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| 219. The Craziest Parents' Evening Stories Ever! | 19 Oct 2026 | 00:46:03 | |
It’s nearly the end of Term 1, which means the first parents’ evening of the year, usually when you’re shattered and losing your voice. Dylan and Hayden talk about why it’s still worth doing, what parents actually want to hear (whether their child is happy, not fronted adverbials), and whether teachers should be stricter about keeping to time. Then a quick-fire round: online or in person, one long night or two, 5, 10 or 15 minute slots, chasing no-shows, and whether the child should sit in. In the second half we read out your most unhinged parents’ evening stories. There’s the parent who called a Welsh teacher a nationalist for saying Wales has a capital city, an MFL teacher insulted as a “Europhile”, a parent who doesn’t believe in detention, a five-minute rant aimed at the wrong teacher, and Marjorie, who says hello even though she’s no longer with us. Along the way there’s a row about whether mediums are a con, and Hayden still can’t get over the Nectar card incident. Join the Teach Sleep Repeat WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s More from us: www.teachsleeprepeatpodcast.com If the show is useful to you, a rating and a follow genuinely helps more people find it. | |||
| 218. Vaping Around Schools, Staffroom Small Talk & Best Maths Resources | 12 Oct 2026 | 00:41:46 | |
Hayden plans the episode this week, which means you get a game. He opens with a bedtime story about his nearly-three-year-old that ends with the question no parent wants to hear: “Dad, where am I going to put my bogey?” Then Blind Rank is back by listener request. Dylan has to rank playground duty, parents’ evening, teaching art, the staffroom and one more mystery job without knowing what’s coming next. He gets badly stitched up at number one. Next, Dylan drove past two primary schools on the way to the new office and counted more than a dozen parents vaping on the school run. Is that just normal now? The boys get into what kids pick up from it, vaping in secondary toilets, the generational smoking ban and whether it’s a nanny state, and vapes made to look like highlighters. In the Q&A, a listener asks what you’d buy if you had to stock a brand new school with maths resources from scratch. Dienes, Cuisenaire rods, multilink cubes, real clock faces, plenty of 3D shapes, and the place value sliders you should never pay for. That turns into a proper conversation about using CPA flexibly and the links in maths that actually make a difference. Join the Teach Sleep Repeat WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s If the show is useful to you, a rating and a follow genuinely helps more people find it. | |||
| 217. Term 1 Madness, Kids Being Gross & Hayden's Baby Arrives! | 05 Oct 2026 | 00:41:06 | |
Hayden is back after one whole week of paternity leave, with a 10-day-old son called Albie (who Dylan has already renamed Albatross). We talk about how much calmer you are second time round, which parenting "rules" turn out not to matter and which ones really do, then get properly stuck into why children are so gross: snot bubbles in Reception, the Year 6 residential room nobody wants to open on day three, and a crisp eaten straight out of the bin. Then your questions. One listener's school has put a twilight, a parents evening and an open evening in the same week. Is that unreasonable? Short answer: yes. We get into directed time, why an open evening should replace something rather than just be added on, and whether teaching really is harder than other jobs. Plus, after our Bridget Phillipson interview, would new Education Secretary Lucy Powell ever come on the show? Lucy, the invite is open. 🐘 Free Maths Zoo arithmetic worksheet generator: tools.mathszoo.app Join the Teach Sleep Repeat WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s More from us: www.teachsleeprepeatpodcast.com Instagram: @teachsleeprepeatpodcast Enquiries and sponsorship: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com If the show is useful to you, a rating and a follow genuinely helps more people find it. | |||
| 216. The Craziest RED FLAG School Stories Ever! | 21 Sep 2026 | 00:48:38 | |
Once a year we ask you for your school's biggest red flags, and once a year you absolutely bury us. Nearly a thousand comments on Facebook alone, so we've pulled out the worst of them and gone through them one by one. A memo banning anyone below SLT from drinking ground coffee, after a colleague was caught with a filter mug. A member of leadership asking a teacher if she knew what "professional" meant. A skirts-only school that told an NQT to leave the interview there and then if she'd rather wear trousers. An open plan school with no staff room and hot desking, which sets Dylan off on private schools, class sizes and what the people with actual money choose to do. Staples that had to match the backing paper, coloured in with permanent pen. A fire alarm set off to stop a lunchtime union meeting. Five compulsory parent phone calls a week, logged in three places, because nobody wants to pay for an attendance officer. A suit jacket rule enforced on a woman eight months pregnant. Being told to call the children "clients". And a school where teachers weren't allowed a sip of water in front of a class. Somewhere in the middle of it Hayden runs a riled-up meter on Dylan and gets him from a two to a nine, and there's some baby news too. Fair warning, the language gets away from us on this one. Free Maths Zoo arithmetic worksheet generator: tools.mathszoo.appJoin the Whatsapp Community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 215. PISA Results, Teacher Pay & BORING Writing Schemes | 14 Sep 2026 | 00:49:18 | |
🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app England has just landed in the world's top ten for reading, maths and science. Good news, surely? Dylan and Hayden are not so sure, because the same PISA results show reading ability falling off a cliff worldwide, and the countries where children use AI the most are falling behind the fastest. Here's the article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgy6n0l4rdo First, though, it is episode one from the new office, complete with a slight echo and a metal works next door. Dylan is fresh off a sleeper train to Edinburgh (think bunk beds, a shower that doubles as the toilet, and a mate who is six foot three), and he has some explaining to do about that Scottish teacher pay post that got a few people worked up. Then two listener questions. With AI able to manipulate images, should schools stop publishing pupil photos altogether? And which subject did each of them love teaching far more than they expected? Hayden's answer says a lot about what league tables miss. Dylan's ends up in a confession about marking writing without actually reading it. Honest, a bit echoey, and back in business. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 214. "Low-level" Disruption, Emails Out Of Hours & Has AI Gone Too Far In Education? | 07 Sep 2026 | 00:49:41 | |
🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app One day into the new year, and a listener is already drained. Not the big stuff. The whispering, the fiddling, the constant "low level" disruption that never quite stops. She doesn't want to moan all year, but it's looking that way. Hayden has a story about the one thing a leader said to him that made stop-start teaching feel like the right call, and both lads are clear that "low level" is the wrong name for it. Before that, some news. Dylan and Hayden are moving into an office, which is not the same as buying a flat together, whatever Instagram decided. They talk candidly about a year of working from home, cabin fever, and why no combination of teaching, business and podcast has ever felt perfect. Also this week: a Jen Foster post on what to ask instead of "how was your summer?", and why the "just get over it" crowd wind Dylan up. A holiday poll (six weeks, or four plus two-week breaks all year?). And Dylan's worry that AI lesson generators are pushing "save time" ahead of "good lesson", with Hayden pushing back. Plus the eternal question: is there anything wrong with sending emails at 8pm? Honest, funny, and a proper first-week-back listen. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! | |||
| 213. The Ultimate Back To School Guide! Your Questions Answered | 01 Sep 2026 | 00:56:15 | |
🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app An ECT one week in, a class sat well below the expected level, and a head already spinning with schemes, planning and new information. What do you actually say to them? Season 5 opens with a full back to school Q&A. Hayden defends the horseshoe seating plan, and Dylan has to break it to him that what he ran for years was, in fact, a staple. From there it turns properly useful: mixed attainment seating, whether pairing your high attainers with your low attainers every single day is really helping either of them, and the moment a child offered to hand out the support sheets and reeled off exactly the right six names. Then the ideal INSET day, which mostly means giving staff the time and putting the sugar paper away. When normal lessons should resume. Icebreakers and register games that genuinely work. And a new senior leader asking how to deliver the SIP in September without flattening everyone, which leads to a change policy most schools should probably steal. Honest, funny, and timed for the walk in on Tuesday morning. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! | |||
| 212. Crazy Health & Safety, Assessing Better & Dress Codes! [Listener Q&A] | 24 Aug 2026 | 00:45:09 | |
🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app Five weeks of rehearsals. Year Six production. Opening night a few hours away. And then the head teacher decides the children cannot stand on the benches, for health and safety reasons. The same benches the school uses for bench ball. Before that, a cracking question from a newly qualified teacher whose university swapped the 5,000 word essay for a shorter portfolio and a recorded presentation. Could schools do something similar? Dylan and Hayden get into timed reading comprehension, why pace is weighted so heavily, and the trap of fixing assessment for one group by quietly breaking it for another. There is also a listener asking whether they would have a Reform politician on the show. That one turns into an honest conversation about platforming, accountability and where the line actually sits. Honest, funny, and a gentle way back in before September. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! | |||
| 211. Will Burnham's Education Plans Work? [Listener Q+A] | 17 Aug 2026 | 00:42:20 | |
🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app A Year 1 teacher has been told her school is bringing in continuous provision from September, and she is quietly worried her class will not be where they should be by July. Dylan and Hayden take that worry seriously, because badly implemented provision is a real risk. Then they ask the harder question. Where does "where they should be" actually come from, and who decided it? That spirals into knives and forks, shoelaces and shared responsibility, and where the line sits between what a school should help with and what it genuinely cannot take on. Hayden also gets asked when Halloween is. It goes about as well as you would expect, and there is now a poll. Elsewhere, honest assembly tips including the one thing their old head did every single day without fail, and a straight answer on why Wednesday episodes disappeared. Then the big one. Andy Burnham's new technical routes for Year 10, and why both hosts want it to work but are braced for schools to game it. Honest, funny, and a proper end of summer listen. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! | |||
| 210. Summer Catch-Up: Padel, Smashed Controllers & A New Office? | 10 Aug 2026 | 00:31:44 | |
Hayden turns up in a Nike sweatband, insists it is not cosplay, and claims his paddle sponsorship money is not far off Tiger Woods territory. It goes downhill from there. Dylan sets a test to work out exactly which decade Hayden's sports knowledge stopped in, then gives listeners a guided tour of the podcast room, recently tidied in the loosest possible sense of the word. Five things you can see, including a box from a school Dylan left roughly eight years ago. There is also a confession involving a games controller, a pair of scissors and a level of competitiveness that arguably should have flagged on a DBS check. Then it turns properly honest. A year on from leaving the classroom, the lads are weighing up renting an office space, with a baby six weeks away and a decision needed that day. They are genuinely split, and they want your take. Daft, honest, and a proper break from the to do list. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! | |||
| 209. Is School Leadership & Having A Young Family Compatible? | 03 Aug 2026 | 00:52:41 | |
