Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode.
I just touched your knee. I'm so sorry.
Ohh deep sleep and feet. My name is Dylan.
My name is. Do that again.
Dylan hates touch, just to make it clear anyone else wouldn't
even think about. This, sorry, hates it.
This is I don't want to. Remember a time in the podcast
that was ages ago? I accidentally touched your foot
with my foot. And we had we genuinely had to
stop. We had it for him off so much we
had to stop. I don't like it whatsoever.
That made me feel really weird. Anyway, welcome back to another
episode. My name is Dylan.
I think I've done. That my name is Hayden.
Really thrown up now. Hello.
You've clicked on this. I've really been put off.
Now you know, you know what's going to happen.
We're talking about our favourite things this week, but
we're going to do our quick catch up as always.
I hope you guys are well, Hayden.
How are? You.
I'm good. We've got a mad week.
We've had a mad and I'm. I'm excited to tell you guys.
About you gonna have to top me touching your knee that.
Whoa ohh. Doesn't get madder.
Than that's mad. But it's close so just quick
story just I've sat here yesterday in this office just
doing some work about midday and all I heard outside was this
massive crash, but it sounded like someone had dropped like
loads of glass sound like loads of glass smashing.
I was expecting to look out there and for some reason
someone got a massive creative glass and.
They've just dropped it and there's a whole pub of people
going standing around. Ohh dear and I didn't.
I looked out and a red van had just ploughed into.
Unbelievable. Parked cars outside my house
but. There's just mad cause I've I've
seen it cause you've got. Footage Yeah, I've got a camera
outside the house. I've looked at it.
I've, I've, I've ran out. First we have to go and see
this. Ohh, I think I'll just check
what's on the old camera. What happened here?
Looking at the footage to see the van crashing.
Into the. Get the fridge in the
background. Out of focus is just the
wreckage and the. Bloke, but the guy was start of
this. The guy was absolutely fine.
Completely fine. Airbags saved his life.
This advert for airbags and never seen.
Yeah, but yeah, I don't know what happened.
He doesn't really know what happened.
I I think maybe he blacked out. Yeah, because when we're looking
at the footage, he is driving at 30 miles per.
Hour. It's like.
It's like he doesn't think the cars are.
There he just and and he just veers like head on.
It's not he just clips them. You know when you hit a wing
mirror before, where I've misjudged the space, he is like
full on, head on headlights, the headlights, just 30 miles an
hour, ploughs into the parked cars outside my house.
And you can't park there, Sir. You can't.
You cannot part. That's the.
All I said to him was that I went out there sorry Sir, can't
park there. No, I went out and obviously
thinking, oh God, I don't want state this guy's gonna.
Be a picture of you marching out like you mean business.
Yeah. Yeah, it's really good.
It's like, I will help. I am the hero the city needs.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But even when I was walking
towards the car, I could see through the back window that he
was moving around. I was like, straight away.
I was like, OK, right, He's OK That's all you really care
about. Went to the passenger window.
I was like, I don't know what to say.
I just like, are you OK? It was my first thing.
I was like, should we get you out this?
Should do I? Look, OK, look at my van and sat
him outside on the wall and you know, checked, checked him over.
Teacher instincts. Came in to get blue paper towel
for the van. I did.
I did get wet Paper towel. Yeah.
Luckily it helped. It did.
But he was. He was.
I was surprised how unhappy he was, considering he just went 30
miles an hour into a part object.
Goes house how like the safety features and stuff like the
crumples crumple. Zones.
I mean, I've got a picture of the car that he went into, so
maybe I'll share that because just so you can see how the
crumple zones just completely absorb the impact but just stop
it off. Last bit of this story, how
livid would you be? He he he obviously rammed into
one car, which then shunted into the car behind it.
There were just two cars parked. Both of the cars belonged to my
neighbour from across the road. Both cars were there.
It is there like 6th and 7th car though on the on the road.
Yeah. Ohh no the car right?
Never drive and just park there constantly.
Better against my neighbours because.
It's always there and I wanna park and I have to park over
your drive and it's always there.
It's kind of what do you guys think about this?
I wanna, I wanna put this situation out here.
Neighbours across the road, they have a driveway, but they have
so they have their car on the on the driveway.
They have two cars in the driveway, but they have six, no,
five other cars that they park on the on the road as well.
Like taking up basically everybody of the free spaces.
Everybody outside spaces. Yeah, and not everyone has a
driver on our Rd. When we moved in, we only had a
driver enough for one car we built.
We extended it so we could get both our cars.
Yeah, I don't know. Because that space didn't exist.
And it's like, well, it's all taxed and no one owns the road.
I know. Yeah, OK.
Obviously what they're doing is not illegal.
No. But like, come on, Do you need
seven cars? Yeah, I do find it a bit odd.
It does just constantly take up everyone else thinks because I
lived on a terraced Rd beforehand where you basically
just there was no parking for anyone who was just first come
first served and outside of our house was constantly this big
Volkswagen. Like what's it called the people
carrier version and a Volkswagen Beetle in front of it owned by
the same person who literally just liked having them.
They never went anywhere. Yeah, I never.
Thought they had a new version of a Volkswagen big van as well
but they actually use that. They actually used and it's it's
old thing. And I was like, oh, OK, I I get
you're not doing anything wrong technically, but for five years?
That was just outside. Yeah, that that that is not the
kind of road and house to live on when you're gonna have three
or four cars. Yeah, because you are.
Just because realistically, what is?
If you think about the terrace houses, there's there's like 1
space. Outside one space and we had two
cars and a lot of people have two cars these days and that's
fine. I never never begged it and I
don't ever expect to park in front of my own house.
That's not. That's not.
People did but like when like 3 spaces are constantly taken and
they're just using. That's what I mean they're
storing vehicles. It might as well be a statue
that built on the road. Yeah.
Doesn't feature in the. I just think it's rude.
Yeah, basically that's it. I don't.
There's no nothing illegal about it.
No. Same thing.
That's my house with like the, the there's these must, you must
be like 1819. Just like to drive constantly
coming home at like half 1011 or leaving at like 5:00 in the
morning must be for work. Blasting his music like the bass
reverberates through the street. And it's like, that's just rude.
I think we should start. I've realised how old we are.
Sounds so old. I know.
And again, I I did the same thing.
So I'm not actually annoyed at the person whatsoever, but I'm
it's like I think it would have crossed my mind if it was half
11. Yeah, and not I.
Think I would just turn it down a bit, you know.
You're super conscious of that sort of stuff, though I've been
asked before and I've, I've put something on that.
I think it's completely suitable, you know, Turn it
down, turn it. Down.
Because I hate the idea of being a hypocrite because it's like,
Oh my God, it's so annoying. Then I'm there going boom, boom,
boom. Yeah.
Also, I grew up with three younger sisters.
Constant High School Musical. They have just sitting.
We be quiet for a minute. Let me play Call of Duty.
Please. They listen to this podcast and
they didn't tell us what you think.
They're probably they're probably paused it to put on the
High School Musical soundtrack and have a little things.
On Yeah, still love it. Anyway, that's one thing about
my week. I need to have my and you know
that this is, well people ongoing story and this is the
one time when my trolling of Hayden absolutely 100% paid off
and it did better than ever before.
So here's the story. We're doing maths and as you
know a big part of my practise and headers practise is is quite
simply just we OK, We we know we can teach well.
I love the idea of just making sure the children have fun at
all times and let's let's be real for a second.
Maths can be quite dry sometimes you're doing a small step with a
group of children who don't quite get it all the time and
needs a lot of support. They've got to do a lot of
practise of the same thing, so I'm looking for anything to hook
onto in that lesson just to engage them and make them laugh
A. Little bit done, the bookmarks.
Bold, already under the sad face.
Yeah, yeah, there's loads of stuff that we've done for our.
So this time what happened is I've, I've merged into what you
do. Basically any kind of character
or monster or thing or whatever it is on the board is now Mr
Stevens, especially if they come across as bold.
So we're doing White Rose maths. Anyone who also does White Rose
maths knows there's a mascot. Tiny the tortoise or turtle.
I don't know what tortoise. OK And who always gets things
wrong. That's the joke.
Fantastic, because he looks like a little bold green alien,
right? So he pops up and says something
completely nonsense about We've just been looking at and they
need to reason as to why it's wrong.
