1 00:00:00,070 --> 00:00:02,000 Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Teaching 2 00:00:02,009 --> 00:00:04,540 Repeat. My name is Dylan and my name is 3 00:00:04,590 --> 00:00:06,480 Hayden. It's Hayden and Hayden here 4 00:00:06,490 --> 00:00:07,740 again. And don't don't worry, this 5 00:00:07,750 --> 00:00:09,200 isn't the episode from last week. 6 00:00:09,210 --> 00:00:11,680 I know Aiden late in the same top again, but it's not the 7 00:00:11,690 --> 00:00:12,720 episode from last. Week. 8 00:00:12,730 --> 00:00:15,320 I don't have many, many teachers, right, Dylan? 9 00:00:15,590 --> 00:00:18,700 No, you don't. Where's the key? 10 00:00:18,710 --> 00:00:20,020 Yeah. Where's the key? 11 00:00:20,030 --> 00:00:21,760 Sorry, I thought I saw an inmate on the screen, but. 12 00:00:22,470 --> 00:00:24,890 Fresh out of gaol. I love, you know, I'm not only 13 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:26,880 having an inmate, I'm an inmate from France. 14 00:00:29,060 --> 00:00:32,000 As always, listeners not watching completely pointless 15 00:00:32,009 --> 00:00:34,850 content for you? Welcome back to this podcast. 16 00:00:36,550 --> 00:00:37,790 Ohh, is that it? That's it. 17 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:39,360 I thought I was gonna let you take the reins. 18 00:00:39,370 --> 00:00:41,850 This is ladies and gentlemen, this is what this podcast would 19 00:00:41,860 --> 00:00:44,220 be if I didn't take the lead. But ohh, Dylan's always 20 00:00:44,230 --> 00:00:46,620 interrupting and there's even This is why. 21 00:00:46,930 --> 00:00:48,570 OK, so here's here's going to happen. 22 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,310 Aiden over? To you, Aiden. 23 00:00:50,690 --> 00:00:54,580 Alright Ellen, over to me. So Dylan, how are you? 24 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,670 Yeah, bit of a cop out. I'm good, pal. 25 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,390 I'm good. We are one week in to our New 26 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:04,330 Year's resolution targets. We are. 27 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,430 So anyone who listened last week, it was all about the new 28 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,030 year and we set ourselves a competition because resolutions, 29 00:01:10,090 --> 00:01:13,760 Honestly, I used to hate them. Whenever I did them, I would 30 00:01:13,770 --> 00:01:16,190 always be like that person. Why would I wait until January 31 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,750 the 1st to make a change or just make a change straight away if 32 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:20,730 it's necessary? Well, the reason is because I 33 00:01:20,740 --> 00:01:23,650 don't make the change. It's something to make me. 34 00:01:23,660 --> 00:01:24,800 Do it? Exactly. 35 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,090 So we made a competition. Are you still on your daily 36 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:30,380 streak? Still on my daily streak of 37 00:01:30,390 --> 00:01:31,200 fasting. Good. 38 00:01:31,210 --> 00:01:33,830 So can you, how's that going? It's going really well, 39 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:35,930 genuinely. If anything, I'm adding in like 40 00:01:35,940 --> 00:01:36,390 an extra. Hour. 41 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:38,320 What? The details now then tell us 42 00:01:38,330 --> 00:01:40,920 actually, what are you doing? You're eating from when until. 43 00:01:40,930 --> 00:01:43,520 When? So basically the loose rules are 44 00:01:43,530 --> 00:01:44,940 I eat between lunch and dinner, That's it. 45 00:01:44,950 --> 00:01:47,580 So I have lunch and have dinner and in between that time is 46 00:01:47,590 --> 00:01:50,420 fine. The technical timing I'm giving 47 00:01:50,430 --> 00:01:53,290 myself are 12 to 8. So it's an 8 hour window you're 48 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:54,870 supposed to do for this particular. 49 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,970 Does that always work? Though and like a newborn around 50 00:01:56,980 --> 00:01:59,390 do you ever find you're like I need to eat now that she's 51 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,120 fussing about to do this and. That I found it worked even 52 00:02:02,130 --> 00:02:04,720 better. Because dinner, I think we're 53 00:02:04,730 --> 00:02:06,140 we're quite good at just having on time. 54 00:02:06,230 --> 00:02:07,540 Yeah. Whereas lunch. 55 00:02:07,550 --> 00:02:09,400 I suppose it's easy when you do nothing for the baby. 56 00:02:10,050 --> 00:02:11,780 Ohh yeah. Was he saying? 57 00:02:12,220 --> 00:02:15,290 Yeah, no, I did actually wonder because I thought have it cause 58 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:17,730 you used to have a really strict times on your fasting, so I 59 00:02:17,740 --> 00:02:18,970 thought that's not gonna happen is. 60 00:02:18,980 --> 00:02:20,680 It. Yeah, well, basically, right. 61 00:02:20,690 --> 00:02:23,550 The only thing that often becomes late because of the baby 62 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,010 is lunch. OK, so it just delays my start 63 00:02:26,020 --> 00:02:27,770 time, which actually makes the fasting even longer. 64 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:31,560 So quite often eating lunch at 1:00, then still have dinner at 65 00:02:31,570 --> 00:02:33,170 like 6, half 6-7. Change that. 66 00:02:33,180 --> 00:02:35,520 And then realistically. I've just had a long feeling 67 00:02:35,530 --> 00:02:37,230 Cramps, you, feeling pain, even hunger. 68 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:38,530 Fine, I thought. Absolutely fine. 69 00:02:38,540 --> 00:02:41,410 I feel like what you should feel like because I'm eating our 70 00:02:41,420 --> 00:02:42,550 food. Yeah, a day. 71 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,430 Good point. I can't remember it was someone 72 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,030 was telling me before that, you know, in the same way like we've 73 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:49,990 just there's just made-up things in culture, right? 74 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,310 And we all just accept that's it. 75 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,090 Like the order of the alphabet, just things. 76 00:02:54,100 --> 00:02:56,170 Like no one questions. It's just the thing. 77 00:02:56,180 --> 00:02:59,210 Yeah, but objectively, would it really matter if C&E swap? 78 00:02:59,220 --> 00:03:01,150 Yes, what I mean, right? And someone said to me one day 79 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,580 they were like, I think someone to do fitness. 80 00:03:03,590 --> 00:03:05,220 Like maybe some of the worst Pi can't remember. 81 00:03:05,230 --> 00:03:08,000 But they were like, you don't. There's no actual reason that we 82 00:03:08,010 --> 00:03:09,200 have breakfast, lunch and dinner. 83 00:03:09,250 --> 00:03:11,280 Yeah, like that. We did just make up. 84 00:03:11,290 --> 00:03:12,770 Then we have to have those free meals at those. 85 00:03:12,780 --> 00:03:14,780 Particular is not just because it's like when we wake up we 86 00:03:14,790 --> 00:03:16,300 wanna eat. I don't know, maybe. 87 00:03:16,350 --> 00:03:19,360 But they they were talking about how, you know, for a long time 88 00:03:19,370 --> 00:03:20,760 in history, those things didn't exist. 89 00:03:20,770 --> 00:03:23,530 You just ate when you're hungry. You just had food when you and 90 00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:25,060 it could. You could go days without food. 91 00:03:25,070 --> 00:03:27,590 And sometimes they didn't even have food back in the day when 92 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,980 they were hunter gatherers. Exactly. 93 00:03:28,990 --> 00:03:30,930 So if you had to go another day because you didn't have any 94 00:03:30,940 --> 00:03:32,260 food, then you have to go another day. 95 00:03:33,070 --> 00:03:34,700 We've just got really used to. Ohh, I have to. 96 00:03:34,710 --> 00:03:36,220 I have to eat. My dinner, there's a whole adage 97 00:03:36,230 --> 00:03:38,020 Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. 98 00:03:38,030 --> 00:03:40,000 I know so many people who don't eat breakfast. 99 00:03:40,050 --> 00:03:41,630 I mean, I'm sure there's something in that. 100 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,620 I'm sure there's something to do with your metabolism. 101 00:03:43,630 --> 00:03:46,840 I don't know. But I'm not fussed by breakfast 102 00:03:46,850 --> 00:03:48,970 and and kind of flipped to you where you're not having 103 00:03:48,980 --> 00:03:51,540 breakfast. I am having breakfast now and 104 00:03:51,550 --> 00:03:54,700 it's like I that's the one me and I feel I have to force down 105 00:03:54,710 --> 00:03:56,760 me. Yeah, I don't like eating in the 106 00:03:56,770 --> 00:03:59,040 morning, not really. But by 10:00 I'm hungry and I'm 107 00:03:59,050 --> 00:04:00,950 like, well, that's what I'm. So do you feel better? 108 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,260 I suppose is the whole point of this is like do you actually 109 00:04:03,270 --> 00:04:06,060 feel, I know obviously throughout this you know process 110 00:04:06,070 --> 00:04:08,290 when we come on and talk about it, we're gonna talk about like 111 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:11,180 the weight loss and stuff because at the end of the day, 112 00:04:11,370 --> 00:04:13,530 whatever we're doing, it's gonna cause a calorie deficit and 113 00:04:13,540 --> 00:04:16,300 we're hoping to lose weight. But genuinely, the number one 114 00:04:16,310 --> 00:04:18,769 goal is do you? Feel better in yourself? 115 00:04:18,779 --> 00:04:20,180 Not yet. Really, no, not yet. 116 00:04:20,190 --> 00:04:21,880 Being honest with you, I feel I feel the same. 117 00:04:21,890 --> 00:04:24,780 But I have done this diet before and I do remember it taking a 118 00:04:24,790 --> 00:04:27,400 few weeks to kick in and feeling pretty good after that. 119 00:04:27,410 --> 00:04:29,660 But at the moment I just feel exactly the same. 120 00:04:29,850 --> 00:04:31,700 I think I just need to do it for a bit longer really. 121 00:04:31,830 --> 00:04:34,160 I mean, you obviously feel different then. 122 00:04:34,690 --> 00:04:36,980 No, I I don't feel massively different. 123 00:04:37,050 --> 00:04:38,610 This is a really weird thing because I've done this. 124 00:04:38,620 --> 00:04:42,020 So I'm doing the daily challenge review and my challenge is to 125 00:04:42,030 --> 00:04:45,000 not eat sugar. And to clarify, I mean like, you 126 00:04:45,010 --> 00:04:48,480 know, the most obviously added sugar, high, hyper, high 127 00:04:48,490 --> 00:04:51,260 process, super palatable foods like crisps and yeah, you know, 128 00:04:51,270 --> 00:04:54,020 Pringles and chocolate and snacks and things like that. 129 00:04:54,090 --> 00:04:58,040 All I'm doing is simply eating breakfast, dinner and lunch and 130 00:04:58,050 --> 00:05:01,670 not snacking that order. Yeah, Ohh. 131 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:04,660 No, ignore my comment about the culture. 132 00:05:04,670 --> 00:05:05,380 We Dylan. Doesn't. 133 00:05:05,630 --> 00:05:07,480 Yeah. What do you mean, culture? 134 00:05:07,530 --> 00:05:10,890 That breakfast, lunch and dinner in order and, you know, 135 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:12,560 everything's homemade. Yeah. 136 00:05:12,570 --> 00:05:15,330 So no takeaways because? It's in the process. 137 00:05:15,340 --> 00:05:17,800 Exactly, yeah. And when I say takeaways again, 138 00:05:17,810 --> 00:05:21,240 I mean like McDonald's KFC for example. 139 00:05:21,310 --> 00:05:24,720 We had a Nando's that time. I know Nando's sauce will have 140 00:05:24,730 --> 00:05:26,620 some sugar in it. I understand that. 141 00:05:26,630 --> 00:05:30,410 But the point is that I'm not having those like ultra bad 142 00:05:30,420 --> 00:05:31,500 things. Because normally would have a 143 00:05:31,510 --> 00:05:34,160 Nandos and then you'd smash like an entire bar of Dairy Milk 144 00:05:34,230 --> 00:05:36,650 exactly, exactly and have like a milkshake and terminates. 145 00:05:36,660 --> 00:05:38,510 Yeah, exactly. That exactly what I'm doing. 146 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,970 I'll have three refillable full fat Cokes, right. 147 00:05:40,980 --> 00:05:43,480 So I've not had any sugary soft drinks. 148 00:05:43,490 --> 00:05:47,210 I've just had water and I've had I think again because I want it 149 00:05:47,220 --> 00:05:50,450 to be sustainable. When we had Nandos, I did have 150 00:05:50,460 --> 00:05:53,050 some no added sugar lemonade, right. 151 00:05:53,060 --> 00:05:57,270 So again, I'm not having all the time. 95% of my drinks have 152 00:05:57,280 --> 00:05:58,930 been. Water 0 Sugar Lemonade not no 153 00:05:58,940 --> 00:05:59,690 added sugar. That's. 154 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:01,710 Very Ohh yeah, 0 sugar. Yeah, there's no sugar. 155 00:06:01,780 --> 00:06:03,960 But. But the point being that 95% of 156 00:06:03,970 --> 00:06:06,440 my drinks now look at that. You know how much refuge change 157 00:06:06,450 --> 00:06:08,530 that is for me? Yeah, I've not consumed any 158 00:06:08,540 --> 00:06:10,460 chocolate. I'm not consumed any crisps. 159 00:06:10,470 --> 00:06:13,330 Now the thing I wanted to talk about quickly was I don't have 160 00:06:13,340 --> 00:06:16,070 that horrible pang that I've had every other time I've done this, 161 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,530 where after three or four days I've had this horrendous 162 00:06:18,540 --> 00:06:22,240 headache like like intense in the front of my head, like, get 163 00:06:22,250 --> 00:06:24,510 some sugar down you. Yeah, but the last time you did 164 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,480 it, you went. I did think it was a bit 165 00:06:26,490 --> 00:06:29,550 extreme. You went actual, like, 166 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,630 completely no sugar. Yeah, that's a good point. 167 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,180 Dylan didn't eat anything with sugar, and I'm talking like 168 00:06:34,190 --> 00:06:37,030 bread, like literally anything with sugar in it. 169 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,880 Didn't eat just completely, completely cold Turkey from 170 00:06:39,890 --> 00:06:41,730 sugar, which was a bit silly, really. 171 00:06:41,780 --> 00:06:45,210 Well, suspect it was, but I felt unbelievably good. 172 00:06:45,220 --> 00:06:46,680 But then you got the headaches and all. 173 00:06:46,690 --> 00:06:48,340 That yeah, I did. But I got through the headaches. 174 00:06:48,350 --> 00:06:49,820 That's what I mean. I was waiting for headaches to 175 00:06:49,830 --> 00:06:52,150 finish and then you get through them and then you feel so much 176 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,430 better, Sure. So at this point I'm not 177 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,470 worried, but I'm kind of like, well, I've not had them 178 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,760 horrendous headaches. But honestly, like for dinner 179 00:06:58,770 --> 00:06:59,870 and lunch and stuff. Lunch. 180 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,620 I've had chicken breast salad, so that's nothing. 181 00:07:02,980 --> 00:07:07,710 Mornings I've had egg on toast and for dinners I've just 182 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,690 constantly had something home cooked from home. 183 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:11,850 I've been cooking a lot. I've been doing spaghetti 184 00:07:11,860 --> 00:07:13,230 bolognese. I've been cooking a Curry. 185 00:07:13,290 --> 00:07:17,190 Yeah, so all all that stuff is homemade and it is good, but 186 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,220 I've not had those pangs. I'm like, I'm either getting 187 00:07:19,230 --> 00:07:22,560 away with it and this is brilliant or something's not 188 00:07:22,570 --> 00:07:23,610 happened yet. It's on the horizon. 189 00:07:23,620 --> 00:07:26,190 But yeah, in general it's good, it's really good. 190 00:07:26,340 --> 00:07:29,270 But moving on from that nice little catch up with you guys 191 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,130 there, we're going strong. So we seven days now. 192 00:07:31,190 --> 00:07:33,390 Yep, I'm going for as long as possible. 193 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,050 I want it to be like a. Lifestyle for you? 194 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:36,490 Yeah. I'll bet you it's not that 195 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:39,250 ultimate competition and mines harder. 196 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:42,010 So yeah you have got more extreme ones fair. 197 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,130 I need to start adding in a bit of your diet to mine. 198 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,120 Yesterday when I sat there in my yeah, my Meringue tart. 199 00:07:47,130 --> 00:07:47,970 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. 200 00:07:47,980 --> 00:07:50,430 Yeah, in my in my window. Your window. 201 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,910 I've had 74 Dairy Milk bars, but it's in my window. 202 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,740 Anyway, how's your week at school? 203 00:07:58,750 --> 00:08:00,830 I've been back. Yeah, it's it's been all right. 204 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:02,030 Yeah. I mean by all right. 205 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:03,690 I mean, yeah, you know, it's working. 206 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:05,220 It works work. We did a little part. 207 00:08:05,230 --> 00:08:06,890 We're gonna have a lot more coming in later on. 208 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,570 But there was a there was a thank you so much on our 209 00:08:09,580 --> 00:08:10,990 Instagram. By the way you follow us at tech 210 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,610 support podcast. Let me say that again at Teach 211 00:08:13,620 --> 00:08:15,910 Sleep repeat podcast. Do find us on there because 212 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,150 we're often putting on polls. We use that in our podcasts. 213 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,210 And the first question asked was, how are you feeling about 214 00:08:21,220 --> 00:08:25,550 going back to work in 2024? Really split down the middle. 215 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,010 Now I know we're massively right towards teachers, but I did have 216 00:08:28,020 --> 00:08:29,810 some friends on there, some other people to follow us who I 217 00:08:29,820 --> 00:08:32,600 know aren't teachers who also went back to work in 2024, so 218 00:08:32,610 --> 00:08:35,100 they're involved in that too. But it was really interesting to 219 00:08:35,110 --> 00:08:40,179 split 30% of people mostly positive, 30% of people mostly 220 00:08:40,190 --> 00:08:43,120 negative. OK, 40% of people neutral. 221 00:08:43,190 --> 00:08:45,160 Ohh right. Dead split down the middle. 222 00:08:45,170 --> 00:08:49,990 So really, really even split. And I just thought it. 223 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:52,520 I looked at that and my first thought was, that's all right, 224 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:55,640 yeah. But if you really think about 225 00:08:55,650 --> 00:08:59,390 it, going back to work is what you spend your life doing. 226 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,230 It's what you spend over half of your awake time doing. 227 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,450 Hmm. The fact that it's 5050 on how 228 00:09:04,460 --> 00:09:07,480 you feel about it is unbelievably bad, isn't it? 229 00:09:07,490 --> 00:09:10,460 Like, it's objectively terrible that half of people, well, let's 230 00:09:10,470 --> 00:09:14,670 think 70% of people were neutral or negative about going back to 231 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:17,090 do this thing they do for most of their lifetime. 232 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,530 Yay, capitalism. Baby capitalism, baby. 233 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:22,690 And I don't know, it just made, it just made me think. 234 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,230 When you think deeper about it, it's mad our society where we're 235 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,500 like, oh, that's all right, that's my other, OK, you know, 236 00:09:28,510 --> 00:09:31,420 half and half, 90%, that's up. Yeah, that's up. 237 00:09:31,430 --> 00:09:33,680 I know. So it's just I I thought that 238 00:09:33,690 --> 00:09:36,640 was crazy. But personally, in the moment, 239 00:09:36,650 --> 00:09:40,380 the day before I went back, Hmm. And when I was in school, I felt 240 00:09:40,390 --> 00:09:42,170 great. Yeah, I was positive because I 241 00:09:42,180 --> 00:09:43,140 get to see my kids. Yeah. 242 00:09:43,150 --> 00:09:45,640 I love seeing my kids. I love seeing my work colleagues 243 00:09:45,870 --> 00:09:47,740 I like. I just remember something. 244 00:09:47,750 --> 00:09:49,450 Go on. What you laughing at me? 245 00:09:49,460 --> 00:09:51,940 You're my work colleague. I love seeing my work 246 00:09:51,950 --> 00:09:53,740 colleagues, love seeing the kids in my class. 