Ofsted inspector all finished up.
I see I hope Hogwarts was to your liking.
I assume we have received outstanding again Professor bony
fingers. We're closing.
This school with immediate effect.
What? There must be some
misunderstanding had a rabid three-headed dog in a place
where three first-years could access it with a simple
unlocking spell. There's a 50 foot snake in the
girls toilets and you lost 7 defense against the dark arts.
Teachers are all either dead or in prison you heard of a DBS.
Check Professor Stony lingers you see.
Inspector, this is a magic spear aney, the stairs move.
They literally flung a child often last week.
She still not recovered. Well what can we do?
Nothing Professor moaning knickers, you're going away,
probably for Life gross negligence as caban.
No, no, no much worse than that. You're coming to join us.
Shit. Hello everyone and welcome back
to episode, 3 of teach sleep, repeat, my name is Dylan and my
name is Hayden. That was really good after last
week. I've been practicing, I've been
practicing a lot of heat. Oh yeah, I can tell really good
to know and we are back guys. Thank you so much again for the
response to the last episode. It seems like you're really
enjoying this podcast and we love recording it already.
So we are excited to get straight in and you will maybe
realize if you're a teacher, especially or if you have
children that we are currently in half term.
Woo, Hayden. What you been up to?
I've had a great afternoon. Um, I'll be honest with you, I
don't often do stuff. I'm one of those people.
I will spend a lot of time just sit around doing nothing but
this half time, I visited people Gloria remember, I am a capable
Warrior. I visited some friends up North
so I couldn't be a keyboard Warrior and you'll know this
Dylan because I didn't message you every single, five minutes
Hayden. And I, for those who know us, we
are kind of one brain at this point.
And, you know, my phones in my hand, I'm probably meshing
Hayden weishaupt in that second because I can't go without doing
it. And it has been literally, I
think, for days. So you really need to fill me in
what you've been up to, is the true bromance.
Even on Valentine's Day, we didn't message.
Well listen, I had a great time. I went up north and we visited
the Lake District. That was a great day climbs and
stuff. I realized I was really, really,
really unfit because we I have think about 30 seconds into
walking up a hill. I think my heart rate was 160.
Yeah, not great, but it's fine we powered through and I got to
the top of the hill and then I look to the mountains around me
and thought I was supposed to climb one of these recently.
Glad that didn't happen. You said close the top of the
hill. I've just got this image of you
being really proud of yourself, but we did.
It was good fun. I had a really, really nice day
and then we had a really nice day at a spa as well.
So it was my my partner's, but birthday during this little
visit and we had a booked a spa day.
So that's really nice as well. So to just summarize there, it's
your partner's birthday. So you took her away to your
friends, find out and I booked a spa day for me.
Anna, one of those backhanded presents.
Yeah, I got you two tickets to watch man united.
Yeah, I'm already worried because you're not the only
person to This. Now I've had quite a few people
saying, oh, you got spa day. You are you going?
I'll let ya. So you know for both of you is
it? Yeah it is.
Anyway, what have you been up to?
Well actually kind of our roles have been reversed, right?
Because like you said, sometimes you can just sit in and there's
been a brand new game released, and I'll be honest, I've been
sat in front of my PlayStation. Playing the new Hogwarts Legacy.
It's amazing. It looks so good.
I genuinely really want to play. I might come on your house.
Yeah, you can come play it, you can play it but it just Got me
thinking it was really funny because I'm playing I'm playing
this game. Obviously it's in a school and
it's a Wizarding school but I can't help but draw these
comparisons and this thing just really really made me laugh.
So the whole idea is that the start you're going around doing
classes and each class. You do you kind of learn a new
spell so you meet all of these professors and your learning you
know the curse for a fire fire flame or the curse to light up a
room or the curse to undo a lock.
And it said, one of the missions was to go to herbology and
herbology is just this study of plants basically wisdom.
It's and how to mix them together to make things.
It's like two potions. So anyway, you go to herbology
and it's basically is the greenhouse where they grow these
plants and you learn what they do.
So it's the equivalent of just gardening basically.
But for wizards fun and I want you to try and work out to try
and guess you go and you meet your professor.
What do you think? The professor's name was, I'm
presuming from your tone of voice.
It can be so stupid, Professor route.
That would have been good. I think in the real Hogwarts.
The real Harry Potter films is something like that, so I walk
in and I don't know why it should really made me laugh.
Because hello. I'm Professor garlic, garlic.