So it comes up and I go, ohh, here he is, here he is again, Mr
Stevens, like that and they're like, oh.
I'm sure they love. That because Mrs Stevens always
gets it wrong and it's really funny.
And I said to Yeah Yep. Guys listen, just calm down for
a minute. I'm going to tell you something
I've never told anyone and this is this is like this is top
secret. And I I need you to do a mission
for me afterwards. So I need you to know that that
is actually Mr Stevens and that's him when he was younger.
He's obviously grown up now but he he does actually have green
skin like genuinely. And they're like no he doesn't.
I'm like no, I'm going to serious No, no, no, listen.
And you can't. You can't go around telling
everyone He really tries to cover up what you need to do,
guys, what you need to do. What I'm saying.
If someone shows that like Shrek and I was like, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's exactly the same.
I said, next time you see him, listen, don't give it away.
You need to be really secretive. But just look at the back of his
neck. Because what he does, he puts
makeup on to cover his green. But I've seen it before.
He just forgets the back of his neck.
So you really carefully, next time you see him, just take a
little sneak peek. Don't tell him you're doing it.
Just look at the back of his neck.
You might see a line of green. I did all of this for, Almost
forgot about it. Hayden and I had dinner the
other night. He brought it up and and hated
you went. Well, I'll tell myself the story
now. I was like, no, this makes so
much sense because it's the first time I can honestly say I
got got. I always know when the kids are
getting me and I just play along with it.
This time they completely got me.
I didn't even suspect. Anything to the point where you
went to check? Yeah.
So these kids, I was walking back.
I just had my lunch, right? So it's in the lunch hour.
I'd eat my lunch in the staff room.
I was walking back towards my classroom.
Which isn't as far away. From You have to walk a little
bit outside to get there as well.
So the kids are outside playing and there was there was a few
girls I think, I can't remember now.
I guess from your class you didn't recognise?
I didn't recognise it really. But they obviously was a year
four and they sort of giggled at me and I was like alright, girls
like you are thinking or whatever.
And then as I carried on walking, they're such good
acting from them. One of them, without making it
really obvious, just went, Oh yeah, to a Frenchman.
Yeah, he does have a bit of green on his neck, but I hadn't
like I'd already what It was good timing because I wasn't
still engaging with them. If they did that, I probably
would have a bit more obvious now that clearly trying to troll
me. But they said it when I was
walking away and I didn't. I didn't even look back.
I just heard it and thought, what you don't.
And then I thought, oh, when I did walk through the dinner
hall, I did see a couple of, like, kids or snigger at me and
they were looking at me like looking around my head area.
I am an ogre. So I went and checked my neck
and I was trying to rub off some green.
I was thinking, have I got my highlighter on there or
something like. Green paint on my neck.
Probably my neck trying to find all this green and I was
thinking, there's nothing there. Stupid kid, someone say making
up this rubbish? What you talking about?
Best thing I've ever done that's that's the number one thing
ever. And like I think it was your
your Lauren said you should on Monday put a bit of green
highlight around. I'm going to do it.
I'll update you guys next week. That works so well.
Just again, another off the cuff thing.
Really funny. Yeah.
Anyway, let's crack on. Hayden, you wanted to talk about
PE? Yeah, just just a really quick
one. It's just about my week.
I just wanted to say because we've discussed this in the
past. This week for the first time in
honestly years, I did PE a joint with another teacher and this
guy is a is a sports coach and so professional, highly highly
trained professional P teacher and I did P with him because it
was raining outside. Listen to the podcast sometimes.
Yeah, yeah, it's it's got you listen to the podcast and we did
P together and I was just watching him setting up these
activities and just doing just teaching PS and thinking Oh my
God, it does, it does pay off when you have a professional
because we've talked about haven't we about like oh, we are
actually just professionals in every single subject though it
does kind of work. Have a specialist.
That's what I meant to say. Specialist.
And he's a specialist. And I was like, ohh, it just
reminded me that, yeah, like the fact that funding's gone.
Yeah, to crap. Yeah, it is a shame because they
would, these kids would benefit from a specialist in multiple
subjects. We just can't afford it.
So we have to pretend that we can do it, yeah.
Yeah, it's just crazy you have pretending that we can possibly
deliver app lesson to the same level we can.
Deliver and was there One of the sports coaches that you had,
apprentice and new apprentice you had with him was an ex
pupil. From my first year, I saw this
girl in year four. That made me feel.
Old she was. Like 8-8 years old and she's now
17. Like wow yes, my nine years of
teaching. Yeah yeah that made me feel
really old. But it was really nice and it
will lead on to one of my points later in the episode really
nicely. So I'll save it.
Ohh OK then. Yeah, last thing for me, we went
swimming this week and again, this links into something we'll
talk about later. Making those links, guys, making
you stick around, you know, because you wanna that retention
curve. Anyway, we went swimming with
the children in year four in our school.
They go swimming. They loved it.
I'm going to talk more about it later, but classic me.
Three of us went this. This is me all over beforehand.
I printed off the e-mail because I am scattered.
I'm just a classic scatter I forget my own head if it wasn't
on my body. And I printed off the e-mail
that head of Year 7, which was really clear and I didn't even
just have that. I went through it myself and
highlighted the key things I need to.
Remember what you need. To do for two reasons, because
one, that act of highlighting made it go into my head.
More Did you leave all the kids? And yeah, I didn't bring the
kids, just me and free swim teachers.
Brought back some other kids from my school.
Who are you giving them? Off you go.
Yeah, so I I highlighted it and I had it all.
Really clear the timings and what I needed to take.
Took, took the medical box. Took took.
Make sure it helped the caps with their spare caps for the
children have caps. I've paired them all up nicely
so they've got theirs. I've seen who's not here.
I've done a new register with this free free stuff.
I've I've photocopied everything.
All nice. Perfect.
Went to the coach, got there. Amazing.
Got changed nice and quick. We did the swimming lesson.
Super perfect. Happy.
It going perfectly. Did a good job.
I went off to with the first of the boys so they could get
changed and our teaching system went off with the first of the
girls and then our deputy head who came along to help as well.
Hmm. We've seen in the last few out
of the pool to come and join us. Got ready, beat the girls.
Did a little bit of a race as you can see and get ready.
First one out there. Yeah, he beat the girls.
Girls came out like a minute after.
It's cool. We're on time.
Let's go. We went into the, went on to the
bus. Fantastic, cool.
Got, got back. All the kids went there.
Nothing wrong. Very good lessons.
Yeah, fantastic. They then the office staff came
to me and said you left the medical box at the swimming.
Pool, you idiot. Ohh the medical box.
Ohh medical box that has to be in school tomorrow when I'm not
God when I'm not in because my last day is Wednesday.
Ohh, that's alright. Ohh, that's right.
I'll just drive back to this number.
Big happy to come back to school after it's no problem.
So the the other than a. Child, The worst thing you
could. Possibly, Yeah, Yeah.
Yeah. Ohh.
God, I forgot the Ohh. No, the child's here.
Thank goodness they're medicines, not Ohh they need.
That that's all that is like, objectively for take away the
joke for 2nd, that's terrible. Right.
Like if you think about if I hadn't gone back to get it
because it all been gone home by then, I hadn't gone back to get
it. So they had it when they would
have needed it swimming, no problem.
Yeah, but if I hadn't gone back that next day, if I hadn't
remembered, or if. They hadn't had the medical
boxing. Literally they have medical box
in school, so it just goes to show guys be super vigilant.
Don't be like me. Write things down and that's
that's one of the things I love. So you prioritise and write.
Things. That is probably the perfect
analogy of you, isn't it? Yeah, around my house.
It's really funny. You're better at it now because
you bought off thing for your keys.
That was life changing. By the way, Dylan, I don't
understand. I don't understand you because I
feel like it's so habit. Like imagine if everyone
listening right when you come in, does your your keys and
purse and bag or wallet, whatever it is, just go in the
same place every single day without even thinking?
Yes, of course they do. That would be convenient.
Dylan come round and his keys could be anywhere, anywhere in
the house. I'm not even joking.
Like the weirdest place you can think of.
For some reason at that point in time, he subconsciously went oh,
I put my keys there and then can't find them.
Little game to play in it every time I come out.
