Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode
of Teach Seat Repeat. My name is Dylan.
And my name is Hayden. And it's warm, isn't it?
Yeah, Dylan. What?
OK, Right. For listeners out there, Dylan's
been wearing a coat since he came in.
He's not taking it off now. Won't tell me why.
No. Why are you wearing a coat?
Because there's something under the coat which is of interest.
Is it your belly? Is it your big Christmas?
Belly. Belly.
It's my coat. That's not why hide it away.
No, it's fine. I embrace it, in fact, because.
Listeners, Dylan's taking his coat off right now.
Yep, I'm giving you a commentary because we like to do things in
the podcast where you have to watch.
I've got a new job. Hang on a minute, a new
definition. This looks like the understudy.
Shirt, I got a little package delivered.
Give me a second. OK crikey, this is good.
Look at this. Live Christmas presents days
after Christmas. Not wrapped.
Yeah, all. Just like the Christmas present
for Lauren. Yeah, that's for you.
Ohh wow. I've got another T-shirt.
It looks like some more merch. It is more merch.
We've got some more match in the way in our store.
It doesn't exist, and it's another definition word you
made-up. We put it up to the camera.
You didn't know the name for a collective noun of ours, so
we've now got who it's a noun, a number of more than three.
Now leave it to the front testing or travelling together
hoot of ours because anything more than a who we'd be worried
Anything more than three. That is a great, great gift.
You want my parents again? Is it your parents?
Yeah, yeah. I love this.
There you go. I love this book of ours.
It is something to be worried about, isn't it?
It is more than three. And we had a lot of messages, by
the way, when we played that game because the game, if anyone
didn't listen to that episode, was the question was simply how
many hours would you have to see in a day before you thought
something was wrong? Very open.
And we ended up saying it was 4. Do you think more than three.
And we were trying to remember what a collective noun for a
group of hours was. Now Full disclosure, I did know.
OK did you collect it? Yes, because it's very, very
strange term. Do you know what the actual?
Name, but the best bit is we've since been told and I forgot and
I now think it's hot again, a hoot of ours.
No, a lot of messages going. I was shouting parliament,
murder grows, it's a parliament. Of our Parliament.
Yes, and the joke was haha, I bet they'll do a better job than
the real parliament. These words spell it.
PARLI AM ENT. Well done, government.
How does that always gets me that the I in the middle.
But what's that ending? Parliament.
Exactly right.
Well, thanks for that. Maybe we'll do a spelling bee in
the future. Should we do a spelling bee too?
I'm quite good at spelling. OK, so I thought you.
Want. Let's do that.
You want. That's one for the future,
Another game we can play. We've got lots of games coming
up. We do.
Guys, I hope you had an amazing Christmas.
And if you're listening to this, which you obviously are because
you're hearing me say this sentence, then it is the new
year right now. This is being released on the
1st of January. Yeah, it is 2024 Hayden.
Happy New Year. Happy New Year.
Happy. But we'll pretend we'll do that
in a few days. That's.
Definitely. So very quickly then we've we've
had that weird in between week, very odd week into the nether
zone after Christmas before New Year where not much happens, but
you know what day of the week is, what's been going on.
Well, it's obviously it's been Christmas Day, so that's been
special because we've had, I mean you'll talk about it in a
minute, but we've had our our babies with us for the first
Christmas. Their first Christmas, I'd like
to tell you, had a good day. I'd like to say to you all, we
had a lovely day. Did you not?
No. River cried.
Ohh yeah, all day. Ohh all day.
Ohh sort of, sort of sort of rode today a little bit, you
know. Should know better than five
weeks old. She should have known, really,
to not cry. She just that's pretty selfish,
isn't it? I mean, I just think she.
Got. I did think that, Yeah.
Yeah. So it's alright.
Because you put it down to sleep quite often, didn't you?
Through the day to. Keep No, no.
She decided not to sleep for 9:00.
Hours Ohh yeah. Yeah, that night we asked.
We had a breakdown in Lawrence. Started crying.
We. We and the Christmas Lauren was
worried that she, like we'd, ruined everyone's Christmas.
All the baby that was Christ. Therefore we didn't get to play
any games. We didn't do anything fun.
No, no, don't worry. Just dealing with a screaming
baby. But in all seriousness, it was
fine. Once, once sounds fine.
Family no longer talks to us, It's fine.
But since then she's been great. So Boxing Day was really good.
That was really nice. We saw family again on Boxing
Day and. Then she's a baby.
I know. No one cares.
She was overtired, clearly. Yeah, bless her.
I did have cuddles this morning when I came.
All this is so cute and I always joke cuz she's what, six weeks
younger than Rory and she's she's just so much smaller to me
in different by. Six weeks 6 stone.
I older. I'm like, ohh, I'll have another
one right now babe, are you getting there now already?
Where you like ohh. I'll have another one.
I want one now. I think this, this zone with
Rory right now is like the ultimate 10 out of 10.
I'm having the time of my life. Like I love him so much where he
goes to sleep and I miss him and I just watch like videos and
stuff of him because he's at the point now where he sees you and
he's excited and smiling like you just pop your head into the
crib and he's like so overjoyed. He's he's massive smile.
His mouth goes wide and he starts moving around just to see
you. Did you not even get annoyed
when he ruined Christmas from crying?
Ohh, that didn't happen. They didn't, man.
Ohh he didn't. Scream Dory did do all day
Christmas, which is really funny.
No, he's very irregularly. I don't ever want to listen to
this, but he'll go like 2 days without pooping often.
Yeah, normally. But what did he do?
Anyway, it was Christmas Day. My parents came over.
My family, whole family came over at half eight and he'd been
up since 7:00 because just woke up.
So his wake window was well and truly over so that he they came
round. Ohh really.
Within 20 minutes he was asleep. He fell asleep on me and our
inflight 2 1/2 hours. Ohh, no way.
So the whole time we were like doing presents and stuff.
Yeah, he was just eat and I. By the way, I talked about hate
and opening presents last time. I loved it this time because
they're all for Rory, so there was no pressure on me to pretend
to like them. I just like toy after toy from
Rory got so spoilt, but he didn't wake up for like 2 1/2
hours and it was dead funny. You look in the room, everyone
just looking and kind of like waiting like.
OK, is he going to wake up? That's funny because the
opposite to us, everyone was like, oh, when she gonna sleep?
Plus she does she have a sleep? Actually, just no.
No. Reason.
For it just just wondering does she actually ever, Does she ever
sleep? Ohh, I felt so bad.
We felt really like bad parents afterwards.
Because no, she was just overtired.
And we were so like so wrapped up in the idea of we're gonna go
here. Like we basically we split
Christmas between Lauren's mum and my mum.
That's what we did. Yeah, and Lauren's mum.
Yeah, your one is also called Lauren My 1:00.
Anyway, I don't why they listen. It just sounds like so
possessive, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, we spent the day and
we were so focused on like, no, we're gonna, we're spending like
5 hours here. We've got to have dinner and
we're gonna play some games. We we kinda just forgot off, you
know, that she does actually just need to sleep.
And because she wasn't sleeping well, she's just not.
Doesn't want to sleep then. So no, it's been 6 hours now.
Needs to sleep. Needs to sleep.
Ends up taking upstairs at my mum's house and basically spent
the majority of the time at my mum's house upstairs in a dark
room with the baby just trying to get to sleep.
It's different. It's.
But you can't. I've.
I've found and I get annoyed now
when people try to make exact plans.
Yeah, with anything involving Rory.
