16:05,260 --> 00:16:07,990 See you then was OK, cool. So I went in. 415 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,980 Yep, got there at 25 past checked in. 416 00:16:11,060 --> 00:16:13,690 Got called immediately. So I was in there at 28 past. 417 00:16:13,740 --> 00:16:15,970 Wasn't even my doctor. My doctor was busy. 418 00:16:15,980 --> 00:16:18,830 I was with. It wasn't even a doctor when you 419 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,100 got the appointment. It was in the car park at Tesco 420 00:16:22,110 --> 00:16:23,300 actually. It was really weird. 421 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:27,990 Went in, showed my moles immediately, at ease in terms of 422 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,080 he was just so calm and explained everything. 423 00:16:30,090 --> 00:16:32,050 Saw the Marie went, he said some random Latin word. 424 00:16:32,060 --> 00:16:34,540 Ohh, that's a that's a Mollica Spartacus. 425 00:16:34,550 --> 00:16:37,720 And I was like, OK. I was like, oh, that's fine, 426 00:16:37,730 --> 00:16:38,900 yeah. And then I had another one 427 00:16:38,910 --> 00:16:41,010 because I've got on my hairline. So, no. 428 00:16:41,050 --> 00:16:42,800 Sorry, Sir. That's that's your nipple. 429 00:16:43,770 --> 00:16:44,970 Sorry. OK, sorry. 430 00:16:44,980 --> 00:16:47,030 I've been really there. What about this other mole? 431 00:16:47,730 --> 00:16:49,090 Well, so I have to tell you that's. 432 00:16:51,020 --> 00:16:59,440 And this one, That's your penis. Thank you Doctor. 433 00:16:59,610 --> 00:17:03,350 I was so worried this week, coming out of my mouth. 434 00:17:05,630 --> 00:17:07,980 It is leaking. That's milk. 435 00:17:10,020 --> 00:17:11,810 The other ones, well, that's that is a problem. 436 00:17:12,780 --> 00:17:16,130 That's not what you think. But you do need to get that 437 00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:19,640 checked out. Oh my God. 438 00:17:19,650 --> 00:17:22,420 Anyway, I was. I was at home by 10:37. 439 00:17:22,530 --> 00:17:24,420 Yeah, and Lauren thought I'd forgotten something. 440 00:17:26,910 --> 00:17:29,630 So completely mad. Two completely different things. 441 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:30,730 It's nice you had a good experience. 442 00:17:30,740 --> 00:17:32,320 I'm glad that, to be fair, I was. 443 00:17:32,330 --> 00:17:35,820 When I did go the first time, I was offered an appointment of a 444 00:17:35,830 --> 00:17:38,440 different doctor. But with this thing, I was very 445 00:17:38,450 --> 00:17:40,320 surprised. Like my doctor very specifically 446 00:17:40,330 --> 00:17:42,220 requested me to get an appointment to come and see her, 447 00:17:42,230 --> 00:17:45,010 to check up on this thing. Yeah and I was like alright 448 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:46,650 thanks. But I do need to see this 449 00:17:46,660 --> 00:17:50,020 doctor. She was like oh oh can't so I 450 00:17:50,030 --> 00:17:52,490 don't know but back to the overall point, what are your 451 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:54,670 doctors like? Please no have a vent because I 452 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,210 I cant event about doctors. It annoys me so much and I'm. 453 00:17:57,950 --> 00:17:59,910 Going to stick up for GP receptionist right now because 454 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:02,250 actually they're they're they've been lovely. 455 00:18:02,260 --> 00:18:04,970 They've been lovely hard job and they're they're lovely. 456 00:18:04,980 --> 00:18:07,860 They must get a lot of abuse. Yeah, I I really don't want 457 00:18:07,870 --> 00:18:10,160 anything directed towards them in terms of it's not their 458 00:18:10,170 --> 00:18:11,450 fault, it's a horrible. It's not their fault. 459 00:18:11,460 --> 00:18:12,520 It's not the doctor's fault either. 460 00:18:12,530 --> 00:18:14,470 No, it's really clear. Yeah, I am not annoyed at 461 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:16,390 doctors anyway. I'm really, really annoyed at 462 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,250 the system. The. 463 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:20,050 Government Ohh is it the government? 464 00:18:20,060 --> 00:18:21,230 Is it? I wonder if it's sort of 465 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:22,880 underfunding. Because is it that thing where 466 00:18:22,890 --> 00:18:25,750 every single graph and piece of data that you've ever seen from 467 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,410 2010 has just got considerably worse? 468 00:18:27,420 --> 00:18:30,010 Yeah, Wasn't that thing where we turned 18 in 2010? 469 00:18:30,020 --> 00:18:31,880 Eleven. And ever since we've been an 470 00:18:31,890 --> 00:18:34,190 adult, life for adults have got considerably worse. 471 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,640 Consistently, in every single way, every single way possible. 472 00:18:36,650 --> 00:18:37,520 The country's got. Poorer. 473 00:18:37,530 --> 00:18:38,660 Sorry. Got general election this year? 474 00:18:38,670 --> 00:18:40,230 Yeah. Ohh yeah, but do you remember 475 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,610 what Labour did back in the early 2000s? 476 00:18:42,620 --> 00:18:48,160 They made the museums free. OK honestly yeah God what was it 477 00:18:48,170 --> 00:18:49,410 recently? I thought I can't remember what 478 00:18:49,420 --> 00:18:51,620 it was but the the overarching point is more important. 479 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:53,060 Someone was moaning about something. 480 00:18:53,070 --> 00:18:55,000 It was like a Question Time sure programme. 481 00:18:55,370 --> 00:18:58,140 Someone was moaning about something and they're saying 482 00:18:58,150 --> 00:18:59,880 yeah this policy is rubbish. This policy is rubbish. 483 00:18:59,950 --> 00:19:02,750 And then someone else came back and I thought they were like do 484 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,440 you know who bought that policy in That was Labour in like 2000 485 00:19:05,450 --> 00:19:09,300 and whatever and and I was like ohh kind of done it because it 486 00:19:09,310 --> 00:19:11,930 was a labour policy and then the person immediately reply was 487 00:19:11,940 --> 00:19:14,270 like yeah cool toys had 14 years to sort out. 488 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:15,450 Why haven't they sorted? It out. 489 00:19:15,530 --> 00:19:17,570 There's nothing now. That's why they're completely 490 00:19:17,580 --> 00:19:19,030 screwed. Yeah, because there is nothing 491 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:21,350 now. Because after like 14 years and 492 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:25,190 75 prime ministers like and and they try and reinvent themselves 493 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,490 every time. There's nothing left now where 494 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:29,460 if it's wrong, it's not. They've not even had the chance 495 00:19:29,470 --> 00:19:30,250 to fix it. Yeah. 496 00:19:30,260 --> 00:19:32,430 Or they've completely. It's been too long now. 497 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,790 You can't. They can't keep blaming Labour. 498 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:35,870 Stop it. Stop. 499 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,050 It. And you know, you don't have to 500 00:19:37,060 --> 00:19:38,510 like Labour. You don't even have to vote for 501 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:39,410 Labour. No, you don't. 502 00:19:39,420 --> 00:19:42,490 You don't need to like whatever you want to do it. 503 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:43,940 Actually, it's fine. Do you know what? 504 00:19:43,950 --> 00:19:45,310 I've got my reservations about Labour. 505 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:46,110 Yeah, I don't. Really. 506 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,650 Yeah, absolutely. So this isn't a pro labour 507 00:19:48,660 --> 00:19:50,300 thing. This is quite simply that when a 508 00:19:50,310 --> 00:19:53,870 government's been in charge for 14 years and stuff is awful, you 509 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:55,640 can't point and blame at anyone else. 510 00:19:55,650 --> 00:19:58,180 Yeah, so vote for whoever you want to vote for, but do not 511 00:19:58,190 --> 00:20:00,910 blame someone other than this government for what this 512 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:02,710 government of managed to do in the last 15 years. 513 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:06,570 Yeah, or Dylan will get you. I'll get you anyway. 514 00:20:06,740 --> 00:20:07,650 Right. Thanks for that vent. 515 00:20:07,660 --> 00:20:08,730 I needed that vent. That's good. 516 00:20:08,780 --> 00:20:10,840 I needed that vent. The listeners sure didn't. 517 00:20:10,850 --> 00:20:13,090 They've all turned off. What are you here for? 518 00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:16,890 Ohh yeah, burnout. Not from listening to this 519 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:20,620 should give us hope. Give our top tips then, Aiden. 520 00:20:20,630 --> 00:20:23,530 Yeah, I like, I like how we're slowly starting to like do like 521 00:20:23,540 --> 00:20:25,630 software works a little more now, more confident. 522 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,910 You last week was that the week of bloody. 523 00:20:27,980 --> 00:20:29,890 Yeah. You were like, oh, these bloody. 524 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:31,230 Things. When you say soft swear words, 525 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,570 are you referencing the fact I've said the F word three times 526 00:20:33,580 --> 00:20:34,850 you? Have to just say that you might 527 00:20:34,860 --> 00:20:36,860 have noticed a cut if you're watching, probably listening. 528 00:20:36,870 --> 00:20:38,290 We probably cut it so you didn't hear it. 529 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,420 But yeah, Dylan keeps Dylan keep saying there. 530 00:20:40,430 --> 00:20:42,870 For you, really quick story about the F word, not really. 531 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,480 OK, I'm joking. I'm joking. 532 00:20:46,710 --> 00:20:48,650 No, I'll take the end to listen for. 533 00:20:48,660 --> 00:20:51,000 I'll take a quick story about. Tell me at the end when we play 534 00:20:51,010 --> 00:20:52,250 a game, because I've got a game. For real? 535 00:20:52,260 --> 00:20:55,200 So we can have a nice serious chat game and then an F word 536 00:20:55,210 --> 00:20:56,120 story. Ready. 537 00:20:56,470 --> 00:20:57,520 Let's do it. Let's cut. 538 00:21:00,130 --> 00:21:01,200 OK, You ready? Hating. 539 00:21:01,930 --> 00:21:02,960 You ready? Yes. 540 00:21:02,970 --> 00:21:03,560 Yeah. OK, good. 541 00:21:03,570 --> 00:21:05,970 Because Hayden said let's go. And then took a drink that a 542 00:21:05,980 --> 00:21:09,040 stretch and sorted this top out. So we're ready now. 543 00:21:09,050 --> 00:21:09,900 Hello. Hang on. 544 00:21:10,550 --> 00:21:11,260 Yeah. Brilliant. 545 00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:12,090 OK. Yeah. 546 00:21:12,100 --> 00:21:14,390 You look good now. That top was looking not inflate 547 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,020 until you did that. And now it looks great. 548 00:21:16,030 --> 00:21:20,890 So that was really useful. You did that roughly anyway. 549 00:21:20,900 --> 00:21:24,930 They're never on fleek. Your hairlines on fleek anyway. 550 00:21:25,020 --> 00:21:29,040 My hairline is fleeting away. That was me. 551 00:21:29,450 --> 00:21:31,480 Anyway, you've kept on this because guess what, we're 552 00:21:31,490 --> 00:21:35,400 halfway through the school year. This half term marks the halfway 553 00:21:35,410 --> 00:21:36,780 point. Yay, yay. 554 00:21:36,790 --> 00:21:40,380 And it means that we've got just what we've done so far left 555 00:21:40,390 --> 00:21:42,290 again until the end of the year and we get that lovely summer 556 00:21:42,300 --> 00:21:43,940 holiday. The definition of half there. 557 00:21:45,130 --> 00:21:49,000 Didn't know half of it, you know, So I thought it'd be a 558 00:21:49,010 --> 00:21:53,030 really good point now to talk about burnout because for me 559 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,600 personally, I think getting through the 1st 2 terms is 560 00:21:55,610 --> 00:21:57,080 tough. You get to Christmas. 561 00:21:57,310 --> 00:22:01,150 After that, settling back in can be tricky, but you kind of you 562 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,570 get through that and it can kind of hit you now like Ohh, I do 563 00:22:04,580 --> 00:22:07,590 have three more times left and these tend to be, especially at 564 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,170 the end for some at last summer time, a really long one. 565 00:22:10,220 --> 00:22:13,360 So if you're starting to feel already quite burnt out doing 566 00:22:13,370 --> 00:22:17,980 the job there, there are things we have to do to stop that, 567 00:22:17,990 --> 00:22:20,200 because it's you can only get worse from this point if you're 568 00:22:20,210 --> 00:22:22,660 having problem. We've been for those years of 569 00:22:22,670 --> 00:22:25,980 total, total, utter burnout and we've come out the other end, I 570 00:22:25,990 --> 00:22:29,020 think because we said before this but didn't we were like, do 571 00:22:29,030 --> 00:22:30,680 you feel as burned out as you used to feel? 572 00:22:31,310 --> 00:22:33,500 Part of that is obviously due to part time, but we do still work 573 00:22:33,510 --> 00:22:35,680 on those other days as well in our own stuff. 574 00:22:35,830 --> 00:22:37,330 But I don't. I don't, and I haven't done for 575 00:22:37,340 --> 00:22:40,830 a few years and I don't feel as burnt out as I used to feel in 576 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:42,800 the day. And I think it's really 577 00:22:42,810 --> 00:22:44,620 important for teachers to understand is, and I guess this 578 00:22:44,630 --> 00:22:46,840 episode is. Changed more at less experienced 579 00:22:46,850 --> 00:22:49,230 teachers who kind of feel that burn out and don't know what to 580 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,840 do, but also more experienced staff who who is still 581 00:22:51,850 --> 00:22:54,370 struggling with burnout, but also just to see, you know, am I 582 00:22:54,380 --> 00:22:56,990 doing these things, These things I can help because a lot of this 583 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,630 stuff comes with experience. That we're about to talk about, 584 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,670 and you will definitely have your own ideas as well, and I'd 585 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,450 love to hear. Them because what helps you 586 00:23:04,460 --> 00:23:06,910 avoid burnout? But we still see so many staff 587 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,420 say, I am just completely burned out, I am doing way too much. 588 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,050 And although a lot of that can be down to the school you work 589 00:23:14,060 --> 00:23:17,170 for, it can be down to policies, can be down to what management 590 00:23:17,180 --> 00:23:20,010 expect from you. There is always a chunk of that 591 00:23:20,020 --> 00:23:23,060 burnout which is under your control, and I think taking back 592 00:23:23,070 --> 00:23:26,300 control of that and empowering teachers is really important. 