He's had to put a little fob on his keys that he can ring the.
Life find them. It's called a tile.
If anyone does what I do, get a tile.
It's called tile. Little white thing.
I press the thing on my phone and it and it goes.
The only thing is I lost my phone as well.
Yeah, and I've. Seen you do that.
I've seen him do that. Ohh where my keys when I get my
phone because I can my keys ohh my phone ohh let me get my keys
cause press the button because you can press the button on your
keys and your phone goes off no way and you press the button on
your phone your keys. You lost them both.
But if you. Lose them both.
You just gotta walk home. So funny, does it all the.
Time, right? Anyway, that's been a longer
catch up then I think we anticipated.
Yeah. Shall we crack on to the main
part of this? Yeah.
I was gonna say lesson again This lesson.
Yeah, it's. Called message.
We call them lessons now guys, alright that customers listen,
yeah, we've made-up a few terms over the over the years.
We haven't. We underfed.
It's been every year now. Years.
One of those years, yeah. Yeah, Do you know 1:00?
We we can stop. Like, when a toddler gets the
one. Yeah.
In my opinion, you should stop calling them by months.
Yeah, it's kind of like the. Old your kid, one finished.
Done. Yeah, done 168 weeks.
Three months. Three days into hours.
Hmm. Yeah.
I'm already at the point now. I think we should stop using
weeks. Do you use weeks?
Anymore. No, I just say 0.
You've gone straight. To years, Yeah.
How's your kid? Nothing. 0.
He's 0. Yeah, I've I've now started
transitioning. I used to say like 11 weeks 12.
Weeks now. Three months.
Yeah, months. I think that it will just be
four months. Because he's five months soon.
So it's. I couldn't even tell you how
many weeks is quite a few weeks. Yeah.
Although it was good for my mascaras and when we did our
seven times table and he was from zero to 12 every week, we
started off and I was just like, how many days old is Robbie now?
And they were like, talking about love that.
Good idea. Wish I did that.
Should we be telling me that single?
You might remember last week we talked about shout outs.
We did three. I don't put an Instagram thing,
you don't remember any. God, that was amazing.
We did three shout out and I was just talking to a few people as
well who reached out and I posted one onto our Instagram
actually and it was a message from this TA who'd been working
this tea for about 8 years, was in the had been a HRT a so
covered and stuff and is now in the middle of training to become
a teacher and she just sent us a message basically just just like
saying I loved the podcast. She's Hatta already a teacher
then? Yeah, I know.
Yeah. Yeah, she is training.
Yeah, literally. You've done it.
Done it going to be really horrible initially.
Like some people, they are just teachers, aren't they?
And some people just have this weird like thing already where
they just, I'm like, no, they're teachers.
There are teachers. Any other qualification?
Yeah, well done to you by the. Way she's on the way to get the
qualification. She just wanted to say thank you
for podcast, etcetera. And it finished off in a way
that I don't want to say shocked us, but it yeah, but it's really
nice because because I know sometimes in the podcast when
you get two teachers sat here and you got the context of
strikes and stuff and like education, impossibly it's most
crippled today ever. Yeah, and obviously we're going
to come up with some negativity. Sometimes that's just criticise,
so it was really nice genuinely to read at the end where she
said she's going into eyes open. She knows it's tough but it's
podcast like ours which help her see the positive and and what
how good it's gonna. BE and I think my response to
you was it. Has she been watching our
podcast? But I do think that we, we, we
do naturally talk very highly of all the great things about to,
Yeah. But I thought it'd be really
cool this week to do a shout out to to that TA to talk about her
and kind of mould a whole episode around.
It So you inspired us today. Yeah, it's completely positive
now. So we're going to do, we're
going to do a whole episode about our favourite things,
about teaching and before we do want to talk about one other
shout out we had it was from El Clark found out.
Because I said, oh, who's? That.
Yeah, Guess what, Her name is Lauren.
Lauren was like, she said yeah,
that's my name very you know, useful.
Yeah. So anyway she she talked to us
again. She did a shout out last week,
she messaged us and she said she's listening from Sydney.
No way. Which I love.
I know we talked before about how we're in so many players in
so many countries and stuff but like I always love it when
someone messages. Like the person from Zambia a
few months ago actually messages and said, ohh, my Monday is
nearly over. I've listened to the podcast
because we wake up, right? We we published the podcast in
the middle of the night just so that it's there whenever people
wake up. I wake up at 6:00 and it's got
the the podcast has like numerous plays.
Yeah like way more than anything.
Who's up? Yeah.
No one's listened to this podcast which is different
countries and we thought about that because she listens to on
her way home. So at times perfect.
You know I don't know I'm just doing this live on the spot what
might be quite cool series one day for us to do maybe like a a
sub series not just the main episodes.
It's like just get a guest from teacher, a teacher, guests from
different countries and just find out what what teachings
like in that country. Because I have no idea other
than like America which were often compared with I don't
really know what teaching is like.
Two biggest countries other than UK for listeners is America and
Australia. Ohh yeah and then it's Spain.
So I didn't even I couldn't even tell you.
I'll be guessing if the Australian systems similar.
Yeah, I think it's quite similar.
But again, it would be, it would be interesting to find out
anyway, so we're gonna do a really positive episode this
week. It's all our favourite things,
what we love about teaching. So we've put together a list
Hayden, and again, we've not necessarily shared it with each
other fully. We kind of know what's coming.
Ish. We're going to take it in times.
Hey, we're going to start with you.
Hey, what's your favourite thing about teaching?
Really, really positive episode. And my favourite thing about
teaching is the. Overtime.
OK, because straight into sarcasm.
I want to make a quick shout out to to an article that came out
the other day. Check out if you can, we'll talk
briefly about it, but test released an article saying that
teachers to improve proven. As if anyone didn't know.
Teachers have is the worst profession for unpaid overtime.
And I quote to you the average weekly overtime across employees
as teachers is 4 1/2 hours a week.
That's 4 1/2 hours. 4 1/2 hours. That's not, that's not
completely wrong across all the average weekly overtime for you
said for teachers. Yeah, isn't it?
No, it's all right. So this guy doesn't even know
stats, so it's good. I'll read that, shall I?
For you have. You read it for me, the average.
Weekly overtime of anyone is four 4.4 hours and I saw a real
miss for teachers. P made very quickly.
Uh where? He said like yeah we know
everyone does overtime but a it's paid and to it's much less.
So for the average worker, you do 4 1/2 hours over time.
So I said yeah. What is it for teacher then?
Have any of you know that so far, 26, just over 26 hours, the
craziest 26 hours, unpaid, unpaid overtime.
Because like we said all the time, our contract really does
run from 50 until 3/3 offering. So all of that prep we do every
single day. I think teachers often forget
that is completely unpaid overtime.
So whenever you like. Ohh, no, I I I don't want to do
that planning at the weekend. Actually, I'm going to push the
boat out, say no because you've already done 15 hours of
overtime that week. So there's no, you know, you're
already well in the green. Don't worry about that.
No problem at all. So come on.
But let's go straight into positive.
Come on, what do you want to say?
I was just gonna say I like the article because one number one,
I feel like it's coming more to light now.
All these things are getting back, just pushed a bit more,
you know, in the mainstream. And also then went on to talk
about the task, the workload reduction task force that we
talked about. Yeah, I was about to say task
load reduction workforce. That's not definitely the right
phrase and we talked about it. Go and check out Season 2,
episode 18. It's one of my favourite
episodes where we just unpick that committee report.
I loved that episode anyway, so I'm going to hand it back to
you. Let's do our favourite things
genuine. We're going to be really
positive now and we're not even joking.
Quick preface though is because we we do Love Actually teaching.
We love that, those parts of the job.
We're not gonna go about all the other stuff.
We've done that. Many times I thought we were.
Acting. We love teaching.
Do we do, Actually, Yeah, we. Do sorry we do love it.
Yeah do. I don't think you can do
something for eight or nine years and not actually love some
of it. I I well, I couldn't anyway.
I would I would left by now. So favourite things.
Number one. My one of my favourite things
ever is when you just turn a corner of a child.
And I don't mean solely educationally, I don't mean
solely socially. I mean, any kind of corner that
you turn with a young person and you feel like you have directly
contributed to an improvement in their life.
So it it could well be that it's they understand something now.