I'm just like, what? What do you mean we can't have
exact plans? You could plan exactly what your
Christmas dinner is going to be at this time.
We're gonna arrive at this time. It's not gonna work.
We're gonna go for a nice walk on Christmas Eve.
Morning. No, no, I know.
So, like it already scuppered, our plans Didn't Christmas Eve
Morning? Hayden and I.
We spend Christmas together with our partners and our children
and we normally go the walk. That was pretty baby.
We'd go for a walk and then end up at a pub.
Yeah, and this time Rory just it got to we we wanted to start the
walk at half ten. No, we wanted to start the walk
at 10 and it got to like 9:50. We're about to leave and Rory
went. Do you know what?
I'm starving. Been crying.
Yeah, he fed for like half an hour.
He was like, OK, well, we can't go on the walk anymore, So we
went straight to the pub instead.
Yep, fine, absolutely fine. Because it's a baby.
Like, he, he doesn't know concept that we have a plan.
He doesn't know what time it is. And that, I think, is why I
found it so hard going back to work because in this two weeks
it's been absolutely fine because I'm very, very
comfortable just saying, no, sorry, Rory's doing this, so
does have to wait. Whereas with work, there's no
waiting. There's there's no, there's no,
like, oh, Rory's just fussing, right.
No, you've got to get in because your kids are.
That's why I really struggle. With.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think most, in fact, everyone
so far has been incredibly understanding.
Yeah, of course that no one's been like.
Ohh yeah but. And if they're not, and if
they're not, then do you really want them to be part of your
kids? Yeah, it's like ohh, we're not
friends anymore. Yeah.
Anyway, so I did get a good present.
OK, one of the kids actually at school.
Dad jokes book. Now that my dad obviously I can
tell these jokes were superb. Before that I'm going to pick
some random ones out this book for you.
OK, first one. Really, Kid dad?
What's your best dad joke? You.
That's not a joke. That's just.
Trauma and being a bit mean? Pick another one for you.
That's just someone who's got a kid being mean.
Isn't there you? I'm terrified of lifts.
I'm going to start taking steps to avoid them.
OK, that was about, yeah, I slept last.
I slept like a log last night. I woke up in the fireplace.
Ohh they're very good dad jokes though.
Here we go, This long one Here, Dad.
What's the difference between a piano, a tuner and a pot of
glue? You're the kid.
You play that role. I don't know.
You can tune up piano, but you can't piano tuner.
What about the glue? I knew you'd get stuck there.
I'll leave you. With that.
And that, my friends, is why this podcast has picked up so
many followers in the last month.
Because of jokes like that. Guys, if you're new, you're
listening. Thank you so much.
Hang on. They're too busy laughing.
Give me a second. Sorry.
One minute. One second.
But now you can talk. OK.
Thank you, guys. You're right.
You gotta stitch. Yeah.
Bloody funny. When it.
That's what you can expect. A teacher podcast sponsored by
dad jokes. So yeah, I had a really funny
story, really funny story. It was like you're like this
because it's self deprecating on me and it's at the expense of me
and it was really pure and like honest.
It's like when your mum thinks I'm actually genuinely a bit
special like like he's like ohh was dinner.
Dinner. Like I'm normal I'm OK wait we
were sad Christmas dinner. So Rory just went down in his
little Moses basket thing. We brought round to Laurens
parents and he's like in the hallway just behind me.
So the doors right there at the dining room, he's just there.
I can see and hear him he's fine.
So there's six of us sat at the table and this crackers and
someone says, oh she did a crackers.
Then altogether she did it before we have our dinner and
Lauren just goes, ohh yeah, but can we do them all at once?
Because he he doesn't really like them.
He might start with him. Right.
Because he does. Like Rory hates them anyway.
Ohh, we did all the crackers at once.
Like honestly, after dinner, like an hour and a half later,
Lawrence granddad turns went. So what is it about the
crackers? You don't like me?
You bought Lauren, got everyone to the cracker side because I
got started. So what is it?
Is it the loud noise or is it? And I was like, what?
Ferrari love, but he even just humoured that thinking.
Ohh, is actually is. He really, seriously thought it
was me he didn't like. Us So funny.
I was just like, ohh, it was my ten week old sad.
Ohh, you're revealing your preconceptions about their.
Grandad. That's so good.
The most pure, Like, really funny.
I was like, OK, alright, I told Lauren after.
In the corridor. She's pissing herself.
So funny. I'm real.
Have you got another story about
your grandparents regarding Rory?
Right. So I was starting to tell Hayden
the story out. It was like, you need to tell us
the podcast. We're gonna have a bit of a
theme later on. Not to give anything away, but
will we have a bit about the government when we're looking
and reflecting on the year? And we're gonna tell there's
been a leak, right? You got you got a lesson in
later because we've actually got some pretty cool breaking news,
juicy breaking news. There's been a government leak
and we have probably the only people.
I think it's. Exclusive, exclusive.
We've got our hands on it. We're going to reveal that
government leak to you and it is related to education, so.
Listen, guys. But anyway, so we obviously
called our son Rory, but we didn't call him Rory for about.
I think it was nine days after he was born, because we were
torn between two names. We hoped when he came out that
we'd be like, oh, it's a blank. And it wasn't.
It was just like, OK, let's just survive for a few weeks.
Scrapped a blank. Yeah, blank.
Didn't like a blank as a name. Anyway, so we ended up deciding
to call him Rory. Lovely, my nan, who's in a care
home currently. My parents went to visit her and
had the news that it was Rory and she loves looking at
pictures of him. They're cute because she can be
a bit blank sometimes and a bit vacant.
But see picture of the baby, she go, oh, look at the baby, it's
very cute. So my parents are showing the
pictures of Rory and they went, he's called Rory, Mum, he's
called Rory. And she went, oh, Tory, don't
call him that. I can't believe you picked the
name, so. Closely.
I know they're gonna cause only then was I like, what have I
done? Yeah, it's Rory.
The Tory. No, never say that.
Please. So yeah, Rory's very close to
Tory. Ohh, little Tory.
No, he's not. He is though, isn't he?
Ohh no. He is a little Tory.
He isn't. He is a little Rory the.
Tory Maybe This is why they tell the story.
Yeah, because this is what happened.
Rory, the Tories got another tee.
Shirt. Yeah, it's the story.
Here's the story of Rory the Tory.
Hey, he's not a Tory. He's not a Tory much.
He's not anything. He's a baby.
He exactly, exactly can't put anything onto your child.
That's called projection, that the word projectile vomiting
children. Are you gonna just think about
that now? This is gonna be a hard one.
I think as a as a control freak that I.
Am you are a control? Freak.
I'm very I'm. I'm all for no.
Kids need to make up their own minds.
I hate, I hate. I actually hate it when I see
like 4 year olds. 5 year olds. So like they're they're they're
Christian. Are they they They can't even
poo with themselves yet. They're not.
Chris. They haven't had a deep like
philosophical thought train about like where they think
humanity comes with this. They're not.
You're just saying that about them.
But like if your son gets to I don't know nine years old and
they start doing like because sometimes a bit of politics at
school they'll be like they'll get like a visitor in once a
year to talk about politics And and he's comes home he's like
yeah I think, I think I really I'm I'm a Tory.
Yeah, yeah, I think, what would you do?
I think you let him crack on with it, don't you?
Yeah, especially when they're young, cuz OK, realistically
I've got a good nine years to convince him otherwise before we
can. Vote, Yeah, that's what I really
like. You know, I wouldn't.