Dylan spent half a wedding being blamed for something he definitely did not do, and there were witnesses. It is a strong opening to a Q&A that gets serious surprisingly fast. A listener kicks things off by challenging Hayden to trigger Dylan in the shortest possible time. The broken oven, the door handle, the garden. Only one line actually lands. Then the big one. Is school leadership genuinely incompatible with having young children? Dylan makes the case that the job was built around a household model that stopped existing sixty years ago, and explains why that shows up in exactly who ends up applying for leadership roles. An English lead asks whether English is a bigger subject to lead than maths, and whether the TLR should say so. Lucy wants to know if her PPA actually hits ten per cent, and the maths is worth doing on your own timetable. Harrison asks about Forest School, which turns into something much bigger about school refusers and what school is even for. And James, newly qualified with eleven years of teaching behind him, keeps being told his experience abroad does not count. Honest, funny, and a bit spikier than your average mailbag. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app | |||
| 208. Everything You Need to Know About Lucy Powell: The Fresh Start We Need? | 23 Jul 2026 | 00:49:19 | |
🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app Bridget Phillipson is out, Lucy Powell is in, and most teachers could not pick her out of a lineup. So this is the crash course. Moss Side, state educated all the way, a year reading chemistry at Oxford before she walked away from it, a family full of teachers, and her own children at the primary she went to herself. Then the harder question. Does "her mum was a headteacher" actually count as experience in education? Dylan is not having it. And should working in a school be a flat prerequisite for the job? Hayden lands somewhere the internet will hate, and Dylan surprises himself by agreeing with him. Her record is plain to see. Anti academisation, primary SPaG tests called ridiculous, league tables and Progress 8 taken apart. Dylan makes a prediction about how much of that survives contact with the Treasury. Sceptical, hopeful, and worth a listen before you make your mind up about her. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! | |||
| 207. Year 6 Productions, PPA From Home & Enrichment On A Budget | 20 Jul 2026 | 00:49:28 | |
🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app Seven sessions. That is how much rehearsal time one Year 6 team was given for their end of year production, after leadership insisted English and maths carried on every single day. Hayden, who has run more than a few of these, has a fairly clear view on where that ends up. That question from Izzy opens the episode and it goes well beyond jazz hands. What actually happens to the curriculum in production season, what the other seventy odd children are doing while the leads rehearse, and the uncomfortable truth about the one person quietly working every evening to make the whole thing exist. Dylan and Hayden talk about what schools could reasonably offer that person in return. Then it is school trips and enrichment, where Dylan gets properly wound up about the maths behind the latest pay award and what the people asking for more enrichment are actually funding. There is also a question about what you cared about as an NQT and have since let go, PPA from home and why it should always be a choice, and the summer holiday debate that returns every July like clockwork. Honest, funny, and exactly the episode for anyone limping over the finish line. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! | |||
| 206. Why We NEED To Start Respecting Teachers' Personal Time (Listener Q+A) | 13 Jul 2026 | 00:50:52 | |
🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app A second year teacher writes in wanting to know when everything you have to do in a day finally becomes manageable. Dylan opens with some news she probably did not want to hear, and then turns it into something genuinely useful about the difference between getting faster at your job and quietly deciding what is no longer worth doing at all. That leads into what Dylan would actually bring in if he were a head teacher, including a one in one out rule on workload and a school with no written marking policy whatsoever. Hayden puts the head teacher's real fear straight back to him. If nothing is written in the books, how do you know any of it is happening? Then the big one, and the one Dylan gets most fired up about. Is it fair that ECTs get paid thousands less for a job that looks almost identical? Dylan thinks the entire pay scale is built on the wrong idea, and he has a full replacement in mind. Plus Tom asks which school rule would cause complete societal collapse if applied to adults, and the pair finish with an honest, surprisingly nuanced conversation about private schools, class sizes and privilege. Honest, funny, and a bit spikier than usual once money comes up. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! | |||
| 205. Why You Can't Let Teaching Take Over Your Life (Emotional!) | 06 Jul 2026 | 01:04:52 | |
🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app Under what circumstances would you actually raise your voice at a class? Dylan reckons he can count his genuine, lost-it shouts on one hand, and the single time he did it properly, defending a child who was being bullied, still sits with him years later. He and Hayden pull apart the difference between shouting and simply being heard, why going quieter can land harder, and the old staffroom wisdom to reserve the shout. From there it's a full mailbag. A Year 5 teacher heading up to Year 6 wants honest talk on transition, and the lads don't quite agree on when taking your class up is a gift and when it really isn't. A trainee asks how schools can make every adult feel like a learner, ECT and veteran alike. Then a question about education after a change at the top sends Dylan off on the politics of vibes. And the one that gets him. A soon-to-be dad and middle leader asks how to balance school with fatherhood. Dylan does not make it through dry. Honest, funny, and with a proper lump in the throat by the end. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! | |||
| 204. Tricky Classes, Unpaid Work & Anonymous Surveys (That Aren't Actually Anonymous!) | 29 Jun 2026 | 00:52:08 | |
You've just been handed your new class, and the previous teacher's parting words are that they were the most difficult group they've taught in eleven years. Helpful heads up, or a curse you carry all summer? Dylan and Hayden open with the tricky class handover, why every class somehow becomes the trickiest one ever, and whether tricky classes even exist or it's all down to the school. Then it gets spicier. A listener is made joint subject lead with no TLR, no extra time and no choice, and Dylan has strong feelings about doing free leadership work, including what he would actually say to the head. After that, a teacher reckons some colleagues just don't want to work, which sparks a proper chat about change fatigue and what negativity really means. There are anonymous surveys that are anything but anonymous, and an Ofsted question about who speaks up when it counts and who stays quiet. Honest, funny, and a bit fired up by the end. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! | |||