It could well be that this is one of the most amazing things
about teaching you guys teach children how to read.
Yeah, that's. Wow.
Like just think about that. Like think about that in the
whole of human history for a minute.
You have the skills and the ability to sit with a child and
teach them to read. Just think what what that
actually unlocks for them, which is absolutely everything in
their life, every single one of us was taught to read, and that
is just easy to kind of gloss over.
So I'm saying turning a corner, just the basics of you teach
them to count, you teach them to read, you teach them to tie
their shoelaces, You teach them to behave in a way which is
socially acceptable and is gonna make sure that they're, you
know, fair to their peers and things like that.
If you turn a corner with a child who maybe is a bit behind
on those things, whatever it might be that that child now
sits down for a whole lesson and pays attention.
A lot of those things are just passive as well.
We don't, we take it for granted like you said.
And then there's other things, like I said about about you.
But I I personally get that really, really nice feeling when
it's something social. I don't know why it's social.
It's always the social. Thing.
I think it's because you've been trained and you're a
professional and this is our job almost is the maths, the
English, the reading, the history, but you're talking
about something which could personally the extra mile.
Yeah, like there's been we've, we've mentioned a few over the
episodes over the years. But just like the things where
it's like a child is struggling maybe in a social group or
social situation or even just in class like and you your
influence directly helps them and and then their relationships
get better with their peers or whatever.
I'm like, I I love those moments so much.
You look outside and they're playing now and they couldn't do
it before because they just didn't have the social skills.
They didn't understand how to interact appropriately, you know
or whatever it is. But yeah, I agree.
Turning the corner. I've had children before who
struggle controlling their emotions and even just talking
to them about it and teaching them about their emotions and,
you know, putting a label on what that emotion is and that
it's OK to feel that way and then it's how you react to that
is something you can take control of.
Yeah. Watching children take control
of their reaction to things they have no control over is is one
of my favourite parts of the job.
Because you can say to a child you are going to feel angry in
the same way that you're going to feel happy.
So I am not going to stand here. I would never stand here and say
you can't feel angry because that is the same as me saying
you can't feel happy, you can't feel excited, you don't control
your emotions. But what I've seen with a lot of
children, and it's one of my favourite parts of the job, is
watching them learn to what to do after.
Yeah, and and that can really transform a child's social
awareness, their relationship with their peers and in the end
as well their academic achievement.
Because they they feel that way, they understand it, they accept
it and through you teaching them they've turned that corner,
they've made progress in that respect and that's going to have
a huge impact on them. I I just absolutely love it.
It's one of my favourite parts. Yeah, it's a very, very
rewarding. Isn't exactly that #2.
So my one, my first one is very different to yours actually is
something I love about teaching is that every day is unique.
Yeah, every day is different. So I really struggled before
went to teaching with with jobs that were very, very samey.
And some people, a lot of people actually love that.
They like the routine of I know exactly what to be doing.
There's no stress because I don't have to just think on the
spot all the time and solve problems.
But teaching is a bit like that. It's got actually a bit of both
really, isn't it? You know, your days quite well
structured with structured, with your school timetable things.
You kind of know what is roughly coming.
But every day is unique in terms of there are 32 children usually
in your class than anything could happen.
Anything could have happened with them in the last 24 hours.
They could be upset. They could be happy.
They wanna tell you a great thing.
They could tell you they could want to tell you a terrible
thing and then you know your your team around you could come
to you a massive problem. Oh no, the internet's down.
Yeah we're gonna do we need a new resource.
Oh no. Offset are coming in or whatever
like you're every day is just really different And it keeps me
on my toes and I think it just keeps my brain active and
pleased. I don't know, I just.
I just need that kind of. Yeah, that stimulate that
stimulus. Because I've seen a lot of
people lately talk about these at point you're making about it.
Yeah every day is unique. But then to extrapolate from
that, it's like we are constant problem solvers.
We are we. I I can't stress to people
enough who don't work in teaching with, especially with
younger children in primary school or early years, whatever
it might be, how mentally taxing it is to deliver lessons to the
children. Because not only are you, it's
almost enough of a mental load to just deliver the lesson
itself. If you were doing meetings in an
office, adults delivering meetings all day blocked out,
that would be a day like, wow, you're that's a crazy then yeah,
that's that's a lot to do. You've also got to control
children and and make sure they're paying.
Attention 32 people in this. Meeting 30 exactly every single
time. Usually you've got to, you know,
change what you're doing to help them.
But but the thing I'm talking about when you're to kind of
link what you're saying every day is unique is they don't have
the same philtre as adults do. But you, you could deliver a CPD
right to a bunch of teachers from a school and then probably
picked that CPD up and do it next week in a different school.
Yeah. And be very sane.
Yeah, roughly the same. You still teach him, but you
probably get the same reaction. I've seen a lot lately of people
describing this as negative and really taxing on the brain,
which I think it is. It's exhausting, but it's nice
to hear you kind of flip that and say that's a positive view.
So how do you kind of balance the fact every day is unique
with like mental burnout basically?
Well, I mean, check out our last episode.
I think. I think they're almost two
separate things. Do you think?
I think so, yeah. I don't think the fact that
every day is unique is the reason for burner.
I think it's the length of. Hmm, it's the length of time you
have to do the. Job or the now children maybe?
China children, even just the sheer number of tasks you have
to actually get done in a day. I think if if that you know, if
the task, if the task were reduced, then I'd thoroughly
enjoy my day even more. And it wouldn't be the fact that
every day was different the problem because I like problem
solving. So if you're one of those kind
of people, if you're not a teacher, maybe nothing can.
Actually I'm just bored of a job where I have to do the same
thing every day. Then maybe teachings a job you
should consider because it is a it is great for problem solving
and thinking on the spot every day and just knowing that every
day is a bit different. You can come home and talk about
your day. It's always gonna be different
to the day before. It just there's something
happens every day. Like some kids might come up to
you and say, oh, you got green skin on you.
Know anything can happen. I like the again, the fact every
day is unique is something that keeps a lot of people in the
job. So it is a positive because
I've, I've spoken to numerous people, you and I included,
where we do. You do sometimes think when
you've had a bit of a stressful week and you do feel
exceptionally burnt out or there's just too much going on,
you think you know what I could just do with a job or just go
in. I know what I'm doing.
I'm gonna. Leave.
Can I tell you what I've never thought that my life you've not.
No, there's never. Never.
I'm I'm really really really don't like those jobs.
I I can't think of any situation ever where where I'd enjoy.
That exactly and but, but the point being, even when I thought
that if I've ever got to the point where I sit down, then I
think, what could I do every single time?
I'm like, God no. Yeah, like when you actually
think about the realist realistic side of that, for me
personally, this is a huge draw to the job.
Everyday is unique and you can apply professional skills and if
you're in a school that gives you that bit of personal
freedom, mould those days how you want to, it's.
Fantastic. Your mind will be stimulated,
yeah, all the time. And I just need that to be.
Absolutely. Basically next one.
This is this is I think this is LinkedIn a way because we're
making comparisons with other jobs.
But my my next thing I love the most is having fun, is having
fun. And I'm gonna go deeper because
we talked about having fun a lot.
We talked about you know being silly with the children saying
you're an ogre, right. That these low level things that
just get dangle that carrot in front of the children.
Because sometimes what we have to deliver by the curriculum is
dry. And I see it as part of my job
to ensure that the children who I want children, right, who are
in my class to go home and say they had fun today, I don't want
that to be a single day where the children go home and say,
God, that was boring. Yeah, Which can very easily
happen. Yeah, of course.
Because if you think in the morning, we're doing cross
multiplication fractions in English.
We're doing a reading comprehension text on the most
boring nonfiction thing ever that I've got no interest in.
And then the afternoon we had to fit in an Rd lesson and the
geography lesson about a river in South America.
Yeah, Like, objectively, that's six hours of work could be
horrendously boring. So as a teacher, it's my job to
make sure they have fun. But above that and pushing on
from that, the reason I love teaching is I'm allowed to do
that with my professional judgement and bond with the
children and then get more out of them.
But I'm talking as well. Like when we went swimming this
week, the smiles on the children's faces genuinely like
almost transformed me back to my my NQT days when when like you
know that's all I wanted to do and the idea of a child being
sad made me upset and I so I'm never gonna make a child cry.