I think you'd have to model that you're your own person as well.
Hmm. So I would.
I would say that I disagree. With you, Would you sort of spit
at him, if you Tory scum? Is that what?
You do? No, you're because you're so
horrible, Jokes aside, are very against that.
I get very riled up about politics and stuff, and I might
not understand why people think certain things, but I think
there's a really fine balance in line with you, OK?
Just tried to casually drink a Sprite was just soaking spilt it
all over the microphone and. Myself sponsored by Sprite?
No, I think there's a really fine line with children with
anything like that. Because their children, you
can't pretend that it's a fully informed decision.
No, ever. Because the same thing you just,
it's sort of religion. Your child will say they're that
if you bring them up saying that they are that.
In the same way, if you bring up your child to say that, yeah,
we're Turkish, it doesn't matter if they're actually Turkish or
not. They'll go, yeah, Turkish, yeah,
yeah. Because that's they'll just
listen to you and they laugh for me and for us, Moses and stuff
like that. I think you got like a duty of
care and stuff. I think there comes a line when
it's certain things, you know, for example, you had incidents
of children, same racist things and stuff.
Hmm. You wouldn't at that point go
ohh, well, you know, each their own whatever individual thoughts
and opinions. Yeah, you have to step in at
that point and be like that's unacceptable in this society and
stuff like that. If it's a political party or
like an ideology, it's a really tricky line, I think.
Is within the boundaries of our culture.
Isn't it isn't exactly that. It's like, well, if they were an
adult and said these things you just put up with.
It yeah, they wouldn't, they wouldn't go to prison for hate
speech or something. Exactly how you allowed to have
that? Opinion.
Yeah, exactly that. And I think there's a really,
really hard there's just a fine line there.
And I don't know, it's gonna be one of things to kind of work
out as we go. But I think with children
there's a big emphasis on us to keep them safe.
I always say this. The only thing I think of as a
professional, I'm stepping out with dad role now because I
think are two different things. As a teacher, my role is to keep
them safe. So whatever they say, my only
thought is what's going to keep them as safest here.
If they're saying racist things, actually keeping our children
safe and themselves safe would be to step in and intervene.
If they're saying that they like Boris Johnson, OK, that's not.
Just any more of my time. Just downloaded WhatsApp.
Ohh yeah yeah. Although the the service must
have the glitch in the service of the backing up the service
would they went down well yeah idiot.
By that point I was like, OK, because I actually had a kid.
I I don't like Boris Johnson. I didn't vote for his
government. I had a kid in my Class A couple
of years ago start talking about how great Boris Johnson was a
Prime Minister. Absolutely not my job at that
point to like argue back. No, completely mad.
I think any teacher who does that is stepping over the line.
Yeah, I really do like and I am probably the most staunch like
anti Tory that there is. But it's not my job in that
moment, in that in that moment, it is not my job to to argue
whether or not Boris Johnson was good Prime Minister or not.
However, with my child, I think I'd sit and talk.
To them about debate. Yeah, and I'd be like, OK, well,
I think this because of that. So why is it you actually do,
what are the reasons you think is a good Prime Minister?
Yeah. And then I'm like, OK, that's a
good point. I disagree though because I
think this you gotta know though as the parent of your child,
you're opinions probably everything to them and you are
de facto moulding them by arguing against them whether
you're right or wrong. Because let's say the other way
round. If a child supported something I
liked and then someone else, like their mum for example,
started saying ohh, what about the other way?
Because I think the opposite. The kid will naturally be like
ohh. My mum does know stuff.
She did tell me not to touch that fire and that was really
hot. Yeah, I.
Didn't tell you How is your burn?
Is healing anyone watching Foresee the remnants?
It's a bit pink, but yeah, just moisturising.
Is that why you don't listen to your mum's advice?
Yeah, exactly, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, she's.
Like, you know, what do you touch that far?
OK. Yeah.
Hard way, didn't I? Yeah, I don't know.
Overall, I think you've got to be really careful and I think
the role of a parent is very different to the role of a
teacher. Fantastic.
Which I never asked, right. Let's move on.
I didn't think we have a deep with the intros it.
Should we? Should we play the Have You Got
Little Story, uncle? Yeah.
Well, yeah. Yeah.
Quick story. OK, so hands on Boxing Day.
Yeah. And no way.
Yeah, that's it. That's the story.
Anyway, you Rascal. And also my family were there.
It's like the classic every year it's when all the family gets
together. We go on Boxing Day, my cousins,
uncles and aunts and. That lot, Cousins.
Top #1 if I'd say you know. You're in your five.
Yeah. And.
And so I was thinking it would be nice because a lot of people
get to meet the baby. And she wasn't screaming.
I was like, yes, this result. And I've been there for a couple
of hours and the only person that hadn't really sort of gone
just even have a look because she was just kind of just tucked
away just out out in in the next room to us by the way we were
saying was my uncle. I was thinking ohh, you probably
won't have the latest being polite.
And then we were about to go and had been hours.
At this point he's not even like looked at it yet everyone else
had a cuddle. And I just I just I just I just
ask him just in case you know uncle just back.
We're going to go in a SEC. Did you want to have a quick?
Baby cuddle have a quick little baby went Nah Nah, you're right.
I just was like, ohh, OK, see you later then.
OK. I'll walk around you somehow so
you don't have to look. I was like, alright.
OK, that's the end of that then. Well, not for everyone mate.
Yeah, not for everyone. Yeah, but she won't.
He won't be in a car, do we? Yeah, No.
He's off the Christmas. He's off the Christmas card
list. I didn't write a single
Christmas card was gonna. Say we didn't send it.
I didn't. I didn't.
Write. Not even one.
Yeah, I didn't. I tell you what I didn't.
This is terrible. I didn't wrap a single present.
Your Yes, actually poor. I didn't.
That's toxic masculinity. Is it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just letting Lauren do
everything, including her own game.
I've got a baby. Lauren's got a.
Baby Yeah, she didn't. Wrap her own gifts.
She just didn't get wrapped gifts right?
So she. Wrapped everyone else's gifts
and then obviously didn't wrap around because you couldn't
because you had the baby. Yeah, I've.
Had a baby? You're toxic.
Yeah, that's toxic. A new look You didn't.
Mate, that's not good if I told. Her.
I forgot to rap. And then you forget you.
Didn't forget you. Didn't forget it.
No, you chose not to because there was a moment where the
gift was in your hand. Did you went?
Mad. It sat down there and then
Christmas came around. We're busy alright, baby.
So are you saying that? I wrapped more gifts for your
child than you grappled for your child.
That's right, you got more gifts.
For my children, I got. For my child, you're on, your
on. Your own part of the uncle
there. Do you wanna see the uncle?
You don't want to see her. But my uncle doesn't.
Want to see them? But you know.
No, she's six weeks old, mate. She is.
She's six weeks old. Yeah, You know what Lauren?
Yeah, I like my favourite bit was when you came round and told
us about a gift that Rory was getting.
Yeah, and then I just, Lauren forgot and then she went and
bought that exact thing and and she sent me to Smith to pick it
up. So I went, I went and drove to
Smiths and got picked up this click and collect order.
I looked at it. I was like, I'm pretty sure the
textiles, like, didn't Dylan. Isn't this the specifically the
one thing that Dylan already said that they've got for Rory?
And she was. Like ohh yeah.
No, I tell you what's different because what it is is a kick and
play like piano. We he's got, he's got one of the
mats off his off, his great grandma's right and it's got
like dangling thing at the end. It's a piano.