That's a brilliant name and basically obviously the writers
had a better day off on this day be and but what they did was to
change it from the real sweaty of garlic, they just put a K on
the end. So yeah, that's such a classic
thing to do in like any kind of fantasy thing, isn't it just
just change the layer to another one.
That makes the same sound. It kind of got me thinking
though can you imagine, you know, in second just go.
You got into food Tech. Meet your new teacher check.
Hello, I'm mrs. Quiche Lorraine!
Oh, if you doing the wrong room, my name is mr.
Algebra. This is mad.
I don't have much experience with the game.
However, I have, you know, been scrolling through Tick-Tock and
the first one I saw actually, today was of the game and I just
love the fact that it's already been modded.
There are mods out there because I was watching this video.
And whoever the character is, I think it's not actually Harry
Potter. Is it know?
You kind of make your own character and you can change the
The looks and change their names.
It's not a set character, right? Okay, all right, so I was a bit
distracted anyway because his broom stick with Shrek.
It's just flying on Shrek, not the character was Shrek, the
known as the prusik was Shrek and hit.
This, this character was just riding on Shrek, so linking back
to last week when we had another catch up.
We talked about cream, next. Remember how we much?
We love them and you try to cheer me up by dropping me off a
box of five premix, right? Oh yeah.
So linking to that. I wanted you to tell you've been
trumped. You have been absolutely because
some this week by my friends. Okay.
Because I turned out to my friends house.
We went around and I was in the kitchen.
They walked in and said, close your eyes.
So okay, so close my eyes. But your hands out.
Put my hands out and straight away.
I knew I had blood into my hands, right?
And they said guess what? That is, there was no that
didn't skip a beat. There was no there was no pause.
There was nothing cream eggs. Like, yep.
And opened not a box of five Hayden a box of 10.
Not a cream eggs, not a succulent box of 50.
What have you got? No, no.
Firefox, a super succulent for 10 bucks, you know the sound.
Well don't you? I do.
And we sound like as I drop. Yeah.
I had the third and and kind of just feeling it.
It was 10. I knew straight away and they
were preparing dinner and like a child, I am before I even
registered there in my hand, I had one on wrapped in my mouth.
Ready. So you do like guys you know me
me having this one Cream Egg will not affect my dinner at
all, but what did affect my dinner?
What I had five at the, I was a bit boring class ridiculous.
We've done this before, by the way, I'm just going to say right
now because I mean, you have talked about this how we just
are such like Primal beings because we just, maybe it's just
me and you, but we just eat stuff and don't even know, we've
eaten it until like five minutes late.
There's a rapper in my hand and I don't know, I guess I've eaten
that. I'll go to maybe like it's
lunchtime on a Monday, right? And maybe I've left my lunch at
home and I'm going to go to the shop quickly, just to get my
lunch and I think, oh, I'll just buy a couple of multi back
things just because it will ask for the A week, maybe by multi
pack of six crisps or something, some salt vinegar crisps and I'm
really back. I've had one on the way back.
By the way to school, I just walking back from the shop
already in one of them and I put my cupboard about call S5, left
one for each day of the week. Monday going home.
No Chris left. Yeah, there's no way they made
it to the end of the day with you.
I know what you're like problem is.
I'm exactly the same, especially with the staff room.
Oh man, if there's some goodies in the staff room, I just can't.
I can't help it. I think I've got a problem.
Because I'm already getting a name for myself people, don't
people at work? Just say no, I will eat
everything, I'll Hoover it up is terrible.
Sorry, I've got to just come in here because you're not just
getting a name for yourself Hayden.
You've got at least one maybe two Tas who exclusively make
payments that they know you like because they'll know they'll get
eaten in the star. For, I mean, the teacher in the
room next to me who's a very good friend of mine, which is
important for this story, but still buys food in her weekly
shop specifically for her cupboard, for me.
Break time. When I honestly because I guess
I go rating, I just go around. Anyone got any?
And I'm gonna be snacks and I'll just going to her hair.
Which is like yeah, you know. It is into a cupboard.
I know my little snack drawer. Yeah, I know my little spot, you
know, I mean, I just, I just eat the snacks.
It's funny because I've actually, they said that I'm, I
can't go into too much here, but how ridiculous?
That is because I have that in your home, for me.
When I come around and your partner, that's your weekly.
That's true. You know, I'm thinking of is a
particular drink, but is only in the fridge for you because oh,
that's sweet. Sweet Pepsi.