247 00:09:54,550 --> 00:09:56,140 That was brilliant. That was brilliant. 248 00:09:56,150 --> 00:10:00,080 But very slowly, the reality does hit you at 5:45 when I was 249 00:10:00,090 --> 00:10:02,280 still at work on Wednesday, because I finished. 250 00:10:02,290 --> 00:10:04,240 When I passed everything over, I'm like, OK that. 251 00:10:04,250 --> 00:10:06,480 Yeah, there. Is lots to do. 252 00:10:06,710 --> 00:10:11,400 Just lost completely. My initial feeling from day one 253 00:10:11,410 --> 00:10:13,240 was ohh man this is. So we've got. 254 00:10:13,250 --> 00:10:15,990 Children now, Yeah, they're just makes it that bit more 255 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,720 exhausting. I just remembered you talking 256 00:10:18,730 --> 00:10:20,060 about you've seen your kids and stuff. 257 00:10:20,070 --> 00:10:24,860 I went into the staff room hands and Dylan was in there and he 258 00:10:24,870 --> 00:10:28,070 had his phone out. This is so cute really. 259 00:10:28,180 --> 00:10:30,770 He was just standing there looking at pictures of Rory 260 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:32,530 cause he'd missed him because it was lunchtime. 261 00:10:32,540 --> 00:10:34,130 He hadn't seen him for like 3 or 4 hours. 262 00:10:34,140 --> 00:10:36,340 He was standing there looking at looking at his own pictures of 263 00:10:36,350 --> 00:10:37,920 his child. Yeah, he's taking all his. 264 00:10:37,930 --> 00:10:40,790 I miss him. Just was so cute. 265 00:10:40,850 --> 00:10:43,350 Rory could be in my arms, just chilling, yeah. 266 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:44,690 And I'll look at pictures of him. 267 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,380 OK, that's weird, yeah. Just, I just want to look at him 268 00:10:47,390 --> 00:10:49,750 all the time. And any time anyone asked me and 269 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,090 they're just being polite. Classic small talk like 270 00:10:52,100 --> 00:10:54,060 Christmas. OK, don't ask me that, don't ask 271 00:10:54,070 --> 00:10:54,850 me that. Because of me. 272 00:10:54,860 --> 00:10:57,460 Within 10 seconds, I like his picture of Rory smiling over my 273 00:10:57,470 --> 00:10:58,820 shoulder. The Christmas tree. 274 00:10:59,950 --> 00:11:01,410 Everyone. Everyone at work. 275 00:11:01,420 --> 00:11:02,640 I've just obsessed. I just. 276 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:04,760 I miss. I miss him when I'm with him. 277 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:06,880 Like what do you think I feel like at work when you're with 278 00:11:06,890 --> 00:11:07,530 him. Yeah. 279 00:11:07,540 --> 00:11:09,050 I miss him when? When Especially when he's 280 00:11:09,060 --> 00:11:10,410 asleep. I know people mean now. 281 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,480 Yeah, I'd like. I know it's exhausting and it's 282 00:11:12,490 --> 00:11:14,870 tiring and stuff but when he when he goes to sleep. 283 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,790 Yeah. Ohh, I missed you. 284 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,540 I wanna see you. So I just watched him phone and 285 00:11:19,550 --> 00:11:20,620 it was good. Just good. 286 00:11:20,630 --> 00:11:22,170 It's a good feeling. Yeah, it's nice. 287 00:11:22,180 --> 00:11:22,670 It's. Good. 288 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,940 I'm thoroughly enjoying having a child, despite the sleepless 289 00:11:26,950 --> 00:11:29,310 nights sometimes. But last night she slept all 290 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:30,700 night. Yeah, for the first time. 291 00:11:30,710 --> 00:11:32,180 Like a whole night's. That's unreal and. 292 00:11:32,190 --> 00:11:33,120 Crazy. So good. 293 00:11:33,130 --> 00:11:34,320 You had that about this time, didn't you? 294 00:11:34,330 --> 00:11:34,930 Remember. Yeah, yeah. 295 00:11:34,940 --> 00:11:36,260 Yeah, just been like it's something. 296 00:11:36,270 --> 00:11:36,820 Wrong. I know. 297 00:11:36,830 --> 00:11:38,580 Because we were we were up from like 2 till four. 298 00:11:38,590 --> 00:11:40,680 Watching him wait like you're up by now. 299 00:11:40,690 --> 00:11:41,800 What's going on, man? Sleeping. 300 00:11:41,810 --> 00:11:42,960 Yeah. Unbelievable. 301 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,480 But other than that, yeah, instantly. 302 00:11:44,490 --> 00:11:48,110 Horribly exhausted is my phrase that I wrote down for how I felt 303 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,380 about going back to school. Made me appreciate being at home 304 00:11:51,390 --> 00:11:55,010 a bit more and just being with with my gals and yeah. 305 00:11:55,190 --> 00:11:58,050 Very, very, very grateful at this point and that we took that 306 00:11:58,060 --> 00:11:59,910 plunge to go part time. Yeah. 307 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:02,180 And took what was a risk at the time. 308 00:12:02,850 --> 00:12:06,140 And we're not like don't want anyone to listen thinking we're 309 00:12:06,150 --> 00:12:08,600 massively monetarily numerated for that. 310 00:12:08,610 --> 00:12:11,110 Like it's not like we've we're unbelievably like. 311 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:12,410 We had a scary time, didn't we, When? 312 00:12:12,420 --> 00:12:15,260 Yeah, last year we sort of went part time and then the cost of 313 00:12:15,270 --> 00:12:18,500 living crisis all kind of kicked in and our kind of like customer 314 00:12:18,510 --> 00:12:21,660 bases were yeah, we were like, oh, we've just gone part time. 315 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:25,740 Could you all come back? And they did over the year like 316 00:12:25,750 --> 00:12:26,720 we got to do a really good place. 317 00:12:26,730 --> 00:12:29,760 But it was it was it was like scary at first when when when 318 00:12:29,770 --> 00:12:32,580 suddenly you're this is the thing that always keeps teachers 319 00:12:32,590 --> 00:12:34,000 in the job as security. Yeah. 320 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,380 Right. So when you go part time it 321 00:12:36,390 --> 00:12:39,100 sounds like all roses and people always take the Mick out of us I 322 00:12:39,110 --> 00:12:42,380 think, which I quite enjoy. I'd rather people be doing that 323 00:12:42,390 --> 00:12:45,180 than being like are you OK now take the, take the. 324 00:12:45,190 --> 00:12:47,600 Make of me when I'm walking out on a Wednesday. 325 00:12:48,980 --> 00:12:51,070 Ohh, you want Monday. But like, there were certain 326 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,160 times I was like, haha, but you know, I did. 327 00:12:53,170 --> 00:12:55,560 We did sacrifice hundreds of pounds to try and hope that this 328 00:12:55,570 --> 00:12:57,840 other thing works. Yeah, but and many. 329 00:12:57,850 --> 00:12:59,700 Years of grafting on. Top of That's the thing. 330 00:12:59,710 --> 00:13:01,060 It wasn't. I don't know how we did that, 331 00:13:01,070 --> 00:13:02,370 man. No, we couldn't do now. 332 00:13:02,380 --> 00:13:03,080 I'm glad we did it. We. 333 00:13:03,090 --> 00:13:04,630 Did it? We did, didn't we? 334 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:06,300 About how tutoring helped us go part-time. 335 00:13:06,310 --> 00:13:08,240 Go check it out. We talked about our story of 336 00:13:08,250 --> 00:13:09,490 going part time and how we built our. 337 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:12,040 Business. It's one of our biggest, biggest 338 00:13:12,050 --> 00:13:14,810 episodes of almost 60, yeah. And all I would say to people is 339 00:13:15,610 --> 00:13:18,000 don't. This is interesting because I 340 00:13:18,010 --> 00:13:19,590 know, I know, I know, I know, I know. 341 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,130 We're going to talk to people in the future who have left 342 00:13:21,140 --> 00:13:24,400 teaching been successful. I, you know, I don't want people 343 00:13:24,410 --> 00:13:27,090 to think it's all roses and simple. 344 00:13:27,130 --> 00:13:31,680 It's not OK You don't quit and then hope it's a three, 4-5 345 00:13:31,690 --> 00:13:34,340 years of working. Constantly evenings and 346 00:13:34,350 --> 00:13:36,600 weekends. Creating curriculums, making 347 00:13:36,610 --> 00:13:38,860 stuff, building business to be able to do that. 348 00:13:38,870 --> 00:13:42,540 So don't just you see the light and you think, oh wow, you've 349 00:13:42,550 --> 00:13:44,400 done it, there's a bit more. Complicated. 350 00:13:44,410 --> 00:13:47,170 You see, the Instagram rails are like 2 steps on how you can 351 00:13:47,180 --> 00:13:50,060 become financially free this. Year, Yeah, No. 352 00:13:50,230 --> 00:13:52,330 Or if it was just two steps and everyone would. 353 00:13:52,340 --> 00:13:54,380 Do do some drop shipping on Amazon. 354 00:13:54,430 --> 00:13:57,980 No stop. But anyway other than that I had 355 00:13:57,990 --> 00:13:59,980 one funny thing and one thing that I just kind of want your 356 00:13:59,990 --> 00:14:02,520 opinion. Really so funny thing one of the 357 00:14:02,530 --> 00:14:04,480 I've got. I've got the nicest class this. 358 00:14:04,490 --> 00:14:06,050 Year. I know because I thought so 359 00:14:06,060 --> 00:14:07,830 nice. And they're my babies. 360 00:14:08,290 --> 00:14:10,380 They're just lovely, man. I just love it. 361 00:14:10,460 --> 00:14:13,920 Anyway, one of them is, boy, I like in the class he was really 362 00:14:13,930 --> 00:14:15,500 sweet, like he's got such a nice personality. 363 00:14:15,510 --> 00:14:19,390 He came in, it was just post Christmas and he got this little 364 00:14:20,180 --> 00:14:21,850 literally just a little plastic bowl, right? 365 00:14:21,860 --> 00:14:23,430 And it's got a button on it. Hmm. 366 00:14:23,540 --> 00:14:28,690 And if you roll it, it always lands on on this button and then 367 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:33,270 it makes a fart noise. And he was so proud of it, 368 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,630 right? This gives really genuinely so 369 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:37,390 chilled and nice, normally very quiet. 370 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:41,810 And then it's just about to start my input in maths and my 371 00:14:41,820 --> 00:14:45,570 door opened, he's in another class and this ball came rolling 372 00:14:45,580 --> 00:14:46,920 in. I immediately knew what it was 373 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:51,740 and it landed and everyone did this fart noise and I could just 374 00:14:51,750 --> 00:14:54,670 see him giggling and laughing outside the door. 375 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,350 Like, you just think of the situations where that would 376 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,970 annoy you, right? Other classes or particular 377 00:15:00,980 --> 00:15:02,910 children. But no, that's really because it 378 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,350 was him, because he never does this thing and he knew the right 379 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:06,750 time. He hadn't started really. 380 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,200 I was just getting people sat down and it just really made me 381 00:15:09,210 --> 00:15:11,260 laugh and it made my day and it made his day. 382 00:15:11,350 --> 00:15:13,450 With a different teacher, that would have been a huge. 383 00:15:13,460 --> 00:15:15,130 Problem Big Yeah, I think he knew. 384 00:15:15,180 --> 00:15:17,890 But but this is my point. Though I think this is my point. 385 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,330 Bigging you up a bit sometimes. Who cares? 386 00:15:21,490 --> 00:15:24,020 It's sometimes who cares? Yeah, look at this. 387 00:15:24,030 --> 00:15:27,460 It's not a blanket. That's always bad. 388 00:15:27,730 --> 00:15:31,260 But aren't you awful? Come on, they're human being. 389 00:15:31,270 --> 00:15:32,160 Less than one. Yeah. 390 00:15:32,170 --> 00:15:34,350 Like, if anything, it just the most important. 391 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,160 That's a bit happy, yeah. Happy, like, cheered up. 392 00:15:37,170 --> 00:15:39,220 It doesn't come back to school. Yeah, it was funny. 393 00:15:39,270 --> 00:15:40,760 But he knows, like, there's no way. 394 00:15:40,850 --> 00:15:42,880 One, he would never do it again. Yeah, the joke's over now. 395 00:15:42,890 --> 00:15:45,030 And some kids would do it. They see you laugh at one time. 396 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:46,160 They do it might make more times. 397 00:15:46,170 --> 00:15:47,870 And it's like, yeah, you wouldn't do again. 398 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:49,740 And there's no way he would have done it in like, a natural, 399 00:15:49,750 --> 00:15:50,660 crucial time. Yeah. 400 00:15:50,670 --> 00:15:52,470 So it's just. Yeah, ohh blessing. 401 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:53,330 So that's that. That's good. 402 00:15:53,340 --> 00:15:56,690 There's another slightly funny thing, OK, I don't know what to 403 00:15:56,700 --> 00:15:58,050 do about really. Alright. 404 00:15:58,060 --> 00:16:00,310 And this is where you might. You are about teacher. 405 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,560 So because I do like to have a bit of fun with the kids, do ya? 406 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:06,850 And maybe sometimes maths blows up. 407 00:16:06,860 --> 00:16:08,990 Mask done any of that this year? That was nuts. 408 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,160 Like what was wrong with me last year? 409 00:16:10,170 --> 00:16:11,340 You. Were almost think I lost. 410 00:16:11,350 --> 00:16:11,950 The plot, Yeah. I. 411 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:13,170 Think we both did? Lost the plot? 412 00:16:13,180 --> 00:16:14,450 Great. Time to start a podcast where 413 00:16:14,460 --> 00:16:16,870 both Yeah. Yeah, if you don't want blow, 414 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,070 dark matter is go and just listen to any of the, any of. 415 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,340 The episodes and just hear. About the insane things was 416 00:16:22,350 --> 00:16:26,890 doing last year of Mass. So obviously I joke about my 417 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:29,860 baldness with the kids sometimes, right They're bored. 418 00:16:29,870 --> 00:16:31,100 I'm bored. If you didn't know if you're not 419 00:16:31,110 --> 00:16:32,930 watching bald, you might. I don't sound like it. 420 00:16:32,940 --> 00:16:34,470 I know. Sound like I've got a lot of 421 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:35,390 hair. Can you? 422 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,170 Can you do a voice if someone who's bored? 423 00:16:37,180 --> 00:16:38,630 Like what? Someone who's bored, Someone is 424 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:42,260 bored. Ohh hello everyone. 425 00:16:42,330 --> 00:16:45,640 I'm I don't have much hair. Boy, my voice sounds a little 426 00:16:45,650 --> 00:16:48,080 bit different now we've got lots of hair. 427 00:16:48,090 --> 00:16:50,070 It soaked up the soaks up, the was thinking. 428 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,190 More Ross Kemp. Alright mate, I'm bored. 429 00:16:53,670 --> 00:16:56,920 Anyway, from extras. That's it. 430 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,270 So yeah, a few jokes. And obviously you've joked about 431 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:01,810 it as well. So you've you've trained 432 00:17:01,820 --> 00:17:04,750 children to say OK as. Retaliation for being called an 433 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,569 ogre everyday. Let's make that clear. 434 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:08,770 No, I'm. I'm the Gruffalo. 435 00:17:08,780 --> 00:17:10,589 Works in year four, right? Yeah, Yeah. 436 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:12,869 There we go. So he's trained kids to say make 437 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,440 jokes about my baldness. Anyway, the free hairs. 438 00:17:17,420 --> 00:17:19,609 Yeah, I'm gonna. Stop and and then the kids At 439 00:17:19,619 --> 00:17:21,750 one point this song, the song like baldy Baldy over there, 440 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:23,240 you've got no hair, something like that. 441 00:17:23,250 --> 00:17:26,550 Like Baldy Baldy over there. What's it like to have no hair. 442 00:17:26,660 --> 00:17:29,390 And a couple of them sang. Never thought that like a break 443 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,020 time. And I was like did the whole. 444 00:17:31,030 --> 00:17:33,240 That's so cheeky because you can't say that. 445 00:17:33,250 --> 00:17:34,370 Anyway there's nothing more of it. 446 00:17:34,380 --> 00:17:38,980 They just wanna giggled or run off until umm, I was dismissing 447 00:17:38,990 --> 00:17:40,360 the kids at the end of the day. Yeah. 448 00:17:40,430 --> 00:17:44,700 And are you small sibling OK of one of the children who's not 449 00:17:44,710 --> 00:17:45,980 ask us. We're a Junior School. 450 00:17:45,990 --> 00:17:47,920 They they must be in like year one or something. 451 00:17:47,970 --> 00:17:55,050 Come running over really excited and when ohh dear baldy got no 452 00:17:55,060 --> 00:17:59,880 hair ohh no What's it like to have no hair little kid? 453 00:17:59,890 --> 00:18:03,440 I don't know who this child is on the playground like in front 454 00:18:03,450 --> 00:18:05,050 of all like the parents and my kids. 455 00:18:05,060 --> 00:18:07,760 I'm dismissing. I'm like ohh was so awkward 456 00:18:07,770 --> 00:18:09,800 because my instant reaction was I need to tell this child off 457 00:18:09,810 --> 00:18:12,190 because that's like they've crossed the line. 458 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,350 I don't mind it when kids understand the line and they 459 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:17,060 know why. Joke I don't even know the kid 460 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:19,400 in my class. Their sibling has obviously gone 461 00:18:19,410 --> 00:18:21,580 home and. Said. 462 00:18:21,990 --> 00:18:23,550 This is what we've said to my teacher. 463 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,470 And I'm like, Oh no, this is where it goes wrong. 464 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:28,830 Yeah, because that's not OK. No, that's where. 465 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,290 You've made your bed and you have to line it because that 466 00:18:31,300 --> 00:18:35,900 situation you cannot possibly then tell her off like her 467 00:18:35,910 --> 00:18:38,810 brother's done it in school to his teacher shouting at the 468 00:18:38,820 --> 00:18:42,980 yeah, yeah, no, no, no, Ohh. So I was just I was like ohh 469 00:18:42,990 --> 00:18:45,280 this is so cringe and I hope the parents aren't listening cause 470 00:18:45,290 --> 00:18:47,350 anyone if I was, if I was a parent and saw that I'd be 471 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:48,700 thinking about teachers. Got no control. 472 00:18:48,710 --> 00:18:50,480 OK, so. Here's the thing, then. 473 00:18:50,490 --> 00:18:54,250 That is the point, isn't it? If you if there's something that 474 00:18:54,260 --> 00:18:57,900 happens and you wouldn't want parents to hear it, then it's 475 00:18:57,910 --> 00:18:59,920 not good, is it? I don't know. 476 00:18:59,930 --> 00:19:02,670 Because it might just be that I think they don't know the 477 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:04,740 context, so. I guess so, but in that. 478 00:19:04,750 --> 00:19:06,220 Situation I wouldn't want them well. 479 00:19:06,230 --> 00:19:08,280 Yeah. And this is the problem with as 480 00:19:08,290 --> 00:19:11,200 a teacher, especially in year six when they've had five other 481 00:19:11,210 --> 00:19:15,550 teachers or 6-7 other teachers ever who have this line where 482 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,580 that's not acceptable for you to. 483 00:19:17,590 --> 00:19:19,330 Then in year six we're like, Oh yeah, that is acceptable. 484 00:19:19,340 --> 00:19:21,110 That's obviously going to go around and be like. 485 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,050 Yeah, because I'd feel if we had another bald teacher at school, 486 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:26,430 Yeah. And then they went and did that 487 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:27,670 to them. I would feel awkward because I 488 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,170 don't want to presume that you're OK Sure. 489 00:19:29,180 --> 00:19:30,670 Sure, sure, sure. Exactly. 490 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,590 Yeah. And it could work with children. 491 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:34,560 I think the onus is always on us. 492 00:19:34,570 --> 00:19:35,770 We need to own it. Own it. 493 00:19:35,780 --> 00:19:37,450 And be like, OK, yeah, that's my problem. 494 00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:39,870 Yeah, so own it. I cried. 495 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:40,990 And went off. Yeah, you did. 496 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:41,980 You did. It was just really. 497 00:19:41,990 --> 00:19:44,050 Awkward. Just stop doing that. 498 00:19:44,060 --> 00:19:45,750 Well, no, I. Think it's just when I look 499 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:46,170 over. To you. 500 00:19:46,180 --> 00:19:50,790 Then you realise. Yeah, it's me. 501 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,080 Get on my high horse. I think you just have to own it. 502 00:19:54,710 --> 00:19:57,640 Years of saying it's OK now. No. 503 00:19:57,650 --> 00:20:00,020 Now go and get Lord Baltimore his lunch, please. 