It's all attached. Your piano just hangs off
anything. OK, so your piano is going on
the end of his crib when we make his crib.
So there is a. Used to it?
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I'll tell you otherwise.
Yeah, no, definitely. And that's been a long Treasury
crackle. Yeah, let's do the Jingle.
OK. So 2023 is officially over.
Little reflection, won't go into much detail.
You know about 2023. There's probably some podcast
they can listen to. Yeah.
Do we talk? About our life across 20 did.
We every single week for a whole year.
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, you can.
But you know, babies, podcasts, strikes, our business.
All strikes. Go back and listen to episode
one of our podcast if you haven't.
Why are teachers? Striking And who knows what?
Might come back. Around.
Yeah. Nice.
One, I don't know. I didn't write all the titles.
If I write a title, Dylan, those changes.
So it doesn't matter if I write anything ever.
Literally any. If I give any idea about
anything, ever. Doesn't matter if it's good or
not, It often isn't. He will change it.
Guaranteed. Guaranteed.
Because do you know? Why?
You know, there's a reason. Yeah, I know it's.
Not I know really why, but go on, tell me why you undermine.
You. Here we go.
Because then if it goes wrong, I can blame myself and not get
annoyed at you. Because if it goes wrong, I'll
be like God's sake Hayden, like why?
Why have you done that? Why are you named it this time?
If I name it something and it flops, I'd be like, ohh, I'm an
idiot. I can just blame myself.
Yeah yeah, that's fine. But I'd much rather get annoyed
at myself than anyone else. Fair enough.
That's the reason. That's understandable.
What's your reason that you? Thought was then just because.
You're controlling, horribly undermining demon.
That's the real reason maybe. Are you just?
Like you like to be fair, I'll give you a credit.
You are good at stuff like that. So I usually just leave it to
you anyway because your chances are you do a better job.
But when I do it and you change, I'm just like, yeah, whatever,
just change it. Just really.
Annoying. Anyway, after a little therapy
session. Now again, the main point of
this podcast, I suppose, is not to look back, is to look to.
Look forward. It's to look.
Christmas would look. You know what?
You would love references. Here to Uppercross.
Hope you keeping up guys. Yeah, so 2024, you know, I'm not
one who actually likes resolutions.
However, I like a challenge. I like a competition that gets
me going, especially the idea of beating you.
OK, So I was thinking, we've had children in the last two or
three months and let's not pretend that that's the reason
why we're in horrible shape because we've been doing, we've
been deteriorating for I think since COVID, personally, I think
pre COVID, yeah, I did my last little health kick, yeah.
And I I I felt good when we joined the.
Gym. Yeah, I know.
That was one of our resolutions. We did that in January.
Yeah, And that. We were like, we're not gonna be
those people that last until January, yeah.
Yeah, we went about five times. But the point?
Being, I think a little competition between me and you
is way more likely to succeed than us.
Just me sat in my own house going, oh, I'll do this thing
tomorrow particularly. With, like, public shame on the
Exactly, Because it's on the. Podcast now, and we're going to
put it on Instagram. We're gonna have a little vote I
think, on this. So to listen on Spotify, go and
vote right now. Who Will Win this challenge,
which is to last the longest in terms of streaks of days.
Yeah, we're going to come up with something today that we
both have to do every single day.
It might not be the same thing, but it might be OK.
We have to do every single day. The person with the longest
streak wins. If you miss a day.
What? Any point you lose mine's.
Going to be something to do with cuddling my baby.
OK, that's I'm gonna. Win.
I love that. You need a competition to do
that, right? I'm not kidding.
My baby. I'm not rapping enough presents
for her. I'm gonna wrap present everyday
for my baby until I just learned that it's actually OK to do
right. So rap, present, cuddle baby.
Need competition? I got the presents.
Come here, little. Pianos.
So what you actually thinking then cause something of?
Health. OK.
And I want, I want us to discuss it.
And as the other person, we might have a different kind of
viewpoint to what would be good for them.
For example, for you, there's a lot there we did not write down,
so I'm thinking I did a few years ago.
I cut sugar out of my diet completely and I I I tell I know
we had the recent one with Martin, the fitness guy, and he
was talking about being realistic and this is probably
going against what he's saying, but it works for us.
I cut sugar out cold Turkey from my diet for about 3 months.
I think it was in the end you only.
Ate cold Turkey. Yeah, for two to three months
where I would have egg. Like not.
There's another sugar in bread. Yeah.
You know what I mean? I had egg on toast for
breakfast. I had chicken salad for lunch
and some kind of meat and veg for dinner.
That was it. Yeah.
You lost. So.
Much weight. Oh my God.
But not only the losing weight thing was cool, right?
Yeah, But I felt unreal. And I think one of the biggest,
the biggest reasons for that was getting over that sugar, like
dependency and that kick. And also just drinking water
because I drink. Yeah, 100% felt unreal.
So you're less tired, Weren't? You remember that?
Yes, so. Much less tired like the 4th,
5th day, horrible headaches, horrible pangs where my brain
was obviously like where is this glucose that I just thrive off.
Yeah, but after two weeks I was energised.
I was eating less but had more energy.
Sleep was easier. I could go down more easily,
although not a problem now cause I'm knackered all the time.
The baby drinking just water really helped I so so basically
I think I'm going to do that. The other things were maybe go
for make sure I go for at least a 20 minute walk every day.
Just exercise everyday, which would be easier then just take.
The baby. The problem is that the baby
does make it easier actually, because there's a bit more of a
reason then. But I just find walking so
boring. Yeah, the odd walk is nice, but
if it's everyday within like 3 days, I already resent it.
I'd be like, oh, but why don't you?
Find a good podcast, Hayden. When I find a good podcast,
listen to it. But the point is, I think no
matter what we choose here, every day there's a competition
and I need to take it off and I need to beat you.
And you know what? I'm doing it.
I think it might drive us through.
And I'd love anyone at home to join in with this.
I know it's daily streak. You can message us at Teach Your
Peak podcast, something you're gonna do every day.
It could be something really simple.
It could be cuddle your baby jokes aside, That could be
something you want to do. It could be, you know, read a
chapter of a book. It could be read 3 pages of a
book every day, something or even just.
Something personal to you, Like for me, things like things I
struggle with, right? Stuff like sleep, going to bed
at the right time. So bad at just taking myself to
bed when I actually should go to bed.
Do you not find that all of these things are objectively
really easy? Yeah, of course they like.
Is it easy to not eat chocolate? Is it easy?
To stand up and walk to your bed and lay in it.
Is it easy to not doom scroll? Yeah, and not sit on Instagram.
Or not TikTok for hours, but like Martin.
Said they are. They are simple actions and
they're not easy to do. It meant, you know, they they
are challenging to do. Otherwise you would do them
exactly that. There's a reason why people sit
on Instagram for 40 minutes and lose that time because the
chemicals in their brain, you're being manipulated by big tech.
You're not a failure for doing that.
Umm, You are literally being manipulated by big tech to keep
your eyes on the screen, to watch adverts.
Yeah, we're just turning into shells, wasn't I?
Don't. Know how much truth there is in
this. But the person that invented
doom scrolling, you know, the infinite scroll, you think of
dynamite. What?
The person that invented Oppenheimer was invented.
Yeah. Wasn't that what that film was
about? I think we've destroyed the
world. That's it.
Telling the person invented infinite scrolling, regretted it
or something like that. Yes.
All the big tech. It's all designed.
Just keep your eyes on the screen to rot your brain.