That's sweet. Sweet Betsy.
Not just Pepsi Dylan, it's Pepsi maximum flavor, maximum Sugar
Smacks. So I'll drink Pepsi Max have.
I'm trying to be good could because you don't know that
Sugar going into your body. Although I do sometimes have the
other version but never mind Pepsi Max.
I said to Hayden argue any Pepsi Max and he was like yeah he go
you're not trying to be good. I was like yeah Pepsi Max.
Manuel and I said yeah Pepsi Max that's that's the Mantra in the
sugar and Hayden without blinking without even trying to
make a joke. This look of confusion in his
eyes. It's because what I thought.
Max meant maximum flavor, maximum sheer nonsense, it's
nonsense, it makes nut, come on the word Max is like a good
thing so it's like I want flavor, you know, maximum flavor
and we all know flavor comes from the bad stuff sugar, Pepsi
Max to me it I still to this day, it doesn't make sense to
me. Pepsi Max is like the ultimate
sugar 1. I'm sorry guys.
Of the idea of you going on like a health kick and then I'm going
to be good. I'm gonna be really good none of
this Pepsi Max announcements. Give me that normal Pepsi care
that down. I've had two cats today.
Don't you proud of me? Yeah.
Why can't they just call it Diet?
Pepsi honest, it does Diet Pepsi exist as well because it
doesn't, that's that's, that's crazy.
Why, to be honest with you, I don't know some kind of
marketing but anyway, anyway we digress, let's bring ourselves
back around because what I wanted to talk about this week
does actually link to something that happened in last times
podcast and it was really quite funny.
Because those of you who listen to episode 2 will know that our
opening last week was a fake sponsorship.
But the funny thing is that it was kind of lost that some
people and they didn't realize that it was actually yeah I'd
loads of messages about sponsors our congratulations and I was
like I hate to tell ya I'll tell you what, I've had nothing but
positive T and I've been really, really, really, really happy
with the response because doing something like this not
necessarily Apprehensive about it.
But you do think putting yourself out there a bit and
just having a chat over? See, who cares?
Who's going to listen to this, but the responses have been
really, really nice, really, really, really positive.
And we really do appreciate them.
So thanks I still think that. Who cares?
Who's listening to this? Well, I'm sorry guys.
Let's not tell our audience. Straighten are faced with guys
on horses, just be off now get it honestly go down the pub
Jesus Christ. We've actually had quite a big
response to say. That email that you really
kindly took the Mickey out. Yeah, I'm not going to read that
again. It's so long.
What if anyone wants to know what it is.
It's teach sleep, repeat POD at gmail.com and if you've got any
funny stories send them to us because we're going to feature
them and I'm really really really excited to say we have
one for today's podcast so we're going to do at the end, so stay
tuned for that. But I think what we need to do
now is get into the main bulk of this podcast which is talking
about well-being. Because like we said that link
to our sponsor from last week. What we were doing was just
highlighting But some schools fall into the Trap of doing is
kind of what I like to call checkbox well-being, well-being,
ideas for the sake of it, to say they've done something, which
actually don't have a positive effect on staff and sometimes
end up having a negative effect. It's not even neutral so I
thought we could talk about Hayden.
It's just teacher well-being in general, some good ideas, some
bad ideas. What state the profession is in
right now and see where the discussion takes us.
For me well-being is one of those massive issues globally By
the looks of it. Just from a little bit of
reading earlier, about sort of the state of teaching in
different countries that just hide the no, it doesn't.
It just feels like it's not really being addressed like, is
it improving? Because it doesn't feel like it
is improving all these, from what I hear from other people,
when what I read because it's hot, you know, you can't just
take it on a like an individual basis.
If we happen to work in a school that had that, as I did really
well with well-being. Then we couldn't say, oh yeah,
it's great in this country. We kind of have to look at what
everyone thinks and that's the problem with kind of those
personal stories because Is don't get me wrong, there's
personal stories are so important because this thing how
someone's experiences are, that's vital to understanding
the problem, but it's good sometimes to step back and take
an empirical look. And I've actually got some stats
here from education support their this charity set up in the
UK solely to try and help teachers and support staff of
well-being and schools. And these stats are quite
frightening. So I'm going to fire some at you
right now. Hayden, see what you think about
them. This is from the teacher
well-being index and they're scary.
So 59 percent of Staff have It leaving the sector in the past
academic year due to pressures on their mental health and
well-being, 55% of Staff of actively sought to change or
leave. Their current job. 68% of Staff,
cited volume of workload, as the main reason for thinking, about
leaving their job. 47% of all staff always go into work when
they're unwell. That is not a good place to be.
If you're unwell, you're going to be stressed, you get into a
cycle and 78% of all staff experience.
Total health symptoms due to their work.
For in five people experience mental health symptoms due to
being in education. You know, the whole thing is
crazy. I'm just I'm not even that
surprised you all sort of reading them and I understand
that other people might be shocked.
I'm like, yeah, sounds about right based on my experiences
and it's just, it's just mad at me.
I want to know how that compares to other jobs, you know.
I mean I'm sure there are, I'm sure there are professionals
that are worse. And I'm sure there are like a
plenty professions that whose It would not be like that.
Yeah. And they're actually, it's
consistently in the top five teaching at least the top 10
across the board and it is up there.
It's up there because it is so stressful.
And like we said before, if it was an easy ride, but some
people in the Press particularly like to show then retention
wouldn't be as bad as it is. We wouldn't be struggling to get
people into the profession and these stats wouldn't exist and
that's what we mean by just taking a step back and looking.
It's really important to tell people.
You are not alone. It's not just you, you are not a
failure for feeling anxious for feeling stressed.
It is not unusual. On you, no matter what your SLT
might be saying to you. If it's a certain school, it is
a wide problem. I've actually been looking at
some articles earlier on and I was really interested to see
what while being is like not just in our country but in other
places as well. I don't know if you know much
about this but Australia was having very similar issues right
there. You know the kind of General
consensus was. We're just overworked as
teachers and it's ridiculous. You know, our mental well-being
is not good which leads to our physical well-being, being not
so great and then our social with like it just affects
everything. Do you know much about the
scheme's? They've got out in Australia to
help with this? No, not at all when I see.
Okay, so obviously you are you'll have heard of the word,
sabbatical, it's something that gets thrown around is this idea
of kind of leaving work? But you've got that guarantee of
a job when you come back sort of thing.
But as far as I understand in Australia, they have a like a
sabbatical scheme where teachers can leave for like 125 years.
As far as I'm aware quite a long time.
From the profession, have a guaranteed job when they get
back. But also get paid during it and
that was the bit of shock to me, it's reduced pay.
But the idea is it has to be, you have to reply, you can't
just do it. I randomly you have to be like a
certain way into your career as a teacher, and the idea is you
apply for this with the sort of mindset of, I'm going to come
back to teaching with even more to give because I'm going to go
and work on something. I'm going to go and learn this
skill. I'm going to go and do something
that I wouldn't normally get to do and then come back and be a
better teacher. I think that's the whole idea is
just so just out of this world to us, you know, that's
unbelievable. And I, you know, I'm hearing
this for the first time and things are going through my
head. The first thing is, what an
unbelievably good way of showing an example of how a government
can step in and create a scheme. Be proactive to try and retain
experienced staff without just letting them fall out of the
profession. Now, this might not solve it in
terms of the job isn't fundamentally changing.
But those people who are like you said, Way through their
career and thinking okay well I'm often because I'm not doing
this anymore. They're actually going to get a
waiter to actually stay in the profession and keep the best
teachers teaching our children. That's brilliant.
Now, hilarious, they're on the reverse side of the coin.
I do this same article that I was reading.
It was talking about how the government are really trying to
combat what's actually happening with this in mind, if it really
is, you never know what the news but what they're saying is that
teachers are doing this and then just going to get another job in
will pay for a couple of years and then just Craig teaching
afterwards. So they're really trying to
crack down on. People not taking advantage of
the scheme, but I do. I do like the premise of that
scheme. So I was thinking, basically, I
want to have a little chat with you Hayden about what you think
might be good practice for helping well-being in schools.
Now, I just want to say very quickly, we are not experts and
at the end of this little segment will point you in the
direction. If you need some help with
anything, we're going to more detail later but I was just
thinking. Okay.
What can schools do? That's really simple because I
know what you and I say all the time and the first ones really.
Blindingly obvious. So let's not waste time in it.
It's giving time and giving money in form of Taylor's to do
extra within the job. If you're just a classroom
teacher and you're asked to do something extra than that you're
already doing Lots outside of school.
So being given money and time to perform that job, that's an
obvious way to help your well-being.
What else do you think that schools can do to help teachers
out? I really think there is a
fundamental flaw in the profession, right?
And it does link to well-being, But and you know, the way I see,
this is, we have directed time and we are paid for these
directed hours are contracts. Literally, tell us what these
hours are that we paid for in which the school can direct you
to do things, but my problem is Within that directed time, we're
not directed to plan lessons or mark them and that really just
grinds my gears so much because they are expected.
It's just like what? So imagine it would talk to
employers saying. Alright.
Okay. So don't have to do those.
Then they're just sort of like extra things I can do.
If I want to know, know you've got to do them.
I'll see your directed me to do them.
No, they're not. You directed hours obviously not
directly. I don't have to do them.
Then you have to do then we would be fired.
What what were you talking about?
Why do we have this system? That's okay.
Because You can just put in for overtime, right?
No, no other time. Yeah.
Other than, of course not. It's just a just made me so that
that kind is my context that links into what I don't like
about the profession. Which I because I think it
negatively affects our well-being essentially.
It could be summarized by just saying we have to realize that
the Baseline of this job of what's expected is already way
more than what our contract and our actual expectations are on
paper. Yep.
I think in a traditional school if you took the average school
Right? And you took the average working
hours of the average teacher in that school, it's already more
than what the the Peds director time hours are.
And I just think that the end of the day, that's crazy because
there aren't many professions, I know there are some others that
will do this sort of thing, but in general we want to get paid
for the hours we do, and it gets people's backs up.
Eventually once what, you know, once you're a few years into
your career and you've kind of stopped giving into all this
stuff and you realize actually, I'm just giving my time away for
free all the time. You kind of just get a bit fed
up with it especially when you start having families and stuff.
Are you know like that where that time becomes harder to
segment. And again, look, we've been
young teachers without families, right?
And we understand sometimes, when people say, oh, I've got
kids at home and you're thinking well, yeah, but you know, we're
both still getting paid to do this job.
I think both of our minds have changed as we've got older to
say that's crazy. Those teachers who raise a
family and work full-time are. Miracle, workers.
They are unbelievable, human beings.
I've worked with so many unbelieve, and they usually
women because I prefer She's full of women.
Unbelievable, mums, who managed to do this job?
Inexplicably care for 30 children during the whole week
and raise a family and they're going to Breaking Point.
They are reaching breaking point because the Baseline of this job
is unbelievable and stuff is piled on top without time or
money. It just needs to change but
we're doing that thing. We said we weren't going to do
talking about time and money which is the obvious stuff.
What else do you think we could? Improve well-being with in
practical ways I think us having a chat fun enough about this
with a friend recently, but I really think that just having a
bit more fun at school, just for me, massively boosts my
well-being. And what I mean by that is just
having those days booked in where it's like a fun afternoon.
Perhaps someone's coming in, or you're taking the kids on a
school trip or you're going to the local theater to watch
something. Or just basically, anything
where you get to bond with the kids, that's not in a science
lesson or a mouse. Listen, I don't know.
Just those moments are nice, and they also come with reduced
marking, which makes the day a bit better, you know, it kind of
comes with its perks and it doesn't have to be a Skydive or
anything like that. It's culturally culturally
enriching for the children. You could have someone come in
and give a talk. One of my favorite days ever in
scores, when an author came in, and the children are writing
poetry and what was unbelievable about.
That morning was, I wasn't stood at the front of the room going
children. I have told you I need to see a
front adverbial and the pronoun and every sentence.
It wasn't that at all, it was an actual poet came into the The
school only had a Flipboard children were lying on the floor
in the hall with big pieces of paper, felt-tip pens, and they
produce some unbelievable. Poetry, it was one of the best
days I've ever had as a teacher. I think what needs to be really
recognized and I know people be nodding their heads like, how
this is that teaching in front of a class is unbelievably
exhausting. It is so taxing on the mind,
right? Just just think about it for a
second. Imagine you had to arrange
meetings all day because that's What they are and you've got to
plan the meeting lead. The meeting feedback on the
meeting afterwards, and they're back to back six hours a day.
Oh, and there's all. And there's 32 participants, you
know it. That's how big my classes
anyway. 32 participants in this meeting and you've got to lead
it like what? Oh, and by the way, those
participants on adults, their little children who you've got
to keep focused. Yeah.
So that that comparison to really good, but it still breaks
down that might sound crazy to some people.
But then at the fact, their children at the fact that some
of them have higher educational needs and how in, like, some
sort of office jobs, you can every now and then you maybe
turn around, you can chat to someone checks, whenever I do,
it's not too lonely. Forget that you're in front of a
class all day by yourself. A lot of the times, you're the
only adult in there is actually like, weirdly lonely.
Sometimes you don't really get to converse with other adults
much in the day you might do, but generally, you're not, yeah,
and those relationships between staff are actually really.
Early really important because it's that empathy, I think which
lets us not get into a spiral of misunderstanding.
What someone's job demands are for example, if you move into a
higher position in a school in, what you really easy to forget,
actually just being a class, teacher is really demanding
already and an equally. If you're just a class teacher
getting stressed at SLT, they've got huge pressures on them as
well. So just maintaining that empathy
and that actual bond between staff.
I think it's going to lead to much less stress and just in
general allow well-being to prosper a bit better.
School, I agree and I think talking to other people such an
important part of breaking down just that stigma around mental
health as well. Like just being able to talk to
another human being and other adults about what's going on in
your job and actually the DFE have released a well-being
Charter, right? That schools can essentially
sign. I think it's like there is their
way of encouraging schools to actually take a bit more of an
active role in improving the well-being and their schools,
you can check it out. It's easy to find on Google and
they've got like a like a nine in point checklist of things
that it says, we will do this, you know?
And one of them is about breaking down the stigma around
mental health, and another one is in bed.
Well, being in training and professional development.
Like, actually there's, let's talk about this and put one of
our staff meetings on it. You know what, guys, the the
staff meeting there's 17 staff meeting on science which is
going to put that back for a bit.
And we're just going to talk about your mental health.
Actually going to give you a bit of a break for once as well and
just show you that we do care. Like you're not just machines
that have to work through this job all day relentlessly.
And Go home when you finish the job way, after the hours you're
supposed to work, you know, and you've not only just got home,
you taking your marking as well. It just made me think then when
you mentioned 17th staff meeting on science in a row or something
like that, another way that I think I've seen in schools do
this in various ways, right? And I think a massive thing for
well-being and just the sanity of your staff is to focus on
something as a group that you're improving one at a time.
Right? And letting change have The time
to embed itself across the school, and not changing things,
for the sake of it, I've worked in schools before I've seen it
happen where something's brought in for maths in term one.
But also at the same time by the way, next week we're changing
the English scheme of reading as well.
Oh and by the way, in which three the afternoon science
lessons note, they need to be scrapped because we're going to
do this instead and it's just too much.
We need to have one focus at one time.
This is my opinion. Really, really do that.
Well, understand that perhaps. Perhaps okay, we know this needs
to change. Next time we're going to nail
this first, get our staff working on this.
That soiled. Let's go into the next thing.
I remember when we started our career and I know that we would
have both had these conversations.
We spoke to some teachers that have been in the car a lot
longer than are some of them near retirement of the time as
well. And when we when these new
schemes initiatives came in, I know that you and I are be a
little bit buzzed because we're new.
We're excited by everything. Well I wow, that sounds great.
That sounds a bit like what I learned at University and these
some of these teachers are just sort of roll their eyes kind of
unenthusiastically uninterested and I don't be offended.
Like they don't have passion anymore and I'd talk to these
people and I just It stuck with me then just saying things like
Yep, this is the third time in my career, that this exact thing
has been rehashed and come back around and they just got this
idea in my head over yet, it's just Cycles.
We just we try things and we get bored of them and we bring back
in old things. They don't work anymore and it's
just goes around and around and around all this workload
basically for nothing, because they're just doing things they
done in the past. And that really stuck with me.
Maturing as a teacher, is realizing that those teachers
were right and trying to wrap up this chat about well-being
Hayden, because you've kind, Touched upon mental health.
And again, we're not experts. We are absolutely not experts
and breaking down that stick, most really important, and that
website. I mentioned earlier, education
support. I just want to point people in
the direction of this, because if you're listening to this
podcast and thinking actually I am anxious, I'm suffering from
anxiety, suffering from depression, suffering from
burnout. These guys, this education
support charity. It's their sole Focus to help
us. So I just want to point you guys
into the direction of Education support dot org but UK take a
look, they've got a helpline, it's completely free.
They have loads of Articles, loads of ways.
To get professional help because you guys you're not alone.
This is a really really tough profession and they are a
fantastic resource to go to, to get some help.
Right. Dylan is time to move on.
Now, to the next segment of our podcast, where we share a story,
a funny teaching memory from someone at home.
What's the name of this segment? I don't know.
We're gonna wait. So let me just clarify very
quickly. You absolutely rinsed my name
for an email because I took the initiative to go off and make
one you've come up with a segment and you haven't even
bothered to name it. Listen, I'm all about audience
interaction mate. Okay, I'm asking the guys at
home, too. Maybe suggest a name for this
segment where we share the stories of you and your
memories. Right, let's go.
Okay, so what I've done is I've actually picked the story this
week. We've had quite a few entries.
So thank you to everybody who sent some stories in.
We had lots of friends and other teachers as well.
Sending things in. What's the end?
I'm just sorry. Yeah, the email is teach sleep.
Repeat POD at gmail.com, nice and short.
So I've picked one and it just resonates with me.
I found it quite funny and I thought, you know what, I'm not
even To tell you what it is, I'm just going to send you the
story, which I've just done by the way.
So check your phone and I'm going to get you to read it out
loud and just tell the story. All right, so when you're ready,
I'll get okay. So this is from Matt and I'm
going to start reading it. Now, he's a teacher, by the way,
obviously, my ta bought our class and inflatable dolphin for
RC themed, but call up. I am I laughing already the kids
loved it, and even gave it a name, one day towards the end of
the year, the children came into school to see that it Had
deflated and they were very upset.
I told them and I don't know why I did this, but if they did
their work before lunch, we would have time for it top.
It funeral you can already tell this person was like, the
beginning of that career. Children raced through the wag.
And this from is the funeral went ahead.
The children were made to talk about shots in dudes, opens up
and generally looks smart. I've prepared an order of
service we've become with the names.
Never myself, the TA all the children knew the word.
So we just mind. There's a box of tissues, hate
its way across the room, one child delivered, a very touching
speech. Reminiscing about all the good
times. We shared claiming we will miss
his smile. Oh his warmth and his farts.
This was greeted with no reaction or laughter, just a
serious, not a bad. It was just so upset.
So upset if they just got into character, they all knew they
were like yeah I remember I was writing one time and the dolphin
farted. It was the teacher.
It was Matt and he blamed it on the table we've all done.
It. Next four children were selected
to carry the dolphin outside the classroom as we had a door
leading to the field as a Class procession we followed the
dolphin past classrooms of busily working kids.
This place of rest imagine that just year five.
Like looking at the bottom what is that new teacher doing again?
Some children scattered soil over the body.
The worst bit was apparently there's a worse bit to this that
that wasn't the work there's a question coming up now.
Apparently the caretaker had a skip at the time and we decided
once the children had gone with Put the dolphin in it.
Little did we know the skip would be moved to the playground
for collection? Just as this hill that you have
lunch, their faces were horrified after they spotted.
This deflated dolphin lying on top of the rubbish waiting to be
collected. Shocking me.
We had no parental complaints and to this day SLT have no
knowledge of any event or correct until this day.
Yeah. Really enjoying the relatable
podcast. Keep it up.
Matt. So we go.
I thought you'd enjoy that story.
Would you think that is genuinely genuinely?
I'm I think we might have to put this segment to rest because how
can you top a dolphin funeral? You know, you are roasting me
last week about how you took a child out and they were like,
yeah, just doesn't stop talking. It's just when you're when you
start teaching, I don't know what it is but you just, I don't
know. Maybe just let your guard down a
bit more but you just have so much, silly fun.
And I do feel like part of well-being is that enjoyment,
you know, just having those moments with the kids, when the
time table isn't round with, you've got to do a million
things. Things at once and having a
dolphin funeral, why not? Yeah, so to summarize, that's
your solution, right? I said, maybe even more time and
money something like that. Hey, have a dolphin funeral that
song about being guys. That's how you cure it.
I'm gonna go over that for a while in the future we have had
some people emailing us. They're quite Keen to come on to
the podcast. So what do you think about?
Get some guests on in the future?
Even I think it's an amazing idea.
And to be honest with you, I'd love to hear some more stories
from people but also, you know, some serious stuff as well.
Yeah, we're going to continue to mix up.
I think But absolutely brilliant.
That's all. We've got time for this podcast,
so we're going to end it. Nope.
Nope, nope.
Nope. Dealing with done it again.
But listen, we know the people are coming back for the pretty
stick stories. Oh, the pretty stick story.
Next time about it next time, guys.
We'll see you then have a good one.
Bye bye.