504 00:20:00,030 --> 00:20:02,940 Thank you. Yeah, but anyway, all good. 505 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,230 So that's a long 20 minute. It's a really long term. 506 00:20:05,410 --> 00:20:06,810 Didn't even talk. About your day what? 507 00:20:07,550 --> 00:20:10,060 Was going to say is there's a whole thing a minute with darts. 508 00:20:10,070 --> 00:20:13,120 Been up for the darts because the maths doubles trebles and 509 00:20:13,130 --> 00:20:14,390 things. The only thing I was going to 510 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,280 say, it's been a whole discourse on like the news and stuff, like 511 00:20:17,290 --> 00:20:19,240 GB News and why they keep going on about it. 512 00:20:19,410 --> 00:20:21,990 And it keeps popping up. Like call for darts in schools 513 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,310 because it's good for maths class. 514 00:20:24,420 --> 00:20:25,770 No. Yeah. 515 00:20:25,780 --> 00:20:27,740 Like, no. Like I I, I watched the darts 516 00:20:27,750 --> 00:20:29,670 and I was like, that's really cool opportunity. 517 00:20:29,860 --> 00:20:31,990 We can use that. Of course we can do it every now 518 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:32,590 and then. Yeah. 519 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,130 Amazing. What do you mean though? 520 00:20:34,140 --> 00:20:36,050 Call for ducks? Are we just gonna do doubles or 521 00:20:36,060 --> 00:20:38,320 you replace? Them maths and yeah, we're just. 522 00:20:38,330 --> 00:20:41,450 Gonna it's a really cool tool and we should as teachers be 523 00:20:41,460 --> 00:20:44,350 looking for tools and I'm gonna use it at some point and I think 524 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:48,230 it's great and we can watch YouTube videos or get a magnetic 525 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,930 dartboard but it would be the same as getting a fractional it 526 00:20:50,940 --> 00:20:53,790 would be the same as getting some counters it it's just a 527 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,310 resource the idea of like course written score. 528 00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:00,190 Look at his look at his yeah this kid didn't get GCSE maths 529 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,880 so didn't get any like he he didn't pass his maths GCSE's and 530 00:21:03,890 --> 00:21:06,510 he's amazing at darts as good as you can possibly be at like 531 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,120 arithmetic and stuff. So that does show that the darts 532 00:21:10,130 --> 00:21:12,540 isn't the answer to get kids to their GP. 533 00:21:12,550 --> 00:21:14,660 Yeah, it shows. It's a really cool thing. 534 00:21:14,730 --> 00:21:17,180 That's amazing for that one and that can really help a lot of 535 00:21:17,190 --> 00:21:18,220 kids. And what he's done is 536 00:21:18,230 --> 00:21:20,260 unbelievable as all the way behind him. 537 00:21:20,300 --> 00:21:23,700 But let's not pretend that Ohh, let's put that into while 538 00:21:23,710 --> 00:21:24,930 they're not doing that in schools. 539 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,470 Again, because it's not useful for the curriculum like as a 540 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,280 whole, it's useful for a bit. It's also a. 541 00:21:29,290 --> 00:21:33,120 Very specific end game kind of knowledge, doubles and triples. 542 00:21:33,510 --> 00:21:35,790 But. Also an adding yeah, but it's 543 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,090 the start on 5/01 is the instantly knowing what they're 544 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:39,830 down to. Yeah yeah. 545 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,900 When they hit some darts and what they need to change to, 546 00:21:41,910 --> 00:21:45,260 like if they miss, they know exactly what stuff like that. 547 00:21:45,370 --> 00:21:49,240 It's a cool skill. But when my kids don't know the 548 00:21:49,250 --> 00:21:53,110 number ones to 10, Yeah, that is not that. 549 00:21:53,150 --> 00:21:56,490 Darts is the absolute end game of that kind of knowledge. 550 00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:58,470 It's like that's not something I'd ever want to do with those 551 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,110 kids. Yeah, unless the darts went up 552 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:01,300 to two. Can you imagine? 553 00:22:01,310 --> 00:22:04,390 Me is like one and two only. I just, it's just I I get it's 554 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,350 cool. But I'd probably only do it as 555 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:09,210 like an enrichment activity with the best mathematicians really 556 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,540 at the primary school level. Like we're on 200. 557 00:22:11,550 --> 00:22:13,870 And 73? I've just hit 318. 558 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:15,930 Two sevens and a four. What am I left with? 559 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:17,980 Yeah, and. How many of your kids? 560 00:22:17,990 --> 00:22:19,190 Well, I. Didn't do it. 561 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,410 It's not relevant. I watched arts and I absolutely 562 00:22:21,420 --> 00:22:23,270 can't do that. Yeah, it's a skill, isn't it? 563 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,490 Like it doesn't. I'm good at maths but I cannot 564 00:22:25,570 --> 00:22:26,730 do that. Yeah, I've not learned that 565 00:22:26,740 --> 00:22:27,510 skill. It's a cool. 566 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,380 Skill to have. No no harm in teaching the kids 567 00:22:29,390 --> 00:22:31,430 here. Please stop telling us to put in 568 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,760 well the timetables already round. 569 00:22:33,770 --> 00:22:36,570 Ohh. That's that's like a a call 570 00:22:36,580 --> 00:22:38,970 forward to you know what we're going to talk about is the 571 00:22:38,980 --> 00:22:41,010 timetable. Fit for purpose? 572 00:22:41,020 --> 00:22:42,110 That's cool. Let's do a. 573 00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:43,990 Jingle and come back to that question. 574 00:22:46,460 --> 00:22:49,650 So Hayden, before the Jingle I asked you one simple question. 575 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:53,050 Is the primary school timetable fit for purpose? 576 00:22:53,060 --> 00:22:54,150 Thanks for. Reminding me Dylan. 577 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,660 I hadn't. I hadn't remembered that, no. 578 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,590 How many times have we made that joke we are? 579 00:23:01,660 --> 00:23:04,600 So record you know. OK, let's let's dive a bit more 580 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,350 real. Answer OK, real answer. 581 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:08,830 Now, so the primary school timetable, it's a very generic 582 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,050 question. We're gonna go into lots of 583 00:23:10,060 --> 00:23:12,520 detail about lots of different parts of the timetable, the 584 00:23:12,530 --> 00:23:14,700 amount of stuff we have to teach, the order we have to 585 00:23:14,710 --> 00:23:18,370 teach it, the proportion of what we get for each lesson, etc etc. 586 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,160 But in general, what is your first response to this question? 587 00:23:21,170 --> 00:23:24,310 Because it's a big one at the minute, a lot of discussion 588 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,240 around it. Is the primary school timetable 589 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,480 fit for purpose? Does it meet a goal? 590 00:23:29,490 --> 00:23:31,080 Is it? Is it there for a reason? 591 00:23:31,090 --> 00:23:32,120 Is it good? So if someone. 592 00:23:32,130 --> 00:23:34,100 On the street asked if I wasn't in the podcast right now where I 593 00:23:34,110 --> 00:23:35,760 know we're gonna talk about it forever, and someone just asked 594 00:23:35,770 --> 00:23:37,340 me that and they wanted a fairly quick answer. 595 00:23:37,410 --> 00:23:41,920 My gut reaction to that is I don't think so because it 596 00:23:41,990 --> 00:23:44,460 doesn't feel like we can fit it all in. 597 00:23:44,510 --> 00:23:47,170 OK, I think that would be. That's kind of like the big 598 00:23:47,180 --> 00:23:49,080 answer, which we can dive into a bit more. 599 00:23:49,210 --> 00:23:53,450 But it just doesn't feel. I constantly feel like I'm not 600 00:23:53,460 --> 00:23:55,260 doing all of the things I should be doing. 601 00:23:55,270 --> 00:23:57,440 Or you'll speak to teachers from other schools and like, what? 602 00:23:57,450 --> 00:23:59,010 You only do three lessons of that week. 603 00:23:59,020 --> 00:24:01,100 We do 5. Because then the curriculum says 604 00:24:01,110 --> 00:24:02,710 you have to do five of these. Yeah. 605 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:03,880 And it's like, well, we can't fit. 606 00:24:03,890 --> 00:24:05,960 If we do that, then we have to drop something else in another 607 00:24:05,970 --> 00:24:07,270 school. The thing you dropped to be 608 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:08,660 like, oh, no, you can't drop that. 609 00:24:08,670 --> 00:24:10,150 That's really important. We do. 610 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,250 We we make sure we do an art and DT lesson every single week of 611 00:24:13,260 --> 00:24:15,760 every of every term. And we're like, OK, well, we 612 00:24:15,770 --> 00:24:18,130 can't drop that then it does just get to the point. 613 00:24:18,140 --> 00:24:20,860 If you carry on doing that and then go for that analogy, it's 614 00:24:20,870 --> 00:24:22,570 like, OK, we can't actually fit it all in. 615 00:24:22,820 --> 00:24:25,240 So what would your answer be like you know, if someone said 616 00:24:25,250 --> 00:24:27,490 to you, no. OK, so you're given the the 617 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:30,770 ability to now design A timetable because you're saying 618 00:24:30,780 --> 00:24:33,780 the timetable itself is wrong. There's almost two prongs here 619 00:24:33,790 --> 00:24:36,940 of the timetable and the amount of stuff we have to do. 620 00:24:37,070 --> 00:24:39,540 So OK, the amount of stuff we have to do is too much. 621 00:24:39,550 --> 00:24:41,400 Agreed. So then what would you do with 622 00:24:41,410 --> 00:24:43,840 the timetable and how can you fix this? 623 00:24:43,850 --> 00:24:45,660 If the timetable is not fit for purpose? 624 00:24:45,710 --> 00:24:50,540 What would be your answer? Not saying do less the actual 625 00:24:50,550 --> 00:24:53,790 timetable itself. What do you think is wrong with 626 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:54,470 it? This is this is. 627 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,280 Where it's really hard because I don't think that. 628 00:24:56,590 --> 00:24:58,820 I think it's hard to answer that question because I'm, I mean, 629 00:24:58,830 --> 00:25:02,690 maybe you've got an answer but I'm not sure the timetable or 630 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:05,020 anything to do with the timetable is the solution 631 00:25:05,290 --> 00:25:09,890 because I do. I think there is literally just 632 00:25:09,900 --> 00:25:11,710 too much to fit in. I don't think there's any 633 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,930 magical timetable you could do. Yeah, with this curriculum where 634 00:25:14,940 --> 00:25:17,830 you feel like you've adequately covered every subject to the 635 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,650 level that they're supposed to be covered in. 636 00:25:19,660 --> 00:25:20,990 OK. I don't know. 637 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,990 What do you think? Well, we asked again on 638 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,050 Instagram a simple question. Given the power, would you 639 00:25:27,060 --> 00:25:29,530 change your schools timetable? Nothing to do with what needs to 640 00:25:29,540 --> 00:25:31,980 be covered. So let's try and focus down that 641 00:25:31,990 --> 00:25:33,200 narrow bit I suppose for a minute. 642 00:25:34,130 --> 00:25:36,300 And 58% said, yes, I would change it. 643 00:25:36,310 --> 00:25:39,600 Now 42% said they wouldn't and I think that's boiled down to 644 00:25:39,610 --> 00:25:41,860 what's the point in changing it. Yeah, we love same thing you 645 00:25:41,870 --> 00:25:42,730 said. Well, what's the point? 646 00:25:42,740 --> 00:25:44,170 Because then we'll just be missing four they. 647 00:25:44,180 --> 00:25:45,660 Just got a good timetable, exactly. 648 00:25:45,670 --> 00:25:47,020 They need to get in touch with us to tell us. 649 00:25:47,270 --> 00:25:50,420 Yeah, but 58% still said yes, I would change it. 650 00:25:50,610 --> 00:25:56,000 And I suppose their point is OK, we've got too much to cover. 651 00:25:56,330 --> 00:26:00,720 But in the current system, one person said to me, I would love 652 00:26:00,730 --> 00:26:03,340 for a bit more creativity. I'd love for a bit more of a 653 00:26:03,350 --> 00:26:04,910 chance for children to be Mystic. 654 00:26:04,980 --> 00:26:08,190 Yeah, I'd hate I I want a bit less of a concentration on maths 655 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,010 and English. Yeah, that's and science and and 656 00:26:10,020 --> 00:26:13,230 you know, although they're important, they certainly do 657 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,130 take up a huge chunk of the timetable. 658 00:26:15,140 --> 00:26:19,090 So do you think there's any merit in the timetable, perhaps 659 00:26:19,100 --> 00:26:21,730 changing to reflect the fact that not everyone's got an 660 00:26:21,740 --> 00:26:24,150 English or maths or a science lesson? 661 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,630 Kind of money. There are creatives out there, 662 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:26,430 definitely. All right. 663 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:31,990 I think if we just for a minute, we're just ignore the end goal 664 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,970 that the government pressure the assessment. 665 00:26:33,980 --> 00:26:38,010 If we ignore the fact that we all get grilled as a country, as 666 00:26:38,020 --> 00:26:40,470 a profession. If we dropped a mass lesson a 667 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,010 week and actually the standard of mass went down ever so 668 00:26:43,020 --> 00:26:45,700 slightly, but children were happy and doing because if they 669 00:26:45,710 --> 00:26:46,770 if. They did that and got better at 670 00:26:46,780 --> 00:26:48,050 art. There'd be no way of telling, 671 00:26:48,060 --> 00:26:48,860 really, no. And they. 672 00:26:48,870 --> 00:26:50,360 And the government don't care about this, that's why, I mean 673 00:26:50,370 --> 00:26:52,800 from the government have made it very, very clear. 674 00:26:52,810 --> 00:26:55,910 So for those not in education, it's, you know, it's always been 675 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,340 maths and English heavy and science, it used to be a lot 676 00:26:58,350 --> 00:27:01,050 more important. But over the last, like 10 years 677 00:27:01,060 --> 00:27:04,710 we have become obsessed. Obsessed with maths and English 678 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,740 only specifically about nothing else matters. 679 00:27:06,750 --> 00:27:08,200 We will pretend, the government pretend. 680 00:27:08,210 --> 00:27:09,560 Oh yeah, these subjects are important. 681 00:27:09,570 --> 00:27:12,310 But but look at these big league tables we've got and we're going 682 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:13,580 to compare internationally with maths. 683 00:27:13,590 --> 00:27:15,690 Come on guys, China are smashing us in maths. 684 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:19,840 Yeah, come on teachers. Yeah, if we just ignored that 685 00:27:19,850 --> 00:27:22,180 for a bit, I think we probably could make a better timetable 686 00:27:22,190 --> 00:27:25,820 where maybe we didn't do maths and English every single day, 687 00:27:25,870 --> 00:27:28,500 even just four days a week. How much time that would free 688 00:27:28,510 --> 00:27:31,330 up? Like most school, I'd say the 689 00:27:31,340 --> 00:27:34,020 majority of schools in this country, based on my limited 690 00:27:34,030 --> 00:27:36,030 knowledge just from talking to other teachers, do maths and 691 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,650 English every single day. Ohh absolutely. 692 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,770 Absolutely. Over 95%, I think. 693 00:27:39,780 --> 00:27:40,360 Yeah. Yeah. 694 00:27:40,370 --> 00:27:42,690 There are schools that don't, I have definitely heard of schools 695 00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:45,540 where it's like, Oh no, no, we we just have like 3 or 4 maths 696 00:27:45,550 --> 00:27:47,910 sessions a week. One of them's in the afternoon. 697 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,880 Yeah, three of them are in the morning, but don't you? 698 00:27:49,890 --> 00:27:52,530 Think that with English and maths in particular there 699 00:27:52,540 --> 00:27:55,090 there's so much emphasis put on them because they're so 700 00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:57,230 important, they come up everywhere, right? 701 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,530 Reading a mass comes up and everything OK, so therefore a 702 00:28:00,540 --> 00:28:04,070 science lesson could be maths, history and geography lessons 703 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,090 could be. Reading history is almost 704 00:28:06,100 --> 00:28:09,070 always, yeah. So there's no reason why we 705 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,270 can't have less English time in inverted commas and more history 706 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:14,920 time. Well, they're still reading, 707 00:28:14,930 --> 00:28:17,310 they're still learning new vocabulary, they're still going 708 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,700 to be doing spelling like they're going to be doing 709 00:28:19,710 --> 00:28:21,560 handwriting in the afternoon. You can still, you can still do 710 00:28:21,570 --> 00:28:25,060 this kind of stuff built in cross curricula, but less, I 711 00:28:25,070 --> 00:28:27,400 don't know. I feel like with that there 712 00:28:27,410 --> 00:28:30,060 seems to be less structure and a huge thing that's really 713 00:28:30,070 --> 00:28:32,640 important to people in teaching and myself included. 714 00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:35,990 I like structure. So the idea of daily maths, 715 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,560 daily English, three afternoon lessons a week, one afternoon of 716 00:28:39,570 --> 00:28:43,160 PE, one afternoon of PPA. I know my PPA days on a Tuesday. 717 00:28:43,270 --> 00:28:45,200 I know that on a Friday I'm going to do an arithmetic test 718 00:28:45,210 --> 00:28:46,380 in the morning. Yeah, I know that. 719 00:28:46,390 --> 00:28:48,960 I'm gonna check timetables every single day from this time to 720 00:28:48,970 --> 00:28:51,680 this time. I suppose the timetable at the 721 00:28:51,690 --> 00:28:53,960 minute is really good for that kind of structure, yeah. 722 00:28:54,030 --> 00:28:57,120 Yeah, and. Moving away from that, you're 723 00:28:57,130 --> 00:28:59,100 gonna lose some of that structure and that kind of 724 00:28:59,110 --> 00:29:00,320 knowing what you're doing every day. 725 00:29:00,330 --> 00:29:03,470 So in your point of view, how important is it for a timetable 726 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,520 to be consistent compared to all over the place? 727 00:29:07,530 --> 00:29:09,070 This is a tough. One, because I think it does 728 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,200 boil down a bit to personal preference here, right? 729 00:29:11,450 --> 00:29:16,220 I am similar to you. I really, really like a very set 730 00:29:16,230 --> 00:29:19,980 routine, but I think that is because I just the job is so 731 00:29:19,990 --> 00:29:21,030 stressful. Sure. 732 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,110 I think there's there's lots of elements here that are all like 733 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,170 working together. I think if the job wasn't as 734 00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:27,870 stressful, if I didn't have as, if the pressures of maths and 735 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,480 English maybe weren't so heavy, then maybe I would be a bit more 736 00:29:30,490 --> 00:29:32,830 inclined to have a more flexible timetable. 737 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,120 I know that's one of our points to talk about is this kind of, 738 00:29:35,970 --> 00:29:39,080 you know, most schools have a static timetable, I think. 739 00:29:39,130 --> 00:29:41,120 I think most schools, if you went in there, they'd be like, 740 00:29:41,130 --> 00:29:42,540 yeah, on Mondays. We did this on Tuesdays, we do 741 00:29:42,550 --> 00:29:44,090 this weekend. On the table a weekly. 