Teach Sleep Repeat

Toxic schools. If you don't work in one, then you've definitely at least heard the horror stories. Teaching is a job full of stress. Poor leadership, micro-managing and embedded expectations to sink massive amount of your own time just make things worse. In this episode, we reflect on some real-life examples of how schools become toxic, what a bad culture looks like, and how choices at the top trickle down to stress at the bottom. In an attempt to not be doom and gloom, we then talk about exactly what can be done to fix it! What does an excellent and wellbeing proud school look like? What is it like on the side with the greener grass? We hope you enjoy it. Please get in touch if anything we talked about today hit home. We'd love to hear from you. Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast

It's time for the OFFICIAL* top 5 reasons that teacher recruitment and retention is in a dire state in England. *not actually official and just our opinion In this episode, we speculate on five particular elements of the career which we think are contributing the most to teachers quitting at an alarming rate! Fun fact: in 2022, 12.8% of newly qualified teachers quit within their first year... Join us as we explore some more juicy numbers and try ever-so-hard to get to the bottom of why. If you have any questions or want to share your stories and thoughts with us, get in touch! Teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com @teachsleeprepeatpodcast on Instagram and Threads.

Every single teacher in the country knows the impact of *that call*. We reflect on our recent Ofsted inspection in detail & give valuable insight to the procedure and what we experienced as maths leads involved in a maths deep dive. Whether you work in a school who are due an inspection or just want to know what the process involves, this is a must listen episode! If you have any questions about the process and want to know more, get in touch! Teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com @teachsleeprepeatpodcast on Instagram and Threads.

Welcome back! It's been an extremely eventful couple of weeks. Dylan became a dad! And Hayden is not far behind... We also had OFSTED in this week, and they deep dived our subject: maths. We'll be going into a lot more detail on this in a future episode, so stick around! I think it's safe to say we lose the plot in this episode. Dylan's childhood tales have Hayden pretty much in tears of laughter. Thank you for listening and hope you enjoy! Feel free to write to us any time: Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast  Email: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com

Join us for a particularly special episode in which we share some awesome news with you: our much-loved customers! I mean audience... Besides our BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS, we get weirdly deep and discuss self-diagnoses, religion and perform impressions of the Tasmanian Devil... I'm not sure what to say really. It's an odd one. Hopefully by the end you'll understand exactly why! We also host a Q&A section and answer some of the questions that you've written in. So if you want to hear more about Hayden's haircare routine, stay tuned for that part. Thank you for listening and hope you enjoy! Feel free to write to us any time: Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast  Email: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com

We all remember our favourite teaching assistants from when we went to school. They are the glue that holds things together and are an amazing support system not only for students, but teachers too. We talk about the role, how it’s being squeezed, and the slow transformation of the role into something that is paid extremely little but with more and more responsibility piled on. We also have a few messages to chat about from you lovely listeners and catch up on our week! Thank you for listening and hope you enjoy! Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast Email: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com

Helllllloooooooo again and welcome back to another episode of Teach, Sleep, Repeat! We are keeping the face-to-face podcasts AND we genuinely think this is one of our funniest episodes yet. Get ready for a whirlwind tour of Hayden's latest stag do adventures, Dylan's Harvest Festival song game (pure laughter) and our good old chat answering the question posed in the title of this podcast.... What is the point of marking? It's time consuming. It's not very helpful. Why do we continue to think it's important? We hope you enjoy the episode. Please do give us a 5-star review and follow us. You can email in your funny/embarrassing/heart-warming stories here at: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com Find us on Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast

Join sweaty messes Dylan and Hayden for the second instalment of 'recording a podcast together in a tiny room' We discuss how we're banned from working in the same year group, our general classroom banter and our opinions on children's behaviour. How much impact does school really have on a child's behaviour? Thank you for listening or watching. We love our loyal customers. We love it even more when you write to us! Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast Email: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com

New school year = New season! We are back after a week off and we are actually together in person! We talk about the start to the school year, moving house on the last day of the summer holidays, and discuss an email from a listener who is already disgruntled! Oh and the small matter of a whole bunch of schools potentially about to collapse... Thank you for listening or watching. We hope you enjoy the (awful) Geordie accents. Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast Email: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com

The start of the new school year is just around the corner and we are super excited to get back teaching! We talk about all of our favourite top tips for stepping back onto the crazy rollercoaster ride that is Term 1 as a teacher. This covers everything from how to build relationships with your new class, looking after yourself and setting really high expectations (and how to stick to them)! We also each give our top 3 unique tips that you can put in place from day 1 to help you hit the ground running! Hope you enjoy this one. Find us on: Instagram and Threads: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast X: https://twitter.com/TeachSRpodcast gmail: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com