| 203. Is Using AI Tutors In Schools A Good Idea? (Listener Q&A) | 22 Jun 2026 | 00:41:42 | |
🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app The government have announced plans for all children on free school meals to be given access to an AI tutor, which begs the question, are we already on the way to humans being replaced by robots? "Am I cut out for this?" Ellie's message is the one that might hit hardest. She moved from TA into a Year 6 class as a trainee, was promised regular meetings and observations that never materialised, has had praise maybe twice all year, and is now quietly wondering whether she's just not built for teaching. Dylan and Hayden have a lot to say about whose fault that actually is. It's a mailbag full of early career pressure this week. One ECT is staring down phonics screening with an 86% pass rate hanging over them, daily interventions and constant mock screenings. Another has been asked to go for Year Group Leader in only their third year, before they've even changed year groups. Is that a vote of confidence or a red flag? And after the setting episode, a Year 1 ECT writes in stretched paper-thin: split-teaching three ways, rushing inputs into a 45 minute slot, and the one TA in the key stage forever getting pulled for cover. Honest, a little raw, and a real look at what we're asking new teachers to carry. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 202. Is Teaching Becoming An Impossible Job? (Listener Q&A) | 15 Jun 2026 | 00:43:09 | |
Use our FREE worksheet arithmetic generator here: tools.mathszoo.app Twenty-five years in KS2, and Kathy says teaching now feels like a battle. Her message kicks off this listener mailbag: a rise in SEND needs, behaviour, apathy and shaky basics since COVID, and a class where the majority aren't equipped for year group expectations. She's gone more child-led to meet them where they are, but that collides with what the curriculum demands. So she asks the big one. Do the people making the decisions actually understand life at the coalface, and who are they even listening to? Dylan and Hayden don't dodge it. Then Phil asks the fun one. Now they've bagged the Education Secretary, who's the dream guest next? The wishlist gets gloriously chaotic. Luke wonders whether centrally planned schemes of work quietly deskill new teachers who never learn to build a lesson from scratch. And Tom brings the staffroom chaos: kebabs, which infant year they'd brave, and the eternal question of class assemblies. Honest, funny, and a properly good airing of the stuff teachers actually worry about. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show!🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 201. Frustrated Teachers, Dodging Questions & Important Topics: Reacting To Our Chat With The Education Secretary | 08 Jun 2026 | 00:52:03 | |
So you sit a sitting Education Secretary down, ask the questions teachers actually want answered, follow up when the first answer wobbles, and then the verdict comes back from you, the listeners. This week Dylan and Hayden go through the feedback from the Bridget Phillipson episode, and it was overwhelmingly kind. Listeners said the questions were clear and fair, that the follow ups kept coming, and that the show genuinely tried to hold her to account rather than rolling out the red carpet. But there's a but. A lot of you felt she dodged. The questions were sharp, the answers were not, and plenty of listeners came away feeling the big ones never really got answered. Dylan and Hayden sit with that uncomfortable truth and ask whether that's on them, on her, or just the nature of getting a politician in the room. Honest, a little cheeky, and a proper postmortem of one of our biggest episodes yet. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show!🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 200. A Chat With Bridget Phillipson: The SEND White Paper, Maternity Pay & School Budgets | 01 Jun 2026 | 00:35:42 | |
Two hundred episodes in, and somehow we ended up across the table from the person who runs the whole system. For the TSR 200th, Dylan and Hayden sit down with Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, and waste none of it on small talk. First, the SEND white paper. The move from EHCPs to the new Individual Support Plans sounds tidy, but it could leave families without the right to appeal at a tribunal. What happens to children with complex needs when the funding does not follow? Then the part that stings any new parent on staff. Civil servants get 26 weeks on full pay, teachers get eight. That opens up parental pay, a dropping birth rate, the quiet saving fewer pupils hand the Treasury, and whether the real answer is cutting class sizes rather than closing schools and cutting jobs. And the big one. A projected 6.5% pay rise over three years that is not fully funded. We asked the Education Secretary directly where that money comes from, and who loses their job to pay for it. Honest, occasionally tense, and exactly the conversation we wanted for episode 200. Oh, and yes, we did ask her about Gemma Collins turning up at the DfE. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 199. Unpopular Opinions, Draconian Policies, and a SATs Week Rant | 18 May 2026 | 00:45:57 | |
"What's the biggest thing you two actually disagree on?" One listener has clocked the I agree, I agree tic and wants a proper scrap, so Dylan and Hayden dig into the teaching vs non-teaching divide and find it's spikier than either expected. Then a brave question lands. Should politics be explicitly taught in KS2? The boys weigh up whether ten year olds can handle it, who gets to decide what counts as balanced, and what happens when a kid asks the question you really didn't want them to ask. Next, draconian behaviour policies. Listeners have sent in the ones that humiliated children or just made no sense, and some of these are hard to hear without wincing. A one form entry teacher wants to know how on earth setting could work in her school, and the lads have a proper crack at it rather than dodging. Plus the SATs week ask that will make every Year 6 teacher's eye twitch. Revising all afternoon for the next day's test, every day. Reasonable prep or completely ridiculous? And to finish, the question with teeth. What's your real, unpopular education opinion. The one that might genuinely cost you a listener. Honest, funny, and not in the mood to play nice today. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show!🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 198. Should Teachers Model Healthy Eating? Plus Quickest ECT Quits, Ethical Issues & Zombie Outbreaks | 11 May 2026 | 00:38:35 | |