742 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:46,100 Timetable. Sometimes that changes per term. 743 00:29:46,150 --> 00:29:48,700 Yeah, like I know our certainly does every, every term 744 00:29:48,790 --> 00:29:49,500 afternoons. Do. 745 00:29:49,550 --> 00:29:50,880 Yeah, we'll. Do different things in the 746 00:29:50,890 --> 00:29:52,620 afternoon or whatever. But generally, you know, I'm 747 00:29:52,630 --> 00:29:54,220 saying it's the same time every single day. 748 00:29:54,230 --> 00:29:57,960 But I have a friend who works in a school where they have a 749 00:29:57,970 --> 00:30:01,900 flexible timetable and they will do English at different times at 750 00:30:01,910 --> 00:30:03,600 different weeks. And I'm like, how can you cope 751 00:30:03,610 --> 00:30:04,940 with that? Like, yeah, we just the week 752 00:30:04,950 --> 00:30:07,150 before, we just kind of map out our week, right? 753 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:07,770 Map out. Yeah. 754 00:30:07,780 --> 00:30:09,210 You know we've got a lot of history to this week. 755 00:30:09,220 --> 00:30:11,090 So when I drop one of the English lessons, we're gonna do 756 00:30:11,140 --> 00:30:13,940 double history and then next week we're gonna pop in another 757 00:30:13,950 --> 00:30:16,600 English in the do you think? That's better, more responsive 758 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,290 it probably. Probably is better, yeah. 759 00:30:18,300 --> 00:30:19,990 Stress. More stressful, I think, as a 760 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,890 teacher. More workload I suppose in terms 761 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:24,290 of this is the problem with being a teacher at the minute I 762 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:27,570 feel like everything that makes you a good teacher is extra 763 00:30:27,580 --> 00:30:29,940 workload. So it used to be years ago, you 764 00:30:29,950 --> 00:30:32,170 wouldn't mind, wouldn't care, sitting down and being 765 00:30:32,180 --> 00:30:34,570 responsive and be like, I actually know what it would be 766 00:30:34,580 --> 00:30:38,020 really useful if the children, let's say history, right. 767 00:30:38,090 --> 00:30:40,800 They didn't quite get this topic last time. 768 00:30:40,990 --> 00:30:43,300 So I'm going to use this lesson now instead of starting the new 769 00:30:43,310 --> 00:30:44,800 topic. I'm going to go over it because 770 00:30:44,850 --> 00:30:46,950 it goes from maybe Greeks to Romans or something. 771 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,680 Like there's kind of a thread through there. 772 00:30:48,690 --> 00:30:51,460 Yeah, it's, it's the next step in history in terms of maybe 773 00:30:51,470 --> 00:30:54,080 going from through the Iron Age and the Bronze Age and the Stone 774 00:30:54,090 --> 00:30:56,180 Age and things like that. And they didn't quite get that. 775 00:30:56,190 --> 00:30:58,220 So be really useful for me to actually just sit down, look at 776 00:30:58,230 --> 00:31:01,840 the old time plan a bit of a recap lesson, put that in there, 777 00:31:01,850 --> 00:31:04,200 shift this around, and then we can do an extra lesson in the 778 00:31:04,210 --> 00:31:06,210 morning because you know what, actually that English. 779 00:31:06,220 --> 00:31:08,040 We can drop that off because we've done loads of that. 780 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,550 Yeah, that is objectively much better teaching objectively, 781 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,850 yeah. But it's much more workload. 782 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,910 And at the moment, I I would absolutely err on the side of 783 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:23,250 saying, well, OK, let's let's just do the lesson. 784 00:31:23,260 --> 00:31:25,160 If the kids didn't quite get it, I'll try and pick up the gaps 785 00:31:25,170 --> 00:31:26,830 during the lesson. But it's easier for me just to 786 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,760 start onto this new topic. And I think that's a big part of 787 00:31:30,770 --> 00:31:33,600 the culture of teaching now, which is shifting, is people are 788 00:31:33,610 --> 00:31:37,150 moving towards the easier option only because they're already 789 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,510 horrendously stressed, the cognitive load huge. 790 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:40,200 That's it. Isn't it? 791 00:31:40,210 --> 00:31:41,440 It's the cognitive load. They're already. 792 00:31:41,450 --> 00:31:42,980 Working really hard. When I say the easy option, I 793 00:31:42,990 --> 00:31:45,530 mean of that exact thing, yeah, they're already doing 10 million 794 00:31:45,540 --> 00:31:46,340 other things as well. When? 795 00:31:46,350 --> 00:31:48,060 You're cognitive load is already maxed out. 796 00:31:48,070 --> 00:31:50,000 You're not. Gonna make history your priority 797 00:31:50,010 --> 00:31:53,790 to replan and do no when you've got so much stress and timetable 798 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,060 time on English and maths and things like with assessments. 799 00:31:56,070 --> 00:31:57,820 Coming up and all that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 800 00:31:57,830 --> 00:32:02,090 It's tricky one. Same as PPA saw recently online 801 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:05,340 took people talking about PPA, flexible PPA or not and someone 802 00:32:05,350 --> 00:32:07,010 was asking like do you do is inflexible? 803 00:32:07,020 --> 00:32:10,890 Like you choose or well. As in like, so in our careers 804 00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:13,500 we've always had static Cpas and it's the same day every week. 805 00:32:13,510 --> 00:32:14,960 At the same time, like Gary, I like I. 806 00:32:14,970 --> 00:32:15,860 Like that? Yeah, me. 807 00:32:15,870 --> 00:32:16,880 Too. Yeah, I like that. 808 00:32:16,890 --> 00:32:19,870 But I recently learned just from reading some stuff that some 809 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,910 schools don't do that. So in some schools, in this one 810 00:32:23,990 --> 00:32:26,360 I was reading about in particular on at the end of a 811 00:32:26,370 --> 00:32:28,960 week, they would get their PA timetable for the next week, so 812 00:32:28,970 --> 00:32:30,260 P. A For anyone who doesn't know is 813 00:32:30,270 --> 00:32:32,460 time out, right, Yeah, so it's. Our planning, preparation and 814 00:32:32,470 --> 00:32:34,410 assessment time, so we just. Time out of class to do whatever 815 00:32:34,420 --> 00:32:36,050 we need to do to get ready. Yes, if you're a. 816 00:32:36,060 --> 00:32:38,970 Teacher, you get you're entitled to 10% a week of your teaching 817 00:32:38,980 --> 00:32:40,630 time, which is normally like half a day. 818 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,790 You might get like an afternoon or morning out of class to 819 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,720 basically just sort out the rest of your job. 820 00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:48,260 Go back and listen to our PM so to find out why that is not so 821 00:32:48,270 --> 00:32:51,110 good. And yeah, this person was 822 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:52,360 assassinated. I've never heard of it. 823 00:32:52,370 --> 00:32:56,390 This person was talking about getting their PPA timetable on 824 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,920 like the Friday or just at the end of the week before to be 825 00:32:58,930 --> 00:33:01,130 like your PPA next week is going to be on this day. 826 00:33:01,140 --> 00:33:03,370 Wow. So they never know when their PA 827 00:33:03,380 --> 00:33:04,490 is gonna be, so they don't, do they? 828 00:33:05,140 --> 00:33:06,550 OK. That's really interesting 829 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,370 because a big thing about PPA is that teachers aren't to prepare 830 00:33:10,380 --> 00:33:13,460 or market anything for it. So if that's constantly being 831 00:33:13,470 --> 00:33:16,400 changed, like for example, it's Tuesday morning, right, have 832 00:33:16,410 --> 00:33:17,560 just planning. Yeah, thank you. 833 00:33:17,570 --> 00:33:19,850 We'll use that. So yeah, I don't like the idea 834 00:33:19,860 --> 00:33:22,090 of that because I think it brings so many more problems. 835 00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:24,730 And they were saying that in this thread that people talking 836 00:33:24,740 --> 00:33:25,920 about other schools do it as well. 837 00:33:26,050 --> 00:33:28,370 And people like, yeah, sometimes we don't get it as well until 838 00:33:28,380 --> 00:33:30,770 like on the week. So imagine finding out on Monday 839 00:33:30,780 --> 00:33:33,180 morning. Ohh, you got PPA now Monday 840 00:33:33,190 --> 00:33:34,730 morning. I've just planned lessons for 841 00:33:34,740 --> 00:33:35,460 this. Yeah, that's. 842 00:33:35,470 --> 00:33:36,160 Awful. And I didn't. 843 00:33:36,170 --> 00:33:37,770 Plan for Thursday. I thought maybe that was gonna 844 00:33:37,780 --> 00:33:39,170 be my PA again. Do you plan your? 845 00:33:39,180 --> 00:33:40,740 Yeah. Do you plan your PA time though 846 00:33:40,750 --> 00:33:43,940 in terms of I know for example, in PA next week, right? 847 00:33:43,950 --> 00:33:47,360 I'm going to be planning some English for week 4 of term. 848 00:33:47,630 --> 00:33:48,660 I never. Planned it? 849 00:33:48,710 --> 00:33:49,690 No, no. But what? 850 00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:51,880 Sorry, what I mean is, do you plan your time? 851 00:33:52,070 --> 00:33:55,460 So my my time in PPA? I've got PPA. 852 00:33:55,550 --> 00:33:57,340 I know that. OK, cool. 853 00:33:57,670 --> 00:34:00,880 My PA is on a Tuesday. I know I've got to do something 854 00:34:00,890 --> 00:34:03,660 for Friday morning. Now I might say getting my P I'm 855 00:34:03,670 --> 00:34:04,960 gonna get that Friday morning job done. 856 00:34:05,010 --> 00:34:06,580 So I know I don't have to do outside of school. 857 00:34:06,950 --> 00:34:10,159 I I've chunked my PA on Tuesday now to say OK for the for the 858 00:34:10,170 --> 00:34:12,710 first hour I'm going to get a couple of lessons planned for 859 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:13,540 week 4. Sure. 860 00:34:13,550 --> 00:34:17,270 So my point is if that's moved or taken away it might scupper 861 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,940 your plans. Might my my swallowing. 862 00:34:19,949 --> 00:34:23,080 Apparently it's scuppered my plans in terms of OK, I was 863 00:34:23,090 --> 00:34:24,600 going to use that time to do this. 864 00:34:24,730 --> 00:34:27,120 It makes me less. I'm already not very organised, 865 00:34:27,250 --> 00:34:30,920 so the minimal thing I can have control over of I'm doing work 866 00:34:30,929 --> 00:34:33,909 in school, my PPA. If that's been moved round, I 867 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,790 feel like that would set me off. You're right. 868 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,630 Because actually I do for example we do Friday like 869 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:41,370 arithmetic test on Friday sure. And I do often plan it for that 870 00:34:41,380 --> 00:34:45,210 week in that week PA, PA And it's just one of the things I do 871 00:34:45,219 --> 00:34:46,530 every week. It's like I'm gonna plan this 872 00:34:46,540 --> 00:34:49,590 week's arithmetic test because we always do it based on the 873 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,280 most recent like understanding of their of what we write them 874 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:54,889 we write them arithmetic test. So if your. 875 00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:56,889 PPA were coming up PS on Friday afternoon. 876 00:34:56,900 --> 00:34:59,460 You just got to do that now, Yeah, yeah, Yeah. 877 00:34:59,470 --> 00:35:00,640 At some other point, yeah, it would be. 878 00:35:00,650 --> 00:35:03,110 Really annoying, so I don't like the idea of flexible PPA. 879 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,460 Let us know if you to, because I don't know, I don't actually 880 00:35:05,470 --> 00:35:08,180 know anyone personally. Yeah, who is in that situation 881 00:35:08,190 --> 00:35:11,870 where their PPA is decided upon flexibly each week like that 882 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,580 sounds horrendous and when it's set. 883 00:35:14,310 --> 00:35:18,400 When it's set though, like I just when it's moved around, 884 00:35:18,410 --> 00:35:21,240 rather, it feels like there's so much more opportunity for it to 885 00:35:21,250 --> 00:35:23,100 be dropped off. Whereas when it's set, it's 886 00:35:23,110 --> 00:35:25,630 like, OK, everyone knows every Tuesday the sports coach is 887 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,520 gonna be doing this and that. Didn't you do a? 888 00:35:27,530 --> 00:35:29,460 Poll Yeah, I did a. Poll on Instagram and it was 889 00:35:29,470 --> 00:35:33,970 basically what is your PPA consistent, So vast majority as 890 00:35:33,980 --> 00:35:37,290 we expect, 75%, yes, consistent, still not as high as I thought 891 00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:39,620 it would be. I thought it be much higher, 15% 892 00:35:39,630 --> 00:35:41,290 of people have it moved around. Wow. 893 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:42,430 That's. Way less good. 894 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,920 Yeah. So this is the thing that I 895 00:35:44,930 --> 00:35:49,340 just, I never understand 10%. Yeah, clicked lucky if we get 896 00:35:49,350 --> 00:35:51,230 it. And I don't get it because in 897 00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:55,960 the timetable, to me PPA is sacrosanct and very luckily it's 898 00:35:55,970 --> 00:35:58,340 sacrosanct to our management as well. 899 00:35:58,350 --> 00:36:00,980 There is never a question, it's not even a thing. 900 00:36:00,990 --> 00:36:04,020 Whereas I think I've worked in schools before where if you lose 901 00:36:04,030 --> 00:36:08,920 your PPA it's like, oh God, I'm like you're kind of like your 902 00:36:08,930 --> 00:36:12,090 thumbs and you're like, could you please Sir, may I have some 903 00:36:12,100 --> 00:36:13,480 more all? Right. 904 00:36:13,490 --> 00:36:16,430 We'll we'll take you out of that really crucial lesson to give 905 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:17,610 you some BA. Please, Sir. 906 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,050 May I have my basic rights as as a as a worker in your place. 907 00:36:21,060 --> 00:36:23,670 Yes, of course you can like, so I know how it feels. 908 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,270 Some people being like, yeah, give taking it away and then 909 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:27,830 they feel awkward to ask. Yeah, well, that's. 910 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,130 What toxic schools are all about that if you work in a toxic 911 00:36:30,140 --> 00:36:35,200 school, you know this feeling of you feel bad for the things that 912 00:36:35,210 --> 00:36:37,390 you should just have. You're what you're owed. 913 00:36:37,430 --> 00:36:40,140 You feel bad for asking about it. 914 00:36:40,180 --> 00:36:42,250 If you're in that kind of place, get out. 915 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,010 Get out. Honestly, it's not a good place. 916 00:36:44,020 --> 00:36:48,490 You should feel empowered, yeah, to be given what you deserve. 917 00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:49,710 I don't even. Feel that empowered. 918 00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:51,510 I just feel like it's just a thing. 919 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,570 Like if if ever we missed, for example, we went back on a 920 00:36:54,580 --> 00:36:57,110 Monday, which was bank holiday, sorry, we went back on a Tuesday 921 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,140 this year, you would have missed your PPA. 922 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,440 Wasn't even a thing. It's just like, OK, it's planned 923 00:37:01,450 --> 00:37:03,130 for this year. You're gonna get this release 924 00:37:03,140 --> 00:37:04,880 time. So in that respect he has moved. 925 00:37:04,890 --> 00:37:06,310 But that's because you weren't gonna get it. 926 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,440 Yeah, and now you've got it. And I've worked in schools 927 00:37:08,450 --> 00:37:11,520 before where if there was a bank holiday, so one person, Mr PA, 928 00:37:11,530 --> 00:37:12,920 right. But one year group, let's say 929 00:37:12,930 --> 00:37:13,940 Miss PA. Yeah. 930 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,680 The answer would be no one gets P that week then Yes. 931 00:37:16,690 --> 00:37:17,400 Yeah. What? 932 00:37:17,470 --> 00:37:20,780 Excuse me. Yeah, Like I still need 10% of. 933 00:37:20,850 --> 00:37:24,760 If you're gonna be picky, give me 10% of four days, then it's 934 00:37:24,770 --> 00:37:26,540 half an hour less. OK, well, I'll still take it. 935 00:37:26,830 --> 00:37:28,200 The answer. The answer is not. 936 00:37:28,210 --> 00:37:30,600 No one gets it. The answer isn't just a scrap PA 937 00:37:30,610 --> 00:37:32,780 for the whole timetable. The answer is sorry, no. 938 00:37:32,790 --> 00:37:34,180 Give me my 10%. So. 939 00:37:34,290 --> 00:37:36,040 Been there as well. I think that's quite common. 940 00:37:36,350 --> 00:37:40,420 The response often back to that is we had Monday off and the 941 00:37:40,430 --> 00:37:42,030 whole of Monday off doesn't matter because. 942 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,170 That's not that's. Not my it's not working time 943 00:37:44,180 --> 00:37:46,190 though it's not. 10% of my working time. 944 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,350 It's as simple as that. So I worked four days that week. 945 00:37:49,390 --> 00:37:50,910 Cool. What's 10% of four days? 946 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,610 Nought .4 of a day? Thank you. 947 00:37:52,620 --> 00:37:53,630 Give it to me. I love that. 948 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,570 Yeah, literally. Honestly, it's unbelievable. 949 00:37:55,580 --> 00:37:58,470 There we go. So timetables could be flexible 950 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,790 in terms of subjects. We agree that that's probably 951 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,730 probably objectively better because you can respond to that 952 00:38:04,740 --> 00:38:07,380 need. But PPA, I think we agree that 953 00:38:07,390 --> 00:38:09,670 that needs to be a set in stone time. 954 00:38:09,710 --> 00:38:11,780 So do they are together? They don't. 955 00:38:11,790 --> 00:38:13,560 Obviously they don't do it, I think. 956 00:38:13,650 --> 00:38:18,150 Well, OK, they can do because other weekend settings though. 957 00:38:18,990 --> 00:38:21,920 Yes, yeah, of course they. Are so we never move stuff to a 958 00:38:21,930 --> 00:38:23,520 Saturday. We never moved off to a Sunday. 959 00:38:23,530 --> 00:38:24,940 Yeah. So we just never moved stuff to 960 00:38:24,950 --> 00:38:26,270 P afternoon. Simple as that. 961 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:27,670 Everything. Everything else to move around 962 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:28,420 through. But that. 963 00:38:28,430 --> 00:38:30,780 That's as sacrosanct to me as a Saturday or Sunday. 964 00:38:30,790 --> 00:38:32,660 But I guess. I guess it's more about what the 965 00:38:32,670 --> 00:38:34,240 kids do, I suppose. Yeah, the kids can just always 966 00:38:34,250 --> 00:38:36,360 do the thing they do in PA. Yeah, that's the one thing 967 00:38:36,370 --> 00:38:38,220 that's static. Yeah, so. 968 00:38:38,490 --> 00:38:41,160 What sports coach, for example? Or have music? 969 00:38:41,170 --> 00:38:43,100 Yeah, whatever. They do in PPA in your school. 970 00:38:43,110 --> 00:38:45,320 They just always do that. That can never be changed. 971 00:38:45,590 --> 00:38:47,930 Because then that helps the specialist teachers and we'll 972 00:38:47,940 --> 00:38:49,470 come on to specialist teachers from. 973 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,510 But it helped specialist teachers because they know. 974 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,290 OK, Tuesday I've got your 4. I'm working through the sporting 975 00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:56,110 curriculum of year four. Every Tuesday I'm gonna do 976 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:56,850 basketball. Yeah. 977 00:38:56,860 --> 00:38:58,270 The music specialist might know. OK. 978 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,270 I'm doing recorders for year five on on a Monday. 979 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,510 Yeah. So every Monday. 980 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,330 I know I've. I've got that consistency as 981 00:39:04,340 --> 00:39:06,080 well. So is the timetable fit for 982 00:39:06,090 --> 00:39:08,450 purpose? I think a lot of the time it is. 983 00:39:08,500 --> 00:39:10,930 It's fit for the purpose of delivering as much of the 984 00:39:10,940 --> 00:39:13,530 curriculum as possible. But it depends what your purpose 985 00:39:13,540 --> 00:39:14,720 is. I think that's the point I 986 00:39:14,730 --> 00:39:16,530 wanted to make from this. And we're going to talk about 987 00:39:16,740 --> 00:39:18,920 different types of children in the 2nd and disruptions and 988 00:39:18,930 --> 00:39:21,360 things. The timetable itself in my 989 00:39:21,370 --> 00:39:26,260 opinion can never be technically fit for purpose because it can 990 00:39:26,270 --> 00:39:27,960 never be fit enough to fit in everything. 991 00:39:28,030 --> 00:39:32,700 Yeah, however it is fit for purpose in that it depends what 992 00:39:32,710 --> 00:39:35,400 the purpose of your school is. If your school is concentrating 993 00:39:35,410 --> 00:39:37,320 on ensuring their massive English drives up, you can do 994 00:39:37,330 --> 00:39:39,480 massage every day. If your school is in a situation 995 00:39:39,490 --> 00:39:42,930 where actually you can afford to move and drop in inverted 996 00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:45,240 commas, again some English and do history which I still think 997 00:39:45,250 --> 00:39:48,460 the English and to enrich your children even more objectively. 998 00:39:48,470 --> 00:39:50,280 Good. So what the purpose of your 999 00:39:50,290 --> 00:39:51,910 school depends on your timetable. 1000 00:39:51,980 --> 00:39:55,380 That's why if you walk into 10 different schools you will see 1001 00:39:55,390 --> 00:39:58,170 ten different timetables. There is there is no like set 1002 00:39:58,180 --> 00:40:00,450 way that you walk into a school now. 1003 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:03,130 If you're a parent for example and your children, your child's 1004 00:40:03,140 --> 00:40:04,870 going into school or is already at school. 1005 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,550 If you move to schools, they'd have to get used to a brand new 1006 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,460 timetable. So it is the timetable fit for 1007 00:40:10,470 --> 00:40:12,360 purpose. That's down to your individual 1008 00:40:12,370 --> 00:40:14,160 school. What's your school's purpose? 1009 00:40:14,210 --> 00:40:16,120 It's never gonna be able to fit everything in that we're 1010 00:40:16,130 --> 00:40:18,070 supposed to. But what do you want your 1011 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,320 children to get out of it? What I think is important for us 1012 00:40:21,330 --> 00:40:24,620 to to realise because you're more, I think anti saying no 1013 00:40:24,630 --> 00:40:28,040 it's not and I'm more yes. I guess the point is what we're 1014 00:40:28,050 --> 00:40:31,340 really disagreeing on is what is the purpose of going to school? 1015 00:40:31,450 --> 00:40:34,490 What should the purpose of the timetable be fulfilling? 1016 00:40:34,570 --> 00:40:39,320 And I suppose if you're saying enrichment and being able to 1017 00:40:39,390 --> 00:40:41,610 access the whole curriculum properly, it's obviously no, 1018 00:40:41,660 --> 00:40:43,290 Yeah, yeah. It's never gonna work, Yeah, but 1019 00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:44,580 if you. Accept that it's never going to 1020 00:40:44,590 --> 00:40:48,860 work and be like, OK, well, I can at least have an impact on 1021 00:40:48,870 --> 00:40:51,340 my school's curriculum to meet the purpose that we've all 1022 00:40:51,350 --> 00:40:54,180 agreed is important. Yeah, then schools do have that 1023 00:40:54,190 --> 00:40:56,600 autonomy to teach however much time they want. 1024 00:40:56,670 --> 00:40:58,800 There is nothing actually in the curriculum, is there, that says 1025 00:40:58,810 --> 00:40:59,990 you have to teach maths every day? 1026 00:41:00,050 --> 00:41:00,780 No, not. At all. 1027 00:41:00,790 --> 00:41:02,080 It's just. It's just that. 1028 00:41:02,130 --> 00:41:04,190 It's just that. Maths curriculum is 80 pages 1029 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,600 long and the geography curriculum is 2 pages long. 1030 00:41:06,610 --> 00:41:07,860 So what do you think is gonna happen? 1031 00:41:07,870 --> 00:41:09,880 And we're tested on maths and we're not tested on geography. 1032 00:41:09,890 --> 00:41:12,120 Yeah, what do you think's gonna happen as a result of that? 1033 00:41:12,180 --> 00:41:14,090 Regardless of. Best intentions Obviously people 1034 00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:16,690 are gonna hone towards mass, so spanner in the works then? 1035 00:41:17,310 --> 00:41:19,650 Just thinking again about this sort of timetable being flexible 1036 00:41:19,660 --> 00:41:22,790 or whatever, being a big, big push for a long long as I can 1037 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,360 remember anyway in teaching. Maybe been around for a long 1038 00:41:25,370 --> 00:41:29,170 time of having things like visual timetables in classrooms 1039 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,910 for children with special educational needs. 1040 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:37,210 Sen registered children routine can be really, really, really 1041 00:41:37,220 --> 00:41:39,590 important for those children, hence the visual timetables. 1042 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,610 Do you think it could have a negative impact of having a 1043 00:41:42,620 --> 00:41:44,440 flexible timetable or do you think the visual timetable is 1044 00:41:44,450 --> 00:41:46,400 enough to be like, no, they're fine, they've got that changes 1045 00:41:46,410 --> 00:41:49,010 every day like where I see you? Mean. 1046 00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:52,270 I think so, yeah. So basically you're saying a lot 1047 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,690 of children like routines are being flexible is gonna disrupt? 1048 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:57,450 Yeah, and make them feel visual. Timetables are useful. 1049 00:41:57,460 --> 00:41:59,150 I do like them. I think they are useful. 1050 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,710 And I think it's good not only for special educational needs 1051 00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:04,850 for anyone in the classroom to know we all have that child who 1052 00:42:04,860 --> 00:42:06,230 walks in and says what we doing today. 1053 00:42:06,330 --> 00:42:09,410 Yeah, well it in this afternoon. And sometimes they are just 1054 00:42:09,420 --> 00:42:12,280 being nosy and sometimes it just sets their mind at ease. 1055 00:42:12,290 --> 00:42:15,210 Especially, for example, if you work in a school like us which 1056 00:42:15,220 --> 00:42:17,100 blocks there afternoon learning into weeks. 1057 00:42:17,530 --> 00:42:19,570 But the children don't ask me anymore what we doing this 1058 00:42:19,580 --> 00:42:20,750 afternoon. They say what we doing this 1059 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:21,360 week. Yeah. 1060 00:42:21,370 --> 00:42:23,260 Said we're doing this week and I'll say we're doing geography. 1061 00:42:23,270 --> 00:42:26,110 We're gonna look at rivers or yeah, we're doing DT We're gonna 1062 00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,040 look at mechanisms and hinges and things like that. 1063 00:42:29,110 --> 00:42:32,040 And I love telling them that they get excited and they what 1064 00:42:32,050 --> 00:42:34,080 they can go home and look at hinges or they can look up 1065 00:42:34,090 --> 00:42:37,190 rivers and things like that. That that is enough for some 1066 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,010 children, Yeah. But having it laid out on the 1067 00:42:40,020 --> 00:42:42,590 board visually, even if it helps one child in your class, it's 1068 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,890 clearly a good thing. Now, I know for a fact I'm not 1069 00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:47,110 very good at keeping on top of it because that's just me as a 1070 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,110 teacher. Yeah, I need to, I need to stop 1071 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,220 monitor basically because. But the monitor, a really good 1072 00:42:52,230 --> 00:42:55,050 thing to do would be to choose a monitor who's a child who would 1073 00:42:55,060 --> 00:42:57,450 use the visual timetable. That's nice because because 1074 00:42:57,460 --> 00:43:00,210 then, you know they're they're naturally going to come up to 1075 00:43:00,220 --> 00:43:03,330 you and what's going on today. And it's no longer an 1076 00:43:03,340 --> 00:43:05,170 apprehension for them because they just want to know 1077 00:43:05,180 --> 00:43:07,050 themselves. Oh, I want to know what's going 1078 00:43:07,060 --> 00:43:08,640 on. Do I ask him, do I not? 1079 00:43:08,750 --> 00:43:12,180 It's just they come up and ask me and it's in the masquerade 1080 00:43:12,190 --> 00:43:14,100 off because you're doing the visual timetable on the board. 1081 00:43:14,110 --> 00:43:15,170 Yeah. So there, what we're doing 1082 00:43:15,180 --> 00:43:17,780 today, not only are they getting the answer straight away, but 1083 00:43:17,790 --> 00:43:20,880 they can pretend or not have the pressure of it being for them. 1084 00:43:20,890 --> 00:43:22,560 It's for the class goes on the board. 1085 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,780 So it's certainly something this year I need to get more on top 1086 00:43:24,790 --> 00:43:25,660 of. Yeah. 1087 00:43:25,670 --> 00:43:28,190 I've taught children in the past, not many, to be honest 1088 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,840 with you, But I have taught children in the past who are 1089 00:43:29,850 --> 00:43:33,310 really anxious about the timetable and they really need 1090 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,180 to know what their day is going to be. 1091 00:43:35,190 --> 00:43:38,750 And I get it right and I do find that, and it is slightly 1092 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,520 flexible it they're still not really satisfied. 1093 00:43:41,530 --> 00:43:43,670 They're still anxious all morning knowing that their day 1094 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,020 is probably going to be different to what it was 1095 00:43:45,030 --> 00:43:47,800 yesterday. So the benefit, I think the 1096 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,990 small benefit of having a really static timetable where it's like 1097 00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:54,120 every day it's just the same, it's just maths, English and 1098 00:43:54,130 --> 00:43:57,140 then this thing as in on a Monday, it's always this rather 1099 00:43:57,150 --> 00:43:59,050 than like it's another lesson, one that changed. 1100 00:43:59,060 --> 00:44:00,090 It will be whatever. We do on a. 1101 00:44:00,100 --> 00:44:02,590 Monday we always do topic. Geography. 1102 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,550 Yeah, or just topic yet? Hasn't even got a subject name. 1103 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,630 A lot of schools don't have, like geography and history. 1104 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,570 They just have topics that have those subjects weaved in them. 1105 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,560 Yeah, I think so there's a massive benefit I think for 1106 00:44:12,570 --> 00:44:15,150 those children when it comes to just they just know what a 1107 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:16,490 Monday is. Cause Monday is the same every 1108 00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:18,520 single week. Yeah, but yeah visual timetable 1109 00:44:18,530 --> 00:44:21,170 was really, really good way. Yeah, definitely, definitely 1110 00:44:21,180 --> 00:44:22,800 recommend them. I found them a nuisance in the 1111 00:44:22,810 --> 00:44:23,920 past. I'll be honest with you. 1112 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,580 I have had plenty of times. I'm like do I have to do this 1113 00:44:26,620 --> 00:44:28,460 And it might be just because I've had. 1114 00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:30,410 I just haven't had any children in the class who have benefited 1115 00:44:30,420 --> 00:44:32,730 from it or that you. Know would benefit I know of. 1116 00:44:32,790 --> 00:44:33,970 Yeah, yeah. And retrospect. 1117 00:44:33,980 --> 00:44:36,240 I think it was a bit naive of me because I've definitely had 1118 00:44:36,250 --> 00:44:37,690 glasses before. I'm like, I haven't really 1119 00:44:37,700 --> 00:44:40,060 bothered updating it and actually there could have been a 1120 00:44:40,070 --> 00:44:41,720 child in that in that room, even one. 1121 00:44:41,730 --> 00:44:43,380 Child, Then it's worth it. Especially if you make it 1122 00:44:43,390 --> 00:44:45,320 autonomous. Yeah, all you need to do is say 1123 00:44:45,330 --> 00:44:46,320 what's happening. I do now. 1124 00:44:46,330 --> 00:44:48,440 Yeah, it's so easy. I just have, I just have a 1125 00:44:48,450 --> 00:44:50,340 monitor who comes. I pick someone who's always in 1126 00:44:50,350 --> 00:44:52,020 on time. Yeah, because they come in and 1127 00:44:52,030 --> 00:44:55,090 they just update the thing every day and it's just so much easier 1128 00:44:55,100 --> 00:44:56,640 because no one. There's no anxiety. 1129 00:44:56,650 --> 00:44:59,020 So very easy thing to do. Big win and it links. 1130 00:44:59,030 --> 00:45:02,240 To that classic thing you and I always have, which is there is a 1131 00:45:02,250 --> 00:45:05,190 difference between something that's objectively wrong and 1132 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,360 I'll argue to the cows come home about teacher pay and government 1133 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,250 and and funding and stuff like that. 1134 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,610 But there is then just stuff which is just an opinion. 1135 00:45:13,660 --> 00:45:15,890 Yeah. So like when when I I personally 1136 00:45:15,900 --> 00:45:19,270 would would I would I make and print off a visual timetable? 1137 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,910 No. But I actually think it's the 1138 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,560 best thing to do That is that is my incompetence coming out. 1139 00:45:25,570 --> 00:45:28,130 You know, it's not, it's not me saying I I disagree with them. 1140 00:45:28,180 --> 00:45:30,590 There are there's things I don't do because I don't think they're 1141 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,350 useful. This is not one of them. 1142 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,290 This is something I don't do because I just don't stay on top 1143 00:45:34,300 --> 00:45:35,610 of it. Another thing to think about. 1144 00:45:35,620 --> 00:45:37,730 I agree with it. Completely cool. 1145 00:45:37,740 --> 00:45:39,510 Just bad at doing it, exactly, yeah. 1146 00:45:39,790 --> 00:45:41,620 Yeah. Do I make my displays look 1147 00:45:41,630 --> 00:45:43,240 beautiful every time? No. 1148 00:45:43,250 --> 00:45:45,240 That's a conscious choice because I don't care. 1149 00:45:45,250 --> 00:45:46,620 I don't think that's remotely useful. 1150 00:45:46,710 --> 00:45:48,320 This is. I still don't do it all the 1151 00:45:48,330 --> 00:45:49,900 time. Yeah, that's something I need to 1152 00:45:49,910 --> 00:45:51,180 work on, for sure. Should. 1153 00:45:51,190 --> 00:45:54,440 We talk about the big hole in every in everything that we've 1154 00:45:54,450 --> 00:45:58,050 been discussing here, the massive burning, burning hole 1155 00:45:58,060 --> 00:46:00,190 that ruined everything we've been talking about to do that. 1156 00:46:00,710 --> 00:46:05,300 OK, so the problem, the big, big problem is here. 1157 00:46:05,310 --> 00:46:08,620 No matter what you do with your timetable, right, you're always 1158 00:46:08,630 --> 00:46:13,970 going to feel stressed because children represent OK and that's 1159 00:46:13,980 --> 00:46:14,670 nothing to do. It's not. 1160 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:18,140 I'm not complaining about them, but people are absent, People 1161 00:46:18,150 --> 00:46:21,960 are sick, People miss learning. So we put so much thought and 1162 00:46:21,970 --> 00:46:25,380 effort into this crowned timetable where it's like we 1163 00:46:25,390 --> 00:46:28,460 couldn't possibly drop a thing. Yeah, we can't do it because 1164 00:46:28,470 --> 00:46:30,260 everything is so important. And then the kids off for a 1165 00:46:30,270 --> 00:46:32,700 week. Yeah, well. 1166 00:46:32,710 --> 00:46:34,160 No. Can we catch them up? 1167 00:46:34,170 --> 00:46:36,300 No, because the timetable is crammed. 1168 00:46:36,550 --> 00:46:37,200 We. Could we? 1169 00:46:37,210 --> 00:46:38,270 Could. But then they miss something 1170 00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:39,120 else. Yeah, they missed. 1171 00:46:39,130 --> 00:46:42,040 Something else, I think we. Can look at the macro here and 1172 00:46:42,050 --> 00:46:45,640 just call it disruptions, right. So absence is a huge disruption 1173 00:46:45,650 --> 00:46:49,110 and I think, I do think there's a whole episode brewing on 1174 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:54,290 absence because post COVID, the attitude to making sure children 1175 00:46:54,300 --> 00:46:58,570 are in in school. But not only absence lateness. 1176 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,990 OK, it is. I can't describe as a teacher 1177 00:47:03,450 --> 00:47:06,050 how valuable the time is. We've been listening this far. 1178 00:47:06,060 --> 00:47:08,430 You understand how valuable our time is and how much we cram in 1179 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:13,250 and how every minute is actually put in place because we have to 1180 00:47:13,310 --> 00:47:15,330 work towards something. That's how it is. 1181 00:47:15,340 --> 00:47:19,780 OK, so if every day the child is coming in at 9:30, yeah, 9:45, 1182 00:47:19,790 --> 00:47:21,640 ten. The problem with a static 1183 00:47:21,650 --> 00:47:24,720 timetable and that point is that means one thing. 1184 00:47:24,790 --> 00:47:28,300 They're always missing half of the same lesson. 1185 00:47:28,570 --> 00:47:31,140 It's not being spread out. It's not like, OK, listen, 1186 00:47:31,150 --> 00:47:33,500 you're late for whatever reason, not here to judge people, not 1187 00:47:33,510 --> 00:47:36,480 here to put anything on the children, especially whatever. 1188 00:47:36,550 --> 00:47:38,650 Children are going to be late sometimes, if they're 1189 00:47:38,660 --> 00:47:40,830 consistently late, there's an underlying problem. 1190 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:41,890 We need to get to the bottom of that. 1191 00:47:41,900 --> 00:47:44,340 Let's try and fix it. No judgement at all again, but 1192 00:47:44,350 --> 00:47:47,000 it's something we need to try and sort out because we have a 1193 00:47:47,010 --> 00:47:50,140 static timetable and at the time you're going to miss half of the 1194 00:47:50,150 --> 00:47:52,280 same lesson. If you're missing half of the 1195 00:47:52,290 --> 00:47:55,860 same lesson 3 * a week, that is going to massively detriment 1196 00:47:55,870 --> 00:47:59,070 your progress in that subject and there is literally nothing 1197 00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,840 we can do as a school or as teachers to mitigate that. 1198 00:48:01,890 --> 00:48:04,580 The only thing we can do to mitigate that would be to take 1199 00:48:04,590 --> 00:48:07,920 that child out of a different subject and try and shift it 1200 00:48:07,930 --> 00:48:10,560 somehow, but then that's detrimental. 2 subjects. 1201 00:48:10,570 --> 00:48:12,000 It's never the same nightmare, isn't? 1202 00:48:12,010 --> 00:48:13,750 It happens a lot. Like, you know, if you're if 1203 00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,100 you're not in the teaching world, you'd be surprised at how 1204 00:48:16,110 --> 00:48:19,250 much this sort of thing happens. I've had possible classes in the 1205 00:48:19,260 --> 00:48:22,690 past where I'd have like one or two children who just every 1206 00:48:22,700 --> 00:48:24,980 single day just turn up between anywhere between genuinely 1207 00:48:24,990 --> 00:48:27,680 between 9:00 and 11:00. Yeah, somewhere in that. 1208 00:48:27,690 --> 00:48:28,910 In that time. And you just think. 1209 00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,390 And I never ever once, like you said, make it really clear, 1210 00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:32,930 never get cross with these children. 1211 00:48:32,940 --> 00:48:35,690 No, you can't get. Frustrated, but because I'm 1212 00:48:35,700 --> 00:48:37,110 frustrated, I'm like, I want you to. 1213 00:48:37,580 --> 00:48:40,570 Try not to even show them that because if like if a nine year 1214 00:48:40,580 --> 00:48:43,850 old is turning up to school an hour late, I guarantee you it's 1215 00:48:43,860 --> 00:48:46,250 not the nine year old fault. It might be on the odd occasion 1216 00:48:46,260 --> 00:48:48,210 they've had a Strop in the morning and their parent comes 1217 00:48:48,220 --> 00:48:49,880 in. But you know it cause parents 1218 00:48:49,890 --> 00:48:51,940 come in, they go, I'm really sorry, but they just, God could 1219 00:48:51,950 --> 00:48:53,840 not get out of the door this morning being a pickle. 1220 00:48:54,030 --> 00:48:57,030 But when it happens three times a week consistently for months 1221 00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,010 or years, it's like, OK, don't ever get annoyed at that child 1222 00:49:00,020 --> 00:49:02,580 because he's absolutely not their fault. 