It's horrendous. And we've talked a million times
about how it is not suitable for I Wanna Lay In.
Bed at midnight and watch a fine compilation from 2015 and I'm
gonna do it. All right?
Someone had a really. Good point though, which was, do
you ever remember 3 reels ago whenever you're scrolling?
I don't remember. Three.
Anything you don't remember. The thing you're.
Watching for What are we doing now?
But the. The point I'm making is you
don't getting value out of that. You're getting dopamine hits in
a bit of a laugh, Yeah, not getting really getting any about
learning. Anything really, and you don't
need to learn everything. All the time you can just enjoy
stuff, but it is the lowest form of and I do all the time.
I'm like, I'm that person who walks around.
I don't have TikTok on my phone, no, but it was some reels for an
hour and a half. Which.
Which are tik toks. From two weeks ago I found the
way to real. Yeah, so it's all the same.
So I think my it's gonna be diet.
Because I know if I look at my life as a whole, the worst
aspect of it in terms of my discipline and its quality is my
diet. So I think my one is going to be
how many days in a row can I not consume sugar?
OK. I've got one then, because I
know you've had success with that, and I've had success with
a very similar thing before. Mine is going to be, I'm going
to go back on the, what's it called, the fasting diet.
Yeah. I really.
Quite like because I again. I feel like we're going, thanks.
What Martin was saying here in terms of simple and stuff, but
the fasting diet is grounded in like research and stuff.
And and you did it and it worked.
Yeah, it felt good. I I lost a stone in about a
month and a half. Yeah.
And and I wasn't like, I wasn't going crazy on it.
It was literally just a case of this and and people find their
own different windows of time to do things right.
So for me it was I don't. I only eat between lunch and
dinner Because you don't eat breakfast anyway.
No, I did exactly. So that was easy for me.
I was like, well, I don't really care about breakfast anyway, so
all I've got to do is make it to lunch without snacking.
Make. That's what I normally do, is
I'll eat some crap before lunch. So I was like, OK, I'll eat and
eat lunch around 12:00 and I'll eat dinner around 7:00 and and
any I can eat anything I want between those hours.
I was also trying to be sensible a little bit because you could
just counteract it by eating stupid amounts of food.
I was like, I'll just eat what I would normally eat.
Just a couple of a couple of snacks maybe between lunch.
Just close that window. That's it.
And then. But then after dinner I don't
eat anything. Nothing.
Including like fizzy drinks and
stuff. It only water goes in my body
between maybe 7730 and 12:00 again the next day.
And I I quite enjoyed it. I thought I'd hate it.
Some people hate the idea of fasting.
They just want to eat little often.
I don't know, like when I'm sleeping, I'm sleeping.
That's eight hours done. Yeah.
And then in the morning, I didn't have an appetite anyway,
really, not for a few hours for some people.
That this absolutely doesn't work.
I don't people to listen and be like, OK, I'll try that.
It doesn't work for all people. Like it's something you might
want to try, but. The point is it.
Just kick starts your body into using stored fat rather than
you've been eating and the main. Goal I guess.
I think similar to you, the weight, the weight loss and like
just looking a bit trimmer is like a bonus, it is secondary.
Genuinely like. Like I.
I truly am quite. I think we're both quite lucky
in that we don't have any of that, like body dysmorphia and
like, yeah, I don't. There were points.
I look, look at ourselves. Don't we go, God, what are we
doing? Yeah, but it doesn't like, it
doesn't end. I don't go out and it's not in
my brain when I walk. Around thinking like ohh that
person, this one I don't really care to a lot of male.
Privilege coming out there as well.
I just want to be healthy. Right.
Yeah. And when I did, when I did that
diet, I was considerably more alert.
I just was, I just felt so much better and I could sleep.
Like I could sleep for like a few hours.
It was I'd go, I'd get like 6 hours sleep and I'd wake up and
like, Oh no, I'm going to feel horrible.
And then I felt fine. I was like, ohh, it's cause I
didn't. I didn't just eat loads of sugar
right before I went to sleep, we always say.
This don't we? This is something we always say
to each other. We kind of just clicked where we
would have like 10 hours sleep. But why am I still tired?
I was like, OK, here's the link. It's nothing to do with how much
you've actually slept. It's your hi, it's your
lifestyle. Clearly if you have 10 hours
sleep and you're still tired, sleep isn't the problem.
And I'm and that noticing that was like so.
Obvious. Yeah, it's so.
Obvious, but some of the. Best information I got when I
was when I first did this fasting diet.
The app that I was using had some like, just like
motivational stuff on it and I just blocked and stuff.
It was really cool and it was talking about there was one bit
talking about hunger and this struck me the most because I was
like, God, this makes so much sense and I really held on to it
and it was just very simple. I don't know if it really is
this simple or if it was just making something way more
complex, simple. But it said there are two types
of hunger. There is physical hunger and
emotional hunger. And this really, really, really
helped me because I always feel like I'm hungry and I need to
eat something. And it was like, yeah, it's
almost always emotional hunger. It was it was kind of saying
like if you're a privileged, like if you're a privileged us
living in this country, you know, we've got, we've got
healthy jobs and whatever we can afford food whenever we need it.
You're probably never really physically hungry.
Physical hunger is when your belly is actually gurgling and
you get like actual cramping pain in your stomach where it's
like, ohh, there's nothing in here and you need to put food in
in me please, because I need energy compared to emotional
hunger, which is just shortbread.
Your sugar. Yeah.
Initial where that you're. Ohh, we haven't had sugar in 45
minutes. You're hungry.
And it's like, yeah, you're not
though. Yeah.
What was that test I always used to do when we used to go so?
Funny, it was. Would you eat a banana?
Yeah, very simple. And the banana.
Very simple. Like you go.
We've all done this. As teachers, you walk into the
staff room. You're not remotely thinking
about food, Not actually hungry. Yeah, but knowing in the back of
your mind. Wait a minute, there might be
food in there. Yeah, there might be food.
And Hayden's just moved his ringing phone to a place where
it's making more sound. That's great, but you walk into
the staff room, back your head, thinking there's probably food
in there, even if you don't think it consciously back your
head. There might be food in the
course. You walk in and there's food.
Have you ever not taken the food it was?
You're hungry or not? If there's like a there's a cake
there like I've not. Taken it when it's a bowl of
fruit. Exactly, exactly.
Because we get our star fruit, like a hamper of fruit and veg,
just from the local place that drops off sometimes, not once.
Touch that box of heroes every single time I walk in, Hungry or
not, I'll eat too. Yeah, yeah, I just.
Well. And that's physically emotional,
emotional hunger. You just gotta be on top of it
and that, just that, that helps me a lot actually.
Just be like ohh just check myself every and then outside of
this. Am I physically?
Hungry right now, or do I just want that biscuit?
OK, so. There's our challenge then cool
everybody days in a row. So for me, again, the biggest
part of that probably the drink, because I'll be drinking water
and you. Love.
I love any. Kind of nice drinks, you every.
So we'll check in every day and yours is gonna be no sugar.
So when we say no sugar, we mean if there's a bit of sugar in
bread, that's fine. No, like properly processed
foods and stuff which just have sugar jammed into them.
So, you know, bread, eggs, salad, meat.
Yeah, pretty much it. Yeah, not in any of them.
Just eating biscuits and heroes. Yeah, of course that's yours.
And mine will be. I'm going to do the fast and
that again, so as long as I've done my 16 hour window every
day, I've not eating. All right, we'll see how we feel
like. Still pick up please guys.