🔢 Sign up for a free Maths Zoo demo right now and get your school using it before the end of term. Boost maths fluency and arithmetic across every year group, completely free trial, no strings. Book it at www.mathszoo.org A teacher writes in asking if it is genuinely acceptable to eat biscuits and drink sugary drinks in front of children. Are teachers supposed to be role models when it comes to lunch, or can you have whatever you want in your packed lunch and not feel bad about it? Dylan and Hayden have thoughts. Then a listener has been trying to get Dylan and Hayden to answer this for ages. Is teaching the most ethically dubious job in the world? Photocopying copyright violations, Disney Plus being streamed in classrooms when the licence says not for public use, the list goes on. Are teachers all walking around breaking rules constantly without realising? What is the quickest you have seen someone start teaching and then quit? A listener once knew an ECT who left by the second week of term. Dylan and Hayden swap stories. There is also a properly nerdy question about teaching publications. Does anyone still read the TES? Are the union magazines just bin material? Recommendations for the actual good podcasts, websites and reading for teachers who want to stay informed. Plus the SEND support staff question. What is the value of lived experience versus a formal qualification? And the most important question of all. What classroom item is the first you grab in a zombie outbreak? 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 197. Is Setting In Maths Actually A Good Thing? | 06 May 2026 | 01:12:56 | |
For about twenty-five years, the dominant message in teacher training has been clear. The research says mixed attainment is better. Setting damages confidence, harms low attainers, and widens the gap. Then in April 2026, the EEF published a study that complicates all of that. Nine thousand pupils, 97 schools, two years of data. The finding: pupils in mixed attainment classes made roughly one month less progress in maths than pupils in sets. High prior attainers made two months less progress. And the team that produced this result is the same team that gave us most of the evidence against setting in the first place. Dylan and Hayden get into what the study actually found and what it did not find, what they were both taught during training and whether they still believe it, and the honest classroom experience that the academic literature tends not to capture. They also make the strongest possible case for both sides before landing somewhere honest. The mixed attainment argument does not collapse because of one study. The setting argument is not vindicated either. But the conversation has shifted and anyone working in secondary maths right now deserves to know how and why. Sharp, properly researched, and the kind of debate that should be happening in every staffroom in the country. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 196. Q&A: Unannounced Learning Stalks, Parent Emails & Are SATs Pointless? | 04 May 2026 | 00:47:40 | |
A teacher is getting emails from a parent at 10pm most nights with an expectation of a reply before school the next morning. Their SLT's advice? Just manage the relationship. Dylan and Hayden have slightly stronger thoughts on that. Then unannounced learning walks, two-line feedback emails with no right of reply, and the working wall that was too busy one week and lacking evidence of learning the next. How is anyone supposed to win? Dylan and Hayden get into why this kind of observation culture does more damage to staff than it does good for children. A listener writes in to defend SATs, and wants to know if they are in the minority. Every other year group does end of year tests. It narrows focus. It prepares children for formal assessment later in life. It can be done badly but that does not mean scrapping it entirely is the answer. Dylan and Hayden take this one seriously rather than just nodding along. And following on from a recent video arguing that memorising specific facts is pointless, a listener pushes back properly. Is there still a case for children holding knowledge in their heads? Where is the line between rote learning that builds genuine understanding and rote learning that is just performance? Dylan and Hayden try to draw it. Four great questions, four proper answers. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 195. Will The Smartphone Ban In Schools Actually Change Anything? | 29 Apr 2026 | 01:01:25 | |
England just made the school phone ban statutory. From this autumn, banning phones during the school day is not just guidance schools can choose to follow. It is the law. So why are so many headteachers saying it does not really change anything? Dylan and Hayden get into what the new law actually means in practice, why 99.8% of primaries already had a phone policy before this legislation existed, and whether the legal change makes any real difference to what happens in a classroom on a Monday morning. They also take on the pushback. The parent who wants a direct line to their child after pickup plans change. The Year 10 art student photographing their sketchbook. The kid with Type 1 diabetes whose phone is also their glucose monitor. The argument that banning phones in schools is the politically cheap alternative to actually regulating the platforms doing the real damage. The teacher case for this is strong and Dylan and Hayden give it a proper hearing. The daily grind of phone policing, the bullying that follows kids into lessons through group chats, the playgrounds that genuinely went quiet and then got loud again in a different way when phones disappeared. But the Birmingham study that found banning phones in school did not improve sleep, mental health or grades also gets its moment, because the evidence is more complicated than the headlines suggest. Sharp, honest, and right in the middle of a live news story. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 194. Q&A: Reading For Pleasure Gimmicks, Flimsy Behaviour Policies & Wellbeing Fads | 27 Apr 2026 | 00:42:31 | |