1223 00:49:02,690 --> 00:49:05,500 It's not their responsibility to get to school at nine years old 1224 00:49:05,510 --> 00:49:07,120 on time. So it's a really hard thing to 1225 00:49:07,130 --> 00:49:08,150 do. You do you get frustrated 1226 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,860 though, because you're thinking they've come in half of my 1227 00:49:10,870 --> 00:49:12,620 lesson again. They've missed the entire input 1228 00:49:12,630 --> 00:49:14,440 again. I've now got to give them the 1229 00:49:14,450 --> 00:49:17,110 input while everyone else now has to just wait and do 1230 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,000 something else because I was going to do something with them. 1231 00:49:19,090 --> 00:49:21,560 It's really frustrating. And that's just absence. 1232 00:49:21,570 --> 00:49:23,130 And that's just like morning absence. 1233 00:49:23,140 --> 00:49:26,100 Then you get things like this doesn't know me a little bit and 1234 00:49:26,110 --> 00:49:28,920 I know I shouldn't get annoyed because teachers holidays, 1235 00:49:28,930 --> 00:49:33,520 midterm like part half of me is like, do you know what life is? 1236 00:49:33,670 --> 00:49:35,000 Life is too short. I agree. 1237 00:49:35,010 --> 00:49:37,790 By the way, go and. Enjoy it, but for me right now 1238 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:39,230 as a teacher it is really annoying. 1239 00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:42,060 Though they have now just missed the whole week and and I and I 1240 00:49:42,070 --> 00:49:43,500 don't have time to catch them up. 1241 00:49:43,770 --> 00:49:45,550 I'm expecting to catch them up. There's difference. 1242 00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:46,780 As a professional and as a human. 1243 00:49:47,070 --> 00:49:50,600 As a human honestly and I don't know should be saying this is a 1244 00:49:50,610 --> 00:49:53,280 teacher but I I don't care. Do you know if they go away 1245 00:49:53,290 --> 00:49:55,590 somewhere of their family. Yeah and it's that like once in 1246 00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,010 a lifetime opportunity and they and they go in enrich themselves 1247 00:49:58,020 --> 00:50:01,700 somewhere else right. I'm I'm just like have great fun 1248 00:50:01,710 --> 00:50:05,660 and their and their parents save 2 grand by doing it then have a 1249 00:50:05,670 --> 00:50:06,160 good. Time. 1250 00:50:06,170 --> 00:50:07,940 Have a good time. I loved it and I always make the 1251 00:50:07,950 --> 00:50:09,540 kids when they come back. I'd never ever. 1252 00:50:09,550 --> 00:50:12,330 I make the point of not being like holiday in term time. 1253 00:50:12,630 --> 00:50:13,690 I always go, you have a nice time. 1254 00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:15,810 That's really good, right? We've been doing this work hard. 1255 00:50:15,820 --> 00:50:17,170 Let's crack on. We're not going to go back 1256 00:50:17,180 --> 00:50:20,200 through this stuff, but you'll pick it up as we go objectively. 1257 00:50:20,410 --> 00:50:25,180 Objectively, clearly missing a week of school isn't is is going 1258 00:50:25,190 --> 00:50:27,240 to impact their progress on certain things. 1259 00:50:27,290 --> 00:50:28,700 It's going to be harder for us to catch them. 1260 00:50:28,710 --> 00:50:30,760 It's gonna be extra work for us to catch them up, you know? 1261 00:50:30,770 --> 00:50:32,740 It is just an extra load on our minds. 1262 00:50:32,750 --> 00:50:34,620 Can I vent? For one thing that I've had one 1263 00:50:34,630 --> 00:50:36,830 time in the past, right? There's one experience. 1264 00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,260 This is the only time I've ever got annoyed at an actual midterm 1265 00:50:40,270 --> 00:50:45,180 holiday, because when they met When holiday For two weeks. 1266 00:50:45,450 --> 00:50:46,880 In the middle. Of term I would. 1267 00:50:46,890 --> 00:50:49,440 Argue two weeks, by the way, is much different to one week, 1268 00:50:49,450 --> 00:50:50,180 yeah. Yeah, yeah. 1269 00:50:50,190 --> 00:50:52,230 Two weeks big. That's like, that's like double 1270 00:50:52,290 --> 00:50:54,730 it's it's almost that's like triple wow. 1271 00:50:55,050 --> 00:50:57,340 And when they came back and didn't have a problem with it, I 1272 00:50:57,350 --> 00:51:00,470 was just a bit like, it's a bit annoying for me, but fine, 1273 00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:01,980 whatever. You've been on holiday. 1274 00:51:02,330 --> 00:51:07,880 It wasn't until I got a formal complaint written in because I 1275 00:51:08,070 --> 00:51:10,750 hadn't. We did some fun stuff in that 1276 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:15,250 two weeks and I hadn't, like, planned ahead to reserve some of 1277 00:51:15,260 --> 00:51:18,180 the fun thing for this particular child like that in 1278 00:51:18,190 --> 00:51:20,730 like, retrospect, right. I don't want to go too much. 1279 00:51:20,910 --> 00:51:23,480 Rocket, you mean? So you did something really fun. 1280 00:51:23,490 --> 00:51:26,640 I did something nice whilst they're whilst there cables off. 1281 00:51:26,730 --> 00:51:29,080 Yeah, and. Then, yeah, the parents had 1282 00:51:29,090 --> 00:51:32,820 expected me for when they got back to have reserved this 1283 00:51:32,830 --> 00:51:34,370 thing. So they got to retrospectively 1284 00:51:34,380 --> 00:51:39,190 do the fun thing as well, right. I I honestly, I had to like, I 1285 00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,360 had to remove without, you know. Yeah. 1286 00:51:42,390 --> 00:51:43,520 And I'm just horrible. Yeah. 1287 00:51:43,530 --> 00:51:45,280 Yeah. So I was like, I can't speak to 1288 00:51:45,290 --> 00:51:47,320 this person because I would just be like, what are you talking 1289 00:51:47,330 --> 00:51:49,530 about? You took, you chose to take your 1290 00:51:49,540 --> 00:51:52,420 child out of time and out of school in term time. 1291 00:51:52,430 --> 00:51:53,840 You missed the stuff in term time. 1292 00:51:53,850 --> 00:51:55,520 I'm not. That's not my problem. 1293 00:51:55,530 --> 00:51:57,190 So. I'm gonna, I'm gonna save you 1294 00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,390 here from sound of the grumpy old man, because if the child 1295 00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,000 was sick, what would your response be? 1296 00:52:02,550 --> 00:52:04,030 Then they were off. They're tough. 1297 00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:05,100 They missed it. I don't know. 1298 00:52:05,110 --> 00:52:06,420 I just think but would. It be. 1299 00:52:06,430 --> 00:52:08,700 Would it be as angry? No, not as angry. 1300 00:52:08,710 --> 00:52:10,810 That's why I guess not as angry if they've gone on the way in a 1301 00:52:10,820 --> 00:52:12,930 lovely all expenses paid 2 week holiday somewhere. 1302 00:52:12,940 --> 00:52:14,510 Yeah. And they didn't get an ice lolly 1303 00:52:14,620 --> 00:52:16,060 in the afternoon. Yeah, yeah. 1304 00:52:16,070 --> 00:52:16,990 Yeah, OK. Yeah. 1305 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:18,540 No, I think that's justifiable, though. 1306 00:52:18,550 --> 00:52:20,120 They were just sick. I'd feel bad for them. 1307 00:52:20,130 --> 00:52:21,270 Yeah, that's what I mean. Appalling. 1308 00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,320 And they didn't want to lose it. That's my point. 1309 00:52:23,330 --> 00:52:25,210 You wouldn't be angry, but like ohh, that is good. 1310 00:52:25,220 --> 00:52:27,250 You you've got no control over the fact you were ill. 1311 00:52:27,260 --> 00:52:29,390 You didn't go on the holiday. So you know what? 1312 00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,180 Maybe I'll try and get this thing in place for you. 1313 00:52:31,190 --> 00:52:33,970 I'll try and do this instead. You wouldn't necessarily still 1314 00:52:34,030 --> 00:52:36,050 you because you wouldn't know the real you wouldn't move a 1315 00:52:36,060 --> 00:52:38,790 whole day to another thing. That's when they're ill. 1316 00:52:38,860 --> 00:52:40,660 You'd feel bad for me. Like, I'm sorry, mate, Let's try 1317 00:52:40,670 --> 00:52:42,850 this instead. Yeah, depending on holiday, You 1318 00:52:42,860 --> 00:52:45,260 know, for a formal complaint. Guys I know. 1319 00:52:45,270 --> 00:52:49,320 You're so annoyed at that, Max. So I guess the one other thing I 1320 00:52:49,330 --> 00:52:51,310 want to talk about, and I hope lots of teachers feel on the 1321 00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,480 same boat and I understand the importance of this. 1322 00:52:53,490 --> 00:52:55,790 And this has happened in every school I've worked at. 1323 00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,580 This has happened in every school of people I've talked to 1324 00:52:58,750 --> 00:53:02,080 is, and it's linked to the timetable. 1325 00:53:02,150 --> 00:53:05,080 Maybe not being fit for purpose is that even though we're doing 1326 00:53:05,090 --> 00:53:08,300 English and Maths everyday, there are going to be children 1327 00:53:08,310 --> 00:53:11,650 who are on the cusp of something, a grade that they 1328 00:53:11,660 --> 00:53:14,780 need to try and push to, for our for data to look good or for 1329 00:53:14,790 --> 00:53:17,770 their progress from Key Stage 1 to be where it should be based 1330 00:53:17,780 --> 00:53:19,820 on, again, the government's overlooking eye and the league 1331 00:53:19,830 --> 00:53:23,340 tables and things like that. That I I reckon every school in 1332 00:53:23,350 --> 00:53:26,080 the country has interventions which are extra groups for 1333 00:53:26,090 --> 00:53:28,820 children running outside of English and maths time, 1334 00:53:28,830 --> 00:53:31,720 obviously because they need English and maths that go creep 1335 00:53:31,730 --> 00:53:35,660 into afternoon lessons now cards on the table. 1336 00:53:35,810 --> 00:53:39,600 I would much rather every child simply receive the whole 1337 00:53:39,610 --> 00:53:42,400 afternoon lesson. I'd much rather whoever, whoever 1338 00:53:42,410 --> 00:53:46,420 they are, the work that's gone into differentiating a task or 1339 00:53:46,490 --> 00:53:48,800 changing something so that it's suitable for everyone in your 1340 00:53:48,810 --> 00:53:52,960 class, for them in the afternoon then to be taken out for half an 1341 00:53:52,970 --> 00:53:55,320 hour to do a group. Yeah, it doesn't sit right with 1342 00:53:55,330 --> 00:53:58,270 me that they should lose history time or geography time or 1343 00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:01,470 science time because they didn't quite cover something in the 1344 00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:03,400 every single day coverage of English and maths. 1345 00:54:03,410 --> 00:54:05,650 Yeah, where do you sit with that? 1346 00:54:05,660 --> 00:54:07,670 Because again, that's to do with the timetable. 1347 00:54:07,940 --> 00:54:10,900 It's is it fit for purpose. They're not going to reach the 1348 00:54:10,910 --> 00:54:13,440 level that the government have decided should they miss out on 1349 00:54:13,450 --> 00:54:16,610 their history and I have spent. Nine years, very passionately 1350 00:54:16,660 --> 00:54:19,490 trying against interventions genuinely. 1351 00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:21,550 I really, really, really don't like them. 1352 00:54:21,860 --> 00:54:22,800 I don't like them. Ever. 1353 00:54:22,810 --> 00:54:24,920 Full stop. I just don't like them. 1354 00:54:25,070 --> 00:54:27,770 You know if your school has some magic time where you can run 1355 00:54:27,780 --> 00:54:29,070 them. So what about? 1356 00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:32,420 What about? You know, for example, I don't 1357 00:54:32,430 --> 00:54:35,340 know if assemblies happening. Yeah, so. 1358 00:54:35,350 --> 00:54:38,020 That's to me is like the only one where it's like, OK, you can 1359 00:54:38,030 --> 00:54:40,740 justify it a bit, eat. That's still missing something 1360 00:54:40,750 --> 00:54:42,740 that everyone else is getting. At the end of the day, we just 1361 00:54:42,750 --> 00:54:45,460 don't value assembly generally in schools as much as like a 1362 00:54:45,470 --> 00:54:47,630 lesson. So that one I'm like, OK, if 1363 00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:50,710 you're going to do an intervention, limit it to 1364 00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:52,150 assembly. So how do kids? 1365 00:54:52,220 --> 00:54:54,550 What's up? Through quality teaching. 1366 00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:56,540 Just think, honestly, it has to be free teaching. 1367 00:54:57,130 --> 00:54:58,910 English every single day. Yeah, we're. 1368 00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:00,590 Doing, Yeah. So I mean we're doing massage 1369 00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:04,800 every day, every year. Curriculum basically recaps the 1370 00:55:04,810 --> 00:55:07,170 last year's curriculum and adds a bit more to it. 1371 00:55:07,790 --> 00:55:10,350 There's just got to be a point where we say, well they are 1372 00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:13,320 doing 5 hours of that week or six or seven hours of that week, 1373 00:55:13,570 --> 00:55:15,880 15 minutes intervention, it's just. 1374 00:55:15,940 --> 00:55:17,780 They do not do that. Last bit they're doing. 1375 00:55:17,790 --> 00:55:21,010 Six hours of history a term? Yeah, they're doing 7 hours of 1376 00:55:21,020 --> 00:55:23,030 mass a week. Should we do some merchant 1377 00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:24,680 master in history? No, I've. 1378 00:55:24,690 --> 00:55:26,100 Always hated it. So I've always been very again, 1379 00:55:26,110 --> 00:55:29,160 I've always been very very vocal as well to help if if RSL will 1380 00:55:29,170 --> 00:55:30,440 listening for like yeah here we go. 1381 00:55:30,850 --> 00:55:33,610 So can I do I'll say it all the time like let's stop do let's 1382 00:55:33,620 --> 00:55:35,860 stop doing this. And I'm usually speaking about 1383 00:55:35,870 --> 00:55:37,130 afternoons. In fact I'm always speaking 1384 00:55:37,140 --> 00:55:39,340 about the same I hate kids missing. 1385 00:55:39,350 --> 00:55:42,380 I also from a selfish perspective and nothing annoys 1386 00:55:42,390 --> 00:55:44,990 me more than an adult coming into my room when I'm halfway 1387 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,200 through an input and I've just got them all hooked on some 1388 00:55:47,270 --> 00:55:48,950 topic they might not have been that interested in. 1389 00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:50,860 But I've managed to get them hooked on it and say, well, can 1390 00:55:50,870 --> 00:55:53,520 I have so and so, so and so, so and so and so and so. 1391 00:55:53,710 --> 00:55:55,710 And it's the four children. You know who it is? 1392 00:55:55,720 --> 00:55:57,420 Yeah. It's the four children who need 1393 00:55:57,430 --> 00:55:59,420 to be in that room the most. Hence the reason they're in an 1394 00:55:59,430 --> 00:56:00,820 intervention to catch up on something. 1395 00:56:00,890 --> 00:56:03,230 They find learning harder. Yeah, please do take them out of 1396 00:56:03,240 --> 00:56:05,580 the end of my input and the start of the task so that when 1397 00:56:05,590 --> 00:56:07,200 they come back in, they have no idea what they're doing. 1398 00:56:07,210 --> 00:56:09,220 They're behind. Yeah, got it. 1399 00:56:09,230 --> 00:56:10,700 Annoys me so much. It's. 1400 00:56:10,710 --> 00:56:12,560 Frustrating. It is frustrating and it's the 1401 00:56:12,570 --> 00:56:14,350 same frustration as when a child's late. 1402 00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,590 We just, it can't be accepted. If someone sits there and goes, 1403 00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,400 yeah, it's it's quite frustrating when the child comes 1404 00:56:19,410 --> 00:56:21,400 in late or misses, you know, half an hour or less, isn't it? 1405 00:56:21,450 --> 00:56:23,580 Yeah, it can't. Then we can't then pretend it's 1406 00:56:23,590 --> 00:56:25,620 not frustrating when a child, she's half an hour of your 1407 00:56:25,630 --> 00:56:27,900 lesson for a different reason. It's still frustrating for the 1408 00:56:27,910 --> 00:56:30,580 same reason, yeah, only this time we have complete control 1409 00:56:30,590 --> 00:56:31,420 over it. Would you take? 1410 00:56:31,430 --> 00:56:33,300 A kid out of a maths lesson to an English intervention? 1411 00:56:33,310 --> 00:56:35,220 Of course you would. Push wouldn't. 1412 00:56:35,230 --> 00:56:38,550 So, so another, you know, side to this coin is OK, we're just 1413 00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,600 teaching the kids that these subjects are just not important. 1414 00:56:40,610 --> 00:56:41,850 Yeah, history. Not important. 1415 00:56:41,860 --> 00:56:43,500 Go out and do some maths. Yeah, so. 1416 00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:45,830 You know, in the past I've ran intervention groups. 1417 00:56:45,980 --> 00:56:47,550 It's my job. I've been asked to run 1418 00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,690 intervention groups. Therefore I've made them really 1419 00:56:49,700 --> 00:56:51,820 useful. They have been maths, sometimes 1420 00:56:51,830 --> 00:56:52,960 been English as well, then English. 1421 00:56:52,970 --> 00:56:55,730 Writing interventions have done reading interventions, but 1422 00:56:55,740 --> 00:56:57,150 mostly I've done maths interventions. 1423 00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,680 Geography, never done geography intervention, never done History 1424 00:56:59,690 --> 00:57:02,110 intervention, never happened. I'm going to take a child out of 1425 00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:03,610 masks. Didn't know who Julius Caesar 1426 00:57:03,620 --> 00:57:04,250 was. Yeah. 1427 00:57:04,260 --> 00:57:06,100 You know, I mean, however, I will take a child out of 1428 00:57:06,110 --> 00:57:08,920 geography because they didn't know how to bridge 10 past 98. 1429 00:57:08,990 --> 00:57:10,510 Yeah, you know. And you might listen to this and 1430 00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:12,180 agree, you might be like ohh yeah, maths, English are 1431 00:57:12,190 --> 00:57:12,860 important. Yeah. 1432 00:57:12,870 --> 00:57:15,380 And and you know what, I kind of agree to that as well. 1433 00:57:15,390 --> 00:57:17,620 But I don't. I just hate the whole double 1434 00:57:17,630 --> 00:57:20,970 mindset of we all unanimously agree that Mason things are the 1435 00:57:20,980 --> 00:57:22,510 most important. They are just really important. 1436 00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,080 But that's already. Built into the timetable 1437 00:57:24,090 --> 00:57:26,200 already. But also you have to tell the 1438 00:57:26,210 --> 00:57:27,980 children and make it really clear that every subject is 1439 00:57:27,990 --> 00:57:30,310 equally valuable. And it's like, well, what we 1440 00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:32,750 going what do you want? Do you want me to tell the do 1441 00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,120 you want me to pretend that the children, that these other 1442 00:57:35,130 --> 00:57:37,300 subjects are just as important, like that so much work into 1443 00:57:37,310 --> 00:57:38,960 them, are all becoming specialists in geography and 1444 00:57:38,970 --> 00:57:43,010 history but also not we all secretly behind the scenes. 1445 00:57:43,020 --> 00:57:44,950 But yeah, they're not that are they We'll take them out all the 1446 00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,000 time and do these other things or I don't want. 1447 00:57:47,010 --> 00:57:48,740 What are we trying to get across to the kids. 1448 00:57:48,750 --> 00:57:49,960 I don't understand. I. 1449 00:57:49,970 --> 00:57:53,420 Think again. This is like a personal thing, 1450 00:57:53,530 --> 00:57:54,920 isn't it? This is one of those personal 1451 00:57:54,930 --> 00:57:56,640 things where this is our personal opinion. 1452 00:57:57,290 --> 00:57:59,020 We're teachers. We still do intervention groups, 1453 00:57:59,030 --> 00:58:01,200 is the point I'm trying to make. Is still gonna do? 1454 00:58:01,410 --> 00:58:03,200 Yeah, of course we are. We're still gonna make them 1455 00:58:03,210 --> 00:58:04,310 useful. We're still gonna make sure 1456 00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,370 children in those groups make more progress like that. 1457 00:58:06,470 --> 00:58:07,630 Of course that's going to happen. 1458 00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,730 But it's just at what cost? And the cost is that they're, 1459 00:58:10,860 --> 00:58:13,590 you know, I've done an intervention group before where 1460 00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:16,900 it's one of the groups has had to been during their PS during 1461 00:58:16,910 --> 00:58:18,810 their PE slot. Yeah, yeah. 1462 00:58:18,820 --> 00:58:22,170 And it's like, cool. I think that's nearly more 1463 00:58:22,180 --> 00:58:24,150 important than anything. Yeah, they're staying active and 1464 00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:26,190 fit. So I might actually be taking 1465 00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:28,470 them out the only physical activity they'll do all week, 1466 00:58:30,020 --> 00:58:31,320 but that sounds horrendous to me, right? 1467 00:58:31,330 --> 00:58:33,600 That that's obviously I'm like that's awful. 1468 00:58:33,750 --> 00:58:36,560 And I also, you've got to feel that way for history. 1469 00:58:36,730 --> 00:58:39,720 They only get to do history for like you know, a certain amount 1470 00:58:39,730 --> 00:58:41,520 of time all year. Yeah. 1471 00:58:41,530 --> 00:58:43,000 It's much less than maths and English. 1472 00:58:43,010 --> 00:58:45,000 Yeah. So you know the the impact is 1473 00:58:45,010 --> 00:58:47,340 greater on the subject they're missing than the impact is on 1474 00:58:47,350 --> 00:58:49,360 the subject they're getting. So they're going to have more of 1475 00:58:49,370 --> 00:58:52,020 a detrimental impact on what they've missed in history than 1476 00:58:52,070 --> 00:58:53,560 the positive impact will be for mass. 1477 00:58:53,570 --> 00:58:56,000 Because guess what, they've got master tomorrow and tomorrow and 1478 00:58:56,010 --> 00:58:57,540 tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. 1479 00:58:57,590 --> 00:59:00,960 So it doesn't add up to me and I think, I think we're both quite 1480 00:59:00,970 --> 00:59:03,590 passionate about. I'd love it for it to be a thing 1481 00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,630 of the past and he's quality first teaching. 1482 00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:08,490 It's like how your children gonna make progress. 1483 00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:10,330 Really good teaching in the morning. 1484 00:59:10,340 --> 00:59:11,800 Yeah, one. Big thing I kind of want to do a 1485 00:59:11,810 --> 00:59:14,950 poll on this maybe the episode poll very specific though. 1486 00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:18,230 So it's it's to people that taught you 6 and it's about Sats 1487 00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:23,170 boosters because I think that's a great poll narrow down like I 1488 00:59:23,180 --> 00:59:25,110 actually just wanna know because I don't want to I was going to 1489 00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:26,880 start talking about this is every school does it. 1490 00:59:26,950 --> 00:59:28,020 Yeah but I don't know if they do. 1491 00:59:28,030 --> 00:59:31,050 I just know that schools high school circle by teachers. 1492 00:59:31,060 --> 00:59:33,700 Every school has done it Yeah so quite a common thing. 1493 00:59:33,710 --> 00:59:35,940 I hate this by the way I am so anti this. 1494 00:59:35,950 --> 00:59:38,780 I really really really hate it. A very common thing to do in 1495 00:59:38,790 --> 00:59:41,580 year six is before the SATS exams, that big test that the 1496 00:59:41,590 --> 00:59:45,570 school is judged on and and the kids, you know, whatever is SATS 1497 00:59:45,580 --> 00:59:47,430 booster. So it'll be like the weeks or 1498 00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:49,160 even the terms. In some schools I do it for like 1499 00:59:49,170 --> 00:59:51,690 2-3 terms leading up to it. There will be extra 1500 00:59:51,700 --> 00:59:54,250 interventions in place just to like really get kids ready for 1501 00:59:54,260 --> 00:59:56,330 their Sats exams. And again, they'll typically 1502 00:59:56,340 --> 00:59:58,020 take place in the afternoon because when else are you going 1503 00:59:58,030 --> 00:59:59,800 to do it? I really don't like it for the 1504 00:59:59,810 --> 01:00:00,910 same reasons. Intervention. 1505 01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:02,790 It's like interventions on steroids. 1506 01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:05,330 It's just all the time. But I want to know before I 1507 01:00:05,340 --> 01:00:07,810 before I ramble on about it. Does your school do it? 1508 01:00:07,860 --> 01:00:09,830 You don't have to be a year six teacher I guess, to know this 1509 01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:12,610 but if you work in a school do you do SATS boosters? 1510 01:00:12,620 --> 01:00:14,910 And if you want to tell us your opinion on it, I'd love to hear 1511 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:16,500 it. Before I start rambling on it 1512 01:00:16,570 --> 01:00:18,740 about it, maybe in another episode on Sats or something. 1513 01:00:18,750 --> 01:00:20,010 You. Know the ultimate version of 1514 01:00:20,020 --> 01:00:22,740 that, by the way, is some children get invited back in 1515 01:00:22,750 --> 01:00:24,420 during half term? Ohh yeah. 1516 01:00:24,430 --> 01:00:25,500 Yeah, to into. School to do. 1517 01:00:25,510 --> 01:00:28,420 But yeah, it's just like, OK, who is that for at least? 1518 01:00:28,430 --> 01:00:30,400 It's not in geography time, yeah. 1519 01:00:30,410 --> 01:00:31,300 It's true. It's just. 1520 01:00:31,310 --> 01:00:33,140 In their free time, where they have to relax and let their 1521 01:00:33,150 --> 01:00:35,580 brain settle so they can learn more, we'll take that way, I 1522 01:00:35,590 --> 01:00:36,780 suppose. The last thing then about 1523 01:00:36,790 --> 01:00:39,810 timetables is the last thing I wanted to come on because it's a 1524 01:00:39,820 --> 01:00:41,810 big again, it's a big hot topic at the minute and they seem to 1525 01:00:41,820 --> 01:00:44,500 be a dying breed specialist teachers. 1526 01:00:45,260 --> 01:00:50,450 So in terms of the timetable we talked about is the timetable 1527 01:00:50,460 --> 01:00:52,470 fit for purpose? Well do you know what? 1528 01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:57,750 As a human being who did a PGCE year and two placements and that 1529 01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:02,270 was my training, it would be absolutely ridiculous for anyone 1530 01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:06,170 to assume that I am the best possible geography teacher. 1531 01:01:06,220 --> 01:01:08,370 I'm the best possible music. I'm pretty sure your. 1532 01:01:08,380 --> 01:01:10,580 PC was maths specialist, Math specialist. 1533 01:01:10,590 --> 01:01:11,590 You're special. I am the. 1534 01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,390 Best possible math teacher. I'm not even that. 1535 01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:16,330 That's the point. I've done math specialism. 1536 01:01:16,340 --> 01:01:18,610 I'm not even the best, It's my favourite subject. 1537 01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,110 I've probably the best subject if I'm being perfectly honest. 1538 01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:23,130 As a teacher, you can reflect on what you think your best subject 1539 01:01:23,140 --> 01:01:25,890 is to teach maths is. I understand the curriculum, I 1540 01:01:25,900 --> 01:01:28,250 understand the, the, the, the points we've got to get to. 1541 01:01:28,340 --> 01:01:30,090 I feel very, very confident teaching maths. 1542 01:01:30,100 --> 01:01:32,410 I think I could teach maths without any resources. 1543 01:01:32,500 --> 01:01:34,150 I really do. At this point I would say I'm at 1544 01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:36,670 that point of teaching maths now where I could walk into a room 1545 01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:38,970 every day. No, but here's my point. 1546 01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:43,100 But here's my point. That is 112th of the curriculum. 1547 01:01:43,110 --> 01:01:45,130 Do you feel like that? Do I feel like English? 1548 01:01:45,180 --> 01:01:47,360 No, I feel like I'm a good English teacher. 1549 01:01:47,420 --> 01:01:51,480 Do I feel that with history? No, absolutely not. 1550 01:01:51,490 --> 01:01:52,780 Do I feel like music? No. 1551 01:01:52,850 --> 01:01:55,820 Do I feel like that with PE? No, no, no, No other subject do 1552 01:01:55,830 --> 01:01:58,600 I feel that close to. However, my timetable is I've 1553 01:01:58,610 --> 01:02:01,260 got to teach everything and I've got to teach at a really high 1554 01:02:01,270 --> 01:02:04,110 level. And as a culture in school we 1555 01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,080 have this idea of specialist teachers, right? 1556 01:02:06,230 --> 01:02:08,490 But very, very much so. And I'd be interested to hear 1557 01:02:08,500 --> 01:02:11,270 other people think. I think specialist teaching is 1558 01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:15,280 limited to three subjects. PE, music, modern foreign 1559 01:02:15,290 --> 01:02:17,490 languages. If you are a specialist teacher 1560 01:02:17,500 --> 01:02:19,950 in a primary school, I reckon it's 99%. 1561 01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:25,750 You're one of those 3. OK Why then is it that we 1562 01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:31,310 pretend that children need a specialist in music in PE, in 1563 01:02:31,370 --> 01:02:33,770 modern foreign languages but not history? 1564 01:02:33,820 --> 01:02:35,410 No, no, that can be the teacher, of course. 1565 01:02:35,420 --> 01:02:36,230 Not. Geography. 1566 01:02:36,940 --> 01:02:40,030 ICGT might be another specialist teacher, but in a lot of schools 1567 01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:44,130 the teachers teach the ICT. That is such a niche that you 1568 01:02:44,140 --> 01:02:49,110 can't possibly be an expert. And why the coding Exactly? 1569 01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:53,480 So I guess the point is, why don't we have more specialist 1570 01:02:53,490 --> 01:02:56,220 teachers? Why don't we as teaching staff 1571 01:02:56,270 --> 01:02:58,330 if we're looking at the timetable as a teacher's point 1572 01:02:58,340 --> 01:02:59,020 of view? Hmm. 1573 01:02:59,060 --> 01:03:01,160 Why isn't my timetable maths all morning? 1574 01:03:01,250 --> 01:03:02,680 Why? Why don't I teach maths to more 1575 01:03:02,690 --> 01:03:04,710 than one class? I'm better at teaching maths 1576 01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:07,720 than other subjects. Why aren't I then in a primary 1577 01:03:07,730 --> 01:03:09,140 school? It's happened in secondary 1578 01:03:09,150 --> 01:03:10,360 school. You have specialist teachers? 1579 01:03:10,450 --> 01:03:12,160 One in a primary school? Then do I not have? 1580 01:03:12,170 --> 01:03:13,860 Why don't I have four math classes instead of one? 1581 01:03:13,930 --> 01:03:15,670 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why doesn't someone else have 4 1582 01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:17,300 history classes instead of the closest? 1583 01:03:17,310 --> 01:03:20,350 Example I guess would be I'm a year six teacher so I have to 1584 01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:22,610 teach every single subject year six level. 1585 01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:27,130 But in one year's time every single one of those subjects 1586 01:03:27,140 --> 01:03:28,910 will be taught by a specialist teacher and it would be 1587 01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:31,650 ludicrous for the idea of a year seven teacher teaching all 1588 01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:33,170 teaching every single one wouldn't. 1589 01:03:33,180 --> 01:03:34,610 So Can you imagine a secondary school teacher? 1590 01:03:34,620 --> 01:03:36,980 It was mainly based in year seven and they're like right 1591 01:03:36,990 --> 01:03:39,620 this week you've got to do maths and English, sorry, you've got 1592 01:03:39,630 --> 01:03:41,060 to do both. I know you're the other maths 1593 01:03:41,070 --> 01:03:42,310 teacher, but would you mind covering this? 1594 01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:43,910 All right. You've also got to do geography, 1595 01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:47,330 history, PE and RE and they are doing French at the moment and 1596 01:03:47,340 --> 01:03:49,850 planet. And planet and planet, please, 1597 01:03:49,860 --> 01:03:51,870 and understand the curriculum. What? 1598 01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:53,290 I'm one year away from that. Like what? 1599 01:03:53,300 --> 01:03:55,210 What are we talking is mental. This is mad. 1600 01:03:55,740 --> 01:03:59,280 I mean we've we've talked about in the previous episode when we 1601 01:03:59,290 --> 01:04:04,090 talked about Ofsted, we did talk about maybe why it's become so 1602 01:04:04,100 --> 01:04:07,990 pressurised now, like you've got to be so specialised in every 1603 01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,510 single subject, whereas before it was a little bit like maybe 1604 01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:11,950 it was a bit more accepting of the reality. 1605 01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:13,480 If you're not actually going to be though, are you. 1606 01:04:13,490 --> 01:04:15,870 So let's just do like a foundation in these subjects. 1607 01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:20,020 But your question. So what was your question? 1608 01:04:20,030 --> 01:04:21,150 What we can do about it? Well. 1609 01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:24,170 My my point that I was making with specialist teachers is we 1610 01:04:24,180 --> 01:04:26,130 we pretend that we need them for these subjects. 1611 01:04:26,140 --> 01:04:26,970 Yeah. Or. 1612 01:04:26,980 --> 01:04:28,530 Or We do need them for these subjects. 1613 01:04:28,540 --> 01:04:29,450 Even. I don't even think. 1614 01:04:29,460 --> 01:04:32,120 I think I'm not pretending. They're much better at doing it. 1615 01:04:32,170 --> 01:04:32,870 So why? Why? 1616 01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:35,140 Therefore, why don't we have specialist teachers won't have 1617 01:04:35,150 --> 01:04:37,170 that mindset with all of the curriculum. 1618 01:04:37,220 --> 01:04:39,200 Why does it stop at modern foreign languages? 1619 01:04:39,210 --> 01:04:40,450 Do you know it's? The same reason. 1620 01:04:40,460 --> 01:04:42,520 It's the same reason that if you if you walk into a school, 1621 01:04:42,530 --> 01:04:44,990 there's an 80% chance you'll trip over a carpet that was put 1622 01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:48,250 down in 1995. There's no money. 1623 01:04:48,330 --> 01:04:50,060 There's no there's no money, is there? 1624 01:04:50,070 --> 01:04:51,740 Yeah, well, that's. How They save money, right? 1625 01:04:51,830 --> 01:04:53,920 Yeah. They say, OK, we're gonna get 1626 01:04:53,930 --> 01:04:56,750 rid of the specialist teacher. So the point of being at this 1627 01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:58,960 point, we're not moving towards more specialist teachers, we're 1628 01:04:58,970 --> 01:05:00,970 moving towards no specialist teachers. 1629 01:05:01,010 --> 01:05:02,620 So we're gonna save money. So you have to pay the 1630 01:05:02,630 --> 01:05:05,270 specialist to come anymore. But you have to teach PE. 1631 01:05:05,590 --> 01:05:07,030 Stressful. What are the consequences of 1632 01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:08,440 that stress? It is so. 1633 01:05:08,450 --> 01:05:11,130 Stressful and I know you're going to make a point a minute 1634 01:05:11,140 --> 01:05:14,960 about what you can do about it, but it is horribly stressful. 1635 01:05:15,230 --> 01:05:19,330 You just if you take that seriously, if you take your role 1636 01:05:19,340 --> 01:05:21,740 really, really seriously, then you're going to burnout. 1637 01:05:21,810 --> 01:05:24,540 Yeah, because you just can't be. You need to get over it. 1638 01:05:24,550 --> 01:05:26,960 You can't be. You genuinely can't be a 1639 01:05:26,970 --> 01:05:28,730 specialist, like an actual specialist. 1640 01:05:28,740 --> 01:05:31,000 You can be good. You can be a good geography 1641 01:05:31,010 --> 01:05:32,300 teacher. I've taught this quickly, five 1642 01:05:32,310 --> 01:05:33,540 Times Now. I've been the same year. 1643 01:05:33,550 --> 01:05:37,140 I'm really good at teaching this unit now, but you're not. 1644 01:05:37,150 --> 01:05:39,200 You're not going to be a specialist in geography and 1645 01:05:39,210 --> 01:05:41,620 history teaching. It for six hours every time. 1646 01:05:41,630 --> 01:05:43,110 Yeah, it's. Just not going to happen and you 1647 01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:46,580 just kind of need to not let that impact you in the way that 1648 01:05:46,590 --> 01:05:48,130 it would if you really took that seriously. 1649 01:05:48,140 --> 01:05:49,610 Well, because. The point being, if you get rid 1650 01:05:49,620 --> 01:05:52,330 of a teacher, a specialist teacher, and you pass it on to a 1651 01:05:52,340 --> 01:05:55,610 classroom teacher, yeah, I'm not dissing as classroom teachers 1652 01:05:55,620 --> 01:05:57,350 whatsoever. We've got unbelievable skills. 1653 01:05:57,580 --> 01:06:00,030 But the children won't be getting as good a curriculum. 1654 01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:01,670 They won't be getting as good in the cosmos. 1655 01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:03,910 So we have a specialist teacher, music in our school, Yeah, 1656 01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:05,870 fantastic. If that stopped. 1657 01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:08,920 And I then had to teach. In fact, no, I do teach the 1658 01:06:08,930 --> 01:06:10,070 music. Never mind. 1659 01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:11,700 No, no. But they have. 1660 01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:14,310 They have groups where they teach it, they take assembly, 1661 01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:16,280 singer, assembly. They have different year groups 1662 01:06:16,290 --> 01:06:17,880 where they teach, if they do teach. 1663 01:06:17,890 --> 01:06:20,500 And so everyone in year three and four, yeah, gets music 1664 01:06:20,510 --> 01:06:22,230 intervention and the. Specialist gives me all the 1665 01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:24,150 planning things like that, so I might do something but let's 1666 01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:26,030 think more one way. Actually I don't teach any of 1667 01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:27,690 it. So something like modern foreign 1668 01:06:27,700 --> 01:06:30,110 do do more. So we have, we have a teacher 1669 01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:33,420 who do that, right. If that suddenly fell on me, it 1670 01:06:33,430 --> 01:06:34,700 just wouldn't be as good. No. 1671 01:06:35,090 --> 01:06:36,680 And that's not because I can't be bothered. 1672 01:06:36,690 --> 01:06:39,300 I just, I'm not. I'm not a specialist in it. 1673 01:06:39,350 --> 01:06:42,590 It would be insulting to the specialist teachers out there 1674 01:06:42,650 --> 01:06:44,620 for me to say, yeah, I'd probably be as good. 1675 01:06:44,850 --> 01:06:47,430 Yeah, all of them. All of these, of course. 1676 01:06:47,550 --> 01:06:50,440 And then the. Specialist knows every Tuesday. 1677 01:06:50,490 --> 01:06:54,250 I've got Spanish with year three and I can plan that curriculum 1678 01:06:54,260 --> 01:06:56,340 out. That's really cognitive load is 1679 01:06:56,350 --> 01:07:00,340 less, they've got more to do. But it's all within Spanish. 1680 01:07:00,620 --> 01:07:02,700 It's all within French. It's all within, you know, it's 1681 01:07:02,710 --> 01:07:05,260 it's all within a certain subject which they know really 1682 01:07:05,270 --> 01:07:06,020 well. But back to your. 1683 01:07:06,030 --> 01:07:07,160 Question. I do think it's budget. 1684 01:07:07,210 --> 01:07:09,800 I honestly, I I genuinely think if if there was just the money 1685 01:07:09,810 --> 01:07:11,720 there, yeah, I don't think I had, teacher would think twice 1686 01:07:11,730 --> 01:07:12,820 about it. But yeah, of course we got the 1687 01:07:12,830 --> 01:07:13,370 money. Let's get it. 1688 01:07:13,380 --> 01:07:14,560 Let's get in these. OK, but why? 1689 01:07:14,570 --> 01:07:16,300 Don't we? Why do we stop there? 1690 01:07:16,350 --> 01:07:19,310 And that's my point. There will be nothing against me 1691 01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:21,640 teaching maths all morning and someone else teaching English, 1692 01:07:21,650 --> 01:07:23,640 or more so like a. Secondary school setup almost. 1693 01:07:23,650 --> 01:07:26,020 In terms of English and maths, like you know, if you have 1694 01:07:26,030 --> 01:07:28,940 teachers who are more specialist and it would take less of a 1695 01:07:28,950 --> 01:07:33,040 cognitive load, are we descaling them or is it simply just not 1696 01:07:33,110 --> 01:07:34,670 practical? Or is it just against the 1697 01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:35,650 culture? It's a big. 1698 01:07:35,660 --> 01:07:37,230 Question isn't it? Because it's probably a lot. 1699 01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:38,930 You know we probably do a whole episode on there. 1700 01:07:39,380 --> 01:07:41,190 Should we teach like secondary schools? 1701 01:07:41,230 --> 01:07:44,190 Because I reckon we could really go dive down into maybe it's 1702 01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:46,630 because there's more nurturing in primary school and actually 1703 01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:48,680 building those relationships with your class and having them 1704 01:07:48,690 --> 01:07:51,870 more often rather than like a a form group that go off all day 1705 01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:52,570 but if you. Set. 1706 01:07:52,580 --> 01:07:55,190 You already did that, yeah? True heart like half the time. 1707 01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:57,750 Usually if you set the afternoons, you still have your. 1708 01:07:58,290 --> 01:07:59,590 Afternoon. You still have your class. 1709 01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:03,140 I mean mornings staff are spitting half half of them, 1710 01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:05,440 yeah. For example, one teacher will 1711 01:08:05,450 --> 01:08:08,660 teach year 3 English and year 4 English, yeah. 1712 01:08:08,670 --> 01:08:11,800 And then I would teach year three-year 4 maths and year 3 1713 01:08:11,810 --> 01:08:12,700 maths. So we. 1714 01:08:12,710 --> 01:08:14,360 I I've posted this before and I've seen it. 1715 01:08:14,370 --> 01:08:16,960 I have seen it happen in schools very rarely and I always find it 1716 01:08:16,970 --> 01:08:19,100 weird the counter argument that the only counter argument I've 1717 01:08:19,109 --> 01:08:22,080 ever heard to this is ohh no ID skills teachers. 1718 01:08:22,689 --> 01:08:24,760 Does it? How de skilled is apology year 1719 01:08:24,770 --> 01:08:25,920 10 teacher? Yeah. 1720 01:08:25,970 --> 01:08:28,580 Yeah, I think finally. Skilled because they don't know 1721 01:08:28,590 --> 01:08:31,460 how to teach physics. And no, yeah, of course they're 1722 01:08:31,470 --> 01:08:33,200 they're incredibly skilled at what they do. 1723 01:08:33,450 --> 01:08:34,950 Look at what they're doing. The point? 1724 01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,640 That those people are making is that kind of wide proof it's 1725 01:08:37,649 --> 01:08:40,520 future if like realistically most schools don't do that. 1726 01:08:40,529 --> 01:08:45,010 So if we were gonna be the one edgy school that you only teach 1727 01:08:45,020 --> 01:08:47,370 maths and someone else only teaches English, if you need a 1728 01:08:47,380 --> 01:08:49,819 new job in three years time, that's what they mean by 1729 01:08:49,830 --> 01:08:51,149 deskilled. It's like you're going to get 1730 01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,450 employed now and. That's that's a really good 1731 01:08:53,460 --> 01:08:53,930 point. It's. 1732 01:08:53,939 --> 01:08:55,250 Realistic, isn't it? But again, I think. 1733 01:08:55,260 --> 01:08:57,950 It would have to come down to that point, the choice of the 1734 01:08:57,960 --> 01:09:00,189 teacher. I'd be making that choice to go 1735 01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:01,910 step into that role, knowing that fact. 1736 01:09:01,979 --> 01:09:04,100 Yeah. Whereas if the school use that, 1737 01:09:04,109 --> 01:09:05,450 that's their score. It's irrelevant. 1738 01:09:05,460 --> 01:09:07,569 Other schools are doing, yeah, but you know, you would have to. 1739 01:09:07,580 --> 01:09:10,270 It might be harder to recruit people for that reason, but as 1740 01:09:10,279 --> 01:09:12,810 as a teacher, I think I'd really consider that actually it's. 1741 01:09:12,819 --> 01:09:13,790 Good. You made a really good point 1742 01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:15,069 there. There's other situations where 1743 01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:16,770 it is acceptable and the outcomes are the same. 1744 01:09:16,779 --> 01:09:19,649 For example, our literal jobs were part time job shared. 1745 01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:22,660 So someone could say the things you don't do on Thursday and 1746 01:09:22,670 --> 01:09:25,090 Friday, you're being deskilled and it's like no one's ever. 1747 01:09:25,100 --> 01:09:26,569 Said that to me. But it could be, yeah, no. 1748 01:09:26,580 --> 01:09:27,810 But that's what I'm saying to you. 1749 01:09:27,819 --> 01:09:30,399 I agree, and it's harder. To get we walked into this 1750 01:09:30,410 --> 01:09:32,979 knowing that it would be extremely hard now and it is for 1751 01:09:32,990 --> 01:09:35,979 us to go and get another job We wouldn't be able to now just go 1752 01:09:35,990 --> 01:09:37,960 on on on look for job advertisement. 1753 01:09:37,970 --> 01:09:39,600 Ohh, yeah, I'll go and do that other one that's a job share 1754 01:09:39,609 --> 01:09:41,600 Monday to Wednesday, but specifically this thing that I 1755 01:09:41,609 --> 01:09:43,939 have now do and because we. Don't teach Fridays, I'm really 1756 01:09:43,950 --> 01:09:48,200 bad at non uniform days now. I'm so good at Bank Holiday 1757 01:09:48,210 --> 01:09:51,060 Monday, honestly. I'm so sorry. 1758 01:09:51,069 --> 01:09:54,300 Job shares, Sorry we get all the bank holidays, but yeah, I think 1759 01:09:54,310 --> 01:09:56,340 you know, OK. In general that's a great chat. 1760 01:09:56,390 --> 01:09:59,340 Round it all off. Is the primary school term 1761 01:09:59,350 --> 01:10:02,540 timetable fit for purpose? Again, yes. 1762 01:10:02,550 --> 01:10:04,660 No. It. 1763 01:10:04,670 --> 01:10:07,040 It's never going to be fit for purpose because it's never going 1764 01:10:07,050 --> 01:10:09,340 to be able to actually deliver on what it's designed to 1765 01:10:09,350 --> 01:10:11,380 deliver, yeah. However, depending on what your 1766 01:10:11,390 --> 01:10:13,870 school's purpose is, it can be fit for purpose. 1767 01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:15,540 We do what the? Government's resolution to this 1768 01:10:15,550 --> 01:10:16,650 20 years ago. Yeah. 1769 01:10:16,660 --> 01:10:18,480 Remember when they talk to us and was like, oh please, no, 1770 01:10:18,490 --> 01:10:19,780 they're gonna extend the school day. 1771 01:10:19,790 --> 01:10:21,310 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, No. 1772 01:10:21,350 --> 01:10:23,400 No, no, no, no, no, no, please don't listen that. 1773 01:10:23,410 --> 01:10:24,600 Is. We can't get into that. 1774 01:10:24,870 --> 01:10:28,820 Another time, we're gonna talk about why more isn't always 1775 01:10:28,830 --> 01:10:32,680 better. More lessons does not equal 1776 01:10:32,730 --> 01:10:33,560 more. Money. 1777 01:10:33,630 --> 01:10:36,070 Not always. Better don't need it. 1778 01:10:36,740 --> 01:10:38,610 Backwards, right. So we pay. 1779 01:10:38,620 --> 01:10:40,900 Jingle and then finish off with a little game very quick. 1780 01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:44,950 Yeah. OK, quick game. 1781 01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:47,150 Hayden, want to make this thing. I want to play games every week. 1782 01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:49,340 However, we did really like last game so it's going to stay the 1783 01:10:49,350 --> 01:10:52,260 same with each prepared A category. 1784 01:10:52,350 --> 01:10:54,300 OK, so for example anyone listening at home didn't listen 1785 01:10:54,310 --> 01:10:56,110 last week. This game is called Lies. 1786 01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:58,500 You may have seen on Sky Sports they do this all the time. 1787 01:10:58,510 --> 01:10:59,510 Yeah, this is where I've got it from. 1788 01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:02,810 I've watched it before. It's a very simple game where 1789 01:11:02,820 --> 01:11:05,320 there's a category, it might be colours. 1790 01:11:05,390 --> 01:11:08,330 Hayden and I go backwards and forwards bidding how many we 1791 01:11:08,340 --> 01:11:10,180 think we can answer in 30 seconds. 1792 01:11:10,190 --> 01:11:11,550 So we need a timer up. Yeah. 1793 01:11:11,630 --> 01:11:13,460 So how many we can name in 30 seconds? 1794 01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:16,320 The key part here is that it's only 30 seconds because last 1795 01:11:16,330 --> 01:11:19,390 time Hayden's first bid, it's a bidding process. 1796 01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:21,150 By the way, there's no need to go in high because we can just 1797 01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:23,370 bid against each other. I asked him how many things in 1798 01:11:23,380 --> 01:11:26,730 the classroom can you name? And his first bid was 25. 1799 01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:28,960 Now could you name 25 things in the classroom? 1800 01:11:28,970 --> 01:11:31,550 Yes, of course you could, But can you do 30 seconds? 1801 01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,470 Probably not. So I think we've learned a 1802 01:11:33,480 --> 01:11:35,600 lesson because we went really low, really high last time. 1803 01:11:35,610 --> 01:11:37,400 What happens? When we keep bidding, how does 1804 01:11:37,410 --> 01:11:38,590 it end? So, whoever. 1805 01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:43,230 If for example, if you say you can name 14 if I think you can, 1806 01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:46,290 I've got a bit of something I reckon did 14, I'll go 15. 1807 01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:49,510 Hayden goes, haha, I was waiting for him to say 15, No you can't. 1808 01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:50,630 You call me a liar. Yeah. 1809 01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:53,770 So as soon as you think someone is strategic, basically if you 1810 01:11:53,780 --> 01:11:55,230 name them all, you get a point, Yeah. 1811 01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:57,090 If you don't, the other person gets a point. 1812 01:11:57,130 --> 01:12:00,910 So whatever point you want to call a bluff, you say OK, no, 1813 01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:04,130 backwards and forwards and then that's it basically. 1814 01:12:04,140 --> 01:12:08,440 So Hayden, you've got the 1st. One, yeah, I've got a category. 1815 01:12:08,580 --> 01:12:09,770 Are you ready? So when do I start? 1816 01:12:09,780 --> 01:12:11,290 I don't want to say no. We did. 1817 01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:13,730 We did it. You gonna start the timer now? 1818 01:12:13,740 --> 01:12:15,400 I'm ready to start. OK. 1819 01:12:15,410 --> 01:12:18,200 So the category is animals with four legs. 1820 01:12:18,650 --> 01:12:19,860 Four legs. OK, OK. 1821 01:12:19,870 --> 01:12:22,180 OK. OK, definitely, definitely 7 1822 01:12:24,430 --> 01:12:25,200 OHH. It's good, yeah. 1823 01:12:25,210 --> 01:12:32,040 Yeah, just coughing 9/9. I can do 1000 percent 100%. 11. 1824 01:12:33,400 --> 01:12:34,890 Now do I make you do it? No. 1825 01:12:34,900 --> 01:12:37,330 I can do 12 easy. Tough liar. 1826 01:12:37,340 --> 01:12:40,870 No, I really wanted to but I was really trying to push him up. 1827 01:12:41,010 --> 01:12:41,770 Was thinking the. Closer. 1828 01:12:41,780 --> 01:12:45,370 We get to 15. That's OK How many 11121212 Did 1829 01:12:45,380 --> 01:12:47,210 I say I'm ready? 30 seconds. 1830 01:12:47,220 --> 01:12:49,470 Animals with four legs? Go cat. 1831 01:12:49,580 --> 01:12:51,190 Dog. Mouse. 1832 01:12:51,260 --> 01:12:53,630 Hedgehog. Chameleon. 1833 01:12:54,510 --> 01:13:00,560 Elephant, Tiger, Lion, Platypus, Anteater. 1834 01:13:00,630 --> 01:13:01,920 You got 18? Seconds. 1835 01:13:02,870 --> 01:13:06,950 Baboon ape, yeah. That's 12 ohh. 1836 01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:08,460 I got 12 seconds left. Ohh. 1837 01:13:08,510 --> 01:13:10,290 I was walking around the zoo. My hearing. 1838 01:13:10,300 --> 01:13:13,300 My head then I thought, no, I. I honestly thought I couldn't 1839 01:13:13,310 --> 01:13:15,580 find the zoo. What do I see? 1840 01:13:16,010 --> 01:13:18,830 One we did last week, I put myself in my doorway of my 1841 01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:20,920 classroom and walked around trying to name the things like. 1842 01:13:21,540 --> 01:13:23,430 Yeah, yeah. OK, My girlfriend. 1843 01:13:23,440 --> 01:13:24,890 One now. OK, My one. 1844 01:13:25,100 --> 01:13:27,720 Yeah, I see. I think this is a bit harder, 1845 01:13:27,730 --> 01:13:29,590 but maybe we'll still bid to that kind of level. 1846 01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:32,940 I don't know. OK, so my one is different kinds 1847 01:13:32,950 --> 01:13:36,160 of New Year's resolution. So classic New Year's 1848 01:13:36,170 --> 01:13:38,410 resolutions. OK, how many New Year's 1849 01:13:38,420 --> 01:13:47,290 resolutions can you name? 1 2 New Year's resolution Yeah, 1850 01:13:47,300 --> 01:13:48,740 different. Things people might say for any 1851 01:13:48,750 --> 01:13:56,800 resolution you can think of. Loads of 3/4. 5. 6 easy. 7. 1852 01:13:56,810 --> 01:13:58,820 Yeah, go later. I knew. 1853 01:13:58,830 --> 01:14:00,130 I knew you didn't want to strike at me. 1854 01:14:00,140 --> 01:14:01,980 Higher. OK, ready. 7 New Year's 1855 01:14:01,990 --> 01:14:02,900 resolutions. Go. 1856 01:14:02,940 --> 01:14:03,730 God. OK. 1857 01:14:04,070 --> 01:14:05,100 To. Become healthier? 1858 01:14:05,170 --> 01:14:08,600 Yes. Yeah, that's too vague to go to 1859 01:14:08,610 --> 01:14:09,610 the gym. OK. 1860 01:14:09,620 --> 01:14:12,620 Is that one or two you keeping the first time OK to? 1861 01:14:12,660 --> 01:14:14,930 Start running that. No you can't. 1862 01:14:14,940 --> 01:14:16,480 You can't have gym healthier and running. 1863 01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:20,710 OK, to start a new hobby? Yes, that's the thing. 1864 01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:26,330 To get a new job. Yes for to resolutions to people 1865 01:14:26,340 --> 01:14:30,330 have to. Give you running 5 three seconds 1866 01:14:30,340 --> 01:14:31,370 5 so to. Make to make it. 1867 01:14:31,380 --> 01:14:32,450 Get a new girlfriend? Boyfriend. 1868 01:14:33,110 --> 01:14:35,710 I don't know. One news resolution is that. 1869 01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:37,690 The same 1 to get a girlfriend and boyfriend. 1870 01:14:37,700 --> 01:14:40,350 Yeah, that's. 2-3 Kings I quit. Smoking. 1871 01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:41,310 Quit drinking. Oh my God. 1872 01:14:41,320 --> 01:14:43,710 Quit stuff, yeah. Stop stuff my brain. 1873 01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:44,900 Get to work on. Time. 1874 01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:49,500 Obviously don't be on TV. Lots of times Chris shows and 1875 01:14:49,510 --> 01:14:51,180 occasionally would be like, oh we could do this one. 1876 01:14:51,190 --> 01:14:54,130 He finds the one where it's like this low stakes listen, I'm 1877 01:14:54,140 --> 01:14:55,350 being. I'm being polite, OK? 1878 01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:56,050 I've. Got I've. 1879 01:14:56,120 --> 01:14:57,250 I've got James on the other line. 1880 01:14:57,260 --> 01:14:58,350 Ready. Like James. 1881 01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:00,330 It's you, mate. I'll pretend I just freeze. 1882 01:15:00,340 --> 01:15:03,470 Up when I'm under pressure. And you don't know anything. 1883 01:15:03,540 --> 01:15:04,330 And I don't know. Anything. 1884 01:15:04,340 --> 01:15:05,940 Anyway, let's. Finish off. 1885 01:15:05,980 --> 01:15:09,640 It's been a longest episode. It's been a proper enjoyable 1886 01:15:09,650 --> 01:15:11,650 one. I've loved this one bit longer. 1887 01:15:11,700 --> 01:15:13,470 Perfect we're now gonna go through. 1888 01:15:13,480 --> 01:15:16,150 I asked last question was if you made it this far through all of 1889 01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:18,960 our questions and potentially Instagram, what your top tips 1890 01:15:18,970 --> 01:15:20,960 for this year? How can we make this year 1891 01:15:21,010 --> 01:15:23,380 really, really cool? Hayden, I want you to rate them 1892 01:15:23,450 --> 01:15:25,780 out of 10. How good is this? 1893 01:15:25,790 --> 01:15:27,820 Advice out of 10, OK, because you're not gonna know who sent 1894 01:15:27,830 --> 01:15:29,280 them because some of these are friends as well. 1895 01:15:29,290 --> 01:15:32,440 OK, so ready. Firstly, planning your PPA, 1896 01:15:32,450 --> 01:15:35,380 anything that takes longer is just too much work 10. 1897 01:15:35,590 --> 01:15:37,440 Solid advice. That was my one. 1898 01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:42,200 Next one smile every day. Six. 1899 01:15:42,270 --> 01:15:43,350 Ohh. I liked that one. 1900 01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:44,520 Nice, simple. Go for it. 1901 01:15:45,330 --> 01:15:47,640 Breakdown everything you've got to do into simple segments. 1902 01:15:47,650 --> 01:15:50,880 Tick them off as you go. Solid eight, really nice bit of 1903 01:15:50,890 --> 01:15:52,110 advice there. I think the best. 1904 01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:53,350 Thing we ever got bought, by the way. 1905 01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:56,030 Well, I always remember it's one of our head of years. 1906 01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:57,680 Yeah. In second or third year of 1907 01:15:57,690 --> 01:15:59,820 teaching brought us all To Do List. 1908 01:15:59,950 --> 01:16:01,730 Yeah, Do you know? What the advice was from testing 1909 01:16:01,770 --> 01:16:04,900 where the health visitor around for the baby and her advice to 1910 01:16:04,910 --> 01:16:08,130 deal with post Natal stress and just having so many things to do 1911 01:16:08,140 --> 01:16:11,240 was get her To Do List, write it down and that way you don't have 1912 01:16:11,250 --> 01:16:13,820 to think about it. So clear for me, and I am much 1913 01:16:13,830 --> 01:16:18,840 more both efficient and I forget listings, fewer things when I 1914 01:16:18,850 --> 01:16:19,960 write things down. On To Do List. 1915 01:16:19,970 --> 01:16:22,390 It actually changed my teaching genuinely little things. 1916 01:16:22,400 --> 01:16:24,880 But really important, be antisocial after work. 1917 01:16:26,550 --> 01:16:29,480 That is a really good one. I loved that one. 1918 01:16:30,130 --> 01:16:31,880 Work is work. They'd replace you within a 1919 01:16:31,890 --> 01:16:34,070 month if you left. So just prioritise your home 1920 01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,890 life. 11 Yeah, I love that one. That is one of the people who 1921 01:16:36,900 --> 01:16:37,690 worked with us. That is the. 1922 01:16:37,700 --> 01:16:39,340 Man, that is mantra right? Absolutely. 1923 01:16:39,390 --> 01:16:42,100 This is really interesting one and I agree, stay calm. 1924 01:16:42,110 --> 01:16:44,780 I've been teaching for over 25 years and I love it. 1925 01:16:44,990 --> 01:16:46,800 I get chased up, I haven't done anything. 1926 01:16:47,090 --> 01:16:48,430 It's fine. That's like. 1927 01:16:48,440 --> 01:16:51,890 That advice given from our deputy a long time ago, another 1928 01:16:51,900 --> 01:16:53,010 10. These are all such good bits of 1929 01:16:53,020 --> 01:16:55,940 advice, say. No to anything that drains you 1930 01:16:56,410 --> 01:16:58,090 or that you are not getting paid for. 1931 01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:00,580 No2 you should do loads of things that you. 1932 01:17:00,590 --> 01:17:02,550 Should if you're a. Teacher, you should be working 1933 01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:03,510 for free. I can. 1934 01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:06,650 Sense a 10 out of 10 sarcasm. It's all really good. 1935 01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:08,830 Prioritise. Keep the children's progress and 1936 01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:11,750 needs as the priority. Other menial things can always 1937 01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:15,850 wait. 9. Make actual good content instead 1938 01:17:15,860 --> 01:17:17,800 of all of this rubbish that you can put on Instagram. 1939 01:17:17,810 --> 01:17:20,450 That who sent this? One You wrote that, you wrote 1940 01:17:20,460 --> 01:17:21,400 that one. Yeah, it wasn't. 1941 01:17:21,410 --> 01:17:22,810 Anonymous. How good is that Ted trying to 1942 01:17:22,820 --> 01:17:25,410 prank you too? This one. 1943 01:17:25,420 --> 01:17:28,120 Really made me laugh. We used to work with quit. 1944 01:17:30,440 --> 01:17:33,870 I I saw this comfort. It really cracked me up. 1945 01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:35,960 Good. It's the four laughing emojis 1946 01:17:35,970 --> 01:17:37,650 after for me. Yeah, really good. 1947 01:17:37,660 --> 01:17:41,090 So yeah, there's resolution. Was the quick, quick best thing 1948 01:17:41,100 --> 01:17:43,230 she did. By the way, you listen amazing 1949 01:17:43,240 --> 01:17:44,410 teacher. We miss you. 1950 01:17:44,560 --> 01:17:46,050 But you did you. Well done. 1951 01:17:46,100 --> 01:17:47,390 You do you. You do you. 1952 01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:50,210 You do you. Make sure you have something 1953 01:17:50,220 --> 01:17:52,350 else outside of work that makes you happy. 1954 01:17:52,420 --> 01:17:57,090 Gives you some me time. That is a solid 10, I agree. 1955 01:17:57,220 --> 01:17:58,710 It's just these are all really important things. 1956 01:17:58,720 --> 01:18:01,110 Really, really important. And this one, one of our 1957 01:18:01,170 --> 01:18:03,190 favourite people who has been on the podcast before. 1958 01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:06,070 You know who it is when I say, OK, not having a baby, So we've 1959 01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:09,970 all failed at that. He said that Sophie. 1960 01:18:09,980 --> 01:18:10,750 Ohh. I thought it might be. 1961 01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,050 Yeah, so. I was like, yeah, that that 1962 01:18:13,060 --> 01:18:16,290 would be a way to get time because it's just another 1963 01:18:16,300 --> 01:18:17,390 spanner in the works, you know? I was just. 1964 01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:18,760 Thinking we better wrap up this podcast. 1965 01:18:18,770 --> 01:18:21,800 You know why? What can we hear screaming 1966 01:18:21,810 --> 01:18:22,890 babies in the background screaming? 1967 01:18:22,900 --> 01:18:25,490 Babies. We are gonna have babies. 1968 01:18:25,500 --> 01:18:26,640 So stressful. Get no free time. 1969 01:18:26,650 --> 01:18:28,130 Whatever. Hour, podcast. 1970 01:18:28,430 --> 01:18:29,240 Yeah. OK, cool. 1971 01:18:29,460 --> 01:18:31,330 Let's go right. Bye, guys. 1972 01:18:31,340 --> 01:18:32,190 See you next week. Bye.