I just wanna have fun like and and those trips, it really, I've
said it a million times but it does really get to me that
that's what's being here. It feels like at the moment is
all of that enrichment and those trips, because at the end of the
day it's the children where schools, the only chance they
get to have those moments. I want to give it to them as
much as possible. Swimming was that moment for me
where you just look around whether they're in the deep end
because they're experienced. Some as some kids are in the
shallow end practising their strokes because they can kind of
swim. Some children, the paddling bit
because they don't know how to swim, all of them are having a
good time. Yeah, smiling.
They're enjoying their life, enjoying it in that moment.
And even the ones who are a bit anxious beforehand, not one of
them in the pool was upset. They found out that was so fun.
And I I, I'll be honest, I even said to them I was like, makes a
change, doesn't it, from having to write in your book about
about rivers. Yeah, having to write your book
about swimming. Literally.
Literally, yeah. It just, it just makes change.
And they're like, yeah, that was so good.
And and I tell you what, I got off essentially at about 4:00
from there. So we were very late back to
school. Yeah.
Which is normal. And few children were waiting to
be picked up. Then the medical, but that was
even later even still. But but I didn't.
I didn't resent it whatsoever. Yeah.
I was like, yeah, OK, spent an extra 40 minutes where I could
have been doing my marking, could be doing this, didn't
resent it at all. And that was like that's peak
teaching when you know, these teachers, myself included, and
you and everyone who's listening works in a school has that
streak in them, what they want to do it for the kids.
And no matter what's happened, that's still there that that was
there for me again. And I think it's having.
Fun, Yeah. And also, I suppose you could
counteract it with you. You weren't teaching a lesson
that afternoon that needed marking and if you were, it
would have taken you that amount of time to mark anyway.
So would you. Getting back late was kind of
like you're marking time for the swimming and everything.
That's good time. I'm going to jump in with the
next one. I'm just going to end it with
this. You basically mentioned my next
point, which is making children laugh because it's very, very
similar point, isn't it? But you know, it's, I guess it's
the same thing. But making children laugh is
possibly my favourite part of the job.
I think it's the thing that makes me feel the most happy.
Is that a selfish thing to think, do you think?
That you're about to say, I think it's on a very, very
selfish level about what I enjoy about teaching is, is making the
kids laugh. And no, not everyone might be,
you know, not everyone's the same, not everyone's the same.
But I value that really highly because it makes me really
happy. And I think it makes me happy
because it makes them happy. And I just, you know, I like
making people happy. But yeah, similar to you, I make
them laugh with enrichment activities.
But also things like, I always think back to, I always think
back to COVID. Yeah, I don't even know who told
the story before. Probably.
Have probably about four times you.
Remember, it's just. It's just the most pure fun we
ever had This one day during COVID when it was like key
worker children in and all that stuff we had.
I don't know, maybe 20 kids in, if that.
Probably not even. That less than that. 15 to 20
and we were like, cool, we're going.
It was a beautiful day, beautiful sunny day.
We've done a bit of learning in the classroom and all right,
cool, let's go outside for the rest.
Of the were told to be outside as much as.
Possible. Exactly.
We're supposed to be. And we were like, let's do some
pee in ages and we were like, OK, pea cupboard needs to be
tidied. And cleaned.
Let's get every single piece of
equipment out of the PE cupboard.
And we're talking like you think about your school PE cup, like
how much stuff there actually is to, you know, for kids.
We got stuff that hasn't. Seen this day of life, I know we
got every single thing out, made a massive pile of it and and
divided. The whole and said the day of
light. In the daylight, like earlier
when you said I I forget in my head and I was expecting you to
say the phrase if it wasn't screwed on, I forget my head if
it, if it wasn't on my body, what you said and I sort of
smirked and I was like, I'm not gonna take.
This. Sorry, yeah.
Anyway just yeah really quick fudge finish story.
But just we made we got them making massive obstacle course
and then we played around on this obstacle course using every
single piece of equipment from the cupboard on using up the
entire play around and it was the most fun.
I had so much fun and the kids had so much fun they went home.
I I like to think they went home and said I had the best day
ever. But just that to me, you get to
do that in teaching all the time.
You don't get to take all the equipment out, but you get to
have those mini experiences of fun all the time with the kids
and it makes their day and one day we're going to an episode.
We have said this loads of times where I'm going to present to
you my made-up school because I often think about episode one.
I often think about making up my own school, how I'd run a school
in an ideal world. You know, perhaps budget didn't
crush in my dreams. I think that's that's just
called what every head teacher. Yeah, and and yeah, one day
we're gonna episode and Dylan's gonna just grill me on this.
made-up school. But my my top thing would be the
top priority is kids leave school.
Haven't had fun and you sort of said it.
In your point they have to leave school.
Happy. Yeah.
If they're not leaving school happy, then I'll tell you what,
those lessons you did, that was a waste of time.
Yeah. Happy.
Children, happy children. We're not in a totalitarian
regime where we just. The only outcome has to be that
they understand that the date of the death of King Henry the
Eighth was hit. Yeah, Don't.
Care. We always go that way.
Yeah. When we go knowledge base, we
always go. What did I learn?
Yeah. Much.
Right. Next one for me.
What do I love about teaching it?
It's the responsibility, OK, of making sure it it's my job to
provide for children things that they might otherwise not get.
And that is a that is, you know, some people might describe that
as a burden almost, or a heavy responsibility.
Well, yeah, you know, if you're a doctor, you're in charge of
people's health. Well, that's a big burden and
responsibility. I don't think our burden is
maybe necessarily at that level of of like a doctor or a surgeon
or something, but it's bloody high and I think it's a lot
higher than some people realise. And as a teacher I love giving
children safety comfort experiences they wouldn't
otherwise get and harping back to earlier.
These points kind of link through it all down to the kids
really. I want to give them things that
otherwise, without this system where I'm their class teacher
and providing them with these things, they might not
necessarily get Honestly, love and care.
Yeah, yeah. A lot of the time it's like
there are, there are children, unfortunately every single year
who don't get much love and aren't very well cared for.
Obviously, you know, we know. We know how the country works.
We know different demographics work.
Yeah. And yeah, it is nice, isn't it?
You know, just to show those kids, oh, no, no, no, no.
You are loved. You are really careful.
We really care for you. We love you in this school.
This community loves you. Yeah, you know, you safe haven.
Yeah, I know what you mean. That is a very, very rewarding
feeling. Isn't really rewarding.
And that's like to me again, that's something that I would
miss so much. And this is something I put my
list together. I was kind of I went, OK, what
do I love? But it was almost easier for me
to think, OK, it's easy for me to forget what I love sometimes
is to not really what do I, why do I keep teaching you?
I said, why am I just gonna quit one day?
But then I thought, OK, I'm gonna look at this a different
way, which is if I didn't do this job, what would I end up
really missing? Yeah.
And I think that you know that responsibility of providing that
environment for so many children in our community, you know, just
ensuring that they get what they need like that is that there's
something everyday you again, it's easy to forget, but you do
it. Every single day.
Still, it's interesting how our first five points, I know it
does change a bit, but our first five have all been very similar
in terms of the all to do with, like very emotive, aren't they
the things we like about teaching.
It's like if you thought about a different job, the things that
you love about working at Tesco, like I used to, it might be the
hours I get. I like doing this particular job
like stacking shows more than I like doing.
The tills. But so far, our first five
points have all very much been these really, really, like,
emotive things about how much you love basically just being
with the kids, watching them grow, watching them learn,
helping them, you know, showing them their love, making them
feel safe. All this stuff is like, yeah,
just I didn't think about. It yeah, leave the Lions team.
Up we have got a couple of points.
I think they're a bit more. Yeah, but this is in the order
that I thought of them as well. So this is really interesting to
think actually, yeah you know what if these if these ever won
the first things that came out of our mouth for me kind of
ourselves these questions again that's the I think that is the
point where you would have to be like OK that this this is the
thing keeping me in this job. It's it's the children and
helping them. And I think very quickly last
thing I want to say about providing for children who don't
necessarily have stuff, I've said it a million times before,
I'm, I'm no martyr or anything like that.
But you know I went to, I was a free school milk kid.
You know, we lived in so many houses when I was younger and
and like when I'm talking really young up north and stuff, we
didn't have much. And I loved school.