593 00:23:26,310 --> 00:23:29,320 So we're gonna go through right now, we've got three top tips 594 00:23:29,330 --> 00:23:33,680 each on how to battle and tackle that burnout. 595 00:23:33,690 --> 00:23:35,140 How can you actually help yourself? 596 00:23:35,190 --> 00:23:38,520 What can you do which is almost irrelevant to the external? 597 00:23:38,530 --> 00:23:40,570 Factors we've not, we've not shared our points with each 598 00:23:40,580 --> 00:23:41,670 other. So I just want to ask you now to 599 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,110 make sure on the same page, are your three things things that 600 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:47,890 you have done, things that you've done over the years and 601 00:23:47,900 --> 00:23:48,730 experience? Yes. 602 00:23:48,740 --> 00:23:52,110 Because I I know that we've had a few before where we've given 603 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:55,010 advice out and we've said even we could do with taking this 604 00:23:55,020 --> 00:23:56,030 advice ourselves. Yeah. 605 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,430 So that that's, you know, that's useful advice, of course. 606 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,890 But this is real advice. This is, this is something. 607 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:03,070 Now you're listening to teachers who have been teaching for nine 608 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,890 years and eight years and have gone through the mill and these 609 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:08,830 are things that genuinely worked for us. 610 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:11,970 So yeah, do you know what? I also moved to school. 611 00:24:12,340 --> 00:24:15,790 So I was feeling burned out. If there's if there's just too 612 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,490 much going on, that's out of your control, the ultimate thing 613 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:20,690 is to try somewhere else, because there are different 614 00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:23,460 schools are different amounts. Of the rules should be if they 615 00:24:23,470 --> 00:24:26,270 hear these six points, Yeah. And think I wouldn't be able to 616 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,260 do, let's say, three or more of them because my school would 617 00:24:30,270 --> 00:24:31,350 block it. Yeah. 618 00:24:31,580 --> 00:24:34,180 Then maybe, yeah, maybe you're in one of those sort of toxic 619 00:24:34,190 --> 00:24:36,190 schools, because I think we could do all six of these and it 620 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:36,870 would be a. Problem. 621 00:24:36,910 --> 00:24:38,650 Yeah, completely. I don't know what yours are, but 622 00:24:38,660 --> 00:24:41,620 I can say. I think, I think it's just gotta 623 00:24:41,630 --> 00:24:44,650 be it's about realistic and some of this does require you to just 624 00:24:45,060 --> 00:24:48,060 take that step and kind of say no sometimes, but we'll get 625 00:24:48,070 --> 00:24:49,530 into. That anyway you gonna start. 626 00:24:49,540 --> 00:24:52,670 I'll start. So my first tip, well, we'll do 627 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:53,890 this. We'll just give the tips out. 628 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:56,360 We'll have a discussion. See if we both do them and how 629 00:24:56,370 --> 00:24:57,720 helpful they might be. OK, sounds good. 630 00:24:57,730 --> 00:25:03,480 So my first tip #1. This is something I see a lot of 631 00:25:03,490 --> 00:25:06,500 staff do. Top tip #1, to avoid buying out. 632 00:25:06,550 --> 00:25:10,520 Check that you're actually following school policy and do 633 00:25:10,530 --> 00:25:13,980 not go above and beyond where you don't have to. 634 00:25:14,030 --> 00:25:17,640 Now that's controversial because above and beyond, we hear this 635 00:25:17,650 --> 00:25:19,500 thing all the time about teachings of vocation. 636 00:25:19,510 --> 00:25:21,030 We go above and beyond for those kids. 637 00:25:21,950 --> 00:25:25,150 All of the kind of airy fairy stuff where you make those 638 00:25:25,230 --> 00:25:27,470 fantastic connections with the children, which can't really be 639 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,380 written in the policy. That's not what I'm talking 640 00:25:29,390 --> 00:25:31,400 about. Yeah, I'm specifically talking 641 00:25:31,410 --> 00:25:33,960 about policies. Where you've got marking 642 00:25:33,970 --> 00:25:37,550 policies, you've got planning policies, you've got policies 643 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,910 around what you're expected to do as a teacher. 644 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:41,580 Yeah, Yeah, you've got to follow them. 645 00:25:41,590 --> 00:25:45,290 So the example I've got here, for example, 1:00, I've got an 646 00:25:45,300 --> 00:25:46,440 example as well. And I want to hear your. 647 00:25:46,450 --> 00:25:48,060 Yes. So my one is marking. 648 00:25:48,190 --> 00:25:50,090 Mine is different. OK, so I've got a few examples. 649 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:52,500 Obviously you can come in as well, so I want to get across 650 00:25:52,510 --> 00:25:55,110 what I mean here. When I say marking, we know we 651 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:57,170 have to mark. We can have a whole discussion 652 00:25:57,180 --> 00:25:59,680 about how useful written feedback is. 653 00:25:59,770 --> 00:26:01,380 I don't think it's very useful at all. 654 00:26:01,450 --> 00:26:04,080 However, I see a lot of staff doing this and I've seen it in 655 00:26:04,090 --> 00:26:08,610 schools worked out myself. Where you know, are you 656 00:26:08,620 --> 00:26:12,850 following the policy are policy for writing is very stripped 657 00:26:12,860 --> 00:26:16,050 back. When we give feedback, you can 658 00:26:16,060 --> 00:26:20,250 just give it in single words. You can just say use your next 659 00:26:20,260 --> 00:26:22,210 steps down or whatever you want to do, or just write down 660 00:26:22,220 --> 00:26:25,160 conjunctions, what you don't need to do for every single 661 00:26:25,170 --> 00:26:26,520 person. And you might find yourself 662 00:26:26,530 --> 00:26:28,410 doing this because I did when I was an input and I was an 663 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:30,570 experienced teacher, I'd write in someone's book. 664 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,210 You have used conjunctions beautifully in this piece of 665 00:26:33,220 --> 00:26:35,350 writing. Next time, why don't you think 666 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:37,900 about adding some extra detail using parentheses? 667 00:26:37,980 --> 00:26:41,220 And actually your school policy at the time marking policy was 668 00:26:41,230 --> 00:26:43,100 you don't need to do that. You can just put this little 669 00:26:43,110 --> 00:26:46,020 symbol that we've made-up that means that exactly and this one 670 00:26:46,030 --> 00:26:47,460 word exactly. So let's do that. 671 00:26:47,510 --> 00:26:48,600 Just follow the policy. Yeah. 672 00:26:48,610 --> 00:26:51,000 Look at your marking policy. Do you have to write down a 673 00:26:51,010 --> 00:26:52,440 paragraph for every piece of work? 674 00:26:52,510 --> 00:26:54,700 It might be that you do, and that's a separate conversation. 675 00:26:54,770 --> 00:26:57,580 But for a lot of people, actually, ohh, it's just nice to 676 00:26:57,590 --> 00:26:59,540 write in for the kids. They can't read it. 677 00:26:59,550 --> 00:27:01,230 They don't know. It's not affecting their 678 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,680 learning at all. Have a priority list there. 679 00:27:03,830 --> 00:27:05,440 Am I actually following the policy? 680 00:27:05,450 --> 00:27:05,930 Yeah. Nice. 681 00:27:05,940 --> 00:27:06,540 What's your? One. 682 00:27:06,550 --> 00:27:07,900 I've got one. Very different, actually. 683 00:27:07,910 --> 00:27:10,780 Totally different thing avenue, I guess of thinking. 684 00:27:10,790 --> 00:27:13,380 But when I started teaching, yeah, I very much thought it 685 00:27:13,390 --> 00:27:16,730 wasn't above and beyond thing. Yeah, at break times to go out 686 00:27:16,740 --> 00:27:19,620 and sort of like mingle with the kids and like, yeah, be with 687 00:27:19,630 --> 00:27:22,190 them like more than just my one. I had one break duty a week and 688 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,560 a lot of schools. I like that you might have more, 689 00:27:24,170 --> 00:27:26,490 and yeah, but I'd often find myself going out, sometimes even 690 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:28,270 at lunchtime. For a little love me, love me. 691 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,280 Yeah, in a way. But I also, I also had in the 692 00:27:30,290 --> 00:27:31,880 back of my mind. This looks good. 693 00:27:31,930 --> 00:27:33,120 Yeah. You know the school are going to 694 00:27:33,130 --> 00:27:35,260 think, oh look at that teacher. He's going above and beyond to 695 00:27:35,270 --> 00:27:38,100 make bonds of his kids. I didn't need to do that, 696 00:27:38,110 --> 00:27:38,800 actually. Really. 697 00:27:38,810 --> 00:27:40,510 I just. I then just gave myself more 698 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,140 markings to the end of the day and just extended my day. 699 00:27:43,150 --> 00:27:45,390 I could have just not. So I stopped that after a while. 700 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,730 I almost never go out now unless it's my break duty because I'm 701 00:27:47,740 --> 00:27:49,700 like, no, this is my time. I need to get other stuff done. 702 00:27:49,770 --> 00:27:51,290 I have to. Yeah, because otherwise it goes 703 00:27:51,300 --> 00:27:52,800 somewhere else. And that's what I mean by above 704 00:27:52,810 --> 00:27:55,120 and beyond. I don't mean in the classic time 705 00:27:55,130 --> 00:27:58,160 of like making those amazing bonding policy was the policy 706 00:27:58,170 --> 00:27:59,410 one break juicy. Exactly. 707 00:27:59,420 --> 00:28:02,760 So just just just do 11 break. Another big one that I see of a 708 00:28:02,770 --> 00:28:05,790 lot of people who say ohh, I'm just really struggling with 709 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,500 burnout. And I'll say to ohh yeah, don't 710 00:28:08,510 --> 00:28:11,580 you do a club after school? Yeah, yeah, do do. 711 00:28:11,630 --> 00:28:13,420 Is that policy? Do we have to do a club? 712 00:28:13,430 --> 00:28:16,960 No, but it's just for the kids I'm afraid Guys, at some point 713 00:28:17,030 --> 00:28:19,900 you have to look after yourself if you are feeling really burnt 714 00:28:19,910 --> 00:28:21,530 out. That's one of the first things 715 00:28:21,540 --> 00:28:23,830 that has to go if you do an after school club or a lunchtime 716 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,740 club and you're not being compensated for it and it pushes 717 00:28:26,750 --> 00:28:29,070 your marking down the line and it means you stay in school. 718 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,850 You don't have to. Do it and you don't have to do 719 00:28:30,860 --> 00:28:32,600 it. It's one of those decisions 720 00:28:32,610 --> 00:28:35,170 where I know deep down in our hearts, cause we're all 721 00:28:35,180 --> 00:28:37,840 teachers, we love helping the children and we love these kind 722 00:28:37,850 --> 00:28:41,110 of enrichment activities. We can't take that load when 723 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,150 they're not funded properly. We can't be the people to take 724 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,360 on that extra thing. If there's other stuff you have 725 00:28:46,370 --> 00:28:49,070 to do and you're feeling burnt out, look at your policies. 726 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,070 Do you have to be doing everything you're doing? 727 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,710 Can you skim on some time by simply following the policy and 728 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,010 doing a good job? I think a big thing we're going 729 00:28:57,020 --> 00:29:00,020 to have in this chat, Hayden, is redefining what it means to do 730 00:29:00,030 --> 00:29:02,680 your job well. Yeah, it does not mean that you 731 00:29:02,690 --> 00:29:06,060 have to live up to this Instagram or until an amazing 732 00:29:06,070 --> 00:29:07,940 team. No, you can do a really good. 733 00:29:07,950 --> 00:29:10,740 Job, but just following your school policies, teaching the 734 00:29:10,750 --> 00:29:12,900 kids well, and I think that's what this point is. 735 00:29:12,910 --> 00:29:15,770 Do you think back in the 90s that some of the teachers were 736 00:29:15,780 --> 00:29:18,990 good at their job, Fantastic. They worked considerably less 737 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,550 hours than we did and they were still good if we all agree on 738 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,710 that, but there were some good teachers back then. 739 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,290 We didn't have PPA back in our day. 740 00:29:25,300 --> 00:29:27,000 Yeah, you didn't have to find everything. 741 00:29:27,010 --> 00:29:28,790 Right. If we do think the definition of 742 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,890 been a good teacher is doing all this above and beyond stuff, and 743 00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:32,290 it does make you a better teacher. 744 00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:33,500 Yeah. What we're saying is that every 745 00:29:33,510 --> 00:29:35,650 teacher that didn't used to do that basically more than two 746 00:29:35,660 --> 00:29:37,340 decades ago was terrible. And it's like, no, they were. 747 00:29:37,350 --> 00:29:38,440 They were terrible. They were, really. 748 00:29:38,450 --> 00:29:40,230 Good, not at all. And I think the last one here 749 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,560 it's going to lead in because a bit of a for our listeners here 750 00:29:44,570 --> 00:29:46,990 we've I know the theme of Hayden, so I can order them. 751 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,290 Hayden has no idea what I've written down, but this kind of 752 00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:51,290 leads into your one. So the last point I'll make and 753 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:52,450 then you go into your second one. 754 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,450 Another policy is to do with planning. 755 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,210 Do you have a scheme? Can you use it? 756 00:29:57,220 --> 00:29:58,580 Is there planning that already exists? 757 00:29:58,590 --> 00:30:00,240 Is there stuff on the area that you can use? 758 00:30:00,250 --> 00:30:03,390 Yeah, Don't reinvent the wheel. Follow your policies. 759 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,780 So that's my #1 tip. Look at your policies. 