A wellbeing lead has introduced a shout-out wall and free fruit in the staffroom. The teacher who wrote in knows exactly why staff morale is low, and it has nothing to do with bananas. Dylan and Hayden are firmly on their side. Then a Year 8 student tells a teacher to f*** off and is back in their classroom grinning thirty minutes later. Every other kid in that room clocked exactly what just happened. Dylan and Hayden get into why pretending that is an acceptable behaviour response is damaging for everyone, including the child. If you were education secretary, what changes first? Dylan and Hayden both take a proper swing at this one and the answers might surprise you. A parent who genuinely cannot grasp how far behind their child is, despite months of softly softly conversations and now more direct ones too. What do you actually do next? Can reading for pleasure even be taught? Or is calling it that just setting everyone up for a miserable experience before they have even opened the book? Honest, direct, and a lot of fun from start to finish. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 193. Does It Matter What Kids Eat At School? | 22 Apr 2026 | 01:01:50 | |
The government just announced the biggest shake-up of school food standards in over a decade. Ice cream is gone. Fruit juice is gone. Deep-frying is banned outright. And every single main meal now has to come with vegetables. Dylan and Hayden get into what has actually changed, what the old rules really said versus what people think they said, and whether any of this will make a blind bit of difference if schools do not have the kitchens, the funding or the enforcement to back it up. The free school meals debate gets a proper run out too, after the Green Party called for universal free meals for every primary and secondary pupil in England. London already does it for primaries. Does the rest of the country follow? Or is targeted support for low-income families the better use of the money? Plus their own memories of school dinners, the very real postcode lottery in quality across English schools, and whether there is any point writing better rules if more than half of schools were not even meeting the old ones. The consultation is open until 12 June 2026 if you want to have your say. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 192. Q&A: Cost Of Living Nightmare, Sick Day Pressure & Using A.I. Safely | 20 Apr 2026 | 00:43:56 | |
A teacher writes in saying she had to be talked out of going into work while ill by her own partner. Not because she wanted to be there, but because calling in sick felt worse than just turning up. Dylan and Hayden know exactly what that feels like, and this one opens a conversation about why sick days in teaching are genuinely broken. Then a headteacher has announced that all staff are being moved to different year groups in September, nobody wants it, nobody was consulted, and the latest anyone will find out where they are going is the day before the May resignation deadline. Suck it up or leave. Dylan has a view on whether that is acceptable leadership. There is also a really interesting question about why children's happiness drops so sharply between primary and secondary school, and what secondary schools could actually learn from the way primary works. The reports question will resonate with anyone in the final stretch of the year. A teacher has been told by leadership that AI cannot be used to help write reports under any circumstances. Dylan and Hayden discuss whether that policy makes any sense, what you can actually take to your head to argue the case, and how to get through reports without losing the will to live. And the one that might hit hardest. A teacher in their thirties, single, renting, cannot save a penny. Loves the job but is financially stuck. At what point does staying in a job you love become genuinely irresponsible? Honest, funny, and right on time for this point of the year. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 191. The Insanity Of SATs Prep In Primary Schools | 15 Apr 2026 | 00:48:18 | |
Dylan watched a video this week arguing that Year 6 teachers should be paid more than everyone else. It sparked a conversation that goes much deeper than pay and gets to the heart of something that genuinely makes Dylan furious: what SATs prep is actually doing to children. This one is a deep dive. They cover the Year 6 pay debate, whether SATs boosters are ever justified, and the tutoring company elephant in the room. But the real heat comes when Dylan talks about pulling kids out of PE to sit in a dingy room doing a SPaG paper. He has thoughts. Many thoughts. There is also genuine practical advice for Year 6 teachers in the SATs run-up. How to keep kids calm rather than transmitting your own stress to them, why communal breakfast on test morning works, why you should be telling the kids the toilet procedure, and why familiarising children with test paper format from September is not the same as cramming. Dylan also makes the argument that the pressure of SATs week is a Year 3, 4 and 5 problem just as much as it is a Year 6 problem, and why leaving it all to the last two terms is a choice the whole school makes together. Passionate, honest, and genuinely useful if you are in Year 6 right now. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school before SATs? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| 190. Q&A: Teacher Hypocrites, Delaying School Admissions & Independent Writing | 13 Apr 2026 | 00:47:52 | |
It's a Q&A episode and this one gets spicy. Dylan and Hayden tackle the big questions sent in by you lot, and as always, nothing is off the table. First up: why are teachers the biggest hypocrites in the world? (Spoiler: staff meetings. You know what you're doing.) Then, a brilliant listener question about summer born children and delaying school admissions, a policy more parents should know about, and one that sparks a genuinely fascinating discussion about school readiness, birth dates, and whether skipping Reception is ever the right call. Then Dylan goes full Dylan on independent writing assessment. If you caught his recent post and weren't sure what he meant, or if you were one of the people who completely misunderstood it, this is your chance to hear it explained in detail with zero apologies. What counts as independent writing? Why does it matter how we assess it? And why is passing off teacher-supported work as independent a problem the whole profession needs to own? Plus: the hardest half term of the year (Winter 2, and it's not even close), whether it's better or worse to have a teacher-parent in your class, and a highly important discussion about dream child-free days. Funny, honest, and never dull. This is Teach Sleep Repeat. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| Ep 189: Q&A: ECTs Leading Subjects, Best Teacher Moments & Phones In The Classroom | 06 Apr 2026 | 00:46:38 | |