And I think that if that didn't happen to me and I didn't have
that experience of school as like wow, this place I can excel
and do this amazing stuff. And I love the teachers and I
love to be there. And these teachers really helped
me and moulded me and gave me what I needed and looked after
me and then helped my mom and then you know just get provided
all that stuff. I think that lift experience has
moulded while like I I want to do teaching.
Part of your life. People have said to me don't go
into teaching. Yeah, you could do, you could do
this or that you're going to. Teaching.
It's got no money. It's like ohh OK I know, but God
it feels good. Though one of the one of the
hardest parts of teaching is recognising all this as
something that makes the job extremely rewarding and great to
do, but also balancing what we talked about last episode.
Just the the rough side of the work, you know, the fact that
also you can burn out and then be terrible at doing all of this
because you're burnt out and you've just got to balance all
the time. Ohh, I will.
I wanted to this enrichment activity, but it's 5:00 PM, I
haven't done any marking. I can't really do this club, you
know, and it's so hard. That's one of the biggest
challenges of this job is wanting to do all these things
all the time, but you just restricted by.
That's why we're in such a predicament.
Got these amazing teachers leaving because they've just the
scales tipped. It's not their fault.
And they would love to probably have provided these things
absolutely. Anyway next one is is a bit
different now. So moving on is something I like
about the job is you. There is you can control your
day a little bit in terms of time like if I turned up at 7:00
or if I turned up 8 or even 830. Ohh, I see.
No one's actually gonna be annoyed at me.
Yeah. As long as I'm there basically
to teach the kids. As long as I'm there to do my
contracted hours. Which is sounds this sounds
stupid and I'm sure you can rip into it.
But and even at the end of the day you know I I know of our our
head teacher at least if I needed to go at 3:20 right like
minutes after the kids left I would obviously ask him because
that is a bit earlier than our contracted time but he'd be cool
with it. But yeah, of course, because he
knows that normally I'm there till 5:00 doing work, but you
could if I needed to stay till 5:45 one day because I just got
a load of stuff done, it's fine. So I I like that control.
So I want to go off early. I can just go off.
Early I know exactly what you mean, cause people like, what
are you on about? You just talked about how
regimented the school day is. Yeah, yeah, but you're right in
terms of, yeah, we have 26 hours of overtime every week.
But you know what? I can do it whenever I want.
Do I like the fact I can do my extra work on a Sunday morning?
I know what you mean because I I guess what you're saying is OK,
I've done this a million times. Everyone who works in a school
has it's got to like 4, right. Half four and and you're like,
OK, I've got, I've got two sets of books to mark.
I could even mark them now or in the morning.
What's better for me? Well, actually it's better for
me to market in the morning because that means I can nip to
the shop, get stuff for dinner and not be rushing.
That's exactly what. So you you have that autonomy of
OK, yes. You have to get the work done.
But you know the joke of teachers finishing at half
three? Sometimes you can like, yeah,
yeah, you do really need. If you have to make up the work
another time, you don't just get to not do the work, then it's
not like, I don't know, imagine some office jobs, maybe you
might be able to leave early once a year.
And yeah, we left early. Yeah, but you still you still
get to work. Still to do the work.
Whereas I know I have friends in in those kind of jobs where if
they were sort of burnt out by 4:00 PM, they wouldn't be able
to just say to the boss, I'm just going to head home today,
I'll come in an hour earlier tomorrow.
See you later. Yeah, that would be
questionable. You would be able to do that
where we can. And I love that.
That's what I love about the job.
There is total freedom of if I want to go early, I'm going
early and I have to come in tomorrow morning, get it done.
That's up to me. No one's gonna question.
Me. That is definitely balanced with
the school environment that you're in.
Yeah, and maybe how experienced you are and how you know ballsy
you are basically to be like no, no, no, that's not happening
because of XYZ. Yeah, yeah, fine.
Well, you know, someone at our school famously leaves every day
at, like, famously famously. It's in the annals of the
school, written down past Regeneration school to
generation the famous leaving early of Sam Hudson.
You know, she she famously in our school leaves earlier like
as in like 4-4. Damn right She knows what she's
doing. She's been teaching forever.
Yeah, she's she's great at what she does.
But she comes in at like 7. Exactly.
Not earlier. Yeah.
So she just flips her workload around.
So I'll do marketing. I'll try and stay as late as I
can, get everything because I'm not a morning person.
I'll get in as late as possible in the morning where she comes
in an hour before me get it done then.
And that's OK. No one, no one, no one cares.
Like it's like, yeah, as long as you do the job like you, as long
as you're doing that free overtime, we don't mind when you
do it. Yeah, it's good job.
You said famously because I was like, ohh what what kind of
mythology of the school you gonna bring up this time?
Ohh. Sam Hudson, The Myth, The.
Legend, I reckon we can do some independent writing about.
That, yeah. Sam listened to this sometimes.
Yeah. This will be a good test, I
think. I think she's fallen off the
bank does anymore. Ohh.
Come on guys, we'll see Sam. But when we're down to Liz Truss
and Rishi Sunak? Ohh, losing all our listeners.
Anyways, me. Yeah, this.
This one is is obvious. I think we are guilty of
overlooking it sometimes and there's a lot of reasons why.
And again, we're in a positive mood.
I'm not gonna go for the negatives.
And why It doesn't matter anyway.
My point here is the school holidays and the pension.
Like, let's be real for a second.
Yeah, it's a fantastic perk of the job.
Not gonna. I'm not gonna, I'm gonna say
overtime. And you know what?
The points are already. So, yeah, OK, maybe our whole
scholar isn't. But you know what?
If you've got kids and you are a teacher, hmm, you do not need to
sort any childcare for 13 weeks of the year when the kids are
off. Yeah, that is a headache for any
other adults who are working. Then you've got to take holiday
time, unpaid time, roping their parents to help them, you know,
make it work 13 weeks off in the year.
Again, we're linked to what you said.
You have control over that time at least.
Yeah, OK. You might have a bunch of
planning to do in half time like you did.
Could you have done that planning during term time?
Let's say you're going away. Yeah, yeah.
I'll just thinking you could have done some.
Work. I just touched you again.
That's number two for the episode.
This time with your hand. You OK?
Yeah, it was a bit. DAMP Do we need a break?
No, I'm good condition. The doctors and check again.
Go away the next half seven for. Sorry, got Mr Mole Man's in
first. Hello.
I'd like to check my clammy hands, please.
Would you like a phone appointment?
Not really. Anyway.
Yeah, let's go. Holidays.
And the picture, the the perks. OK, so school holiday.
I mean, it is what it is. Be all right.
You ask me a question, so you could, you absolutely can.
And I know teachers that do this, they they will just
sacrifice some of their evenings in term time to just free up
their half term completely with their kids or whatever.
So it's doable. Absolutely.
And The thing is the pension. The pension is nowhere near as
good as it used to be. Let's get that straight.
So yeah, I know we, yeah, we we we worked with someone who
retired probably 2 years into our teaching, who finished on
final salary and it's just like Ohh.
And she was like, right up there.
Yeah, ahead of you. She was complaining because she
couldn't retire for years early. It's like.
Yeah, we won't be retiring. Yeah, so I mean.
Pension is good. It was just this bloke who must
be like 76 at a computer and he goes me sending silly emails so
I can't retire till I'm 76. I'm just a bloke like it's meant
it's gonna be. Crazy.
I can't imagine being a teacher in my 60s.
I can't imagine being a teacher in my 30s by the end of by the
end of the day, it's genuinely because for the same reason we
just been saying all this is fantastic.
Basically it catches. Up with it is quite a young game
isn't it? I don't if I don't know your
scores are like, but all the scores I've ever been in, yeah,
generally it's like disproportionately weighted
towards people in their 20s and. 30s and that's moves, I think
over the years, yeah, when when we were in school, all teachers
were like 50. Yeah, they just told her it was
a highly regarded profession. But yeah, the perks, I think
regardless of whether they're better or worse than they were,
I still think they're very good. And when you compare a teacher
pension to a normal pension. We got a great pension, guys.
Yeah, very, very. Paint it.
Put pay as much as you can into
it like we should because we aren't part time.
Yeah, we got up it. We didn't.
Need to do that anyway. My last point, really.
Summer term for not summer holidays, but the summer term.
So in school, in school. It's just something about.
I can just imagine it, right? I shut my eyes, I can literally
picture it. There's something about some.
Smelly year sixes. Yeah, all the doors and windows,
but going out onto the field for whatever reason.
And it's really sunny, beautiful green grass.
Everyone's just in that in in one layer of clothing because
it's so warm and just being out there, there's something really.
Laying around us. Yeah, playing it round us, just
whatever it is, whatever reason you're out there for is just.
Is there a better moment as a teacher, when your class are
playing a game of rounders? You're stood there, you're
umpiring, It's 26°. You got your water bottle, you?
Can catch it one handed out. What you do, what I do.
And I walked up to bat one time and I was like, I've used to
play cricket, so I'll, I'll go and straight man, it's done.
I was like, go on in guys. Come on in.
Mr. Price, Mr. Price gonna play. I went on the team that we're
losing. They needed around her to win.
And I was like, actually, they've got one more batter.
And I walked in. Yeah, the rest of no, not fair.
I've got one more batter. And all the fielders like run
back. Yeah, yeah, they'll run.
Back You're gonna get really far.
Got there. We've got one back through to
me, the bowler. I absolutely whacked.
It connected perfectly. Hit the kid right.
No, ohh, exactly what it was like last time about and I was
like. Ohh, this is the risk of having
fun with the kids. Kid was absolutely fine.
Yeah, no problem at all. Spoke to his parents after
parents, absolutely fine. But the point just because.
You did just pelt I came with. Basically, literally, literally
and just from having fun. It's like, yeah, this is really
good. You have to be careful.
I've I've heard stories before of teachers joining in football
at lunchtime and the child has broken their.
Ankle Yeah, I know exactly who you talking about.
I know because that same person gave me advice.
Yeah, 8-9 years ago when I when he saw me, you know, I was
talking last episode about how I got a break times and.
Do you think he's gonna love that he's come over to talk to
me? Yeah, he's gonna tell me how
good I am. Ohh.
Yeah, great. I am.
And he was just like, he basically just said I don't
forget he was like be extremely careful and he was like don't
play 100% is that if you're running 100% your speed as a
fully grown adult into an 8 year old, you're going to hurt them
like wait, accident or not you're going to lose your.
Job makes people that Boris Johnson mean my he's playing
soccer aid and he just literally rugby as you play football.
And that's that's him in presidency.
That's the presidency, President, Presidency.
He's the president. Of the UK, oh.
God, but yeah, summer term, man. Oh, it's just something.
Stupid your school do this guys. If you're listening where in
summer time, just randomly just an afternoon someone comes round
with lollipop like ice pops ice pops ice.
Cream, any treat. Like that?
Thank you. Yeah, we're going to sit in the
shade and read our books. That's what I was gonna say
about summer time, even in I'll find an excuse in a maths lesson
to go outside. With the intensity of the
sunray. It's sad.
It's nice. So measure the distance from
here to the sun, please, yeah? Yeah, any excuse to go outside.
It is just lovely to be able to do that, yeah.
It's just what a great perk of. The job stuck in a stuffy
office. The air.
Cons broken? Yeah, get out there, my son.
So we've got one final point that's just summarises, haven't.
Really touched you again. Ohh my.
Touching my knees. I'm putting my knees really
close. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Start Ohh, Dylan, stop touching my.
Knees. It's making me feel comfortable.
Anyway, anyway, so we kind of encapsulated this point, and
especially in the first five points, right?
I think we both kind of looked over and said ohh, there's a
theme to mine. Ohh, there's a thing to mine.
It was this. It was this, this job.
Teaching is incredibly fulfilling.
It's extremely rewarding. And that, you know, we could
have said at the beginning episode, yeah, that's the best
thing about this job. But what I guess what we did
really is we delved into why. I talked about exactly.
What I love exactly. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, that is what we love.
But yeah, they are. The most of those points were
because, yeah, it's really fulfilling.
It makes you feel great. The point you made was really,
really interesting. That is completely accidental.
Like the first few were just about the kids and and you speak
to any teacher, it's the same. This isn't groundbreaking stuff.
It might be nice to hear because you're thinking ohh, that is
what I like, but it's not. It's not groundbreaking after
that. You know, there's not a lot
keeping us in this profession. Mm-hmm.
OK Yeah. We talked about the perks and
stuff that come along with it. There are a lot of anti like
perks, let's say, that go against those and why it's maybe
not so good. The only thing that keeps this
profession afloat is the feeling and the desire for teachers to
be fulfilled. And that's where they're saying
it's a vocation comes from. I think it's a terrible thing to
say because it diminishes the fact that it's a profession and
a job. But at the end of the day, for
some people it is a vocation. It doesn't mean that we have to
treat it like 1. So please don't get misconstrue
what I'm saying here, but it you know that is what keeps us in
the job though the love for the help.
Of the children, if you also happen to like doing 26 hours of
unpaid. Overtime a week.
Then it's a win win. There's no downsides of the job
do. You not remotely value your time
because that was us when we were NT, by the way.
Jokes aside, that was us. My, I couldn't have enjoyed my
life more for those first couple of years because I didn't care.
I I loved spending my time doing it.
But it actually wasn't vocation. Yeah, it was properly, you know,
my life was teaching first couple of years and then life.
You know, life builds up, You get a bit older and other things
come into life that are important and life changes.
But you don't have a girlfriend You didn't have your own house
you didn't have. Didn't have, you did.
Yeah, we had each other. That's why we did it.
No, I meant that in a way where you didn't have any kind of
commitments. Back when we used to touch hands
a lot more often. Don't.
David didn't. We Never did.
Never. Let me don't cry about it.
Never let me. Never let me as if I want to.
With their hands. I just want to hold hands with
Dylan, alright? Geez, right.
This is this is descending. Yeah, that's that's why we love
teaching, guys. Why do you love teaching?
Let us know. We're gonna play a Jingle and
you've got a bit of a game. Is is it a?
Game. It's my kind of game.
It's a game. Because last week it was a game.
It wasn't. It was a question.
This is a game. Come back over the jungle.
It's a game. OK, on the subject of earlier,
me forgetting the medical box, I forgot that that literally the
second before we started recording, I put out a little
Instagram thing asking people what their favourite part of the
job is. They've only had one hour.
We've had a few replies. I'm just going to read the first
one because I know we're running.
So this is from Robert. OK, this really made me laugh
because it links to what we're saying.
His favourite thing about the job is the things the kids come
up with. So just just what the children
come out with in general. And he's given the exact
example, though, of his children have given him a nickname.
Yeah. Yeah.
Mr Torture. Ohh wow.
What a name. We're going to dive into that.
But the fact that kids are calling them that, I don't know.
To me, again, it just, it just stinks.
It stinks is the wrong word. Like it just reeks of week is
also the wrong word. It gives off this idea.
It's positive. I promise, Robert.
It gives off this idea that the kids are so comfortable with it.
Yeah, like having such a good time and like they build those
really strong bonds. And yeah, that is something that
I had to make from. That story alone, I bet.
I bet he's a fun. Teacher Yeah, exactly.
The fact that you let his kids call him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's fine.
It's just got business. And I think linked on to that is
what the kids come out with, the things the kids literally come
up with, Yeah, yeah, just in general is one of my favourite.
Well, that's hilarious. And and I know you don't know
this because that that links so well to this game.
And you got a national game. Yeah, OK, go on.
It's a game. It's a game.
It involves questions, but. It's you know what?
I'm gonna. I don't know anything about
this. Usually Hayden makes me in
charge of the podcast. No.
So I was I thought there were it would be funny to do some just
at some point just to do some would you rather questions to
you some really really silly ones.
Right, yeah, which I've got written down.
But then I went to the castle. This would be funny to do the
kids and and I sat there with some kids like a break time and
and part of lunchtime as well and we were just laughing our
heads off thinking of silly would you rather questions that
we could ask you. And obviously like kids.
Kids are just make up nonsense. So some of these are just
complete nonsense. Most of them are made by the
kids. First was by me, a couple of
others by me as well. So the first one I thought of
this online, which is what inspired me, right, this
question. I was like, this is so Dylan
gone. Would you rather never lose
anything ever again? Or find everything you've ever
lost all in one place? Could you lose everything?