760 00:30:05,790 --> 00:30:08,420 Refresh your brain. Are you following them? 761 00:30:08,470 --> 00:30:11,060 Are you doing too much when you simply don't have to? 762 00:30:11,070 --> 00:30:12,400 It's an easy way. Nice. 763 00:30:12,410 --> 00:30:16,700 Well, tip #2 on avoiding burnout nicely links on from tip #1 Drop 764 00:30:16,710 --> 00:30:21,040 the pride, Drop the pride, and use resources from other people. 765 00:30:21,270 --> 00:30:24,490 Just do it OK. Sometimes they haven't used the 766 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:27,230 font that I like or I like to put boxes around these things on 767 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,290 my notebooks. This worksheet, when I trim it, 768 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:32,820 doesn't have. I like to put the boxes around 769 00:30:32,830 --> 00:30:34,490 this bit on the worksheet so it fits nicely. 770 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,250 Do you know what? You don't have to change it. 771 00:30:37,260 --> 00:30:40,150 You don't have to. I promise you a week later 772 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,570 you'll forget about it. The kids won't have ever known 773 00:30:42,580 --> 00:30:45,650 any different anyway, and as long as I get the same out of, 774 00:30:45,660 --> 00:30:47,850 it doesn't really matter. Does it really matter? 775 00:30:47,860 --> 00:30:51,330 I used to spend so much time, and I know you did as well 776 00:30:51,340 --> 00:30:54,710 because we used to plan together back in our NQT days. 777 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,480 Almost became a competition we could. 778 00:30:57,490 --> 00:30:59,990 Spend so much time on our white notebooks and a lot of that time 779 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,770 really was just just the positioning of stuff. 780 00:31:02,780 --> 00:31:04,870 Format green and the formatting. And I want to put a box. 781 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,210 I want to get this nice little tip box. 782 00:31:06,220 --> 00:31:07,390 In the box. But do you remember? 783 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,720 Because we we used to spend ages planning, right? 784 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,570 And we'd get to the end of making our smart and our our 785 00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:14,990 both of our like our our our thought process then. 786 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,660 But I've gotta make the worksheet now. 787 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,970 Sorry, what the task. The most important thing. 788 00:31:20,260 --> 00:31:22,230 If you're actually going to spend time planning properly, it 789 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,430 has to be at the task. Yeah, I've made some artsy 790 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,980 fartsy smites, but this 16 slides in a row that through 791 00:31:26,990 --> 00:31:29,090 these funny things he doesn't. I'll tell you what, it took me a 792 00:31:29,100 --> 00:31:31,720 long time, some years, but I have finally dropped that pride. 793 00:31:31,730 --> 00:31:34,180 And now I when I look at resource, I think what the kids 794 00:31:34,190 --> 00:31:35,990 actually get out of it. Yeah, they don't care about the 795 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,480 presentation. Honestly, they don't. 796 00:31:37,590 --> 00:31:39,540 People might tell you they were all we gotta make it look good. 797 00:31:39,550 --> 00:31:41,870 They don't care. They just don't. 798 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,820 And there's some people out there, right, who take pride in 799 00:31:44,830 --> 00:31:47,700 their in their resources, and they love that, that aesthetic 800 00:31:47,710 --> 00:31:49,560 and things. And if they're not feeling burnt 801 00:31:49,570 --> 00:31:51,960 out and that's part of what they enjoy doing, don't change 802 00:31:51,970 --> 00:31:52,850 anything. It's lovely. 803 00:31:52,860 --> 00:31:53,920 And if you're not? Saying it's bad. 804 00:31:53,930 --> 00:31:57,040 If you're feeling burnt out ask for their resources use theirs. 805 00:31:57,050 --> 00:32:00,020 And that's that's that's kind of overarching point here is if 806 00:32:00,030 --> 00:32:02,530 there is stuff available. Yeah from other people even just 807 00:32:02,540 --> 00:32:04,560 the Internet. Whatever you go on Tees or you 808 00:32:04,570 --> 00:32:06,870 go on twinkle or whatever your subscriptions you've got if 809 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,760 there's stuff available and you've looked for it and quality 810 00:32:08,770 --> 00:32:10,750 control it and you think it's good to use it because you're a 811 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,200 professional use it. You're a professional. 812 00:32:12,210 --> 00:32:14,950 You can make that judgement call have you ever before because 813 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,640 I've done this loads of times and every time I do it I'm 814 00:32:16,650 --> 00:32:18,260 thinking what the hell am I doing? 815 00:32:18,610 --> 00:32:23,200 Snipped a PowerPoint so like screen shotted a PowerPoint onto 816 00:32:23,210 --> 00:32:26,200 my smart notebook. Basically slide for slide just 817 00:32:26,210 --> 00:32:27,820 so that it's not a Twinkle PowerPoint. 818 00:32:27,830 --> 00:32:30,540 Anyone who doesn't know SMART Notebook is like PowerPoint, but 819 00:32:30,550 --> 00:32:32,270 a lot of schools is it law schools down, it's more 820 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:33,730 interactive. I've changed everything. 821 00:32:33,740 --> 00:32:35,790 I've changed now. Like in terms of we use White 822 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,860 Rose maths if a power. So let's say we're doing 823 00:32:38,870 --> 00:32:41,580 fractions right. I could sit and make all these 824 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,090 equal spaced out lines and these beautiful graphs and these 825 00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:48,670 pictures that, yeah, all this pictorial stuff that moves. 826 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,110 Or I could just use the PowerPoint that exists. 827 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,570 So you know, I'm just gonna put a slide and say see PowerPoint 828 00:32:54,580 --> 00:32:56,890 for my own reference. I jump over to the PowerPoint 829 00:32:56,900 --> 00:32:58,520 and guess what? The kids get the same learning 830 00:32:58,530 --> 00:32:59,730 experience. Actually, yeah, they get a 831 00:32:59,740 --> 00:33:02,300 better learning experience. Yeah, because it exists, is made 832 00:33:02,310 --> 00:33:04,260 by professionals, other maths specialists. 833 00:33:04,270 --> 00:33:06,940 It's already there. It doesn't need to look like my 834 00:33:06,950 --> 00:33:07,840 lesson. It doesn't. 835 00:33:07,850 --> 00:33:09,760 Matter. So to summarise then, my first 836 00:33:09,770 --> 00:33:12,200 point. So point #2 on avoiding burnout, 837 00:33:12,610 --> 00:33:15,060 Don't be too proud. Use other resources. 838 00:33:15,070 --> 00:33:16,880 Don't worry too much about what it looks like. 839 00:33:17,070 --> 00:33:19,770 Definitely. So tip #3, I guess we're going 840 00:33:19,780 --> 00:33:21,740 123. We've got six in total. 841 00:33:21,990 --> 00:33:24,580 This one is. Again, I'm only giving stuff 842 00:33:24,590 --> 00:33:26,740 I've used because I found it really useful. 843 00:33:26,750 --> 00:33:31,540 So tip #3, avoid burnout by spreading your classroom mental 844 00:33:31,550 --> 00:33:34,660 load. Spread that out amongst people, 845 00:33:34,730 --> 00:33:37,220 either support staff or actual children. 846 00:33:37,310 --> 00:33:39,370 So what I mean here is burn them out. 847 00:33:39,380 --> 00:33:43,440 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. What I mean here is as a 848 00:33:43,450 --> 00:33:45,680 classroom teacher, you are a manager. 849 00:33:45,770 --> 00:33:48,310 You are a manager. You're in charge of that 850 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,870 particular classroom. You have children to manage. 851 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,490 You might have support staff to manage sometimes, probably not 852 00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:55,530 all the time, knowing funding as it is right now. 853 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:58,840 But that is a big cognitive load that you've got to carry. 854 00:33:58,850 --> 00:34:00,310 Yeah. And especially when you're 855 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,290 getting incentives, sorry, initiatives from SLT or you've 856 00:34:04,300 --> 00:34:06,370 got lots of policies to follow. Like we've said, you look at the 857 00:34:06,380 --> 00:34:07,290 policies. Well, OK. 858 00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:09,750 But I've still got to do a visual timetable every day. 859 00:34:09,820 --> 00:34:12,370 I've still got to make sure that these letters get handed out at 860 00:34:12,380 --> 00:34:14,830 the end of every day. I am scatty. 861 00:34:14,900 --> 00:34:18,889 I am terrible if there's a pile of letters on my desk and that 862 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:22,159 comes at lunchtime because it's not come within two minutes of 863 00:34:22,170 --> 00:34:24,540 having to be done, it will be forgotten about and left on my. 864 00:34:24,550 --> 00:34:26,500 Desk How? What's the percentage rate? 865 00:34:26,510 --> 00:34:28,449 Do you reckon you actually hand out a letter on the day you? 866 00:34:28,460 --> 00:34:30,190 Get it's 5050. It's 50. 867 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:30,770 Pretty good. Yeah. 868 00:34:30,780 --> 00:34:34,100 It's like 10%, no. It's it's pretty good because 869 00:34:34,110 --> 00:34:36,520 it's got it's improved because I followed this advice. 870 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,040 So my tip when I say spread the mental load is give your kids in 871 00:34:40,050 --> 00:34:43,400 your class jobs if there are low stakes jobs that you've got to 872 00:34:43,409 --> 00:34:47,550 remember every single day, but anyone could do them, IE fixing 873 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,610 the visual timetable. My class, now, since we talked 874 00:34:50,620 --> 00:34:53,659 about it a few episodes ago, we used a visual timetable every 875 00:34:53,670 --> 00:34:54,360 single day. Yeah. 876 00:34:54,370 --> 00:34:56,139 Do you know why? Because there's one boy in my 877 00:34:56,150 --> 00:34:57,720 class who I've given that job to. 878 00:34:57,830 --> 00:34:59,910 Every single morning, he comes up to me and says what we're 879 00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:02,000 doing today and he points at the visual timetable. 880 00:35:02,070 --> 00:35:04,960 And every single morning I go, ohh, yeah, it's this. 881 00:35:05,030 --> 00:35:07,230 I don't have to do it anymore. I'll just say to him science and 882 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:08,840 he'll sort it all out while he's going on. 883 00:35:08,930 --> 00:35:12,280 Meanwhile, there are two people who go over to my book corner 884 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,550 and make sure that's all tidy because he's in the book corner. 885 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:16,720 Yeah. Meanwhile, there's a rotation of 886 00:35:16,730 --> 00:35:19,120 people who are taking my lunch register around. 887 00:35:19,230 --> 00:35:21,260 There's a rotation of people who are taking the lunch trolley to 888 00:35:21,270 --> 00:35:23,370 the hall. And there's a rotation of people 889 00:35:23,530 --> 00:35:25,530 who are sorting out books to be returned to their library. 890 00:35:25,540 --> 00:35:27,250 Yeah, so there's a box now of books. 891 00:35:27,260 --> 00:35:29,290 There's someone who walked around and say any books to be 892 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:32,210 collected up, all automated. All of these jobs were jobs that 893 00:35:32,220 --> 00:35:34,520 just simply wouldn't have happened or I'd forget. 894 00:35:34,530 --> 00:35:36,070 Because you know what I've got in the morning. 895 00:35:36,110 --> 00:35:37,490 I've got to make sure the kids are OK. 896 00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:39,210 There's someone is coming, crying because something 897 00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:39,960 happens. Ready. 898 00:35:41,580 --> 00:35:43,630 You know, printing, trimming. I can do that before the kids 899 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:44,510 come in. But when? 900 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,650 When I've got 32 children in front of me, do you know my 901 00:35:46,660 --> 00:35:48,270 priority is making sure they're OK? 902 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,830 It's talking to them. It's catching up with them. 903 00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:52,940 It might be doing a bit of input of one of them who missed 904 00:35:52,950 --> 00:35:55,050 something yesterday. It's doing the register. 905 00:35:55,060 --> 00:35:57,210 It's making sure they get the hot school dinners if they need 906 00:35:57,220 --> 00:35:59,720 hot school dinners. All of these things are tied up 907 00:35:59,730 --> 00:36:01,990 in my priority list. Then everything else that needs 908 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:02,410 to. Happen. 909 00:36:02,420 --> 00:36:05,710 So say your point here is delegate. 910 00:36:05,860 --> 00:36:07,560 Don't be afraid to delegate. Yeah, don't be afraid. 911 00:36:07,570 --> 00:36:09,860 Sometimes we think, oh, I better, I better do that because 912 00:36:09,870 --> 00:36:10,710 I'm a teacher. No. 913 00:36:10,780 --> 00:36:12,210 Yeah, no. If someone else can do it, get 914 00:36:12,220 --> 00:36:14,080 them to do it. So like if you're in a staff 915 00:36:14,090 --> 00:36:16,910 meeting, right, and someone. And then for example, let's say 916 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,400 you don't do visual timetable, but you're in the staff meeting. 917 00:36:19,410 --> 00:36:21,450 And then your SRT said, OK guys, we're all gonna do visual 918 00:36:21,460 --> 00:36:24,630 timetable from now. Instead of going, oh God, I'm so 919 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,340 burnt out already, how am I going to do that? 920 00:36:27,380 --> 00:36:29,630 Try and change your mindset because that's going to help you 921 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,840 in the long run. Your mindset can now be OK, how 922 00:36:31,850 --> 00:36:34,390 can I make that work for me? OK, I'm going to make that work 923 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,420 for me because the resources team are making it for everyone. 924 00:36:37,490 --> 00:36:39,180 Thank you. But I've still got to do it 925 00:36:39,190 --> 00:36:40,240 everyday. Do you know what? 926 00:36:40,250 --> 00:36:44,140 I'm gonna put that out to a kid because a child can easily do 927 00:36:44,150 --> 00:36:46,160 that job that you know a child can't do. 928 00:36:46,170 --> 00:36:47,520 And I still wouldn't trust him to do. 929 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,020 I'm sure they could if we trained them. 930 00:36:49,070 --> 00:36:51,430 But I still, at the minute I'm gonna write down who needs hot 931 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,500 school lunches because if someone messes up their dinner, 932 00:36:53,550 --> 00:36:55,020 I'm gonna. I'm gonna feel awful that 933 00:36:55,030 --> 00:36:57,060 actually I put a nine year old in charge of that. 934 00:36:57,130 --> 00:36:58,960 That's my job in the morning. But you know what? 935 00:36:58,970 --> 00:37:02,420 These five other jobs, no. And if there are some jobs that 936 00:37:02,430 --> 00:37:05,380 an adult needs to do, maybe it's changing a display, getting some 937 00:37:05,390 --> 00:37:07,890 staples down, something maybe where it's a bit more involved 938 00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:10,060 with safety or just know how of an adult. 939 00:37:10,070 --> 00:37:12,070 Umm, do you know what? I'll wait for my support staff 940 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:13,670 to come in. Yeah, I actually, I know I've 941 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,920 got support staff in English today, so that job can wait. 942 00:37:15,930 --> 00:37:18,280 Till then, I'll write it down. Here you go, because I've got a 943 00:37:18,290 --> 00:37:21,370 nice relationship with my Tias. Or before we do anything while 944 00:37:21,380 --> 00:37:23,290 I'm doing the input, would you mind just going and sorting out 945 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:25,210 this for me? Did you, did you, early on in 946 00:37:25,220 --> 00:37:28,080 your career like me, find it really hard to delegate to 947 00:37:28,090 --> 00:37:30,780 staff? Yeah, I still, honestly, and 948 00:37:30,790 --> 00:37:32,780 hopefully this helps people who are less experienced than I was 949 00:37:32,790 --> 00:37:35,700 eight or nine years. I still really struggle with 950 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,110 managing people. Yeah. 951 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,050 In terms of I I still feel awkward. 952 00:37:39,060 --> 00:37:41,210 I feel like I'm I'm there equal. Yeah. 953 00:37:41,220 --> 00:37:43,800 I don't like the idea of me being the manager of the club 954 00:37:43,810 --> 00:37:45,230 and I'm managing them. It is what it. 955 00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:47,670 Is like you're above them in. Terms of fire and school you 956 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,490 know for a for a teacher who's Essex experience who's like 2-3 957 00:37:50,500 --> 00:37:53,130 years in they might have a has been at the school for 30 years 958 00:37:53,140 --> 00:37:55,720 yeah and and you know that TA knows exactly what's going on 959 00:37:55,730 --> 00:37:58,050 and sometimes can be a bit overpowering We've seen remember 960 00:37:58,060 --> 00:37:58,680 yeah. Completely. 961 00:37:58,690 --> 00:38:00,880 I remember my first, and I'm gonna name them because I just 962 00:38:00,890 --> 00:38:03,230 love these people. Yeah, my first year of teaching, 963 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:05,510 I had two TA that was working with the work with me. 964 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,040 One was Mike Brown, who I'm still lovely, lovely man. 965 00:38:08,250 --> 00:38:10,200 They way more experience than I was at the time. 966 00:38:10,330 --> 00:38:14,450 And another one, Another one was Jeffrey, who was like one of the 967 00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:17,000 most incredible teaching. I've gotta say right now, Angela 968 00:38:17,010 --> 00:38:21,380 Angie Laffey is that archetypal. You know TA, Who is a better 969 00:38:21,390 --> 00:38:23,400 teacher? Than any Yeah, so good, so good. 970 00:38:23,410 --> 00:38:25,100 And they were my first gas, right? 971 00:38:25,150 --> 00:38:27,780 Helping me out on a daily basis. And I have so much imposter 972 00:38:27,790 --> 00:38:30,780 syndrome thinking I'm technically supposed to be like 973 00:38:30,790 --> 00:38:33,060 in charge, like telling you guys what to do, but you know 974 00:38:33,070 --> 00:38:36,740 everything better than I do. And I think that since then it 975 00:38:36,750 --> 00:38:39,070 took me, it took me many, many years, I think to get to the 976 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,170 point where that no longer infiltrated my brain. 977 00:38:41,180 --> 00:38:43,810 Whenever I thought I do kind of need an adult to help me with 978 00:38:43,820 --> 00:38:45,970 this, I'll just do it myself because I don't want to ask them 979 00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:48,010 now. I think I'm better at being like 980 00:38:48,020 --> 00:38:49,690 actually, you know what? We're A-Team. 981 00:38:49,750 --> 00:38:53,140 Yes, One of us has got to manage this team in terms of like me 982 00:38:53,150 --> 00:38:56,190 and my TA or me and a couple of teams that work in our in our 983 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,640 year group. Obviously our year leader has 984 00:38:58,650 --> 00:39:01,390 that overarching role. But I can also just say, oh, 985 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,410 what are you doing? Have you got an hour spare this 986 00:39:03,420 --> 00:39:04,940 afternoon? Can you, could you mind getting 987 00:39:04,950 --> 00:39:06,150 this job done? Coolant. 988 00:39:06,260 --> 00:39:08,300 Yeah, There you go. Now there's an hour I don't have 989 00:39:08,310 --> 00:39:09,900 to do after school. Now they're doing it in their 990 00:39:09,910 --> 00:39:11,310 paid time. Exactly, as long as it's. 991 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:12,070 Free. Exactly. 992 00:39:12,140 --> 00:39:13,410 So yeah, that's my, that's my point. 993 00:39:13,420 --> 00:39:15,730 Now Delegate, I think we all know it's tricky to delegate to 994 00:39:15,740 --> 00:39:18,570 adults, but something that transformed it for me was just 995 00:39:18,580 --> 00:39:21,480 delegated to your kids. Your kids are more reliable than 996 00:39:21,490 --> 00:39:24,740 you ever could imagine it. And when it's their job, they're 997 00:39:24,750 --> 00:39:26,690 not going to forget it. They've got one job to remember 998 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:28,930 and they do it every day. And I trust you, they love it. 999 00:39:28,940 --> 00:39:30,950 Yeah. If you ask your kids to do a 1000 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,150 favour, you'll get everyone's hand go up straight away. 1001 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,910 So yeah, just just delegate out if you're feeling burnt out. 1002 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,350 How much of these jobs can you give to someone else? 1003 00:39:38,420 --> 00:39:40,290 And then you know what? It's not in my head anymore. 1004 00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:42,530 I'd have to get frustrated because they're running. 1005 00:39:42,540 --> 00:39:43,980 Just remember to be fair as well. 1006 00:39:43,990 --> 00:39:46,340 Obviously we say that say that given these drugs to other 1007 00:39:46,350 --> 00:39:48,490 people, as long as they've got the capacity to take it, you 1008 00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:50,710 don't just pass the burnout. Some I'm talking about children 1009 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,920 in classrooms, those little media jobs like that, that's. 1010 00:39:52,930 --> 00:39:54,540 Just wanna make that clear. I don't want to listen to that 1011 00:39:54,550 --> 00:39:56,500 and be like, oh, they're just saying get someone else to. 1012 00:39:56,510 --> 00:39:58,720 Have. And when I say I mean, I mean 1013 00:39:58,730 --> 00:40:01,300 that like you know we've said real time if they've got time 1014 00:40:01,310 --> 00:40:03,720 and that's something that can help you and you want more 1015 00:40:03,730 --> 00:40:05,610 often. Ohh, bloody lovely. 1016 00:40:05,620 --> 00:40:07,260 Yeah, they'll be like, yeah, of course I can. 1017 00:40:07,270 --> 00:40:09,850 They ask me. How bad I am at this, that 1018 00:40:09,860 --> 00:40:11,430 they'll ask me, is there anything I can do? 1019 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,000 And I'm like, oh, I don't. Know ohh I've not thought about 1020 00:40:13,010 --> 00:40:13,820 it. I don't. 1021 00:40:13,830 --> 00:40:16,480 Know actually have the 17 things get a bit more organised. 1022 00:40:16,490 --> 00:40:18,190 It's helped me a lot. So that's my second tip. 1023 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,110 Tip free. Right, tip #4, avoiding burnout. 1024 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,390 This is probably my favourite tip. 1025 00:40:22,460 --> 00:40:24,610 I've been doing this for years and I'm still improving at it. 1026 00:40:24,620 --> 00:40:27,150 I'm not a great and it is. Called Go part time. 1027 00:40:28,530 --> 00:40:32,050 That's a great tip, planning for marking and what I mean plan. 1028 00:40:32,060 --> 00:40:35,370 What I mean by planning for marking is consider the marking 1029 00:40:35,380 --> 00:40:38,830 load at the point in which you plan your day, or you plan your 1030 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,820 lessons or you plan your week. However, whatever your planning 1031 00:40:40,830 --> 00:40:46,130 process is, genuinely build into your thought process of how long 1032 00:40:46,140 --> 00:40:51,320 will it take to mark this. And if you're organised enough, 1033 00:40:51,380 --> 00:40:54,710 you can get to a point where you make sure that there are no days 1034 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,710 where you end up with that horrible triple triple marking 1035 00:40:57,720 --> 00:40:58,890 bird. You know, you know, you've done 1036 00:40:58,900 --> 00:41:00,560 your morning lesson, it's that that's a big mark. 1037 00:41:00,570 --> 00:41:01,630 Then you've got your English lesson. 1038 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,970 Whatever it is, it's a big mark. And then you do your afternoon 1039 00:41:03,980 --> 00:41:05,200 lesson. It just happens to be quite a 1040 00:41:05,210 --> 00:41:07,410 big mark load as well. And you think, Oh no. 1041 00:41:07,420 --> 00:41:09,350 Afternoon where you've spit two lessons into. 1042 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,570 The afternoon something quadruple there, yeah. 1043 00:41:11,580 --> 00:41:13,450 And you've got like all this marking to do. 1044 00:41:13,620 --> 00:41:16,870 I'd say probably like now less than two times a term. 1045 00:41:17,020 --> 00:41:19,630 Do I accidentally let that happen to me because our plan 1046 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:20,840 for marketing? How would you do that? 1047 00:41:20,850 --> 00:41:23,260 Let's say you've got, you've got a day ahead of you, so for 1048 00:41:23,270 --> 00:41:25,620 anyone again it doesn't know, primary school staff will have 1049 00:41:25,630 --> 00:41:27,810 one afternoon called PA. We're out of the classroom. 1050 00:41:27,820 --> 00:41:29,800 We don't do any marking, so that's kind of done for itself. 1051 00:41:29,810 --> 00:41:31,260 Yeah. We might have another day 1052 00:41:31,270 --> 00:41:33,380 perhaps where we're doing like PE or something or something, 1053 00:41:33,390 --> 00:41:36,160 something where it's built in that there is no actual physical 1054 00:41:36,170 --> 00:41:38,500 marking. But how do you avoid it on those 1055 00:41:38,510 --> 00:41:41,120 days where let's say you know, you've got to teach history in 1056 00:41:41,130 --> 00:41:43,540 the afternoon, you've got maths and English in the morning. 1057 00:41:43,950 --> 00:41:47,100 How can you actually do that and and try and avoid your burnout 1058 00:41:47,110 --> 00:41:50,170 staying, staying late without making a detriment to the kids 1059 00:41:50,180 --> 00:41:53,210 because the the thing people might say to you there is OK, 1060 00:41:53,220 --> 00:41:55,520 well what do they not do any work then how how are we gonna 1061 00:41:55,530 --> 00:41:56,630 make sure? What do you mean? 1062 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,780 Like I've I've got a plan for marking, but how do you do that 1063 00:41:58,790 --> 00:41:59,330 a? Couple of things. 1064 00:41:59,340 --> 00:42:01,690 So first of all, I think you need to be really confident with 1065 00:42:01,700 --> 00:42:03,810 knowing your weekly timetable. It has to come from a weekly 1066 00:42:03,820 --> 00:42:06,170 perspective, right? You know which days you have 1067 00:42:06,180 --> 00:42:08,920 more time on. For example, on PPA day, I 1068 00:42:08,930 --> 00:42:12,220 always make sure if I am going to do some big marking in maths 1069 00:42:12,230 --> 00:42:14,620 and English is that day because I've got all of PPA and I've got 1070 00:42:14,630 --> 00:42:17,010 no afternoon lesson to market. So that day I don't mind. 1071 00:42:17,020 --> 00:42:18,530 I'll always make sure that that's fine. 1072 00:42:18,540 --> 00:42:21,260 I can just mark those as the biggest set of marking need. 1073 00:42:21,270 --> 00:42:23,620 Whatever. But on the days, and there's 1074 00:42:23,630 --> 00:42:25,620 another day where we'll do things in the afternoon where 1075 00:42:25,630 --> 00:42:26,720 it's not, we're not marking anyway. 1076 00:42:26,730 --> 00:42:30,020 Things like PE, music, music, like those kind of subjects. 1077 00:42:30,030 --> 00:42:32,240 If we do them, there's not really any marking involved 1078 00:42:32,250 --> 00:42:33,240 anyway. There might be a little bit of 1079 00:42:33,250 --> 00:42:34,940 assessment. So those days I also think 1080 00:42:34,950 --> 00:42:37,640 right, if I did have bigger marking in the morning, that's 1081 00:42:37,650 --> 00:42:40,380 not as much of a problem. So we're down to like two or 1082 00:42:40,390 --> 00:42:43,340 three days of the week where you might have maybe maths, English 1083 00:42:43,350 --> 00:42:45,560 and then like a geography lesson or something like that in the 1084 00:42:45,570 --> 00:42:47,400 afternoon. And for those lessons at the 1085 00:42:47,410 --> 00:42:50,120 beginning of the week I'm already planning ahead on, I 1086 00:42:50,130 --> 00:42:53,040 think it's acceptable to have one or two practical lessons in 1087 00:42:53,050 --> 00:42:54,610 the week. Maybe one in maths, one in one 1088 00:42:54,620 --> 00:42:56,370 in English, where we don't do anything in the books. 1089 00:42:56,540 --> 00:42:58,770 And I'll plan that. I don't be afraid to do that. 1090 00:42:58,780 --> 00:43:01,170 But like, no. On Thursday I know that we're 1091 00:43:01,180 --> 00:43:03,130 doing a big bit of writing in English. 1092 00:43:03,260 --> 00:43:05,330 There's going to take me a while to mark and we've got some dog 1093 00:43:05,340 --> 00:43:06,450 in the afternoon. So you know what? 1094 00:43:06,460 --> 00:43:09,470 In maths I'm going to make sure that whatever I had planned for 1095 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,230 that day, we're going to do it in a practical way. 1096 00:43:11,290 --> 00:43:12,950 And I'm not going to be left with marking. 1097 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,810 And I'm not afraid to do that because you know what? 1098 00:43:14,860 --> 00:43:16,310 It's OK. And guess what, guys? 1099 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,370 Markings the least important, least effective part of teaching 1100 00:43:19,380 --> 00:43:21,690 anyway. So really, it's not going to 1101 00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:23,840 have that much impact as long as you still teach a lesson well 1102 00:43:23,850 --> 00:43:25,800 and they're still doing a task of some sort. 1103 00:43:25,980 --> 00:43:27,500 You don't have to have maths in the book to have LIKE. 1104 00:43:27,510 --> 00:43:30,000 Maths, no. And the final point is with 1105 00:43:30,010 --> 00:43:32,060 marking. I kind of see there's two types 1106 00:43:32,070 --> 00:43:33,430 of marking. There's quick marking and 1107 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,280 there's long marking. And I consider maths generally, 1108 00:43:36,330 --> 00:43:38,300 for, at least in our system, maths is a quick. 1109 00:43:38,310 --> 00:43:40,980 Mark Definitely, pretty much always do you find with maths in 1110 00:43:40,990 --> 00:43:44,150 our system again we've we've kind of not mould I guess we've 1111 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:48,040 moulded over the years haven't we Where our aim now is teachers 1112 00:43:48,050 --> 00:43:51,460 work for a break. You know, flash news flash that 1113 00:43:51,510 --> 00:43:54,040 teachers would be able to mark mass always within their break 1114 00:43:54,050 --> 00:43:55,230 time. If they wanted to. 1115 00:43:55,270 --> 00:43:58,320 So basically 15 minutes maximum. Yeah because we self marking 1116 00:43:58,330 --> 00:44:00,670 maths. And then the idea is if because 1117 00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,530 they've self marked you can just kind of have a quick flick 1118 00:44:02,540 --> 00:44:04,780 through and pick up misconceptions or whatever. 1119 00:44:04,830 --> 00:44:07,310 But it's quick. Now if I happen that I do this 1120 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,760 on the spot sometimes and don't be afraid again to do this, just 1121 00:44:10,770 --> 00:44:12,540 adapt and change your week on the spot. 1122 00:44:12,550 --> 00:44:16,040 Even on the day I have before I finished the math lesson and 1123 00:44:16,050 --> 00:44:18,460 it's not quite gone to plan. We've not ended up self marking 1124 00:44:18,470 --> 00:44:20,860 and I've thought that's a big mark now because they didn't 1125 00:44:20,870 --> 00:44:23,280 really get that they've done some work in their books, we've 1126 00:44:23,290 --> 00:44:25,240 not self marked. It's going to take me ages now 1127 00:44:25,250 --> 00:44:28,000 to mark that so I get to the next session which is English 1128 00:44:28,110 --> 00:44:30,120 and in before I get before I start that lesson. 1129 00:44:30,130 --> 00:44:32,760 I've got break time. My my thought is cool, how can I 1130 00:44:32,770 --> 00:44:34,420 how can I now make this lesson practical? 1131 00:44:34,510 --> 00:44:38,340 Because I'm not prepared to take books home and that is a rule I 1132 00:44:38,350 --> 00:44:42,090 have. If I get to 5:30 and there's 1133 00:44:42,100 --> 00:44:45,360 marking that hasn't been done, I have failed myself that day. 1134 00:44:45,410 --> 00:44:47,980 I've not organised my day properly and I will not take it 1135 00:44:47,990 --> 00:44:48,760 home. I'm not going to Mark. 1136 00:44:48,770 --> 00:44:51,700 I think that's that's really good because I think with a lot 1137 00:44:51,710 --> 00:44:55,240 of these lists, sometimes I hear people say things like tip 4 1138 00:44:55,310 --> 00:44:57,440 don't take marking home. You could have said that Then 1139 00:44:57,490 --> 00:44:59,610 your tip could have been done marking home, Yeah. 1140 00:44:59,620 --> 00:45:02,830 And it's like I find tips like that really unhelpful. 1141 00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,090 How? How do we not take much? 1142 00:45:04,100 --> 00:45:07,710 So the tip you're saying is be organised in the 1st place and 1143 00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:10,910 know what's gonna happen. Avoid taking planning home by 1144 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,990 knowing that it's OK to plan in these practical lessons. 1145 00:45:14,050 --> 00:45:16,450 I think it's a great tip and. Change them as part of you need 1146 00:45:16,460 --> 00:45:17,230 to. Seriously. 1147 00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:19,630 So be adaptable again. Yeah, you could have turned up 1148 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:20,990 and said tip 4. Be adaptable. 1149 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:22,870 OK? In practise, what does that 1150 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,110 mean? It means change your lesson. 1151 00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:29,770 Don't have to skimp on quality, Don't have to skimp on learning. 1152 00:45:29,910 --> 00:45:33,210 But what you can do is skimp on how much you're writing in there 1153 00:45:33,370 --> 00:45:34,960 and it links back to .2. Really. 1154 00:45:34,970 --> 00:45:36,000 Drop. Drop the pride. 1155 00:45:36,010 --> 00:45:40,500 Seriously, don't worry about it. If if if the odd lesson is now 1156 00:45:40,510 --> 00:45:43,860 not marked properly because you changed it so that you actually 1157 00:45:43,870 --> 00:45:45,890 got to go home and spend time with your family or do whatever 1158 00:45:45,900 --> 00:45:48,600 you do, it's fine. I promise you it won't make an 1159 00:45:48,610 --> 00:45:49,880 impact. Drop the pride. 1160 00:45:49,890 --> 00:45:51,440 It's fine. But if your school's got a 1161 00:45:51,450 --> 00:45:53,700 terrible policy and it's like, no, every lesson must be marked 1162 00:45:53,710 --> 00:45:56,700 horrendously, then there's there's there's a wider issue. 1163 00:45:56,710 --> 00:45:58,820 There, and I think that's what you said beforehand. 1164 00:45:58,870 --> 00:46:00,870 If you're listening to these tips and going couldn't do that 1165 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,080 in my school, yeah, there there's your answer. 1166 00:46:04,090 --> 00:46:05,590 Yeah, maybe the school is the problem. 1167 00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:09,180 Right, my final tip. Tip 5 something again that I 1168 00:46:09,190 --> 00:46:13,180 have done a lot more in the last year or two and I found it has 1169 00:46:13,190 --> 00:46:17,180 had a big impact is to use PPA properly. 1170 00:46:17,490 --> 00:46:22,040 OK, use your PPA time properly. We started off this podcast and 1171 00:46:22,050 --> 00:46:24,060 we did jokes about how PPA is not enough time. 1172 00:46:24,130 --> 00:46:27,680 I still think that PA is not enough time to get all of the 1173 00:46:27,690 --> 00:46:31,530 extra stuff done. However, we do have a semblance 1174 00:46:31,540 --> 00:46:33,580 of control. So this whole theme of the all 1175 00:46:33,590 --> 00:46:36,550 these tips that I've kind of realised over the years is you 1176 00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,590 can do a lot of moaning about external factors, you can do a 1177 00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,930 lot of complaining about. Oh, I've got so much to do 1178 00:46:41,940 --> 00:46:45,880 because of XYZ. What can I take control of? 1179 00:46:45,950 --> 00:46:49,620 And my PPA was one of them. And what I mean by using PA 1180 00:46:49,630 --> 00:46:51,190 properly. And this, this expands to 1181 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:52,950 everything. Yeah, this expands to all of 1182 00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:54,760 your own time because you look at PPA. 1183 00:46:54,830 --> 00:46:57,210 I look at PPA as just an expansion of my time before 1184 00:46:57,220 --> 00:46:59,790 school, my time after school, anything I've got to do out of 1185 00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,970 the classroom. But Ppa's golden because it's 1186 00:47:01,980 --> 00:47:04,440 the time I get. That's the time I'm given by the 1187 00:47:04,450 --> 00:47:07,960 system. So I use that time as best I can 1188 00:47:08,010 --> 00:47:12,200 to take away anything else from my calendar, from my schedule if 1189 00:47:12,210 --> 00:47:14,140 I don't use it properly. Guess what? 1190 00:47:14,210 --> 00:47:16,690 I'm just going to the weekend. I'm just gonna have to do it. 1191 00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:18,590 P is like double time because also you're not. 1192 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:20,550 If you're not teaching a lesson in that time, you're also not 1193 00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:24,230 having to market. Exactly so I think in general my 1194 00:47:24,300 --> 00:47:27,550 my tip here is to have a hierarchy of what needs doing. 1195 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,930 I'll be interested to hear because I think I don't use my 1196 00:47:29,940 --> 00:47:30,740 PPA very. Effective. 1197 00:47:30,750 --> 00:47:33,410 OK, so this. Yeah, I think you could improve 1198 00:47:33,420 --> 00:47:34,320 this. I really do. 1199 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,050 But have a hierarchy of what he's doing and has the biggest 1200 00:47:37,060 --> 00:47:39,270 impact on the children. Have that yourself. 1201 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,450 OK, so as a teacher, as a professional, mould what that is 1202 00:47:42,460 --> 00:47:43,770 for you? So just to be clear, you're 1203 00:47:43,780 --> 00:47:45,430 going to share your time? I'm gonna share my high, but 1204 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:46,450 you're not. I mean, this is what? 1205 00:47:46,460 --> 00:47:49,020 You have no just find your hire down to you because you know 1206 00:47:49,030 --> 00:47:51,030 what it used to be. Umm, I'll tell you now. 1207 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,530 My my number one top thing. Hmm. 1208 00:47:53,570 --> 00:47:58,020 Is I? I will in my PA if something can 1209 00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,400 only be done in school. Mm-hmm. 1210 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,170 So, like it can only be done in school. 1211 00:48:02,230 --> 00:48:04,650 Hmm. That is a relevant to my 1212 00:48:04,660 --> 00:48:06,950 hierarchy and I'll show you what I mean. 1213 00:48:06,990 --> 00:48:08,770 Yeah, what do you? Mean my hierarchy at the top is 1214 00:48:08,780 --> 00:48:10,370 planning. OK. 1215 00:48:10,380 --> 00:48:13,770 My number one thing that I think of has the biggest impact on the 1216 00:48:13,780 --> 00:48:14,690 children. Yeah. 1217 00:48:14,780 --> 00:48:17,710 And is the biggest use of my time is planning really good 1218 00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:19,770 lessons for the children. That's, that's number one. 1219 00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:21,950 OK. So you might think, OK, I can 1220 00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:23,440 plan anywhere. I can plan at home. 1221 00:48:23,450 --> 00:48:24,620 Yeah. And I have planned at home a lot 1222 00:48:24,630 --> 00:48:25,990 of the time. OK. 1223 00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:30,090 But and that you have people say OK well in school I, you know I 1224 00:48:30,100 --> 00:48:32,670 can only do displays in school. I can't do displays at the 1225 00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:33,590 weekend. I can't. 1226 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,030 That's impossible. So some people will say, well 1227 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,010 that goes above and PA then because I'm in school. 1228 00:48:38,060 --> 00:48:41,110 So I could do my do my displays right now my planning I'll just 1229 00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:44,030 get done whenever. My point here is no don't do 1230 00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,170 that. My number one that I've got my 1231 00:48:46,180 --> 00:48:48,810 hierarchy which is like impeccable. 1232 00:48:48,820 --> 00:48:51,590 You can't you can't touch that. Because I've I've decided for me 1233 00:48:51,660 --> 00:48:54,130 the best impact I have on the kids of my time is quality 1234 00:48:54,140 --> 00:48:56,100 planning. I did that first on my PA. 1235 00:48:56,110 --> 00:48:57,870 Every time. Every single time. 1236 00:48:57,950 --> 00:49:00,620 So if I'm getting my planning done in PA, OK. 1237 00:49:00,670 --> 00:49:04,890 If it takes all of PA and now ohh, I can't do my displays that 1238 00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:07,960 I was going to do displays. Wait, it's as simple as that. 1239 00:49:08,010 --> 00:49:09,750 Yeah, they don't get done. They don't. 1240 00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,980 They're not as important because if I did it the other way around 1241 00:49:11,990 --> 00:49:14,600 and I spent my whole PPA doing displays, guess what? 1242 00:49:14,670 --> 00:49:16,550 That planning needs to happen because I won't have a lesson to 1243 00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:18,200 next week. It has to happen. 1244 00:49:18,210 --> 00:49:20,880 So it's my hierarchy. How am I going to avoid burning 1245 00:49:20,890 --> 00:49:22,980 out? Guess what guys and people 1246 00:49:22,990 --> 00:49:25,360 aren't like this and I don't care because how I avoid burning 1247 00:49:25,370 --> 00:49:26,740 out. There's some stuff that just 1248 00:49:26,750 --> 00:49:29,840 doesn't get done. And if if I'm I'm told I need to 1249 00:49:29,850 --> 00:49:33,480 do 6 displays, or if I'm told I need to do something else, I'm 1250 00:49:33,490 --> 00:49:35,480 like, cool that OK, I will do it. 1251 00:49:35,550 --> 00:49:38,380 I promise you I will do that. But it's here in my hierarchy. 1252 00:49:38,550 --> 00:49:41,920 Because if you think that it's going to prioritise my planning, 1253 00:49:42,350 --> 00:49:45,720 then you're completely wrong. So again, in my PPI, OK, you've 1254 00:49:45,730 --> 00:49:48,960 set me a meeting for my PPA. OK, cool, all right, I'll do it 1255 00:49:48,970 --> 00:49:50,560 then. But then I'm going to do my 1256 00:49:50,570 --> 00:49:54,040 planning and then if there's any time left over, if I don't 1257 00:49:54,050 --> 00:49:57,310 finish my planning, that's really annoyed me and I'll have 1258 00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,200 to do my planning after. But guess what? 1259 00:49:59,330 --> 00:50:03,020 Anything I do outside of that, I'm not going to do my display. 1260 00:50:03,090 --> 00:50:05,510 No, no, it gets to half four. I finished my planning. 1261 00:50:05,570 --> 00:50:08,300 I've done my marking OK cause markings on my hierarchy cause I 1262 00:50:08,310 --> 00:50:10,480 need to do my marking. If that doesn't get done, it 1263 00:50:10,490 --> 00:50:11,660 doesn't get done. Cool. 1264 00:50:11,720 --> 00:50:14,000 It's half four. So if I leave the building then 1265 00:50:14,010 --> 00:50:16,560 someone might say ohh have you done those displays? 1266 00:50:16,890 --> 00:50:18,320 I'm. I'm more than happy now to say 1267 00:50:18,330 --> 00:50:22,710 no. And then I'll wait and and ohh, 1268 00:50:23,060 --> 00:50:23,850 can you do them? Yeah. 1269 00:50:23,860 --> 00:50:24,150 Yeah. Yeah. 1270 00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,210 I'll do them when I've got time. Yeah. 1271 00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:27,750 Well you can do them now. I know I can. 1272 00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,150 But I'm not going to. Yeah, because that's how burnout 1273 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:30,750 happens. Yeah. 1274 00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,430 You have to take control of yourself. 1275 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:36,270 If it's 4:45 and you have jobs to do, but they are low enough 1276 00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:38,410 on your hierarchy that you can crack on with your life and do 1277 00:50:38,420 --> 00:50:41,470 your job that's where you're going to have to take control 1278 00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:42,650 and say it's not happening. I'm. 1279 00:50:42,660 --> 00:50:44,030 Afraid can you wash your whole hierarchy? 1280 00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:48,020 Then just my hierarchy. I didn't go to planning the top, 1281 00:50:48,300 --> 00:50:50,570 planning at the top. So my hierarchy is basically 1282 00:50:50,660 --> 00:50:52,770 planning as that's what needs to be done the most. 1283 00:50:53,060 --> 00:50:55,230 Then it's going to be written feedback. 1284 00:50:55,380 --> 00:50:59,250 But I think the reason that's on my hierarchy is because it needs 1285 00:50:59,260 --> 00:51:01,690 to be done. Hmm, that's where you need to as 1286 00:51:01,700 --> 00:51:03,190 a teacher come up with your own one. 1287 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,890 Because for a lot of people written feedback will be at the 1288 00:51:05,900 --> 00:51:07,430 bottom of their list. And I would completely 1289 00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,310 understand that. But there might be working in a 1290 00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,010 school where it's not as important they have a verbal 1291 00:51:12,020 --> 00:51:14,490 feedback policy. So my look, I can read my 1292 00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:17,210 personal one, but it is down to what I've cultivated myself. 1293 00:51:17,260 --> 00:51:20,080 So if I'm sitting PA, the first thing I think of is there 1294 00:51:20,090 --> 00:51:23,230 planning I have to do yes or no? Yes, I do. 1295 00:51:23,240 --> 00:51:24,800 My planning is the planning I have to do. 1296 00:51:24,810 --> 00:51:25,950 No. OK, cool. 1297 00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:27,790 Is there marking I've got to do? Yeah. 1298 00:51:27,900 --> 00:51:29,190 No. OK, cool. 1299 00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,810 Now I can get into the nitty gritty stuff. 1300 00:51:32,020 --> 00:51:34,570 Displays are still low here. My next thing would be 1301 00:51:34,580 --> 00:51:36,730 assessment is they're assessment outstanding. 1302 00:51:36,860 --> 00:51:38,610 OK, Yes, there's some assessment outstanding. 1303 00:51:38,620 --> 00:51:40,570 Cool. I'll do that, get my assessment 1304 00:51:40,580 --> 00:51:42,470 done. So I've done my planning, my 1305 00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,940 marking on my macro assessment. They're the three things that I 1306 00:51:45,950 --> 00:51:49,270 see as PPA time. If that's done other thing comes 1307 00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,690 in, then maybe then I'll go and print. 1308 00:51:51,820 --> 00:51:52,500 Print. Exactly. 1309 00:51:52,510 --> 00:51:54,560 Get my resources ready. I'll trim stuff. 1310 00:51:54,610 --> 00:51:57,220 Because you know, when I trim stuff, it's in the morning 1311 00:51:57,230 --> 00:51:59,720 before I get to school. Yeah, So all of these jobs, the 1312 00:51:59,730 --> 00:52:01,740 hierarchy is what needs to happen for me to be able to 1313 00:52:01,750 --> 00:52:04,660 complete my job. Yeah, do I need to do displays 1314 00:52:04,670 --> 00:52:05,960 for my job to get done? No. 1315 00:52:05,970 --> 00:52:07,170 No. Do they have any impact on 1316 00:52:07,180 --> 00:52:08,160 children ever? Nope. 1317 00:52:08,170 --> 00:52:11,780 Yeah, and again, that's down to, I agree with you, that's down to 1318 00:52:11,790 --> 00:52:14,520 individual whim. But the the cold hard facts are 1319 00:52:14,530 --> 00:52:18,760 and my hierarchy stuff that if it weren't, if it wasn't done, 1320 00:52:18,870 --> 00:52:20,380 would the children still have lessons? 1321 00:52:20,450 --> 00:52:22,520 Yes. Would they really be impacted? 1322 00:52:22,940 --> 00:52:25,600 Maybe a tiny bit if the displays aren't up to date? 1323 00:52:25,700 --> 00:52:27,820 Right. But but yeah, OK, but let's just 1324 00:52:27,830 --> 00:52:29,140 say it's a tiny bit. Sure. 1325 00:52:29,630 --> 00:52:32,610 How much would their learning be affected if there was no 1326 00:52:32,620 --> 00:52:33,950 planning a huge? Amount. 1327 00:52:34,020 --> 00:52:35,630 Or if you had to do your planning at the weekend when you 1328 00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:37,520 were burned out because you used all your time this. 1329 00:52:37,530 --> 00:52:39,190 Week. So it's as simple as why has the 1330 00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,310 biggest impact on the children, but is within the realms of what 1331 00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,810 the policy is for your school. Because if there's a policy at 1332 00:52:44,820 --> 00:52:46,490 the school which is causing you to be burned out, there's 1333 00:52:46,500 --> 00:52:49,950 nothing you can do. However, if there if you can 1334 00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,680 afford to have this attitude, then have this attitude. 1335 00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:56,610 I know that I need to update my displays, OK, but the only time 1336 00:52:56,620 --> 00:52:58,960 that will happen is if I get into school early. 1337 00:52:59,010 --> 00:53:01,040 And when I say early, I mean before half seven. 1338 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,620 Umm. Or if I stay at school late. 1339 00:53:03,690 --> 00:53:05,360 Yeah, And do you know what? Lose your time, your. 1340 00:53:05,370 --> 00:53:06,940 Son, exactly. When I've done all my stuff, 1341 00:53:06,950 --> 00:53:08,100 like my planning, don't call next week. 1342 00:53:08,110 --> 00:53:10,080 Next week we'll run. That's fine. 1343 00:53:10,090 --> 00:53:11,920 All my resources are printed. Cool. 1344 00:53:11,930 --> 00:53:14,970 That's done. I could spend 45 minutes doing a 1345 00:53:14,980 --> 00:53:18,580 display now. Or I could go home and see Rory 1346 00:53:19,010 --> 00:53:20,700 and, you know, cook dinner properly. 1347 00:53:20,710 --> 00:53:22,620 Yeah, because you've already. Well, let's be let's be clear 1348 00:53:22,630 --> 00:53:24,060 here. Yeah, You're not doing this at 1349 00:53:24,070 --> 00:53:26,600 3:00. No, you're doing this at. 1350 00:53:26,650 --> 00:53:29,210 I'm no longer paid for my job because I've done 10 hours 1351 00:53:29,220 --> 00:53:30,200 today. Yeah, exactly. 1352 00:53:30,210 --> 00:53:32,560 So I don't need to say there's nothing compelling me to stay 1353 00:53:32,570 --> 00:53:33,920 other than going above and beyond. 1354 00:53:33,930 --> 00:53:36,600 So the macro thing there was, you know, have a hierarchy, but 1355 00:53:36,610 --> 00:53:38,640 I wanted to be really specific cause I want these tips to be. 1356 00:53:38,650 --> 00:53:40,760 That's really cool. High and hierarchy is the main 1357 00:53:40,770 --> 00:53:42,300 thing, and that can be with anything. 1358 00:53:42,310 --> 00:53:45,050 But very specifically if you want to off somewhere, start of 1359 00:53:45,060 --> 00:53:48,050 your PPI, have a list of things and stick to it. 1360 00:53:48,060 --> 00:53:50,090 What's important? And if something doesn't get 1361 00:53:50,100 --> 00:53:52,850 done, it doesn't get done. So I'm an SLT member. 1362 00:53:52,860 --> 00:53:55,510 I'll just listen to this. I listen to the podcast and I 1363 00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:56,660 think that's a really good actually. 1364 00:53:56,670 --> 00:53:58,950 I wanna, I wanna encourage this culture in my school. 1365 00:53:59,780 --> 00:54:02,250 So what I'm going to do is something I read about on the 1366 00:54:02,260 --> 00:54:04,110 forum the other day and I was like, oh, I'll bring this up 1367 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,130 sometime. Someone was mentioning how their 1368 00:54:06,140 --> 00:54:11,150 SLT are coming around to monitor how PA time is being spent to 1369 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,990 help them make it more effective. 1370 00:54:14,240 --> 00:54:16,110 And I thought it was really interesting because I could 1371 00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,450 imagine 2 scenarios, right? Yeah, I can imagine one scenario 1372 00:54:18,460 --> 00:54:21,680 where it's a genuinely it's a nice SLT team thinking they're 1373 00:54:21,690 --> 00:54:24,220 doing something nice to help their staff just be more 1374 00:54:24,230 --> 00:54:26,770 efficient so they can avoid burnout and which I don't think 1375 00:54:26,780 --> 00:54:28,300 is very likely. And there's the other side of me 1376 00:54:28,310 --> 00:54:31,400 that was like ohh no, it's just a classic draconian like Academy 1377 00:54:31,410 --> 00:54:34,750 trust CEO coming down and being like Nope, we're going to we're 1378 00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,040 going to tell people what to do in in PA. 1379 00:54:37,050 --> 00:54:39,530 So just to be clear PA is undirected time. 1380 00:54:39,540 --> 00:54:42,640 The school are not allowed, not allowed in any circumstance to 1381 00:54:42,650 --> 00:54:46,630 direct you as to the tasks that you do or complete in your PPA. 1382 00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:49,690 It's sacred time. So what would you say to me? 1383 00:54:49,700 --> 00:54:50,950 I'm SLT. I'm think I'm coming in. 1384 00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,610 I'm saying right. I'm gonna help you guys be more 1385 00:54:52,620 --> 00:54:54,020 efficient. Do you think that's OK? 1386 00:54:54,060 --> 00:54:57,880 I I think it really depends on the context because I think if 1387 00:54:57,940 --> 00:55:01,650 RSLT came in and said that I'm like, cool, this is what we do. 1388 00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,040 And I think it's really important in this situation for 1389 00:55:05,050 --> 00:55:09,630 SLT to offer it to not to not demand. 1390 00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,290 I'm coming to see your people. Yeah. 1391 00:55:11,340 --> 00:55:13,310 No, no, no. It no matter how well intended 1392 00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,290 it is, if it's demanded to me, that's wrong. 1393 00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,110 Yeah. If it's if it's offered. 1394 00:55:17,180 --> 00:55:18,710 And then you have that relationship PST. 1395 00:55:18,720 --> 00:55:20,210 Right. But yeah, God, because do you 1396 00:55:20,220 --> 00:55:21,910 know what I'm going to show you now? 1397 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:26,010 I get this two hour block of PPA and I've got 2 1/2 hours of 1398 00:55:26,020 --> 00:55:28,190 planning, half an hour of marking and all those displays 1399 00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,750 you asked me to do. So how would you manage this? 1400 00:55:30,860 --> 00:55:32,290 And then and then. But then it becomes a 1401 00:55:32,300 --> 00:55:34,550 conversation of OK, yeah, mate, we are asking too much of you. 1402 00:55:34,620 --> 00:55:36,270 Do you know what? If the displays are that 1403 00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:40,420 important to me as SLT, why, why don't we cut back on the 1404 00:55:40,430 --> 00:55:42,180 planning? OK, so for this time, you know, 1405 00:55:42,190 --> 00:55:44,180 we can use that history unit from last year. 1406 00:55:44,270 --> 00:55:46,200 OK, that's fine, because we want to get this done. 1407 00:55:46,210 --> 00:55:49,460 For that reason, I'd be like, OK, because you've taken away 1408 00:55:49,470 --> 00:55:52,490 from my burden. OK, I'm still gonna manage how I 1409 00:55:52,500 --> 00:55:55,700 do it, but you've taken away from my burden now. 1410 00:55:55,770 --> 00:55:57,070 And you know what? I'll get it done. 1411 00:55:57,110 --> 00:55:59,580 I think there's going to be a problem where some teachers 1412 00:55:59,710 --> 00:56:01,620 perhaps aren't doing their job properly. 1413 00:56:01,690 --> 00:56:02,660 OK. And. 1414 00:56:02,670 --> 00:56:05,080 And and what I mean by that is, let's not be naive. 1415 00:56:05,090 --> 00:56:07,260 We're very much on the side of teachers every single time. 1416 00:56:07,270 --> 00:56:09,380 And we we come across like we're against SLT. 1417 00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,530 And I I really don't like that because there are some fantastic 1418 00:56:12,540 --> 00:56:14,690 slot out there. But also on the flip side, we 1419 00:56:14,700 --> 00:56:16,950 will say there are some teachers who don't get things done that 1420 00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,130 need to get done. And there are some teachers who 1421 00:56:19,140 --> 00:56:20,750 will completely waste their PA time. 1422 00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,810 We made a meme about it. You know, you have your chats 1423 00:56:22,820 --> 00:56:24,110 and stuff, but it's true. Yeah. 1424 00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,530 And if you are, you know however you wanna do it, that's fine. 1425 00:56:27,740 --> 00:56:31,070 But if you are wasting your PPA and then complaining about being 1426 00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:35,950 burnt out, fix it first. If you're still then complaining 1427 00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:38,230 about being burned out, then there's an issue with the 1428 00:56:38,240 --> 00:56:39,810 system. But I think when when there's 1429 00:56:39,820 --> 00:56:42,360 stuff you're in control of that you haven't first tried to 1430 00:56:42,370 --> 00:56:45,640 change or help yourself with, yeah, it does lessen your 1431 00:56:45,650 --> 00:56:47,520 credibility when you complain about stuff. 1432 00:56:47,590 --> 00:56:51,870 So if you're using your PPA to the best of your intent, you 1433 00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,690 can't then complain that you got an hour of work after school. 1434 00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,470 It's like, OK, well you did have an hour and you just chatted 1435 00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:00,730 about something for an hour. You know, I'm not saying that 1436 00:57:00,740 --> 00:57:03,740 you aren't burnt out. I'm just saying as a teacher, if 1437 00:57:03,750 --> 00:57:06,620 you want help with being burnt out, fix everything you can 1438 00:57:06,630 --> 00:57:08,490 yourself first make your own bed. 1439 00:57:08,500 --> 00:57:10,750 In that kind of terms of yeah, that's the kind of thing. 1440 00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,830 You're right, you're right. But that's what's going to help 1441 00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,350 people make the most of your time. 1442 00:57:15,460 --> 00:57:18,030 Then you can go XYZ. Look, I've spent two hours 1443 00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:20,330 planning my PA. I've still got a mark after 1444 00:57:20,340 --> 00:57:22,610 school and those things you want me to get done, they've just 1445 00:57:22,620 --> 00:57:23,990 gone down the list. I'm sorry, I've had that. 1446 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:25,870 Conversation. Or more likely, I spent my whole 1447 00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:27,720 PA planning and I've only done about 20% of. 1448 00:57:27,730 --> 00:57:28,550 My planning. Yeah, exactly. 1449 00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,370 What do you want me to do guys? Because that's my whole 1450 00:57:30,380 --> 00:57:31,680 dedicated time for this week for it. 1451 00:57:31,690 --> 00:57:33,660 I've had that conversation before. 5 hours of planning 1452 00:57:33,670 --> 00:57:34,960 left. You know, I need to do these two 1453 00:57:34,970 --> 00:57:38,840 reports, these 3 reports, and it's and and and I said I will 1454 00:57:38,850 --> 00:57:39,630 do it. I promise. 1455 00:57:39,830 --> 00:57:41,660 It's part of my job. It's my profession. 1456 00:57:41,670 --> 00:57:43,080 Of course I'll do this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1457 00:57:43,090 --> 00:57:44,580 When I can. Well, here's reality. 1458 00:57:44,590 --> 00:57:47,500 Right now, right now, this week, I've got about 8 hours of 1459 00:57:47,510 --> 00:57:50,440 planning to do for next week. I've got to get it done. 1460 00:57:50,450 --> 00:57:52,060 It has to be done and I've just got to do it. 1461 00:57:52,070 --> 00:57:54,070 And it's like that's four weeks of PPA. 1462 00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,330 Yeah, I never would have that done in school anyway. 1463 00:57:56,380 --> 00:57:57,550 Yeah. So yeah, it's, you know, there 1464 00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:59,580 are things I just broken. Well, at least on nicely to my 1465 00:57:59,590 --> 00:58:01,030 last point. And this is not a big point 1466 00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,060 really to talk about, but we can mention it. 1467 00:58:03,070 --> 00:58:05,880 So good ones like a bonus. 6th Yeah, it kind of goes on from 1468 00:58:05,890 --> 00:58:10,550 what you're saying, and that is speak up, talk to people, but 1469 00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,010 talk to the right people. That's the problem that I see a 1470 00:58:13,020 --> 00:58:15,310 lot of the time and the problem I've made and I still make all 1471 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:16,990 the time Now. Everyone loves a good moan. 1472 00:58:17,060 --> 00:58:20,590 You're really good at this. Well as in as in doing this 1473 00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,510 point I do both. No you're really good at it and 1474 00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:24,860 and and you know you can have a read for your own back sometimes 1475 00:58:24,870 --> 00:58:27,710 because you can get known as the person who you complaining. 1476 00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,710 Again, you're moaning, but do you know what You What do you 1477 00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:31,250 do? Then what? 1478 00:58:31,260 --> 00:58:33,380 What do you mean? I tell you why I've got better 1479 00:58:33,390 --> 00:58:36,240 at it, at least so you might speak. 1480 00:58:36,250 --> 00:58:39,050 So if you're burning out and like Dylan said, you you kind of 1481 00:58:39,060 --> 00:58:41,610 put in place the things you're doing everything you can do to 1482 00:58:41,620 --> 00:58:43,330 not burn out. You're not, You're not just sat 1483 00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:46,530 there waiting, PA, or sitting after school talking to your 1484 00:58:46,540 --> 00:58:48,560 partner teacher for two hours and then saying, oh, I've got so 1485 00:58:48,570 --> 00:58:50,370 much markings to do and you could have done it two hours. 1486 00:58:50,380 --> 00:58:53,500 You know, if you're already doing your job effectively and 1487 00:58:53,510 --> 00:58:55,810 you're burning out, speak to the right people. 1488 00:58:55,820 --> 00:58:58,710 Actually go to your head teacher, not don't just go to 1489 00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:01,910 your TA who you know or just lap up everything you say and like, 1490 00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:03,860 fuel you a bit more. Or that other teacher in the 1491 00:59:03,870 --> 00:59:06,750 school that's pissed off about something that you can go to and 1492 00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:08,520 you know they're going to be with you and then you can both 1493 00:59:08,530 --> 00:59:10,040 be like, yeah, we hate this school. 1494 00:59:10,430 --> 00:59:13,420 That is good to do sometimes because you do need to vent, but 1495 00:59:13,470 --> 00:59:18,720 also do actually raise the point in a formal professional way to 1496 00:59:18,730 --> 00:59:22,000 the people who could change it. And then one of two things will 1497 00:59:22,010 --> 00:59:24,440 happen. They'll change it or they won't 1498 00:59:24,450 --> 00:59:27,140 and then you're just then you're justified in you're moaning and 1499 00:59:27,150 --> 00:59:29,040 and and actually then there's a real problem there. 1500 00:59:29,050 --> 00:59:31,960 And then that can become a wider school issue that you tackle as 1501 00:59:31,970 --> 00:59:33,390 a staff team. I don't know how it will go from 1502 00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:34,430 there. That's up to you and your 1503 00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:36,670 school. But if you don't at least try to 1504 00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:40,900 tell the right people, then can you expect anything to change? 1505 00:59:40,940 --> 00:59:42,550 And it's happened to me lots of times in my career. 1506 00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:46,610 Earlier on in my career, I get very riled up about stuff and 1507 00:59:46,660 --> 00:59:49,230 I'd let it get too. I'd let it get to me too much. 1508 00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:51,560 And then what I'd end up doing is I'd send an e-mail to myself 1509 00:59:51,570 --> 00:59:55,450 or the head teacher and it was a pissy e-mail and it would come 1510 00:59:55,460 --> 00:59:58,170 across as a pissy, rude e-mail. Then you're on the back foot. 1511 00:59:58,180 --> 01:00:00,490 Straight and then yeah, you know and that wasn't that wasn't good 1512 01:00:00,500 --> 01:00:04,350 and and over the years I've learned to one stop emailing and 1513 01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,710 just go and talk to people as much as possible and then. 1514 01:00:06,790 --> 01:00:09,780 Starts up as an e-mail just to say just thank you for talking 1515 01:00:09,790 --> 01:00:11,050 to me. Here are the points I raised. 1516 01:00:11,060 --> 01:00:14,610 Yeah and and two just if I do write an e-mail, actually just 1517 01:00:14,620 --> 01:00:16,480 be professional about it. You might be pissed off, but do 1518 01:00:16,490 --> 01:00:17,720 you know what? They could. 1519 01:00:17,730 --> 01:00:21,630 The SLT might also just not know because most of the time people 1520 01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:23,740 moan behind their backs and don't actually tell them. 1521 01:00:23,750 --> 01:00:26,250 And the amount of times I've said something to SLT and 1522 01:00:26,260 --> 01:00:28,440 they've been like, oh thank you for telling me, I didn't realise 1523 01:00:28,450 --> 01:00:30,150 that that everyone was thinking this across the school. 1524 01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:31,730 I didn't even know this was a problem. 1525 01:00:31,780 --> 01:00:34,210 Thanks. And then and then it gets fixed 1526 01:00:34,220 --> 01:00:35,190 usually. Sometimes. 1527 01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,160 Yeah, but what I mean is like, at least then it's a 1528 01:00:37,170 --> 01:00:38,200 conversation. Exactly. 1529 01:00:38,210 --> 01:00:39,280 At least then it's out in the. Open. 1530 01:00:39,290 --> 01:00:40,640 So I don't know. That's my last point. 1531 01:00:40,650 --> 01:00:43,000 Speak up, tell the correct people and actually expect help 1532 01:00:43,010 --> 01:00:44,220 as well. You know, don't expect nothing. 1533 01:00:44,230 --> 01:00:46,940 If they don't not doing anything then you can take it further. 1534 01:00:46,990 --> 01:00:49,230 Now these tips aren't automatically going to solve by 1535 01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:51,460 now because like we said, there are external factors are 1536 01:00:51,470 --> 01:00:53,990 contributing massively. Teacher burnout, I think these 1537 01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:58,220 are really sensible first steps that we've taken have helped us 1538 01:00:58,670 --> 01:01:00,240 that hopefully you guys can take as well. 1539 01:01:00,250 --> 01:01:01,670 You might do the more you might do none of them. 1540 01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:03,240 Try them out. Can I just say one thing I did 1541 01:01:03,290 --> 01:01:05,060 that's not related to these steps, but it might be. 1542 01:01:05,070 --> 01:01:07,980 It might be good to hear. One time I really really did 1543 01:01:07,990 --> 01:01:09,710 burn. Now I was working in A1 form 1544 01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:13,490 entry school year 6 lead or year 6 lead the the year 6 teacher 1545 01:01:13,500 --> 01:01:14,810 and I was trying to do some curriculum stuff. 1546 01:01:14,820 --> 01:01:16,490 As well, but. It's a brand new, like a brand 1547 01:01:16,500 --> 01:01:18,540 new was nothing there. It was the first ever year six. 1548 01:01:18,550 --> 01:01:20,410 There was no planning to go off. It was all from scratch. 1549 01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:22,510 I absolutely burnt out, said you know what I did? 1550 01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:24,550 I quit and I went to another school and you know what? 1551 01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:26,840 That's OK. Sometimes you can, you can just 1552 01:01:26,850 --> 01:01:28,550 cut your losses. Someone else might have come in 1553 01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:30,880 and done that and maybe maybe they're burnout thresholds 1554 01:01:30,890 --> 01:01:32,430 higher and they they relished in it. 1555 01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:34,270 They did like going above and beyond like Dylan was talking 1556 01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:36,770 about earlier. But for me at that time, in that 1557 01:01:36,780 --> 01:01:39,380 context of my life at that moment, I couldn't do it. 1558 01:01:39,430 --> 01:01:42,000 I couldn't do it. I burned out and rather than 1559 01:01:42,010 --> 01:01:43,880 just sticking it through and. You became a feeling. 1560 01:01:43,890 --> 01:01:45,290 Even more stressed, I would go what? 1561 01:01:45,300 --> 01:01:47,640 You became a failure. A failure I was in a fair way. 1562 01:01:47,650 --> 01:01:49,340 I was like, we talk about we golf involved. 1563 01:01:49,390 --> 01:01:51,000 No, no. Yeah, but it's, you know, and 1564 01:01:51,010 --> 01:01:53,340 you might be sat there thinking about my school will block all 1565 01:01:53,350 --> 01:01:55,180 of these things, OK, maybe the schools, the problem. 1566 01:01:55,190 --> 01:01:58,570 Maybe we should leave. Yeah, nice one. 1567 01:01:58,580 --> 01:02:00,540 Well, they're our top tips guys. Hopefully they help you. 1568 01:02:00,550 --> 01:02:02,840 We're gonna have a quick Jingle and we've got that game and the 1569 01:02:02,850 --> 01:02:09,280 F Word story. Right, Dylan, what are you 1570 01:02:09,290 --> 01:02:11,040 talking about with? The welcome back we did. 1571 01:02:11,050 --> 01:02:12,400 We did the Jingle and he turned to me. 1572 01:02:12,410 --> 01:02:14,610 So seriously that puppy dog eyes like what's the F word, you 1573 01:02:14,620 --> 01:02:15,680 know. This is his memory. 1574 01:02:15,690 --> 01:02:16,730 Guys. By the way, I don't know. 1575 01:02:16,770 --> 01:02:18,620 Do you remember we talked about this whole. 1576 01:02:18,630 --> 01:02:20,440 OK, honestly have no idea right at the start. 1577 01:02:20,450 --> 01:02:22,900 Guys, if you do have a memory longer than a goldfish, I'm like 1578 01:02:22,910 --> 01:02:24,360 Hayden. You might remember at the start 1579 01:02:24,370 --> 01:02:26,640 we talked about doing cuts because I kept saying F1 about 1580 01:02:26,650 --> 01:02:28,350 that. OK And I said, do you wanna hear 1581 01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,430 the F word story to you? And you? 1582 01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,460 Yes. And you said no. 1583 01:02:32,510 --> 01:02:36,230 And I laughed and then I'll tell you later it's a very brief 1584 01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:39,850 effort story when you train as a teacher, if you decided to go 1585 01:02:39,860 --> 01:02:42,410 into that Ave of going to university for a year to do PGCE 1586 01:02:42,420 --> 01:02:45,650 like I did, you have to do some days in school first just to 1587 01:02:45,660 --> 01:02:47,370 know that it's what you want to do. 1588 01:02:47,380 --> 01:02:49,810 It's just a weed out people who are basically just saying ohh 1589 01:02:49,820 --> 01:02:51,690 yeah I'll do that. You've got to go and do 10 days 1590 01:02:51,700 --> 01:02:53,890 in a school. So I did 5 days at my old school 1591 01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:55,990 and five days at a different local school that I'd never been 1592 01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,450 into before in the different local school hadn't been in 1593 01:02:58,460 --> 01:02:59,900 before. You got to remember I'm just 1594 01:02:59,910 --> 01:03:05,400 some 20 year old fanic kid and I I must admit, I maybe it's cause 1595 01:03:05,410 --> 01:03:08,420 I've got Northerners. Northerners family swearing is 1596 01:03:08,430 --> 01:03:10,080 just a part of our lingo. OK? 1597 01:03:10,090 --> 01:03:12,900 It's just the way we talk, Hayden and I, when we're not in 1598 01:03:12,910 --> 01:03:14,040 school, when we're not doing well. 1599 01:03:14,050 --> 01:03:15,770 Even within the podcast, sometimes we try not. 1600 01:03:15,780 --> 01:03:18,770 Me, I swear, like nothing else. And I'm trying not to now around 1601 01:03:18,780 --> 01:03:22,190 Rory, obviously. However, we went into school. 1602 01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:24,890 I went into school and, you know, I was just this extra 1603 01:03:24,900 --> 01:03:27,270 body, you know, the type, just straight out of school. 1604 01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:29,070 No experience with kids whatsoever. 1605 01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:32,050 A burden of anything in the classroom, a complete burden. 1606 01:03:32,120 --> 01:03:34,750 So there was this afternoon, and I got sent out to play some 1607 01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,000 games with some kids. Looking back now, they're just 1608 01:03:37,010 --> 01:03:38,040 probably trying to get rid of me. 1609 01:03:38,050 --> 01:03:39,870 And they're like these kids, Get him out of the classroom. 1610 01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:41,940 One Dylan can go with them. We're playing snakes and 1611 01:03:41,950 --> 01:03:43,430 ladders. OK, Right. 1612 01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:44,950 So I'm going to ask you to beat this. 1613 01:03:46,300 --> 01:03:47,170 All right. OK. 1614 01:03:47,350 --> 01:03:48,840 Yeah. We're playing snakes and 1615 01:03:48,850 --> 01:03:50,210 ladders. You didn't swear at them? 1616 01:03:50,510 --> 01:03:52,200 And we were playing Snakes and Ladders, right? 1617 01:03:52,210 --> 01:03:53,360 And I was. I was losing. 1618 01:03:53,370 --> 01:03:55,580 Then I got ahead of the kid, you know, Snakes and Ladders. 1619 01:03:55,590 --> 01:03:57,860 It's up and down. And then a snake, damn it. 1620 01:03:57,870 --> 01:03:59,960 And then there was a ladder. Bloody hell. 1621 01:03:59,970 --> 01:04:01,950 And I was on the last row about to beat him. 1622 01:04:01,990 --> 01:04:03,440 And I rolled. I rolled. 1623 01:04:03,450 --> 01:04:06,610 I rolled A4, right. I rolled A4 or whatever it was. 1624 01:04:06,620 --> 01:04:09,560 Yeah. I went across 9697. 1625 01:04:09,570 --> 01:04:16,420 Landed on the snake and the kid went, what did you just say? 1626 01:04:16,430 --> 01:04:19,280 And I was like, ohh dear, no you didn't. 1627 01:04:19,290 --> 01:04:21,360 I was like, yeah, yeah, I said ohh dear, no, you dear, you 1628 01:04:21,370 --> 01:04:23,080 swore. No, shut up, kid. 1629 01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:28,220 Yeah, keeping my career was over already 'cause I was annoyed. 1630 01:04:28,310 --> 01:04:30,410 So a 7 year old was about to beat me. 1631 01:04:30,450 --> 01:04:31,380 Space. So funny. 1632 01:04:31,390 --> 01:04:32,700 I love that. It happens. 1633 01:04:32,710 --> 01:04:34,090 It happens. And I'd like to think the 1634 01:04:34,100 --> 01:04:36,160 winner, the only two people that have accidentally sworn about 1635 01:04:36,170 --> 01:04:38,520 children in nine years. But it has happened, you know, 1636 01:04:38,530 --> 01:04:40,200 been a couple of times in my career where I've just 1637 01:04:40,210 --> 01:04:42,940 accidentally, yeah, of course, maybe just been too comfortable 1638 01:04:42,950 --> 01:04:44,700 in what? Saying ohh MG. 1639 01:04:44,710 --> 01:04:47,720 It's usually when with kids that are just really nice and really 1640 01:04:47,730 --> 01:04:49,910 like just chilled out kids that you can be normal around. 1641 01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:51,370 Yeah. And I've just accidentally said 1642 01:04:51,380 --> 01:04:53,850 something Ohh you tell the head teacher. 1643 01:04:53,860 --> 01:04:55,110 Ohh no. I've done this and they usually 1644 01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:56,630 like it's fine. Yeah, of course. 1645 01:04:57,070 --> 01:04:59,000 That's the only thing. Obviously I told the teacher at 1646 01:04:59,010 --> 01:05:00,880 the end and she was like, don't worry about it and it was all 1647 01:05:00,890 --> 01:05:02,850 sorted, just be open. We'll just, we'll just say, 1648 01:05:02,860 --> 01:05:04,060 yeah, it was an accident. It happens. 1649 01:05:04,110 --> 01:05:05,800 Yeah, of course. As if they've never heard these 1650 01:05:05,810 --> 01:05:08,060 words before. Yeah, that's funny. 1651 01:05:08,070 --> 01:05:11,430 But yeah, that's my remember thinking I'm done with this 1652 01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:13,880 career is finished. So what's the F word story 1653 01:05:15,820 --> 01:05:16,260 anyway? We're. 1654 01:05:16,270 --> 01:05:18,730 Gonna finish right guys, Here are top tips for. 1655 01:05:19,620 --> 01:05:21,570 You haven't done your tips yet. No, no, no, no. 1656 01:05:21,580 --> 01:05:23,110 Forgotten them. You forgotten the in between 1657 01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:25,230 bits. Anyway, you got game Aiden. 1658 01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:26,850 Let's finish off another game in ages. 1659 01:05:26,860 --> 01:05:30,610 It's a really quick it's a game. It's more like a theoretical 1660 01:05:30,620 --> 01:05:31,570 Hayden. So it's obviously not. 1661 01:05:31,580 --> 01:05:33,890 It's not. But anyway, it's just I saw this 1662 01:05:33,900 --> 01:05:36,480 online and I thought this would be funny to say, not seeing this 1663 01:05:36,490 --> 01:05:39,170 completely. OK, so you can all play along. 1664 01:05:39,660 --> 01:05:43,320 Thank you. You can now tell them, do you 1665 01:05:43,330 --> 01:05:44,650 think about it as well? They can't just listen. 1666 01:05:44,660 --> 01:05:48,590 They can play. You have developed a new power. 1667 01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:51,050 I have the only person in the world who's got this power. 1668 01:05:51,180 --> 01:05:55,270 It's called Mole man, man. Got 3 moulds baby. 1669 01:05:55,280 --> 01:06:01,650 It's got moles for nipples. So you can now see a number. 1670 01:06:01,780 --> 01:06:04,190 Of moles. Ohh you can. 1671 01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:05,170 This could be your. Answer. 1672 01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:07,820 You can now see a number. Ohh, I know you're gonna say. 1673 01:06:07,830 --> 01:06:09,680 Go on. You can now see a number above 1674 01:06:09,690 --> 01:06:12,010 everybody's head. OK, only you can see this number 1675 01:06:12,020 --> 01:06:15,240 and only you have this power. What would you? 1676 01:06:15,250 --> 01:06:16,780 Like how many moles do they have? 1677 01:06:18,230 --> 01:06:20,640 This is what would you like the number to display? 1678 01:06:20,650 --> 01:06:21,560 Well, that's really. Cool. 1679 01:06:21,610 --> 01:06:23,490 OK, so you get to choose what is one thing. 1680 01:06:23,500 --> 01:06:26,080 You can't change this, Yeah? So OK, and it's always true. 1681 01:06:26,090 --> 01:06:28,030 It's always true. So you guys can all, you can all 1682 01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:29,240 see a number above someone's head. 1683 01:06:29,250 --> 01:06:31,660 Ohh, that's interesting. What do you what would you pick 1684 01:06:31,730 --> 01:06:33,610 that number to display? Or anything ever. 1685 01:06:33,620 --> 01:06:35,980 It could be about them, it could be the number, could be 1686 01:06:35,990 --> 01:06:38,040 anything. Oh my There'll be an individual 1687 01:06:38,050 --> 01:06:39,470 number per person above their head. 1688 01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:41,080 Umm. What do you want it? 1689 01:06:41,090 --> 01:06:46,350 To be the number of money I ohh, that's really good. 1690 01:06:46,540 --> 01:06:48,410 Can I see my own one? Yeah. 1691 01:06:48,420 --> 01:06:50,740 Yeah, ohh, because I was. Gonna Yeah, yeah, you can see 1692 01:06:50,750 --> 01:06:51,770 your own. Have a look in the mirror. 1693 01:06:51,780 --> 01:06:53,120 I've got my number. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1694 01:06:53,130 --> 01:06:54,650 I don't know. There's that classic one of just 1695 01:06:54,740 --> 01:06:57,700 how many minutes they have left. Yeah, when you're gonna die. 1696 01:06:57,710 --> 01:06:59,140 Yeah, kind of. Because that's such a weird 1697 01:06:59,150 --> 01:07:00,510 thing. I think that's a big part of our 1698 01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:04,480 culture where it's like, well, weird that we just accept we 1699 01:07:04,490 --> 01:07:06,150 have no idea. It could be any time. 1700 01:07:06,260 --> 01:07:08,790 And I just don't think about it, but I think I'd be just that 1701 01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:10,100 can't be because. I become obsessed. 1702 01:07:11,020 --> 01:07:13,300 There's so many things you could you could go down the emotional 1703 01:07:13,310 --> 01:07:14,430 route. Could you have like how many 1704 01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:16,400 bugs they're gonna? Give ohh Wow. 1705 01:07:16,410 --> 01:07:17,900 Was that being abused? No, no. 1706 01:07:17,910 --> 01:07:19,540 But you you could do anything like that. 1707 01:07:19,550 --> 01:07:21,860 Yeah, but you could also be like the the classic thing of like, I 1708 01:07:21,870 --> 01:07:23,760 don't know how much money they're gonna make in their 1709 01:07:23,770 --> 01:07:24,810 life. Yeah, yeah. 1710 01:07:24,850 --> 01:07:26,740 How many, how many times they farted today? 1711 01:07:26,750 --> 01:07:28,300 Here's one. He's like anything. 1712 01:07:28,310 --> 01:07:32,650 How many times more will they say their own name before they 1713 01:07:32,660 --> 01:07:33,720 die? Right. 1714 01:07:33,730 --> 01:07:35,520 Because if minds anything other than 0. 1715 01:07:35,530 --> 01:07:40,710 I'm never going to die. I won't say my name, but one 1716 01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:42,380 left. OK, my name is. 1717 01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:44,370 Yeah, but knowing that, then it will just say 0. 1718 01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,560 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Cause eventually when I want to 1719 01:07:47,570 --> 01:07:52,940 die, I'm like, OK didn't. What were his last words? 1720 01:07:52,950 --> 01:07:55,100 We must write them down with his own name. 1721 01:07:55,150 --> 01:07:57,940 Selfish idiot. How many times they said I've 1722 01:07:57,950 --> 01:08:00,050 had a great life. Thanks all for the memories 1723 01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:04,520 everyone's got one of. Yours is just Dylan. 1724 01:08:04,690 --> 01:08:06,820 Yeah, you know what you want to know about people. 1725 01:08:06,830 --> 01:08:08,710 I. Guess how many hours they think 1726 01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:09,940 would be waiting to see in a day? 1727 01:08:10,470 --> 01:08:11,920 How many times they streamed to teach? 1728 01:08:11,930 --> 01:08:13,900 Stick with podcast. Yeah, the number. 1729 01:08:13,910 --> 01:08:15,900 The rating they gave for the Tech State Repeat podcast? 1730 01:08:15,910 --> 01:08:17,689 We can see you get the one. Finally. 1731 01:08:17,750 --> 01:08:22,270 It was you, Hayden's mum. Yeah. 1732 01:08:22,340 --> 01:08:25,319 So I don't know what I'd pick. Yeah, so many. 1733 01:08:25,330 --> 01:08:29,370 Things tell you what, that was a great game, all right. 1734 01:08:30,140 --> 01:08:33,640 The number is your satisfaction, level 1 to 10 of my gains. 1735 01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:35,810 Do you know what a game? Is that's. 1736 01:08:35,819 --> 01:08:38,310 That's just a question. Shut up. 1737 01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:40,630 I don't know. That's the answer, I reckon. 1738 01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:43,290 Can we make it a poll or a question with the Spotify Yeah, 1739 01:08:43,300 --> 01:08:45,399 we can make a poll. Yeah, Hayden, we can get a poll. 1740 01:08:45,410 --> 01:08:48,550 Where? We where we predetermined the 2 1741 01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:50,250 answers everyone. Will say, yeah. 1742 01:08:51,069 --> 01:08:54,990 Yeah we do, Francis. We'll get about two replies and 1743 01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,500 then we'll we'll just ignore it. Ohh my gosh. 1744 01:08:57,550 --> 01:09:00,740 I actually put something ohh what is Instagram earlier? 1745 01:09:00,930 --> 01:09:03,800 And I said we're about to go live with the podcast we'll 1746 01:09:03,810 --> 01:09:05,540 finish off with. This, excuse me, this is gonna 1747 01:09:05,550 --> 01:09:06,520 go. This is the Backfire. 1748 01:09:06,529 --> 01:09:08,040 So horribly, Of course. Of course it is. 1749 01:09:08,050 --> 01:09:10,560 Because I thought to myself, you know what I'll just see? 1750 01:09:10,649 --> 01:09:13,830 Because we've got about 2 1/2 thousand followers now on our 1751 01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:16,399 Instagram and we do get good Instagram. 1752 01:09:16,490 --> 01:09:20,060 It's repeat podcast. So we get good, like, we get 1753 01:09:20,069 --> 01:09:23,870 good interaction on our podcast, We get good votes, like 100. 1754 01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:27,069 Yeah, podcasts on our Instagram. So I just put a story out there 1755 01:09:27,140 --> 01:09:30,399 right before we started saying first person to reply here gets 1756 01:09:30,410 --> 01:09:31,740 a shout out. Didn't you do this literally 1757 01:09:31,750 --> 01:09:33,510 like 20 seconds before we started recording? 1758 01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:35,390 Yeah yeah. So first person to reply here 1759 01:09:35,399 --> 01:09:38,029 gets a shout. You've got 3 minutes, we have 3 1760 01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:39,550 reply. Who's the first one? 1761 01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:41,930 So I will give all three because it's only three reply. 1762 01:09:41,939 --> 01:09:46,060 OK, so I'll give all three. First one, one of our previous 1763 01:09:46,069 --> 01:09:49,200 guests, the teachers PT. Yeah, go on then. 1764 01:09:49,290 --> 01:09:51,560 There you go Martin. If you wanna hear about Martin, 1765 01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:53,420 he smashed it on Instagram at the minute. 1766 01:09:53,430 --> 01:09:55,620 Lots of really funny memes going follow him. 1767 01:09:55,630 --> 01:09:58,680 He is at the teachers PT. Especially if you're a teacher. 1768 01:09:58,690 --> 01:10:00,740 Go and find out how to stay healthy and fit and have a laugh 1769 01:10:00,750 --> 01:10:03,540 as well. Next one is El Clark, 82, who 1770 01:10:03,550 --> 01:10:05,020 Simply put an emoji with our hand up. 1771 01:10:05,090 --> 01:10:06,840 So L Clark 82. There you go. 1772 01:10:06,990 --> 01:10:08,420 Hey, I don't know your full name. 1773 01:10:08,430 --> 01:10:09,900 Is it just Li? Don't know. 1774 01:10:09,910 --> 01:10:12,430 Miss Clarke 82. Whoever you are, there's your 1775 01:10:12,440 --> 01:10:13,610 shout out. Thanks for listening. 1776 01:10:13,620 --> 01:10:18,660 And the last one is my mum and she's put OK, right. 1777 01:10:18,670 --> 01:10:21,480 If you can guess the one word, my mum's purse, right. 1778 01:10:21,490 --> 01:10:23,260 This is a game. How would if you can guess the 1779 01:10:23,270 --> 01:10:26,540 one word my mum's put, you can lead the next week's. 1780 01:10:26,550 --> 01:10:28,100 Podcast how how could I possibly? 1781 01:10:28,110 --> 01:10:30,120 Shut up and guess. What I don't know. 1782 01:10:30,130 --> 01:10:34,520 One word underfed. No, she's put gangster, 1783 01:10:34,670 --> 01:10:38,060 gangster, gangster. What did they what did Jonah at 1784 01:10:38,070 --> 01:10:40,100 3:00? 17 What did my mum put? 1785 01:10:40,310 --> 01:10:42,290 Your mum? She put. 1786 01:10:42,350 --> 01:10:47,960 Why is my name spelt weird? That's the name of my mom is a 1787 01:10:47,970 --> 01:10:51,140 good story actually started. I've actually there you go, he 1788 01:10:51,150 --> 01:10:53,190 said his memory, cause I've told the story on this podcast. 1789 01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:55,830 Before told it, see, go back and check it out. 1790 01:10:56,020 --> 01:10:57,350 Right guys, we're finished there. 1791 01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:59,220 Hayden started this again by saying it might be a short one 1792 01:10:59,230 --> 01:11:00,090 today. New. 1793 01:11:00,100 --> 01:11:02,650 It's me and you, Hayden. We're gonna chat, chat, chat 1794 01:11:02,660 --> 01:11:06,220 waffled about crap. OK, hope you enjoyed our tips 1795 01:11:06,230 --> 01:11:08,540 though and we do. We do live and breathe them and 1796 01:11:08,550 --> 01:11:11,000 it has helped with our teacher. Follow us on Instagram, give our 1797 01:11:11,010 --> 01:11:13,120 podcast to follow and give it a rating please. 1798 01:11:13,130 --> 01:11:15,270 And why not share with a friend? We're one years old. 1799 01:11:15,930 --> 01:11:16,580 Bye.