Another Q&A episode and this one has plenty to get stuck into. Dylan and Hayden answer your questions on some topics that clearly struck a nerve. First up, a heartfelt question from an ECT who has been quietly doing an entire subject leader role under the guise of "shadowing." Dylan and Hayden call it out for exactly what it is, and offer some genuine advice on how to advocate for yourself without burning bridges. Then things get warmer. The boys share their career highlights from inside the classroom and it turns out the moments that stick are never about data. Think handwritten notes from kids, a half court basketball shot that somehow went in, and one girl who ran across a shopping centre years later just to say hello. There is also a brilliant discussion about phones in schools and whether Ofsted should be marking a school down for a single student having their phone out. Plus, a slightly awkward question about SLT leaders who have their own private fridge and kettle so they never have to enter the staffroom. They round things off with what they have genuinely enjoyed since leaving the classroom. Turns out, not feeling absolutely exhausted every weekend is quite nice. Funny, honest, and never dull. This is Teach Sleep Repeat. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| Ep 188: The Most Common Teacher HATE Comments! (& Why They're Nonsense) | 01 Apr 2026 | 00:54:16 | |
This one's a bit different. Dylan and Hayden go through the classic one-liners that teacher haters love to fire off online, rate how much they actually boil their blood (on a scale of nought to 1000), and then properly take them apart. From the all-time classic "those who can, do, those who can't, teach" to "you only work 9 till 3," from "I pay your salary so you listen to me" to "just get a different job if it's that bad," every single one gets the Teach Sleep Repeat treatment. Some of them barely register. Some of them absolutely do. The one that really gets going? Teachers are just brainwashing the next generation with their personal politics. What starts as a straightforward dismissal of a daft comment turns into a genuinely fascinating conversation about what indoctrination actually means, where the line is in schools, and why the people shouting loudest about it tend to be the most hypocritical about it. Equal parts funny and surprisingly deep. Come for the takedowns, stay for the debate. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| Ep 187: Q&A - Ridiculous TA Expectations, Spotting Red Flags & Times Table Advice! | 30 Mar 2026 | 00:53:12 | |
Another Q&A and this one goes in some unexpected directions. Dylan and Hayden tackle your questions with their usual mix of genuine advice and complete chaos. First, a story that riled Dylan up before the episode even started. A new parent going back to work was told by their head teacher to stop helping with the baby at night so they could get more sleep for work. Dylan and Hayden have some thoughts. Then, a brilliant nuanced question about whether it is ever acceptable for an HLTA to do planning and marking. If the hours are contracted, the planning is already done, and nothing is happening outside of paid time, is that fine? Yes and no. The pay gap still does not add up. Spotting red flags when job hunting comes up next, with some really practical tips on what to ask when you walk around a school and why the answers will tell you everything you need to know. Including a story from an anonymous post online about a teacher being penalised for not teaching science during World Book Day week. Yes, really. Dylan also gives his honest take on prepping children for the Multiplication Tables Check, why he actually likes the MTC, and why your goal should never be to prep for the test but to just properly teach times tables. Plus: teachers paying for their own pencils and blue tack. Are we doing this? Are we not? Funny, honest, and never dull. This is Teach Sleep Repeat. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| Ep 186: Positive Masculinity, Secondary School Teaching & Battling Social Media [w/ Mr Hobbs] | 25 Mar 2026 | 00:43:07 | |
This week, we chat to Mr Hobbs, an English teacher in secondary school based in Cardiff. We talk about secondary teaching, decline in reading, positive masculinity and much more! Follow Mr Hobbs here: https://www.instagram.com/mrhobbsteacher/ Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.org Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 185: Q&A: Supporting Your Whole Class, Recognising Burnout & Ridiculous Teacher Tasks To Reject! | 23 Mar 2026 | 00:56:31 | |
A secondary history teacher writes in asking how to support a Year 10 student with very low literacy when reading is basically everything in their subject. Dylan and Hayden tackle it head on, and the advice is genuinely useful whether you are in primary or secondary. Then burnout. Not the headline version where you suddenly collapse, but the quiet physical signs teachers often explain away for months. Dylan opens up about how stress has always shown up in his body before his brain catches on, and why recognising your own personal warning signs is the starting point for everything else. Then things get spicy. Why can teachers control a room of thirty children but completely lose the ability to say no to one extra task in a staff meeting? Dylan has a theory, and it is annoyingly convincing. He also tells the story of how he simply refused to do the hallway display rota, walked out while his colleagues were putting theirs up, and never heard another word about it. The most ridiculous thing teachers have accepted as normal? Working fifteen extra hours a week because the contract says "reasonable additional hours." Spoiler: that is not reasonable. Plus, school dogs, nurseries in schools, whether a QTS teacher is actually qualified for early years, and a very deep dive into which type of teacher keeps parking outside the car park because they lost their lanyard again. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| Ep 184: Levi Colwill On His Reading Campaign, Love Of Books & Helping The Next Generation | 18 Mar 2026 | 00:42:19 | |