Place your bets please. Gonna last the longest.
Who will last? The longest.
And I wanna hear if you're gonna do your own challenge.
I can't. Wait next podcast episode to
tell everyone who came first, because we both have caved by
then. I think 2 days.
You did three and then one side came.
You thought they put me going on.
Yeah, that's that's true. We both really gotta keep going
there, haven't we? Yeah.
OK, so now our resolution. But we have some serious news.
Now we do. Because this.
Is huge. This is like a podcast
exclusive. I feel like special.
And get this crazy. We were just on the train and
Gillian Keegan got off. She got off the train.
She left the bloody laptop on the train.
Bloody did. So I thought I'll be having
that. Yeah went on there.
Big leak. When I when I say leak, we stole
her laptop and we got this from her and unbelievable.
Quite playful because what it was was, I don't know if you
remember she was advertising for a camera person I think like 50K
a year more than any teacher. And yeah, that's right.
It was actually. A script for them because she
was putting together a video, so it was going off to them and
it's their New Year's resolution for for the 2024.
So, yeah, so the government. The government?
Exactly so.
The government set a whole list of New Year's resolutions for
the Fe on how to fix education for 2024.
Yeah, it's hard. Because I feel bad.
Don't. They realise that when hundreds
of thousands of teachers are saying things in unison, there
could, there could be a little bit of truth and we need to fix
it or. Having read this, maybe they
just doubled down on their own stance and said you're not.
They wouldn't do. That Now let's have a look.
Have a look at that. So first one, Hayden, what is
it? OK, so the first one on their
list you summarised even you cause it was quite long.
It was long. It was long.
Yeah, Bullet pointed it for me because they they thought if
this is going to get hacked, let's give them even more work.
Yeah, condense. It for exactly that.
So the first thing, New Year's resolution for the DfE Let's Fix
Education in 2024, the title that was nice that they put that
on there in in Comic Sans. Yeah, keep the teachers busy
because because teachers obviously get like, they get
frustrated, don't they? When they're not busy, they get
hungry. Emotional hunger.
Motion longer for the job keep teachers busy with more work.
So they're going to try, they're really going to try to up the
workload, isn't that wasn't? That the Wasn't that like a
really big problem this year Workload.
No, because they're. Gonna put workload policies in
place, but they're gonna up the work, right?
So they'll put, they'll make every.
School put a workload policy in place, thus creating workloads.
Yes, that's it. Without.
Actioning any of the workload that will reduce any of it,
we're. Just going to log it now, we're
gonna say. We're gonna log it.
OK, Well, I'm not sure that will work.
I think that's a. Good target there, because you
do seem to. The side of anyway, What's the
next one then, Mr Hey, I mean, government still.
I mean, how you doing? What's the?
Next one. Well, the next one and, and I
think we can have a good discussion about this because
it's really going to have a big impact, OK.
They're gonna keep reducing the play, reducing pay against
introducing play time, reducing play and pay time against
inflation. Because what they've noticed is
over the years, over sort of 20 years, they've they've kind of
like halfed how much teachers get paid.
In comparison to what? Used to be like but but but.
They no, because there's no they.
They've put the money up. Umm, just not in line with
inflation. They're not gonna, they're not
gonna give us more money. Yes, it's an illusion.
Isn't it? Right.
Great. So it looks like the money's
gone up over the years. Yeah, And it hasn't.
And what that allows is schools can save money, right?
The budget, yeah, they take the budget.
Away. Then they ultimately the
government saves money, right? OK, so you think about it.
It's a win win, isn't it? And have we still got teachers?
Yeah, we're all still here. Well, not.
Many of us, anyway. What's the next one?
Good, right? Next 1-2 Ohh this is a good one.
Continue to slag off teachers OK in the media.
This is not great. Is it?
No, I'm starting to think. That maybe this isn't positive,
but positive brain on Yeah, you're one of them people.
Aren't you? Who, after 13 years of mayhem
and Matt, 14, now utter madness, You still think, well, they
might get it right? Yeah, they are.
They're. They've got this, they say,
trying. OK.
What's the next one? So one obviously that's enough
teachers in the media and the best person to do that and
education secretary, the person in charge of the person
representing us. So, David, Jillian.
Keegan. Jillian Keegan, Yeah.
Continue to absolutely just misrepresent teachers, slag off
her own kind, and just benefit. For them to do that.
What do you mean? It's obvious, isn't it?
What you mean it was benefits. Obvious.
What's that? Keeps the teachers in check?
Keeps us doing our jobs properly?
OK. Yeah.
Sure, you know if everyone. Hates teachers.
Teachers are more likely to do their job properly and not quite
OK well, surely? They've at least got a
resolution in there about having some stability, keeping the same
education system. Now what?
We've got to do right and the Tories done this very well so
far. We keep doing this is every sort
of year or. Less.
Or less. Yeah.
Kind of like the Prime Minister. Yeah, just sort of just kind of
ditch the education secretary if your thank you for your work.
Yeah. For the last six weeks.
Yeah. Ohh.
No, wait. Jillian Keegan doesn't get
enough. Thanks.
Remember. Ohh, She was she was desperate
for enough. Thanks.
So we're gonna. Thank her a bit more 1st and
then we're gonna Yep. OK get another one in.
We've got to make sure to to two rules here.
Eva 0 experience in education or bonus That and they also went to
private school so they have no real life experience in like
school. I to be fair, that's the only
one there where I think that's grounded in logic.
Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense.
It does work. It does make sense work trickle
down, you know. So last thing though, trickle
down, trickle doesn't. Work trickle.
Up. I don't know.
OK, so last one, this one. OK, so this.
Let me have a look. Make sure to lose the election
so that we can put this party to Labour and then blame them when
they take necessary action to fix it.
That is actually, from a Conservative point of view,
probably a pretty good today. Get it in the worst place
possible, pass over and go. What have you done?
It's like moving house, leaving
a boiler that's broken. New people come in, like why
don't you boiler? Yeah, you idiot.
I looked after that boiler for years.
Where's? Where's the service history?
Bye. I tell you what, though, works,
doesn't it? People are people forget.
Yeah, we learnt that through COVID.
I think. I know the amount of stuff that
happened where we're the whole country was livid.
Yeah. And then months later it was as
if it never happened. Well, that's the one.
Benefit I think of the unbelievable turmoil of changing
the Prime Minister every two months is actually now we're
pretty far removed from that. Yeah, I know even.
Though. Rishi was the bloody chancellor.
He's like where she gets to be. The guy gave people money and
now the guy who isn't Boris, I remember thinking.
People are not ever gonna vote Tory again.
I remember actually sat there thinking, this is it, They've
they've actually done it. Like they've completely,
completely destroyed their coming up.
Where they? Gave billions and billions of
pounds to fast track companies that had just been set up who
happened to also be donors to the party.
It couldn't be more of an absolute sham.
And they've taken the taxpayer for an absolute ride and
literally fleeced billions from the average Joe whilst also
arguing there's no money to pay anyone in the public sector and
then they've gone. Can you vote for us though?
Because ohh if labour get in ohh joint, Remember Remember when
labour. No, we don't remember when
labour in you know, it's been so long we don't remember it.
Actually I do remember it cause I was in school and we had stuff
that was that was nice actually. Yeah I grew up in 2 minutes.
I do remember, yeah, was that when there was like a global
economic crash and somehow that was Gordon Brown's fault for
making museums free? Was it making the museums free?
Or was it the global economic crash that came from the
American mortgage market? Don't know Gordon Brown, but.
I'd say that's equal to giving your mates billions of pounds
because they give you some money for your party.
And actually they just set up a shell company and then sold PPE
products for billions of pounds of profit, which actually ended
up not ever being used. I'd say that's pretty even.
Where's the evidence? Still?
Where's? The evidence all been deleted,
so don't worry about it. Isn't it, well, weird how
WhatsApp literally has a built-in backup feature and it's
never failed ever since it started, But it did.
It did for that group chat. Very odd.
Hmm. Stuff like that does does just
why is government? Stuff happening.
What's happening? Sorry, I'm sorry, but I won't
talk anyway. No, no, no.
I'm sorry. You're bringing up a good point.
Which is why. Why was it on WhatsApp?
I don't know. I don't know.
It was very informal chat, wasn't it?
Wasn't really a problem. That just reminds me, that sort
of stuff where it's like, no blindingly obvious.
He's trying to interrupt me again that that there's like
corruption going on sometimes. Sometimes like a lot of
corruption I think is very well disguised.
But sometimes you get the odd thing.
The best corruption is. Yeah, the best corruption.
But I just don't. I'm like how there's millions of
people looking at that and there'll be millions of people
that go, yeah, what's up? Just went down I Walt and
there'll also. Be millions of people looking at
it. Go well.
I quite liked him, so I'll ignore that.
Hmm. Ignore that bit, he he stood.
Up for us, Yeah. Boris Johnson.
Boris DE Pfeffel. Johnson stood up for you.
Yeah, the are you, Are you? He wrote the guy who wrote an
Article 4 and against Brexit and then just shows what he thought
would win. You think he cares about you,
you idiot? Yeah, and that's what I say to
my son he told me about. There we go.
We got there eventually. Brilliant.
Well, have you enjoyed? That government leak exclusive
here, teacher. Repeat.
All right, let's play the. Jingle, then let's go a bit more
like heart, shall we? OK, OK guys, so we're back.
Hey, this drinking I've done on purpose.
You got a mouthful of Sprite, You're hidden kindly.
Joked. I really enjoy waiting.
For it to touch your lips, like, OK, so I had a bit of a chat
there. I mean, ohh, yeah, good.
We've set ourselves some goals. We're going to stick to them
now. One more.
Goal Yep. For 2020.
Four is I'm going to try and get you riled up a little bit more
in the podcast, politics, whatever, education, just
something. Because I think we like
listening to Dylan get really pissed off, basically.
Think some people like it, and some people just enjoy seeing me
get angry, seeing my blood pressure rise.
Me. Yeah.
Anyway, OK, so couple of games, a bit of fun.
I've enjoyed doing the blind ranking.
That was a really fun. And we're gonna keep trying to
make up some not make up games. They're obviously our games, but
we see them and I think we can apply them to education.
Yeah, definitely. So can I start?
Yeah, this one, hilariously, might also get you rolled up.
OK, why not? Why not straight?
So it's hypothetical. Again, it's kind of like this or
that, but this time the two options are just.
It's like pick the worst. Is this again?
Where the other one can never happen?
Or is it just no? It is literally just you just
have you have to pick one of them and they're both they're
both terrible. One of them's got habits like
ohh what's the best of the worst.
OK, cool OK, so in 2024 starting Day 1 so it's only applies to
24. OK, after this your challenge is
OK. So.
Starting today, every day of 2024, your marking is doubled.
Oh my God. OK, what's the other one?
Or you have to pick one. It's either that or the job is
normal. It's just as it normally is.
Which might not be that good anyway, but it's just as it
normally is. But no school holidays.
You work 52 weeks. Ohh.
That's hard enough. Ohh, what would you pick?
You have to pick one. What would you pick at home?
I started. Off thinking that was really,
really easy. I tell you what my gut instinct
was. My gut instinct was absolutely
needed. The holidays.
So I was like, I'll take the double marking.
But then I remembered how much marking destroys my soul every
single time I did it. Yeah, yeah.
And the fact of that doubling, doubling every single.
You'd have your holiday still in the term.
Well, what's a holiday? Holiday.
Let's just say that's 50 hours, isn't it, For the average Joe?
So 50 hours. You'd have to say 50 hours in a
term of the double markings. Yeah.
So if that's 50 hours on the half term, how long do you spend
marking off? Let's say it's an hour, So
that's five hours a week times 6.
This is all me listening. I think it's just the feel,
isn't it? It's the feel.
No, no, no. No, it's the mathematical
calculations. Yeah, I think that.
I would go for having my holidays.
The point being the the job is a slog going for that market.
Yeah, yeah, so the jobs are slog because double marking isn't
double day. Double marking takes your day
from a 10 hour day to an 11 hour day.
Whereas getting ready holidays, that's a week off.
Yeah, you you'd never have a week off.
I'd burn out straight away. So actually, the more I think
about it, it's definitely keeping the holidays.
Yeah. And I just have to do some
double marking. Yeah.
And it's great because it's dark anyway.
So yeah, what's double of nothing?
I guess you done. This thing I do, Mark,
obviously, yeah, I agree by the. Way.
That's absolutely my choice as well.
Yeah. You just you just couldn't do
it. No, no.
I'd get to like 15 weeks and be like I probably have completely.
You are right. Now I was halfway through that
maths and I was like, what? No, no, obviously it doesn't
matter about the house. Obviously.
Don't not take us need. A break.
Yeah, because even. In in most jobs you get six
weeks, 5 weeks, that would be nothing.
For 52 weeks, Yeah, absolutely. Not we've already got a pole for
this episode, didn't we? Yeah, I want to do another one.
There's a question we can do an Instagram reels can become a
real. I want to.
Know how many of you take marking home so teachers out
there? Because I'm really intrigued
because you do get caught into your own schools, culture, and
really even even beyond that, just kind of like yourself and a
couple of people you speak to. And I I refuse to now other than
one exception you've already told me off about this is when
we do like longer independent pieces of writing because they
just take so long to mark. So I always take them home by
refuse any other marking. It doesn't.
It never ever ever ever ever goes home under any
circumstance. What?
What you're like that is, why won't you don't take Yeah 100%.
And you know what? I'll be fair to myself.
I think in my whole career I've taken home marking once or
twice. What, even in the earliest.
Yeah. Genuine.
Yeah, 100%.
I honestly. And the point was, though, I
take it home and not do it. And I'm like, OK, cool.
How many people have done that? They've, they've taken it home
to do the marketing. They've logged it back on the
Monday. Yeah.
Not marked. And life went on so very
quickly. I was like no, if the marking
cannot get done whilst I'm in the building, it's not useful.
I don't think markings useful. If you do it after the children
have gone, I don't think it's useful at all then and it's
still part of our, you know, still do it, still part of your
job, blah blah. Some kids might get something
out of it, but I think the time put into marketing, if it's
after school when the children not in the building is so, so,
so, so, so nowhere near the outcomes of doing the marketing.
Whereas live marking in the lesson, doing whole class
feedback, talking to the children, that's when they make
their progress. So I think markings pointless
anyway I I'd say the. The younger you go, this is what
I've just from experience the younger you go down the less
important marking after the lesson is complete to kids.
Very true I think as you get older like I'd say with my year
sixes I have actually got lots of kids in my class now and
still not all of them. I still say they're they're not
minority of children in in my year six class where they will
actually properly read my marking and genuinely action and
like take a bit of feedback from it.
But I think, I still think that's only a few children and
and they along with everyone else would still benefit more
and if I just told them that at the end of them doing it
immediately. So do you think?
Yeah. Is it, Is it ever a net good in
primary school then? Cause we've done a whole episode
about what's the point in making.
But I I agree with you because I do think actually in secondary
school, especially towards the end, that is mainly how I got
lots of my feedback, especially about essays.
Yes, you're old. Enough to you, can't you?
Can't contain all that knowledge at once.
Whereas if it's literally just like a kid keeps forgetting to
exchange, me writing down the word exchange in their book with
a next step ends up then just saying what does that say?
And then I go over and explain it anyway.
By the way, yeah. And by the way, if they can't
exchange, guess what I'm teaching again, Yeah.
Like if it was as easy as them seeing the word exchange.
Ohh. It's that when you correct
capital letters, I, I, I will die by this, Yeah.
And again, I'm an employer and employee.
Sorry. And employer.
I'm an employee. I work.
It's the rules of the job. You've got a correct like
capital letters, right? Hmm.
I think it's. The biggest waste of time.
Yeah, in history. Because those children have had
capital letters corrected every single day.
Yeah, for however long they've been in school and they still
don't do it. So me writing capital letter
next to their capital letter that they've missed will not
next time mean they remember it. Because what will happen is they
will just write it and miss it. So the best thing to do is, and
this is what I do every single lesson I'll say to them, how do
we start a sentence? Everyone Capital checked it.
No, check it. OK, That's still miss it.
Yeah. If they're still missing it
after me doing that, Yeah, me writing in their book will do
nothing. So I'm gonna continue to teach
it. Have you not learned?
That you have to write it in the book no, 300 times before it
works. You obviously got to the 200.
Yeah, I got to the. 299 and I was like, well, it's not worked,
but it's like that meme of that guy digging to find them
diamonds turns back just before that person is determined.
That person is writing capital letter for the 454th time there
is there remembered nice one. And it's weird because that kid
would remembered anyway because all that happened in their
brain. They went, Oh yeah, after that,
Yeah. Ohh, Interesting.
Yep. So.
Yeah, All in all I take the double marking, cause the
holidays I would say a very, very precious part of this job.
Always negative about the job it seems.
Especially this like 2023, the strikes and stuff.
Very easy to fall into that hole the kids are.
Brilliant. I love teaching, actually
teaching so much, And the holidays are amazing.
They're necessary as well. People often think of them as
like a just like a extra perky bonus.
I know they are absolutely necessary.
I tell you what, teachers could not do this job without without
those extended holidays. Do is look at the last few weeks
of time always on that last legs?
Aren't we, like, exhausted? Yeah.
Anyway, OK, you've got a game. I've got a little game.
I. Need you on your phone to get
timer up. OK, so on my phone I'm gonna
have the game. This is a very simple game, OK?
Just. Like a stopwatch.
Just a stopwatch. Well, yeah, yeah.
Counting down. OK, yeah.
Sorry. Not stop.
Watch timer. Right.
OK, so 30 seconds if you can even press your button, OK. 30
seconds 30. Seconds.
I'm gonna do it three times. We're playing against each
other, OK, Don't need to just actually put it down.
Very simple game, yeah. I'm going to give a theme, a
category, let's say, and then between us we go backwards and
forward bidding of how many we think we can name.
For example, it could be colours.
How many colours can you name in 30 seconds?
We go back and forth and how many do you think you could do
in 30 seconds? 10, OK.
And then I might say 11. OK And you, if you think you can
do a letter 12, you say 12 or 12 and then I'll go liar.
So this game's called liar. What Then you've been 12.
OK When the other person gives up and says does it says Dick
gone, try 12. If you do it, you get a point.
If you fail, I get a point. OK, so.
We're calling, calling, OK, so, alright, OK, so there are. 3
categories here. It's gonna be best of three.
OK? And the first one is nativity
roles. Now many roles in the nativity.
So how many do you think you can do in 30 seconds?
Ohh my days. 5 6. 7. Ohh.
Eight. Liar.
Alright, you gotta start the
clock as soon as possible. You gotta keep people updated.
It's gone. Mary.
Joseph. Donkey King, King King, King 3
Kings 20 seconds left. Jesus.
Seven OK with only one more. Yeah, 15 seconds.
Adrian, Gabriel Right. Enough preaching, Cheat one now.
Is there 3 kings? Yeah, I know where they go.
King One. King Two King 3.
And all the other things around the world.
It's King Charlo, baby. Jesus.
I'm King Charles. Charles.
OK, one note to me. Ready for the next one?
Yeah. OK.
OK, school subjects. Such.
Subjects OK Lessons You teach 6/7.
Nine Ohh. OK 30 seconds ready.
Ohh. 9. Liar.
Go. OK.
Maths. Yep.
English. Yep.
Geography. History.
PE. Biology.
Chemistry, Physics, and the. 3 Kings ranking two King three
Ohh. Ohh, OK, right.
OK, 11 decider. I think we've massively
underestimated you could do in these.
OK, this one. I think we could go ham on this
one. So this is gonna whack out of
it. There's so many for this one.
Ready. OK, so this is the decider
things you find in a classroom. 25.
Give me the timer. Give me ohh no 25 go OK door
display, whiteboard the screen whiteboard screen.
Laptop chair. Teachers desk children's desks
carpet book corner. Ted books bookshelf.
Good. 1-2 OK covered one. As in like teachers cupboard.
Yeah, we're we're shelves in it. Planning documents.
Yeah, pencils. Or pens?
Yeah, man, I was getting that one.
Going to get way of that, right? 21 I mean, OK fair enough.
Ohh gosh, very simple. Good. 20.
Five starts spinning. It's bidding.
You said 10. Let me say something.
It was like the. Owl game.
You know how many things until it's weird?
I like that one. We have to play that again.
I don't think. Yeah, I.
Just thought of three school related things.
Yeah, I think we got got into our groove towards the end.
We were like we can obviously more than eight things.
Yeah, 25. I was hoping you'd be like 30.
Wait 30 seconds. To be fair, I forgot.
About the fact, I think even. If you knew if you had a list of
stuff, you'd struggle to get 30. I mean, you were anyway reading
list where you were. Ohh shut up Ohh.
That's fun. Yeah, that was cool.
We're gonna keep them keeping the games up, guys.
Let us know how you got on at home.
Still up, Dylan. Very important.
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How do people talk to us? How do people share our podcast?
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Is it like, is there to pretend there's money involved or
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If we don't, if we don't give them monetary incentives, real
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Yeah. Little.
You're feeling kind of sad. Yeah.
Are you feeling kind of mad too? That one, Yeah.
Like indescribably stupid little meme, but I love it.
Real content. Nearly on 50 views.
Anyway, guys, we've had a hoot today or other side we've had a
hoot today. We have.
Thank you for listening and very happy New Year.
Hope you enjoy going back. We're back tomorrow.
That's quick, isn't it? 2nd of January.
Yeah. Anyway.
Keep us accountable for our goals.
Yes, and. Your date on Instagram, I
suppose. No sugar, I reckon would do it
one month at a time. One month one.
Month at a time, Yeah, the month.
Definitely, definitely. I'll be impressed if I make a
month. You're not gonna.
Make a month, baby. Well, what's the forfeit?
We never come up with one, but it's asked of you as well.
Think. Before the next one, start next
episode with a four fight. We won't, because we forget that
by then. But we'll tell you of course.
Will. Yeah, it's.
Great. Each episode stand alone,
Nothing links because we forget everything in between.
See ya. Bye guys.