Right, I know this. Actually, I'd rather never.
Lose anything ever again. Because I've either made my
peace with what I've lost or I've also got a really nice
support system around me of people who understand how bad I
am losing stuff and they often help me to find it so nice when
whenever I try and find anything.
Right, I will, I will always ask everyone in that house or who's
with me. Have you seen ex?
OK Have you seen this or not? And and they'll go.
Have you looked for it yet? I'm like, no, obviously.
Because if you know where it is, I'll go straight to that place
and pick it up. Yeah, I did.
So I'm not gonna waste. No, I've not asked you.
Well, it's here, See. Good job by us.
Save me some time back now. Got it mate.
Yeah, yeah, I'm the same. So moving on now swiftly to the
nonsense for a couple of these from Kids Brilliant.
Would you rather have ham hands? Or armpits.
That dispense lotion. I'll repeat that for you would
rather have ham hands. Or armpits that dispense lotion.
Definitely armpits that this spreads lotion.
Constantly, constantly dispensing motion.
Looks like mine are right. Yeah, yeah, no, definitely.
Definitely. Because like, people have sweat
patches and stuff under their arm.
It's more normal than someone turning up and saying nice to
meet you. Some floppy hair, you know.
Yeah, but it's constantly. Dispensing, though, it's not,
you can. Just do it on demand.
You're ohh heard. Yeah.
Alright, alright, fair enough. OK, another one.
Another silly. One, Yeah.
So I'm gonna build up a character here so.
I'm never gonna lose anything again, and I've got lotion
pouring in my office. OK, let's find out where you
live, would you? Rather get sucked into a black
hole or live inside an Ant. Please come up.
I don't know the one where I don't get crushed to death like
by the black. I guess I'm I am I my current
size inside of an Ant? No, you would strengthen the
size. That would fit inside an Ant and
if I get eaten up by the black hole.
No one knows what happened. But you're alive.
I can't take the risk. That black.
Hole, yeah, looking to. Stella Yeah, maybe I'll go back
in time see my parcels like no, go into the Ant, go into the
and. Good.
It's quite good actually. Would you rather be able to turn
invisible? But it's only your body and
never the clothes, so he's just constantly have to be naked if
you want to be visible. Or just walk around close or be
able to fly. But it only works when you're in
the sitting position, so they both got like.
Annoying drawback. Would much rather fly because
you sit down while. Flying.
Yeah, you can only do in the city position.
Fine. You can't fly like Superman.
Ohh no. What a shame.
The only. Yeah.
The only reason I'd want to fly is to look like Superman, not to
get somewhere quick. I don't.
Invisible sounds kind of cool though.
Fly, Fly all. Taking the fly, Yeah, it's like
match, especially living inside of me.
Flying in Ohh look at it sitting.
Down. Maybe it's not flying.
Ants are. Just people have answered this
and it's. Come true just sitting out look
like. Are they are?
They, standing with their body, bend do.
They ever stand. What?
What is it in its natural? Position I don't know.
Can we find out where to ask the audience?
What was sitting outside like? It's like they've seen those
memes. It's like.
How would a dinosaur scarf would?
They were up here, Would they wear down those kind of things?
By the way, I saw one that was a tie.
Or scarf a dinosaur The brontosaurus.
Yeah, with the with the long neck.
It would definitely wear the tie down the bottom of the neck.
No ohh at the top right. There.
Do you wear a? Do you?
Wear a tie. Now at the top of your neck.
Yeah, everyone surprised me. Did I do.
I won't. Just just here under my chin.
I mean, yeah, you would. Otherwise it just flop around.
Wouldn't put your head. Ohh yeah, that's the reason,
yeah. That's the reason.
Right now, one ready Would you be?
Would you rather be able to eat anything you want and have it be
perfect nutritional value? Thinking of your diet right.
Or you can you can sleep. You only have to sleep for.
One hour and you'll be perfectly rested.
So eat what you want and it's always perfect.
Nutrition doesn't what you eat or sleep.
One hour a day. It's really perfect.
Sleep. The final one?
Yeah, kids. No, that's a good one.
Yeah, I would say have some self-control with your food and
then take the sleep option is that you're doing that right
now. Yeah, because you.
Can't you can't have self-control?
Of sleep. You just will need 8 hours of
sleep. Yeah.
Whereas with this, if I take the sleep option, one hour of rested
sleep and then I couldn't control of my diet, I can have
the best bipods. Fair enough.
That's a good answer. I like that this one is it.
Would you rather retain all of our listeners to the end of the
podcast or keep doing? This one is from the Internet
and I you probably seen it before, but I don't know what
your answer Would you rather fight one duck the size of a
horse or a hundred horses the size of ducks?
Absolutely, absolutely. 100 horses the size of bucks, you.
Think Can you imagine a duck the size of a horse?
Being like I'm going to have. You.
I'm going to have you. Yeah, I'll be like, alright, I'm
not beating up a duck the size of a horse.
I reckon both would absolutely rinse us.
Maybe. I reckon 100 little horses.
But it depends on like. If we can.
But it depends. Like, are they malicious or are
they just existing? Oh yeah, this is the fight.
This is a fight you're pinning. They wanna kill you.
Yeah, you're done. You're done.
The thing is, though, you'd last longer with a hundred horses
that size of ducks. Yeah.
If if a dark the size of a horse wanted to kill you, they just
came over, came over. I've got another.
Mental one from the kids, right? OK.
Well, we'll end on this one because it's just complete
nonsense. Doesn't make sense.
Would you rather Would you rather have?
Denim skin or live? In a bag of milk, there we go.
Make any sense? Fun, obviously.
Denim skin? Yeah, definitely.
Yeah. You can tell kids made it cause
like they're they're they're stupid.
But there's one clear answer. What Living milk.
Can you imagine living in milk? You stink as well you know.
Denim skins are, I take. That anyway, you look like
Justin Timberlake from the early 2000s all the time.
You're welcome, even as. They would have failed update
denim getting rather denim skirt.
Yeah, that one. That one.
Yeah. Thanks again.
Yeah, there was. I tell you what there was one
like, really. Existential deep one.
Do you want to finish on that one?
Ohh, it seems that we are going because I was like.
We're not sure this one is, this was.
Hard. OK, well, we'll finish this off
with this one. You're presented.
Ohh. With an option denim skin, you
can be immortal. Hmm.
And I'm talking true more. I am so far you.
Will go to the end of the universe.
Mm-hmm. For the heat death of the
universe. Well, and then you'll die.
No, you're just it's. Just you just exist forever.
You're. Properly immortal.
Be great for a few million years, I'm sure.
Yeah or you die now. Ohh mortal Jesus Christ.
That's. Harder, isn't it?
No. Do you not think?
No. I really thought about that.
Death or not. Hmm.
Yeah, but you just be alive forever.
Like even for billions of years of nothing.
Sounds great. Sounds.
Better than not doing it, I I went for.
I picked a mortal in my. Head because I was like, I
reckon, I reckon within a few billion years we can create
something where I can go and live in like virtual reality or
something. You.
Don't die. I'll just shoot off into space.
But I'm not gonna die. Yeah, I'm not gonna die.
Can't fly though. No, it's gonna rocket.
Yeah, anyway, yeah, definitely, definitely.
I reckon that question. Though is going to be something
pops in my head like frames. Yeah, maybe not, maybe not.
Would you waking up for the 4th time?
Ohh, do you? Know what?
We're gonna finish on a quick fact.
I've been awake since. 1:00 AM this morning.
Horrible. Haven't slept since 1:00 AM.
Horrible. Heartburn.
Couldn't say. Disgusting.
Rory was stepped through, almost like he was teasing me.
You don't have to be awake, I'm sleeping nicely.
I thought you got rid of all this.
And it's coming back on. It's hurting now, so I'm gonna.
Finish up. Did you get you sleep at all?
From from 12:50, yeah. That's rubbish anyway, why don't
we do? The podcast at 1:00 AM You're
up. You weren't sure?
Do late night. On Monday, Yeah, I think what?
We should do is finish though, cause I'm feeling.
Rough. Alright guys, I hope you enjoyed
that. Reasons we love teaching.
Heartburn if you want me to sort of touch.
Delivery More in the future let me know.
New. New.
Would you rather finish this podcast now or?