👉 Sign up today at www.storyzoo.org Chelsea and England centre-back Levi Colwill comes on the podcast — not to talk football, but to explain why he is personally funding free access to over 1000 ebooks for schools across the country. Levi launched his campaign with Storyzoo on World Book Day and hundreds of schools signed up within days. In this conversation he talks about his own on-and-off relationship with reading growing up, how books became a lifeline during his lengthy injury this season when his mind was constantly racing at night, and why he wants to give the next generation a better chance than some of the people he knows who still struggle with reading as adults. He also talks about his LSE Academy, where football is deliberately not the main thing. Being on time, having manners, making the right choices — those come first. If the behaviour off the pitch is not right, the boys do not get to play. Dylan and Hayden get into the ebooks versus physical books debate, why being snobby about how children read is cutting your nose off to spite your face, and what the government actually needs to do beyond declaring a national year of reading. Hayden also attempts to explain the offside rule to a professional footballer. It does not go well. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 📚 Sign your school up for free access to over 1000 ebooks via Levi's Storyzoo campaign — link in the description below. 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s | |||
| Ep 183: Q&A: Behaviour Charts, Residential Trips & Exploiting TAs | 16 Mar 2026 | 00:57:22 | |
We are back answering listener questions on all things teaching! This week we cover residentials, TA exploitation and behaviour charts, amongs lots of other things! Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.org Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 182: Are Schools Finally At Financial Breaking Point? | 11 Mar 2026 | 01:04:00 | |
With another unfunded pay rise on the horizon and school leaders saying they are running out of things to cut back on, are schools actually at breaking point now? Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.org Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 181: Q&A: Filming In The Classroom, Government and Influencers & Delivering CPD! | 09 Mar 2026 | 00:50:12 | |
We are back answering listener questions. Influencers working with government, filming in school, favourite teachers and delivering CPD! Enjoy it! Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.orgJoin our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1sLeave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out.Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcastFollow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 180: Teacher Training, Middle Leadership & Finding The Right School: Our Teaching Journey | 04 Mar 2026 | 01:03:03 | |
This week, we dive into our journey through teaching. From training, being newly qualified, taking on extra responsibilties, leading subjects, moving school and eventually deciding to leave the classroom, we discuss it all! Wherever you are in your teaching journey, this one is for you, as we draw back the curtain on a wild career. Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.org Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 179: Q&A: Subject Leader Pressure, Constructive Criticism & Politics In School | 02 Mar 2026 | 00:56:40 | |
We are back with another listener Q+A episode and we cover quite the range of topics this week! Should politics ever enter the classroom? What lesson would we teach at Hogwarts? Should I lead a subject for no pay or time? Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.org Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 178: The Most Insane Red Flag School Stories Ever (Part 3!) | 25 Feb 2026 | 00:51:30 | |
Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.orgJoin our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1sLeave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out.Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcastFollow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 177: SATs Pressure, Grouping By Ability & Are Displays Ever Useful..? (Q&A) | 23 Feb 2026 | 00:55:01 | |
Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.org Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 176: Teacher Guilt, Tricky Parents & When AI Is Pointless | 16 Feb 2026 | 00:51:46 | |
Enjoy your half-term Q&A episode lovely people! Come and join us for a live webinar on primary maths fluency on Tuesday 24th February at 3:45 and see what Maths Zoo can do for your school! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teach-sleep-repeat-foundations-and-fluency-maths-zoo-demo-qa-tickets-1981704787365?aff=oddtdtcreator | |||
| Exciting Announcement! | 13 Feb 2026 | 00:01:35 | |
Come and join us at our Maths fluency webinar on Tuesday 24th February at 3:45 pm, hosted by Dylan and Hayden with a Maths Zoo live demonstration and time for a Q+A at the end: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teach-sleep-repeat-foundations-and-fluency-maths-zoo-demo-qa-tickets-1981704787365?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl And also come along to the Story Zoo World Book Day webinar on Thursday 26th February at 3:45 pm, hosted by Sophie Hayes, to talk all things reading for enjoyment and how to get FREE access to hundreds of ebooks, in association with England and Chelsea footballer Levi Colwill https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/story-zoo-free-access-for-wbd-tickets-1982666504888?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl | |||
| Ep 175: Why Behaviour Is Getting Worse & How We Can Fix It | 11 Feb 2026 | 00:52:41 | |
Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.org Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 174: Q&A: Favourite Books, 00s School Trends & Maths Pedantry | 09 Feb 2026 | 00:49:59 | |
Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.org Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 173: The Vital Role Of A Parent: Getting Children School Ready & Supporting Their Journey Through Education | 04 Feb 2026 | 00:50:15 | |
Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.org Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 172: Q+A: Student Loan Debt, Declining Literacy Levels & A Maths Debate! | 02 Feb 2026 | 00:50:55 | |
Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.orgJoin our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1sLeave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out.Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcastFollow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||
| Ep 171: How Useful Is A.I. In Education? | 28 Jan 2026 | 00:58:28 | |
Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.orgJoin our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1sLeave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out.Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcastFollow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast | |||